How Does The Electric Chair Work?
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How does the electric chair work? Does anybody still use electric chairs?
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Are you pro or con capital punishment? Is it an outlived concept or does it serve it's purpose? Let me know in the comments!
I think a person should be punished for the crimes he has done but takin his life does not make any difference between us and the criminal.
If man’s blood you shed, by man’s hands shall your blood be shed. Also,
It (government) bears not the sword (1st century euphemism for death) in vain. It couldn’t be stated more clearly. Murder is worthy of death, and I believe that hanging or firing squad are the best forms of capital punishment
The Infographics Show why are you commenting so late
Hmm my views on this are:a murder is a life sentance 2 murders life sentance 3 murders execution 4 +F*CKING TORTURE THEM -AHAHAHAHAH- ok srslly after a bit of a killing spree i think its justified to torture them even for a bit
im pro capitol punishment, but i dont actually like it that much. I agree that it should be a quotidian norm, conversely the methods used are horrrendous, but i dont think there would be a good way of killing (apart from carbon monoxide poisoning)
Me: *strapped in the chair*
Police: Any last request?
Me: Yes...Hold my hand
MK Gamer oh I get it 😂
MK Gamer cop: gets electrocuted instead of criminal.
Me: *sitting on table, prepped for lethal injection*
Doctor/guard: Any last request?
Me: let me go home for 45 more years
Oh I get that means the cop dies to
😂😂
“This is a pretty horrible way to end a video, so let’s end it with an ad.”
Hahahfdujhyyh yep,yep,yea
XD
that was so pathetic lol
@@nataliaflc i said the exact same lol
Capitalism counters capital punishment.
3:43 that is George Stinney and he was actually innocent but his innocence was discovered 70 years after his execution
I guess you're hard of hearing. That was a guy in Arkansas in the early 1920's. George was in South Carolina in 1944. George was so small he was only jolted once and died.
no George was 14
Murdered, george was murdered he never was exequted
@@Deridiya He was executed bud
@@crystalsthename no he said that IT WAS FOUND HE WAS FOUND INICENT 70 YRS LATER
MAKE THEM STEP ON LEGO PIECES BARE FOOTED
I did that before and ya😭
@@mariahheistand1786 😳That must hurt😓
Oww !!! I know that all too well. I did that long time ago
YESSS
Yes we’ll call it “LEGO walk”
As a person who is going to be an electrical engineer, I have a correction on this matter. It’s amperes that kill a person, not voltage
But you need the high voltage to break the skin's resistance and deliver that amperage to the brain and other organs.
I also studied electrical engineering but I don't know this. I only remember transistors, capacitors, emitter. I forgot all of them.
Current wont flow without voltage.
Have you graduated? If so what field are you in now?
@@ayowhat6139they make more money than you’ll ever lol
I mean shooting a guy in the head is faster....
Quite Indeed with a shotgun just for good measure
Big Steph Cheap to.
And messier than all executions
I mean you just pressure wash the "test chamber" afterwords.
chris becks are you sure? Video's of NKVD shooting Kulaks on UA-cam aren't that messy. Just a shot, then a crumple.
Could you imagine being electrocuted, being dead, then coming back in a coffin and then shocked again to re kill you. That sounds so incredibly terrifying
I was thinking his lawyer messed up. They could have called the botched execution an example of cruel and unusual punishment, then assert that the condemned could not be executed as it would be destruction of evidence in the case. (This recently happened irl)
Good
And also at that point if you die and come back to life just let the person live because technically he did already doe for his crimes.
He would be a brain damaged vegetable at that point.
Even in botched cases, the brain is dead instantly from the amount of electricity
R.i.p George.
"He was not executed, he was murdered."
Did u know that on an executed person's death certificate the cause of death is listed as homicide..
Heather Bushman So what. If they list it as candy overdose, the outcome is the same. Problem is, nobody prosecutes the homiciders.
Yes
George Stinney? 😥🙏🏼
And John Coffey
Thanks for the tutorial on how to build a electric chair!
*an
The Infographics Show I'm sure they won't show you how to build an Electric chair in any of the renovation {lifestyle} shows. That'd be Awkward for the customers on the show "You build a house with that" . Given a tour, and there they see in the corner of the child's bedroom an Electric chair. 😂🔛📺 🏚💺 ☠
r/woosh
Anyone know were Jake Paul is? And JoJo Siwa?
username1nmillion r/woosh
4:50 what monster would execute Mr. Clean?
LobsterRoast lmao
LobsterRoast lol
I was looking for that comment
Sometimes he leaves smudges.
Rip our man
Anyone watching this while sitting in an electric chair?
