Ted Bundy was electrocuted in that same chair in January 1989 in the Florida state prison. They show the small room where they cut his hair and the same route he took to the execution room

I can't imagine what inmates feel when they're walking to the chair and then getting prepared, counting the seconds to die...

I love the prison guards calm way of talking like as if he is talking about how to bake a cake.

the coldness with which he speaks of execution makes me creeps

I’ll never understand how someone can do a job like this

Can you imagine getting the chair and you're innocent!? OMG, I bet it's happened before. What a nightmare that would be.

I've done some research... If properly performed , you should go unconscious within 4.16 milliseconds. You see them tense up because the current is so strong that it takes over their nerves/muscles.

If this guy was at my execution i would be already dead before the chair got me due to that kermit the frog voice

I've hear the electric chair is physically painless. The jolt causes almost immediate brain and heart failure, so you're pretty much gone before you even have a chance to feel anything. The mental and emotional trauma leading up the execution, on the other hand, is probably indescribably painful...

I would hate to have his job! It will be so traumatic for me!

Walking down that corridor, and then seeing that Frankenstienian machine for the first time. Gives me chills.

Going to the electric chair last words to be: Let's go ride the lightning!

Kermit the frog explains electrocution...

why was my heart pounding through the entire thing?

I admit that I have a morbid fascination with this subject, but it's led me to change my views on the death penalty. I've imagined being in that cell, knowing what's right down the hallway, and hearing the guards coming for me. Then, imagining being either walked, carried, or wheeled into that room and seeing that chair, and knowing what was about to happen. I know that it's not used often anymore, but this was a truly horrific part of our judicial system.

There's something surreal about having death by electrocution explained by a guy who sounds like Gomer Pyle.

that hallway is ominous AF.

I know this is serious and it's fucked up but I couldn't stop laughing at his accent

The guard forgot to mention that after the inmate makes his final statement, if he has one, that a chin strap is done up over his chin to hold his head to the two pinions of the chair and the helmet that the electrode is attached to has a black leather hood which is lowered over the inmate's face.

A PLACE NOBODY NEEDS TO BE LORD NO!

I read that Powell was convinced to take the chair by two correctional officers who visited him for an informal "counseling session". They explained the things which could go wrong with lethal injection, and urged him to consider the electric chair. Apparently those guys were pretty good salesmen! It can't be easy to convince someone that being strapped into a chair and having 2000 volts applied to their head and leg is a good way to go.

I can’t imagine doing that walk and actually sitting in that thing to wait for death , but then I’m not a murderer .

Well, Thank you for assuming that no one I know has never been murdered, I've had 2 friends in the last 6 months get killed ( and that's just last year)..Maybe you didn't understand what I was saying. Killing someone for being a killer doesn't make any fucking sense!! They should have to rot away in prison for the rest of their pitiful lives!

The part when they went down the hall and walked into the room with the chair... It gave me a terrible uneasy feeling that I can't even describe.

It's 2022 and I still watch these

I just noticed another detail in this video. At 0:40, as the camera enters the death chamber, you'll see a handle on the side of the big white box behind the chair, near the bottom. A long time ago I saw a news report or documentary, where the prison electrician said it's a safety switch that connects the chair's cables to the electrical equipment. An official closes the switch as he leaves the room, after verifying that everyone is clear of the chair. At least that's how I remember it.

This is a sick way of killing someone, I'm sorry but how could someone be so heartless to use this electric method...

they even install a small audience to watch and rejoice on the horrifying execution. how disappointingly barbaric humanity still is.

As if this isn't grotesque enough, when the doctors find out the inmate is not dead, is when it gets *real* ugly.

Florida's death row roster has several folks that have been on death row since like 1975

I would choose the chair over the needle in my arm, I’d rather feel some quick jolts over a possible botched slow death...

How old do you have to be to get the electric chair done to you?

