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MANSFIELD – The original electric chair, dubbed "Old Sparky," from the Columbus Penitentiary in Columbus has made its way to the Ohio State Reformatory. Paul Smith, executive director of the ...
"Old Sparky" the electric chair that was once used at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. James Tannehill. After an initial attempt in 2014 to regain custody of Old Sparky, the city let the issue lapse.
With executions in the news recently, NewsNet5 dug up some old video and coverage of Ohio's electric chair, which was last used in 1963. That seat of fire was called "Old Sparky" or "Old ...
Authorities said Friday that one reason Florida recently replaced "Old Sparky," the state's 76-year-old electric chair, with a replica was to accommodate beefy inmates like Davis, 54, a welder who ...
The infamous electric chair execution - dubbed Old Sparky - could become a regular method in death penalty cases again in a US state from tomorrow. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has until ...
LINCOLN — Residents of a small southwest Nebraska town have a question for state officials: You’re not doing anything with that old electric chair, are you?
STARKE, Fla. — The muggy Tuesday before Ted Bundy was supposed to die, belted into the 62-year-old, red-oak electric chair known as “Old Sparky,” the marquee outside Sonny’s Bar-B-Q on U.S ...
TALLAHASSEE – “Old Sparky” – the 76-year-old cracked, oaken electric chair at Florida State Prison – has been quietly replaced under cover of darkness by a sturdier modern replica.More ...
I flinched — it was very much like the sound of the electric chair being fired up. A couple of nights later, I dreamed I was on death row, but I received an 11th-hour commutation.