electrocute

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This is not something that just happened in the past few years, but have been a long history in the state of Georgia, and especially in the American South, of being so quick and so apt to electrocute or provide capital punishment for low-income people and for people of color.

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  1. transitive verb To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.
  2. transitive verb To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

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  • He said, "Yeah, but suppose Hitler asked you, 'Would you electrocute a stranger?' —  Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes
  • He had some trouble finding an Arabic word for electrocute, but he managed to convey his meaning. —  035 - Murder Mirage
  • There was one door to the room and it was surrounded by heavy copper rods that were a high-voltage protective device designed to electrocute, perhaps not fatally, but at least distressingly, anyone who entered when the juice was on Monk and Ham were near the door. —  114 - The Three Wild Men
  • All over the country, and when people begin to die, Savage will get the blame, and they'll lynch him, or the government will electrocute or hang him, if the army can't shoot him first for doing it. —  137 - The Man Who Was Scared
  • "They save lots of money by avoiding housing, feeding, and guarding for each person they behead, hang, gas, electrocute or needle-kill." —  Blog4Brains.com: A Revolutionary Blog Redefining Intellectualism
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