There were 2 death row inmates who took this path to the Florida electric chair who argued that they had PTSD from their military service in Vietnam. The first one was David Livingston Funchess who had served in Vietnam in the Marines was traumatized when one of his war buddies was killed in the Vietnam. David Livingston Funchess was convicted of stabbing two people to death at a Jacksonville Lounge who were Clayton Ragan and Anna Waldrop and on April 22nd, 1986, David Livingston Funchess dies in Florida's electric chair. The other one was Larry Joe Johnson was convicted of murdering gas station attendant James Hadden during a robbery and they argued that Larry Joe Johnson had PTSD from his military service in Vietnam and was granted a clemency hearing, but it didn't go in his favor. On May 8th, 1993, Larry Joe Johnson, 49 was executed in Florida's electric chair.

It is a dirty job but someone must do

rottening in a small cold dark cell with food once a day for the rest of your life is a much worse penalty then getting executed. getting executed is an easy way out.

Ted bundy January 24 1989 7 :16 he was Executed 30 years ago

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I'm not saying that you should stop taking responsibility and leave everything up to somebody else. All I'm saying is that there are people out there who can't do that because of different social problems. It's nice to see that you can function in society, but you have no idea of how many problems other people have to function optimally in society. Not everybody is the same, and if you don't want to help other people, well then that is your problem.

Even just watching the video scared the shit out of me.

Theirs something sadistic about being a witness that isn't on a job or duty at the time and also the chair facing them.. what the??

This is sickening

the way how he says its like a tensing of the muscle like if there lifting waits sure gives a creep

The good old sparky 🏴‍☠

For those who do know, the death penaty was not imposed to punish, it was created to implement fear, to prevent violent crimes from happend again.

That is not "justice" it is revenge.

we need to be better than the people we condemn. When we give into our deepest hatred, and anger, we serve no one but ourselves. It's the same when we find out that someone's committed a heinous crime that has wronged your family member/friend; you kill them, and then what? Did you help your family/friend? No. You only made yourself, and perhaps others feel better. That didn't solve any of the core issues, or enact real justice. You've become the monster.

WOW! That was interesting! Thanks for the information!

Of the 44 who took this path to Florida's electric chair there were 2 occasions where the prisoner's head caught on fire, one was Jesse Joseph Tafero in 1990 who was convicted of the murder of two law enforcement officers Phillip Black a Florida State Trooper and Frederick Donald Irwin a Canadian Constable from Toronto Ontario in Canada and in 1997, Pedro Luis Medina who was convicted of murdering his neighbor Dorothy James.

Crazy to think that's the very cell Bundy last slept, that's the last hallway he walked in and that's the chair he died in

North Carolina almost had that! Like Mississippi, they switched from electricity to gas. They were the only state to build their own chamber instead of buying one from Eaton. They simply put the electric chair inside the chamber, and added a mechanism under the seat to drop the cyanide into a pan of acid. I don't know if anyone was actually electrocuted while the chair was in the chamber, but it's certainly possible if an inmate had been originally sentenced to die by that method.

One former Correctional Officer took this path to Florida's electric chair, his name was Aubrey Dennis Adams Jr who was convicted in the murder of 8 year old Trisa Gail Thornley for which Aubrey Dennis Adams Jr died in the Florida electric chair in 1989.

By the way it was being talked about in a step by step process and even walking down the hall to the electric chair, did anyone else feel like they were being escorted to their death? The way it was filmed and talked about made it seem so strange.

U.S Government says cruel and unusual punishment is illegal why do we still do it

People cry that it's cruel and unusual, BUT what about the victims? They suffered a cruel murder and they were not given a last meal request by these ruthless thug criminals. I stand and believe in the death penalty, notice how many criminals all of a sudden find Jesus when there about to die.

Sounds so Gruesome, & Barbaric..

Ommg I can’t believe ppl are walking to get into this chair 😫😫. Its crazy the way they knew that after a couple of minutes they will be dead !!!

Murdering a bunch of people who did nothing to deserve it should be repaid with death. Not forgiveness.

@PchanStitch The definition of justice has, and will continue to change over the years. Rosa Park's arrest was the 1950's definition of justice, and now as society further evolves we must question inhumane practices such as execution. Causing bodily harm to any individual is inhumane, no matter in one "deserved" it or not. Therefore, execution is inhumane.

