Electric chairs to the scrap heap

Adam Doster February 8, 2008

Nebraska outlaws the electric chair, making it the last state to abandon the practice.

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Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.

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