To be fair, this video looks like it was recorded on "super long play" mode where you could get 6 hours of video on a regular VHS tape at the expense of image quality, and on top of that, when the tape is played over and over, it wears out the image and sound even more. There are good quality videos from back in the 90s
At 00:23, against the wall in the background, you can see the sponges for the head and leg electrodes, and right next to them, the electrodes themselves in the open box.
Flash before my eyes, now it's time to die. Burning in my brain, I can feel the flame... Wait for the sign to flick the switch of death. It's the beginning of the end... Sweat chilling cold, as I watch death unfold. Consciousness is my only friend.
the inmate gets strapped to this thing, an electrode (where the electricity enters and leaves the body) is attached to his head and to one leg, then he gets shocked by electricity. the exact procedure varies by state, but the first shock is around 2000 volts for around 10 seconds. then comes the second shock, which has a lower voltage (around 500-1000 volts) for up to a minute and is intended to damage vital organs other than the brain, the third one is 2000 volts for 10 seconds again. again, the procedures vary by state
This show was from 1992 folks. 48 Hours did a follow up of it in 1994 after Harold Otey finally rode the lightning. Two other men were executed in the electric chair in 1996 and 1997. In 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that electrocution was "cruel and unusual" and Nebraska joined most other states in going to lethal injection. No executions have been done in Nebraska since.
scarpfish This isn't from the first episode, it's from the follow up, Death By Midnight: The Final Countdown. Have you seen the original episode that aired in 1992?
On June 11, 1977 Jane McManus' brother, John, found her battered body lying in her rented house near the Ak-Sar-Ben racetrack in Omaha. She had been raped, stabbed, strangled with her belt and bludgeoned with a hammer. After getting leads that pointed to Harold Lamont "Willi" Otey, Omaha police tracked him down in January 1978 at the Florida Downs track near Tampa, Fla. Over the course of two days, Otey talked with police for more than eight hours. He gave a tape-recorded, detailed account of the McManus murder and told police he'd committed at least 10 rapes in six years. On April 13, 1978, a Douglas County District Court jury found Otey guilty of first degree murder in the commission of a sexual assault. Otey was executed in the electric chair at Nebraska State Penitentiary on September 2, 1994.
@@arielmateojesusdelacruz5186in the modern era you have to be 18 to be sentenced to death. Stinney was executed in 1944 when they would do it to basically anyone old enough to be held criminally responsible, doesn’t help that he was black either.
That was now-retired Warden's Assistant Chuck Howenstein. When Nebraska used the electric chair, the law required that the warden perform the duties of executioner, although he could delegate the duty to another person. I'm guessing that Howenstein was probably the guy that threw the switch on Walkin' Willie. Talk about a creepy, unemotional guy. Although, I support the death penalty, I honestly couldn't imagine myself being put in a position to actually throw the switch on a man. Nebraska used the chair three more times before it was placed into mothballs. The state now uses lethal injection for executions, and the state's first execution by injection was carried out on Carey Dean Moore last spring.
@@kathyheitchue6069 Charles "Chuck" Hohenstein died at the age of 70 in 2002. FindaGrave profile: www.findagrave.com/memorial/70411679/charles-raye-hohenstein
Its said that the first jolt renders someone unconscious, fast enough before any pain is felt, however no one can be absolutely sure of that. Theres a couple of rare cases in history of people surviving the attempt, but I would have to do deeper research to see what they said.
Extremely painful, more painful than getting shot by an firing squad. 10,000 AC volts on a lower voltage jolt, 20,000 AC volts on a much higher jolt, you can't resist that, that is a lot of pain to endure.
@@tonychen3368 They don't use voltage that high. The state of Tennessee use 1750 volts and 7 amps of electricity. Florida in the past use 2500 volts and 8 amps. When they do the 2 jolt method the voltage usually goes down to around 600 volts or so
@N bro are you kidding me? You know this chair can make you chicken 100 volts is enough to destroy human body but the chair has over 1k volts you know how powerful that is?!
@@Some_Random_Humans Neither volts or amperrage by itself can kill, it's the combination of both which does the trick. Static electricity created by walking on a carpet can give you shocks of many thousands of volts and except for a little bit of pain it does nothing, certainly not destroy you ;-)
@eIectroexecutee Yes, very simple controls, no timer, just one knob to turn. Looks like it has three positions: High Voltage - Off - Low Voltage. The big circuit breaker at the bottom of the panel is probably the connection between the control panel and the wires leading to the chair. As for the restraints, I'd favor big, heavy old-fashioned irons. Even modern cuffs look to flimsy for such a solemn occasion.
