A couple of little known facts about the electric chair. 1 The first electric chair was proposed by Thomas Edison. The same guy who gave us the lightbulb and the recorder also brought us one of the most horrible executions in history. 2 Emperor Menelik of Ethiopia, in a program to modernize his country imported an electric chair to be used as the new form of execution in his country. When it arrived it was discovered that there was no electrical service in his country so it could not be used. The king later used this device as a chair.
Edison was promoting DC electricity, Westinghouse was pushing AC. Edison convinced the prison authorities to use AC fot the execution, to show how dangerous it was. The execution was petformed the man took a long time to expire.
@@sallymatthews729 As well as going poop, they piss themselves too. Some places make them wear one or two pair of adult diapers. Sprayed with air freshener to try to keep the feces poop smell down a bit as they are electrocuted.
It took a moment but then I realised that Tim Roth is playing the role of Charlie Starweather and that the lady must be Carol Fugate. Well, Charlie was a Psychopath so I don't suppose the Sentence worried him as his actions clearly pointed him in that direction.
@@tammyjackson1026 yet the people he murdered didn't do anything to Charles either. Carols family was only looking out for her. The victims didn't deserve what happened to them. Sorry but Starkweather deserved the death penalty. He didn't ask for sympathy, so why give it?
For those who don't know, Voltage is the potential. Amperage is the current, Or the amount of electron flow. It only takes approximately 1/10 of 1 amp to stop your heart, properly grounded
You cannot send current as current is appropriate to the load ..the load being the resistance of the body being electrocuted but you can make the potential higher by means of higher rated fuses/ circuit breakers
Voltage in this case is the electromotive force. Potential is more for open circuit or electrostatic energy. Very much like potential energy can be thought of a rock sitting at the top of a cliff. Using the garden hose analogy, The voltage would be something like the speed of the water flowing through the hose while current is represented by the cross sectional area of the water in the hose.
"Are you willing to shave your head for the final scene?" 'Nope. Not for the money you're paying me for this shit movie!" "Bald cap?" "Nope. Pain the ass, unless you're willing to pay me more for the hassle." "Ok... Well, with 20+ times the normal amount of amperage your hair would most definitely catch fire along with the rest of your head probably exploding like a melon with an M-80 in it." "Whatever."
Lmao I call bullshit my grandmother smoke 3 packs of non filtered cigarrettes, died at 105 I've smoked since I was nine still doesn't even look like I touched any and I smoke 4 packs a day it's your body no body is the same
When I was a in 13 I got into a lot of trouble. They sent 3 of us to the pen in lincoln for a day. They took us to the execution room & strapped each one of us in the chair that starkweather & Harold lemont otte fryed in. We were all smartass punk kids, laughing the whole time. We walked down death row, to processing & last rights & final wiil & than to the chair. We stood there & looked at the chair & they explained everything about it. Than they said whose first. They told us once you walk in you don't walk out. They strapped each one of us in & put leather face mask on us (smelled like you can't explain) closed the doors (loud as hell & make do everything possible to get out of chair & than you hear the curtain open. I've never been so scared in my life, never been in trouble since.
I'm 40 now but when I was 17yrs old I got into some big shit I was just stupid and I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I didn't know better cause I did I knew exactly what I was doing I knew someone would be hurt I knew if I got caught I would be thrown in prison and I knew it would affect families on both sides but I did it anyway sorry I had to get that out of the way too many people make it up excuses for kids nowadays but anyway while I was on trial they brought scared straight program through the county jail they were in the observation bubble where they monitored us they can see us and we can see them they did not physically bring them near us it might be the fact I was high security for violent offenders and in the assaultive unit to anybody who don't know what that is that's for people who get into fights over and over and after the hole what is 23 hour lockdown or after top lock they put you into a unit with other violent people who like to fight and are basically assholes most people who go to jail they don't want to have problems they want to do their time then go home but anyway they were pointing at me I was the youngest one in there I can only imagine what they were saying to them about me everybody else was a lot older than me when I was in there they were probably telling them see that kid he's your age or you're almost his age and he's going away for a long time but I I was guilty and I'll admit it I deserve what I got I did my time turn my life around and have love and appreciation for everybody and everything and from the bottom of my heart I'm very sorry I hurt my family and dudes family but not dude he was my daughter's uncle and deserved what he got 🔫
The one in Nebraska is closer looking to the Pennsylvania one in my opinion. Almost all the other ones I’ve seen look more antiquated and very rickety.
no...prep for the execution was all wrong..the head would have been shaved, he would not have been wearing glasses entering the chamber, he would have been wearing a diaper with a butt plug, and his body would have been tightly secured so he could not rear up when the muscles contracted...there is also a wet sponge used for better conduction and heat regulation
@@karlt8233 They don't do that anymore, but it was common practice in the 80s They show it in a Ted Bundy movie, which is actually unrealistic because they had stopped doing it at that point.