Why don't they just inject them, I cannot even imagine the pain they are going through. 2400v? holly crap

The death sentence of Charles Miles Manson was overturned by the state of California in 1972. His parole was denied in April 2012 and his next parole hearing is not until 2027. Aileen, on the other hand, had had enough of life and simply wanted to die and fought the appeals in a quest to expedite the process from sentencing to execution date.

At least you know that person won't comeback to do the very same thing to another family.

The power source is an interesting aspect of judicial electrocution. I think the normal practice has been to run the chair off the prison's emergency generator. Reliability is one reason (lest someone try to delay the festivities by cutting a power line), but I've read that some power companies did not want their product associated with death, and asked the prisons to find an alternate source of power for the chair.

@FreeDogdylan Technically the cause of death will be listed as "homicide by judicial execution". Murder is a legal term of a non-judicial homicide as judged by a jury or finder of fact (judge). Capital punishment is not held to be unconstitutional. However in my opinion it is extra constitutional in that it assigns to the state a greater power than should be granted. The state does not create life; therefore it cannot take it away.

200 years later, your sons will be shame of what u did.

Really that’s not Forget what these killers have done to deserve the electric chair

I will say this folks, it may be violent but electrocution, when done 'right', is very quick and painless. However, like I said, it is a violent way to go as well, as we've seen and heard. I can say this for sure because I've been "popped" by a slight jolt with a current far less than what it would take to kill a person and I was rendered unconscious for about 30 seconds. I don't remember a thing. The amount of current used in the chair is more than enough to do the job.

Worth mentioning, even though Ted Bundy escaped twice, it wasn't from a max security prison. The first time he was inside a court house library and the second time it was a some lousy county jail. Besides that, he was a genius. Under normal circumstances, escapes are extremely rare and when they do happen, prisons are in such a location that you can't get far anyway

They *still* don't know - it's all based on ill-informed theories, trial-and-error and guesswork. The idea that there's some correct "dosage", requiring a specific sequence of shocks, goes way back. New York executioner Robert Elliott said something like "I manipulate the handle in such a way that they feel no pain". And discredited "execution engineer" Fred Leuchter had the bizarre idea that the low-voltage shock should be given *first*. I wouldn't want to have that theory tested on me!

“The superintendent will make a motion to the executioner in the executioner’s chamber where the executioner is.”

@electroexecutee it depends on the parameters of the electrocution cycle, the constitution of the guest of honor, and the perception of a particular state, how exactly they want to prepare their inmates in the chair. Most state like them rare - others medium and a few well done. In the latter case, all autopsy reports tell you "the brain appears to be cooked". No state ever wanted its inmates really fried, because this would be a disgusting experience for the witnesses.

For a while, in the early days, one of the original New York chairs had a unique way of keeping the sponges wet. There were two containers of salt water hung from the ceiling high above the chair, with a rubber hose from each container to one of the electrodes. The water replaced the moisture that evaporated as the electrodes (and the condemned!) heated up during the electrocution. It seems like a great idea. I wonder why it wasn't continued and used elsewhere.

Yes, I agree. Nice to meet another person like electroexecutee, who pays attention to those details! The straps should be of thick, supple, black leather, burnished to a deep, dark lustre, with big heavy brass buckles, and brass eyelets in the holes to keep them from getting worn out.

Forget electrocution. Just force the prisoner to watch this video and they'll die of boredom.

what a waste of money

Luis Quinones, the reason why the head and right leg are shaved before a condemned inmate is electrocuted is because devices containing electrodes are fastened onto the inmate's head and right leg before his/her execution is carried out. If Aileen Wuornos were to have been electrocuted instead of being put to death by lethal injection, this is what would have had to happen in that her head and right leg would have had to be shaved and a sponge would have been placed on her head and around her right leg before the electrodes were placed on. The electrode and sponge on the head is where the electricity enters the body and the electrode and sponge on the right leg are where the electricity exits and goes back to the power source, BTW. Lastly, when an inmate is put to death by electrocution, a shroud (blindfold) is placed over the inmate's face; this is usually one of the last things to happen before such a sentence is carried out. The inmate does not have a choice as to whether to wear this blindfold over their face or not; regardless of state, it is mandatory.