Real Men Die Hard no hmmmm are you ?!?
Ya I'm about to die because I did the *24 HOUR CHALLENGE IN A WALLMART*
HAHA
Me
No u
GOTTEM
Sensitive People
Watching an execution....
Equals= horror for them
it's like vegan watching animal slaughterhouse video or someone eating hamburger etc. not against someone eating vegies it's just weird sometimes
Conspire The Storyteller I'm not sensitive
Oh Yeah Yeah i saw u everwhere
@K W Keep liberals out of this
I'm guessing it hurts like hell.
Oh, noo. It's a very smooth transition into the afterlife. You won't feel a thing. It's almost like a breath of fresh air under the guillotine.
@@Kraterlandschaft lollllz😂
Kraterlandschaft how would anyone know how it feels because everyone who’s ever been in an electric chair are all dead...
@@zaara.rahman probably got executed in a past life
I been shocked before to the point my heart stopped but it honestly was not bad it’s so fast and like I remember feeling a second enough time for my brain to register pain so maybe 17 seconds I think is what it is but it was like just a slight burning ringingly feeling it’s not bad
Is anyone watching this after ted bundy?
me
yep
me too
Me
Yes
This was exposed to be "How does the electric chair work" not "history of electric chair
Facts
True. Most of us had more imagination.
Thank goodness that is not your problem.
Hi jesus
*supposed?
@@nayan7398 this is not a spelling bee 🙄🖕🏽
me: "sees title"
also me: *The Green Mile flashbacks*
RIP John Coffey
That was a sad movie.
I’ve seen that movie ten times and the Eduard delacroix execution scene still gives me goosebumps
That movie scared me so much though,i couldn't sleep-
nitrogen would be the most humane execution method
> its extremely cheap to extract from regular air
> it makes up most of the atmosphere
> its non toxic
> its completely painless (ever breathed from a helium balloon and passed out?)
> it can be collected and reused
> no special chambers or training is needed to use it
> organs can still be harvested after the execution
> the prisoner can be revived up to 10 minutes after execution if needed (dependent on temperature.etc)
Holton was one of my inmates when i worked in Tennessee corrections. Piece of crap, that got what he deserved.
@@jrelvas4676 God would intervene if it wasnt his time.
no he wouldnt les.
God has no power like that.
if it wasnt his time, then guess what?, dudes still getting the electric chair while god takes the back seat and watches
So i guess all those kids dying of cancer, it was just their time to go...lmao
Because even the worst of criminals are humans? It shouldn't matter what God, or sadists think about karma and sweet-punishment. It's basic morality to make the execution process painless. Death is the biggest punishment known to men, so why bother making it painful, if the next second he is dead and have no emotions to feel remorse or... well, pain?
"so the question is, does it hurt?"
your getting shocked with 2000 bolts of electricity do you think it feels like a massage
Ask del from green mile
Stick a fork in a fuse box and find out
You feel nothing.
@@peterzingler6221 I only feel when I'm jacking it
again. it's way more than 2000 volts, over 15k definitely.
next : how effective is killing a person
Effective in what way?
*strapon porn*
Kenneth B effective in rehabilitating them
We need rehabilitation no insane asylums/prisons.
The cardinal issue here is the avoidance of responsibility.
Me about to be executed
Guard: Any last words?
Me: Can I have a last request?
Guard: What is it?
Me: Can you hold my hand?
Guard: OK.
(Electric Chair starts, both die)
Criminal problem, require criminal solution
What you’re supposed to see:
“You died!”
*Respawn*
What you actually see:
“Game Over!”
*Leave Server*
The executioner forgot that tge officer was holding the criminal's hand
Doesn't work like that. The guard would instantly pull his hand away, since he is only touching an HV live wire.
yeah ikr
That sponsor placement was disgustingly out of place
It is business, my dear, just business.
"Just business, nothing personal"
where else would it go
4:13
Guy killing a guy saying that killing is wrong
I love irony.
Thats like saying putting someone in jail is the same as kidnapping someone and locking them in your basement.
You see children, you need a better IQ than the people commenting these. Onto the next exhibit!
Lol
I agree
"Will it hurt"? A: "No one's complained yet"!
Obviously it hurts, 2000 volts is very deadly.
Here's all the executions and if they are painful or not :
Lethal ejection - Not painful, becuase you are in sleep (becuase they drop anesthesia which won't cause any pain). (Most popular)
Electric Chair - Obviously super painful. (2nd Popular)
Firing Squad - Obviously, being shot (especially the head) is deadly. (3rd Popular)
Gass Chamber - Yes, becuase it contains very deadly chemicals which causes permanent death. (Least Popular)
And finnaly Hanging - Obviously, the feeling of slowly your head being ripped would be painful. (4th Popular)
@Prashant M Well, normally they would drop more anaesthesia and it would be enough, it's impossible not to fall asleep.