@@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc LOL needles cruel and unusual punishment. Should go back to the rope necktie, bunch of pussies. Or a new chair, the stabbing chair.
In real life, the hair is shaved off and the inmate is diapered. The prisoner's legs and torso would be strapped so tightly, no way the man's thighs would rise up in the chair, as seen here. Good video, though. Creepy looking chair.
Yes and in some states before they put the diaper on a condemned person they'd shove cotton up his rear end as an extra precaution. That's what they did with Ted Bundy.
@@whocaresftw84 for real, shows you how many people comment without knowing the facts, its also very painful, and an inmate once told a reporter hed nod if it hurt, the inmate nodded about 20 times with tears rushing down his face, took about 7 minutes for the poor bastard to die
They used a strap that had a part cut out to fit over the nose. Also they didn't have a huge switch like that, the "switch" was just a knob that turned. Also, Charlie's head was shaved and Caril Ann Fugate didn't know about Charlie's execution until a week later when her lawyer went to the Women's Prison in York to tell her as they had no tv or newspapers in there.
She was only 14 years old. And she swears Charles did all the killing, which I can believe because it's hard to believe a 14-year-old girl would be a serial killer.
If the sentence says “until death”, “until dead” “until death occurs”, “until you are dead”.....they can re-roll, re-load, re-infuse, leave hanging, even if the neck didn’t break right, as long as it takes. Generally if the person isn’t dead after the second or third try the prison warden halts the execution until he/she gets further guidance. But it’s not mandatory; simply something that is generally done. Botched executions have been rescheduled. Sometimes is kinder not to halt the botched execution but to proceed and finish it. In any case, it’s a slippery slope.
It really does take a heartless bastard to throw the switch. Not saying that capital punishment is right or wrong, just pointing out that the individual who throws the switch has to be devoid of any semblance of humanity. I don't think that I could do that to another human being.
Yeah, but I always think about the other people that participate, like the people that walk him into the chamber, the people that strap him down, the governor that can choose to call off the execution or not, the president of the united states that could grant clemency if he wanted, the warden (in some cases) that nods to the executioner to proceed, the people that physically built the chair and the switches that control it, the jury that convicted him, the prosecutor that pushed for the death sentence, the judge that imposed the sentence, the people that wrote the laws, and society itself that allows that form of punishment. Its really a lot of people that execute someone, not just the person who throws a switch if you think about it. (by the way in some states they have multiple switches where only one switch works, so 2 or 3 people throw a switch but only one switch actually does the killing, and nobody knows what switch did it or who actually did it.)
I think about the victims he killed, and the victims he could've kept on killing if he hadn't been caught. The guy that murdered all those victims was really devoid of any semblance of humanity.
It's my understanding that in modern times there are two people who press the button simultaneously and a randomizer decides which switch is used. That way neither person knows which one actually threw the switch. They did a similar thing for firing squads: all but one rifle had blanks, that way none of the men knew which one made the kill. I was watching a different video and one of the comments mentioned that an older executioner committed suicide after he died, presumably feeling guilty about what he'd done. I'm not going to say the people who do it are heartless. Honestly, they're just people with a nasty job to do. If it wasn't them it would be somebody else.
They say it’s like a thousand hot needles sticking in you all over while your leg-the one with the return strap-is being sawed off with a hot, rusty saw.
Ive only seen movie style executions not real ones, but the ones in the movies they have always wet the hair for electrode connections, ive never seen any with shaved head [ bald cap ] and only 2 with a blind fold, so which is the correct way?. Has anyone watched the series DEATH ROW EXECUTIONER thats an eye opener, the lethal injection should be abolished to much of an easy way out for the criminal.
@@caropapa There’s a good documentary called Death Row: The Final 24 Hours which explains it. If you don’t shave the hair you can’t get a clean connection so any hair will set on fire with that voltage. Also need to use a natural and not a synthetic sponge.