Im curious if givent the opportunity would you flip the switch on someone in the electric chair who was guilty? I find it all interesting but wonder if I could ever do it.
If the condemned killed any member of my family (my parents, my husband, my daughter, best friend) then YES! Yes I could. Then I'd sleep well that night.
@wardenphil good question they use the high voltage causes the inmate to go unconisous and the low voltage to destroy the interior of the body and if the inmate is not pronounced dead they use another surge of electricty i live in florida and the method of execution here is Electrocution for the sentenced before 1999 and lethal injection for all death sentences
I actually rather die in Nebraska's chair than Alabama's (if the chair didn't cease in use). Not only is the death quicker due to the higher ampage, but the warden sounds more educated and doesn't say "windur."
The reason why the assistant warden in the clip for Alabama's chair said "Windur" is because that's how people down south talk; same if you heard a person in Massachusetts talking about execution in an electric chair.
I have seen photos and a longer version of this video, and when they aren't using it, all the wires and straps are removed and the chair is nothing but a wood chair, perfectly safe, though creepy
Nebraska no longer uses the electric chair. It was decommissioned following the Nebraska Supreme Court's ruling that execution by electrocution violated the Nebraska Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. The execution of Carey Dean Moore in Nebraska a number of months ago, was carried out by lethal injection.
The electric chair is as American as apple pie . The electric current consists of the condemned individual’s own electrons , which are caused to flow from the point of low electrical potential through the body which is like a lumped parameter resistor , to the point of high potential . This potential difference is provided by the apparatus supporting the chair in the death chamber .
"No one has been put to death in Nebraska since 1959." His name was Charles Starkweather. Electrocuted on Thursday, June 25th. 11 years later I was born on a Thursday, June 25th.
You mean in reality when it's being used you don't hear the mains hum from the transformer? I thought that's pretty normal for such a big transformer as the one they would use in an execution?
@@MontgomeryMall Harold Lamont "Willie" Otey was executed in that electric chair in 1994, convicted serial killer John Joseph Joubert in 1996 and Robert E Williams in 1997.
Or is the chair wires in the back long wires from the chair probably one water barrel separated so that the so that the water barrel or the water only touches leaves of the wires and then you have the transformer wire separated in generating through the water through the chair wires to equate the resistance of a human body that's how it works it doesn't really probably doesn't really take a lot of current for the human body anyway as far as amps go but AC current is really dangerous no matter how you look at it you can have it set to its weakest and it's lowest current and it's still dangerous.
I know an irish electrician who was sent to maintain that chair, but he refused point blank he said he wouldn't have anything to do with it , he reckoned in his professional opinion it was a fuckin death trap
Agree. They sterilize it after each execution supposedly. I agree though I wouldn't want to sit or touch it either knowing that people have died in it. The thought of it is gross. Imagine sitting in it and then jumping into your car seat, or the sofa in your home. I say NFW.
It's not for sanitary reasons that I would not want to sit in the electric chair, it would be the eerie feeling. It just isn't something I would care to do. Just as I would not want to lie in a casket.
I wonder where they got that oddball cycle: 8 seconds of high voltage and 22 seconds of low voltage. I mean, why not 10 and 20, or 15 and15? Would it really make any difference? I remember a report on the Florida chair from long ago, before they had the automatic timer. It was simple - just high voltage, on or off. The electrician said the executioner turned off the power "When it's been on long enough, when the skin's burnin'".
The first cycle is designed to render the condemned unconscious. The follow up cycle should stop their heart. Too long on high voltage things get burnt and smokey.
Bring back " Old Sparky" in a heart beat.... And we will take back our society back quickly... " You will think twice before you commit a crime again....." A few examples and you got it baby, I better be a good citizen or I will get juiced , love the humming sound !
@@downlink5877 not at all , just to send a message to all the criminals ," look tough guy's you commit crime , your getting zapped " no more tax payers money paying for your 3 meal's a day, for the next 25 year's... Give them Volts poor victims and their family's for suffering for these savages !
@@kathyheitchue6069 that's what we need the 2 cables and the water running. .3,568 volts ... " Look you committed murder , now it's time to light you up" ! Like a Christmas tree... No second chance !
They have quite a few transformers in this electric chair to make sure that it's going to do the job that they are hoping for which is punishment for taking another life the person should think about it when they took the person's if they didn't want their life taken they should have thought about it.
so the first lever at 0:13 was the chair's kill switch (Or kill lever), the lever at 0:22 was to turn on the chair's power, and the switch at 0:27 was to release the lethal current. am I correct or am I wrong?
