1. Capital Punishment
People of lower rank, however, were faced with being boiled alive, burned and beaten to death. ... So many people were appalled by the execution that it led to the 1911 repeal of Minnesota's death laws. ... Kemmler's right leg and head were shaved and a white paste that enhances the flow of electricity was rubbed onto his head. ... In New York, where the electric chair was invited, it was used to kill over 695 people before the states abolished the death penalty in 1965. ... Grasso had admitted to killing two elderly people over a six-month period of time in Oklahoma and in New Y...
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