If you some how (which won't happen) can't fall asleep, they would drop the drugs without anesthesia which would be extremely painful
@@chaztle6214
Actually.
If the electric chair is done right? You may feel a split second of pain before you're out like a light and the juice goes to work on your heart and organs, but you don't know. You're basically dead. Of course if it goes wrong, it's possibly the most gruesome.
If the anaesthetic in the injection doesn't work, lethal injection can actually be incredibly painful. Like liquid fire in your veins. Look up Angel Diaz.
Hanging? While the body may be alive and swinging for a few minutes, the snap of the neck is instant unconsciousness.
Firing squad and gas chamber to me are both literally up in the air. Can work like clockwork, can be brutal too.
It will stiffen your muscles, it's even said that your eyes are taped because the eyes will fall out or melt.
“AC/DC” Sounds familiar?
AC/DC was based off of the electric chair,
And Metallica had an album off of the electric chair that’s so crazy
I Didn't Know That!!!!! Lol!!!! 🤣
I love ride the lightning
XxMega_FallXx Fabulous IRL yea ikr it’s crazy
Keine Ewigkeit amen that’s one of my favorite albums
Two of the best bands ever
4:28 literally the worst dollar shave club ad ever
Kuba12PL 😂😂💀
Hahaha
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"The prisoner will have his head, calves, and obviously his nards shaved"
It's not the voltage that kills the person, it's the amperage that kills the person. You can get hit with 50,000 volts and it's not going to hurt you, your hair will stand up on your head (in a lot of high school science classes they do this). But, if you get 1/1000 of an amp at your heart you're dead. I thought I'd point that out.
Yes,amperage is kind of like heat being generated. However voltage breaks down your resistance to electricity; the higher the voltage is the less resistance there is.
@@ericcutrer1467 ok, but witch is the amperage of the electric chair?
@@guilhermearaujo1350if electric shocks come at a specific voltage number, it depends on how much resistance the person has. Ohm’s Law states that Current=Voltage/Resistance. The average I’d assume is probably a few amperes, provided the electrocution is conducted properly.
"If I get scared, will you hold my hand?"
🤣🤣
I saw that and I was like "Lol, I was going to make that joke but Infographics beat me to it"
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“Botched executions often upset the sensitive”
Why you watching then?!
I was thinking the same thing.
Right! You show up to watch someone die, and then your sensitive to it
Doc it hurts real bad when I cut my fingers off what do I do???!
@@vxy357 I KNOW! Like, STAY HOME IF YOURE SENSITIVE
Its public television
It shocks the shit out of you! There I just saved you 8 minutes
Lmao
Plug it in
Flip the switch
15-30 Seconds you die.
@@b_f_d_d 15?!
No you didn't there's other shit you didn't say so hadie (tough luck)
Thats clever
*My FBI Agent:* here we go again- I hate my job.
4:59 they're killing mr. Clean😔
They said he was a war veteran, can’t believe they would execute
He didn't clean the bathroom enough 😔
Oof
He didn't clean up blood good enough
Holy shit, electric chair is still used? That's....shocking
(Insert Lenny Face Here)
I see what you did there.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Good one your PUNNY
*ba dum tss*
Nebraska was last to abolish
Im all for more humane forms of punishment and all but the logic of those extra sensitive people. Why the heck would you even come to a hanging if you can't stomach it????
good question
A hanging when done right is an instantaneous kill. If you expect to see justice served but instead witness someone's head ripped off completely or worse yet gurgling, spasming and shaking for several minutes you may be a bit disgusted since that isn't what anyone set out to do. After all there is a reason the US doesn't execute people by slowly peeling chunks of skin off their bodies. It's a great punishment due to all the pain but it's also really messed up.
Juu Ju my thinking exactly !
@@levaris77 they did the skin peeling execution in china. It was said that it took hours for the inmate to die from his injuries.
A combination of morbid curiosity and also a need to prove to yourself that humans are capable of such cruelty and madness
I swear these educational videos hit better at home when u wanna learn😂
"humane method of execution"
BEHOLD THE MOST DANGOUROUS ANIMAL:
A HUMAN what were you expecting? (EDIT: THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU LEGENDS)
Honestly, mosquitoes
THEY KNOW TOO MUCH
+Raimondas Jacunskis ikr
Spiders
Raimondas Jacunskis High blood troll from Anternia*
Next execution: laser beam blast
Basically kills the target instantly without any pain
Yay
Blue 913 yeah we’ll get that soon when we finish raiding area 51
But their will be no body Left to give it to the family
why wouldn’t you want them to feel pain
nikki arezzi your bruin would get instantly burnt and shut off (depends on how powerful the laser tho)
Nope HAHAHAHAHA
It's Nikola Tesla, not Nicholas Tesla :)
Yeah yeah
Loool. I had to look for this comment.
