give someone the chair

give someone the chair
To execute a person by means of the electric chair.

Joseph ODell, convicted of a brutal rape and murder, was sentenced to death after a Virginia prosecutor told the jury that if they didnt give him the chair, hed one day get out and be free to kill again.


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