This is from an interview with former Texas executioner Sam Gilstrap, who did 125 electrocutions: "If a man is sentenced to death, he ought to have something to fear rather than a needle which lets him go to sleep. When you kick that motor on and you hear it moan - well, that gets him a little upset," said the grizzled old executioner over coffee at a small-town diner where the tables were covered in red-checked gingham. Sounds like the ultimate foreplay. Ol' Sam can "do" me any time!

Never let your logic work without your wisdom

@jeanmunn I have a question: How can the "state", a legal fiction, execute a person? What I mean is how can the "state" take what it does not grant? The state is an instrument that preserves rights, it does not give life therefore it cannot take life.The Constitution, specifically, the Bill Of Rights, says nothing on capital punishment. So how did the Supreme Court come to it's holding in Furman? . Does my argument have merit?

I've seen still photographs of electrocution victims' bodies just after the execution and still in place on the chair but unmasked. Most of the bodies seem to have extensive damage to the chest area and some burns to the face.

@electroexecutee I know the document. Half-dry electrocutions are indeed an exquisite speciality of Florida. In a way a preparation 'à la mode du chef'. Obviously, FDC wanted to increase the chair's coefficient of deterrence. And they did it rather successfully. Even the warden stated several times, 'Criminals should think twice about committing a murder in FL. We have a very special chair.'

This shit make me sick. Executing someone is the worst crime possible. Imagine waking up one day and know you're only a couple of minutes away from dying. The fear is greater than what any other crime can produce.

Just think on how much pain that person would feel😖😢😣

Can’t imagine the person who has to flip the switch knowing he/she is an murder executioner.

How painful is the electric chair?

Why do I keep watching these?

This was Thomas Edison's invention (lightbulb guy). This tells you a lot about him...

OK, thanks for the correction - I must have mistaken the ankle straps for electrode cuffs. Glad there's someone here who's into the details! I love learning about all the little differences between the various chairs. To me, the weirdest and maybe the scariest chair is the one in Illinois (Joliet, I think) with all of those clamps instead of straps, and that strange headrest. I can't figure out how that stuff worked!

The Jon execution was also unique because they used a tank of "factory-made" HCN gas, rather than generating the gas by on the spot by a chemical reaction (sulfuric acid + sodium/potassium cyanide) as all of the later chambers did. I read that getting the bottled gas was a major hassle for the warden, because shipping companies wouldn't handle it.

you shouldn't be worried about how a serial killer dies. you should be more worried about the murders that person did and what else they planned on doing.

A physician takes an oath to do no harm. How then do these medical professionals sleep at night knowing that they have violated this oath. How is this practice acceptable to them. If they were true physicians they would have nothing to do with this heinous and cruel punishment

I cant believe this is allowed on youtube, i mean good lord. This makes me sick

Indiana had a great chair. I think it had two ankle electrodes, which are less common than the single calf electrode like they have in Florida.

How can everyone who has watched this video explain why they needed search for "Electric chair execution"

an eye for an eye and everybody's blind

All these comments about how god chooses who lives and who dies and how no one else has the right to do so and yet people forget that she murdered seven people..

After that cycle is completed I'll ask "are you alright, buddy?" and the inmate will respond "yes, that was one helluva workout set!"Then he is escorted back to his cell and the witnesses clap.

you are so right

How do you get into one of those witness chairs? Do you get invited or something?

if they are going to kill someone... I can't believe they do it by an "electric chair". There must be an easier way. Like taking them to a cliff and making them jump. Must be cheaper. Crazy world we live in.

8 amps @ 2400 volts will not instantly kill a healthy adult. A good 15 amp will do the job, as little as 12 volts will kill you at 20 amps. Too much effort is made to kill someone.

Yes, murdering people who most likely won't kill again to "prevent them" from killing again is like murdering innocents, but the state is the murderer.