Charles Raymond Starkweather would not be the last to be executed in Nebraska’s electric chair, when the death penalty was reinstated in Nebraska, 3 more prisoners were executed in Nebraska’s electric chair whom were Harold Lamont Otey in 1994, John Joseph Joubert in 1996, and Robert E. Williams in 1997.
I know it's a movie but they could at least get SOME parts of the chair and mechanism right. Nebraska's chair looks nothing like that, they use a leather mask, not a blindfold, and the mechanism is a rotary switch. It's never been changed.
I read a contemporary report that they put a blindfold on him. Maybe that's why they used one in this movie. It would seem as you indicated it would be a leather mask as more likely.
Would the current really reach 200 amperes? At 2500 volts potential, that would mean his body offered only 12.5 ohms of resistance. That seems unrealistic. Shouldn’t it be something more on the order of 10 amperes, and 250 ohms?
In Texas, back in the days where they had and used the electric chair, the warden of the Huntsville Unit would ask the condemned inmate to "have a seat please" as he entered the execution chamber. "Have A Seat Please" was later used as the title of a book written by reporter Don Reid, who witnessed 189 executions at the Huntsville Unit from the thirties until the early sixties.
+Master Shot1911 Evidently, the movie was filmed out of sequence. If the execution scene were filmed first, they would not want to have shaved the lead actors head and thus delay production for subsequent scenes. Another error is having the death watch escort team members carrying shotguns as Starkweather is brought to the chair. That would not happen in a real prison as firearms are never allowed on the cellhouse floor.
The first shock is to knock out your central nervous system and basically render you unconscious when it hits your central nervous system, you lose bodily function and can't control your bowels and your bladder that's why they stuff cotton up their rear end, and put an adult diaper on them so they don't piss and shit themselves. The first shock takes about thirty seconds then they lower the voltage and the amps to basically cause the heart to stop beating this usually is to last between 1-3 minutes and then back up to the original voltage to kill the brain. Which takes another 30 seconds to a minute and then death ensues. Afterwards the doctor checks to see if there's a heart beat if there's not, the electrocution did it's job. If it doesn't and there's a heartbeat, then they go back to the low amp/voltage until the heart stops beating.
We see the poor criminal who had no regard for anyone elses life. We feel sorry for him. Yet he is the one who chose his path. His victims were just unlucky enough to be in his way.
I don't know if people choose thier path I have my doubts it's that simple I think the way we behave is largely based on the way we were treated and nurtured as children and we would all pretty much behave the same way under the same circumstances
@@charlesciminera5881 actually people are not that homogeneous. There are psychopaths, narcissists, sociopaths, and every other possible variation. No, people dont all behave the same way and two similar life experiences dont turn both people into the same person. The ultimate evil is to take someone's life. The ultimate failure of someone's humanity is to feel that they are justified in taking an innocent life. Those who do should not be surprised that they will pay a huge price for their hubris.
@@beverlywhite8433 some of your logic makes sense to me but you also seem to contredict yourself if the ultimate wrong is to take life why would you compound that by doing same thing?
@@charlesciminera5881 there is a vast difference between murder of an innocent life and the punishment of someone who has crossed that line. The rules (law) of what the penalty constitutes wasn't arbitrarily changed to execute one criminal after the fact of his crime. It existed when he chose to commit the crime. He just didn't care, he wanted what he wanted and got what he asked for. His victim is dead and now so is he.
@MysteryFan Well, if you think my post is brainless, how would you call it then? Mistake, maybe? Oops, so sorry? Oh, I know, many people, mostly Americans, are like Muslims, death loving, death is an answer to any problem, exactly why the US society is so bloody violent. If the justice machine makes a "mistake" to execute an innocent, the justice staff, police, public prosecutor, judge, jury, are all guilty, and should be punished severely. Then there will be no more death penalties. A strict and lifelong prison sentence where the prisoner has to earn his own upkeep is a much better punishment, and yes, if the prisoner is innocent he can be set free and compensated for his time.
Good movie but so many inaccuracies. Back then the Nebraska Death Row consisted of only two cells in the hospital ward, in a seperate building. The chair is wrong and the execution chamber is wrong. I had read that you had to pass through a steel door to enter the original chamber, but there was no wall with a window seperating the chair from the witnesses. The actual headpiece was an old leather helmet and they didn't use a blindfold.
If Starkweather would've killed and got caught in Utah that probably would be what he would get. Wyoming didn't have the death penalty so they had to extradite Charles Starkweather back to Nebraska which had the Electric Chair.