Sounds same, dude.
Why they killed mr clean
Cause he wouldn't stop stop cleaning we had to get rid of him some day
XD
😂😂😂
Lol XD
Hahahahhahaha
No one will see this, but have you ever seen or read The Green Mile? One of the characters, who was executed via electric chair, died in a manner very similar to the first man ever electrocuted. One of his characters also had to be electrocuted twice, just like him too. It'd make since that Stephen King would draw inspiration from the first execution.
I dead ass cried for like a day after this film with my mum
I had a morbid fear of the electric chair when I was a kid. I thought it was basically torture, then death.
Electricity: accidentially kills people in the 1880s
Executioner: INTERESTING
Sometimes you gotta like your own comment to get it started.
Edit: Told you so.
haHAA
...
Always
*clap*
Like a nudge in the right direction
A long time ago, I used to think of the electric chair as being a huge solid piece of cast iron and steel, like one of those old Nintendo chairs. Basically, I once imagined the electric chair as being basically a Nintendo seat made entirely of steel. I imagined the condemned as being ordered to sit down in the steel chair, strapped down, and then a single, extreme high voltage (about 5,000 or 6,000 volts) being sent through the seat where it would pass straight from the steel chair into the inmate's body, frying him and electrocuting him.
6:53
And that how you kill a person.
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Me siting in a chair: Starts watching video
Me: Stands up and sits on floor
"No boss, don't put me in the darkness, i'm afraid of the dark..."
yeah the green mile scene
Don’t remind me of that please
@@javedansari1413 Poor John Coffee that was awful
“How does an electric chair work?”
A plug and wires.
No. A high voltage transformer.
Chair and electricity
Whether sitting in the electric one or an observation one, it really can be a *shocking* experience!
ppl r dying to ssee it.
4:43 Sir, Iam scared. Will you hold my hand?🤣🤣
Granted its been long since my engineering classes, but Im almost 100% sure that Volts dont pass through anything. Amps/current is.
facts
When you find out the electric chair was invented by a dentist:
(“ಠ_ಠ)
Oop-
It took a longer than normal time to strap Daryl Holton into the Tennessee electric chair as it was that states first ever use of the "new" chair with multiple harnesses and buckles.
Subsequently, TDOC placed stickers with numbers on each component of the buckle and belts so that corrections officers can visually match which belt goes into which buckle.
Great video as always. Thank you for explaining how this method works as well as a bit of history behind it.
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Hugo 🤣 sneaky
2000 volts is nothing for me
Are you pikachu?
Thor Parlez-vous français?
Paul Lee no IAM thor
@Thor odinson iam from the future
Thor o
simple you just stick a fork in a toaster
Didn’t work
KingAsaTheGoodest 42170 lol
And putt the top of the fork up there ass
That toaster also has to be on and the fork has to be made out of metal
Tá fáilte romhat
your breaker trips
I love the dark humor they added in the conversation bubbles. 😂😂😂😂
From serial killers to bikini killers to torture methods and electric chairs , the Infographics Show is on lit.
I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet
- Percy Wetmore
Lol I didn’t like Percy RIP John
Guy sounds like he's yawning and trying to speak at the same time
And you sound like Hank Hill.
@@Venomsplatter I didn't know you could hear written or typed words.
Ah, The Electric Chair, the devil of all chairs, just above the second most infamous chair - the Dentist's Chair!
“Electric chair!” *slams gavel*
- Khia, 2018
I think this video needs dont try at home sign :D
4:44 that "hold my hand" meme is underrated
I always wished to have the electric chair experience, without having to actually die. 🤯
😂🤣🤣 I wished to have the hanging experience, without having to die.
Because my ex-husband hanged himself seven years ago, would like to know how it felt for him to be hanging in the air like that
@@sigridbohne Well, I tried that. The rope broke within 3 seconds as the knot was loose, smh. I never attempted it again as those 3 seconds suffocated & scared the F*ck outta me.
@@freepalestine_stop_genocide Thank you for sharing your experience.
The emergency doctor told me my husband was not suffering. After 10-15 seconds he was already unconscious and didn't feel anything anymore.
@@sigridbohne Thank you for sharing yours as well. I hope you have mentally recovered from your loss.
And yes a person passes out due to suffocation within 30 seconds of extreme agony. I would have too. But it's not my time to go I reckon.
Lots of prayers and love for you and your husband.
@@freepalestine_stop_genocide Thanks, I'm fine with it, I wanted to get a divorce anyway
Glad it wasn't your time, that your rope broke is a sign it shouldn't be
Cop any last wish?
Prisoner: In about to do what you would call a pro gamer Move “Please hold my hand”
Cop dies
I'm on the fence when it comes to the electric chair. Hanging (and, likewise, the electric chair) is supposed to be instantaneous if you do it right, but there's no guarantee either. In theory, the electric chair renders the offender brain dead in a matter of milliseconds, fries the brain, and ultimately damages the organs. In practice, however, there's no guarantee as electricity can easily malfunction.
Bryce Gipple I very much agree..
Electricity never malfunctions... that's like saying air malfunctions... the delivery of the electricity can malfunction and a different person may react differently to the electricity, but the electricity itself doesn't malfunction.
@@wolfshanze5980my mistake. The *use of electric chair can malfunction.
"A prisoner being electrocuted is paralysed by the large amount of energy in the shock and is also asphyxiated, but almost certainly fully conscious and sentient. He may feel himself being burned to death while he is conscious of his inability to breathe"
From an old book about different forms of execution
"Ladies and gentlemen, Darrel Holt has left the building. We ask you do the same!"
Thankyou infographics, time to start building!
The chair scared me as a kid I always thought it wouled happen to me or see someone I know in it but it's not used anymore so itz goodz.
Sonicice 24 I thought the electric chair is still a thing
Hate to break it to you but it still is. today a man in Tennessee was executed using the electric chair.
Actually it's still a form of exicution. But it legit kills you in 3 seconds so iz good.
It used to scare me too. Now I find it oddly fascinating.
The green mile was awesome!
Also the book was even more graphic than the movie.
It was used twice in 2018. It's still in use.
The leather blindfold is to prevent pieces od the eyes from flying around
I did not know that! Scary 😳😬
eeewww thats gruesome
@@cocopops7945 I agree 😬
Same for hanging
No actually just to hide the sight of the eyes from the witnesses. They bulge but do not explode as the current is applied.
Who's here after watching "Just Mercy?"
Nikki Tikki me man im still disturbed after the execution
I was so scared of death when watching this
1:51 it wasn't "nicholas tesla", but Nikola Tesla... smh
FinaleeE Nikola
I feel like there should be a petition to start calling electric chairs, “Zappy Seats”.
To say that "humans have been brutal to each other" has got to be the biggest understatement in the world
A *killer* invention if ever there was one. Effective *execution* though it comes as a *shock* to many. Yet some people get a real *charge* out of it!
Next you can perhaps do a comparison on Norway prisons vs. American prisons?
5:58 woah looks like those guards seem a bit too exited if you know what I mean, and see 😏
You know, a shotgun blast to the temple is hard to botch and vastly less expensive.
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If hanging is done correctly its supposed to be instant and painless. If done right the brain stem is detached from the spine and the person dies instantly. But if done incorrectly either by accident or ill content the person is left to be strangled flailing about which is not a pretty sight
I wanna make a pun about this topic but,it may be so electrifying,it would lift you outta yo' chairs
That’s not as punny as the other puns,your humor is not PUNNY
@@turkialashiekh respect +100 😂
Hahaha you seem like a nice dude
Me: strapped in the chair
Police: Any Last Request?
Me: Yes Lets Swap Places
One thing to remember about electricity, be more worried about the amps
Firing squad best execution method dont @ me
I like hung drawn and quartered
Me going bout to get excuted
Guard: you got any last words
Me: find random reverse card under seat
Guard: wait what’s that
Me: puts it down
Guard: well played
I don't want the website builder that powers this electric chair video.
These video's are getting scarier and scarier!
The Electric Chair is a type of execution where you get electrocut....
Electroboom: wait what you say?
0:43 that guy is getting stretched and he is smiling lol 🤣🤣
Finally, now I know how to upgrade my toaster bath
Okay, serious question. So if someone manages to survive the chair after one pull of the lever, is it 'cruel and unusual punishment' to continue shocking the person in the chair (until death)?
I mean like it quick it stops everything like a shot to the head even that isn't 100%
i think even even one pull of a lever is cruel and unusual
4:16 when your state is listed.
The electric chair works by giving you a massage. 😊
So does sticking a fork in the fuse box
@@Venomsplatter wow i just laughed hard at that WHY XD
We as a society has created so many stories and movies that teach us “death only brings more death.” So if we make these stories… why don’t we listen to them?