Electric chairs cycled through various voltages during an electrocution, more modern ones did it automatically according to pre-programmed settings, but with the older ones the executioner had to manually cycle it with levers, or in this case a rotary switch. The first 10 to 15 seconds the chair runs through a high cycle of between 2200 to 2500 volts, which has the purpose of knocking out the condemned and causing massive brain damage, along with overcoming the human body's resistance and to create a path for the current to flow. After that it runs through a medium cycle of 800 or so volts for about half a minute, which has the purpose of causing massive damage to the heart through depolarising the heart muscles. And finally it runs through a low cycle of 400 or so volts for 1,5-2 minutes, with the intention of further damaging all vital organs and ensuring permanent cardiac arrest. By the end of the electrocution the condemned's brain will have literally been boiled, as will some other organs and fluids close to the electrodes. Running these various cycles ensures instant deep unconsciousness, massive and permanent organ damage, and a swift and irreversible death. If the chair would be run on high cycle for the entire duration that would all be ensured as well, but the outcome would be considerably more messy and bring a serious risk of the condemned's head catching fire.
I'd be interested to know how safe the procedure is for those participating. I notice there is lots of black matting around the chair and where the executioner stands. I presume if you stepped off that black matting or touched the person in the chair you could also get zapped? There must be potential for something to go badly wrong and for the execution team to be injured by stray current?
There was heavy rubber mats the death team left the room which is quite small. The viewing glass is right in front of the chair 🪑 the curtains were pulled back after the inmate was seated . The chair is located behind the front desk of NSP where you greet visitors and or staff gets checked in. The viewing room is used for storage when there is no planed execution. There was only 1 chuck and he seemed to like his job in all aspects .
Nobody was close to the chair when it was in use. I wouldn't want to be there when they test it in a barrel of water. Water + high voltage aren't a good combination. If something goes wrong, electric arc burns a hole in barrel etc. somebody could get shocked. Better to have a nice dry pack of resistors.
Correct. The condemned often void their bladder and bowels during electrocution, and seeing as urine is a good conductor of electricity it's best not to be to near while he/she is frying in the chair...
+kentishtowncowboy The clip was cut short to get to the next part of the story regarding rehearsals for Otey's execution; Harold Lamont Otey was electrocuted in 1995.
How about instead of using the chair, the condemned man is hypnotised, told his name is Jimmy and then instructed to go and collect a frisbee in the substation next to the prison. When he goes to pick up the frisbee he touches the live terminal it is positioned on and BOOM, he gets shocked with 66,000volts. that would surely be more effective than 2000v. Venturing into an energised substation means instant death whereas the Chair doesn't kill instantly as far as we know.
Ive been obsessed since ive been a kid too..not sure why lol,...Whose manual do you have? TN? FL? Or KY’s....Those are the only ones i can seem to find.....ive always been fascinated by what the different head and leg pieces used by each state look like...everytime i find a picture or piece of info i havent seen, im like a little kid..
The switch on that gray electrical box I'm sure would be off, as well as that big vertical switch, as well as that rotating switch. All 3 would have to be on to send electricity to the chair, and I'm sure all the switches are in the off position when they practice strapping down a guard.
This comes from an episode of CBS News 48 Hours, the episode's titled Death By Midnight, The Final Countdown. Aired in December 1994. I got a copy from CBS News on tape, cost a small fortune, but nice to be able to watch. First use in many years? That's an understatement. It's mentioned here that there hadn't been an execution since 1959, 35 long years! The last execution was Charles Starkweather, executed on my birthday, June 25, 1959!
Following Harold "Walking Willie" Otey, Nebraska electrocuted two other inmates. Nebraska's state supreme court in a case ruled that electrocution violated the Nebraska Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. In response, Nebraska's one house unicameral Legislature passed legislation to change the mode of inflicting death in an execution to death by lethal injection. No one has been executed by lethal injection since the bill became law, in that a number of inmates still have appeals in the stream; and also the federal Drug Enforcement Agency confiscated Nebraska's supply of the lethal chemicals, which had been purchased from a foreign distributor.
@@MrNWA4Life yeah, I read where you find a copy but someone on RUclips actually posted the full video a few years ago and I’ve been searching for the full video agin but without any luck I don’t know if the person removed it or if youtube did so ? But I’d like to watch the whole video again
And you posted that comment over a decade ago, So unless you’ve been living under a rock or the moon Mr. NWA4life Someone must have a video of it that they can post online
It looks like there's just one door into the death chamber, which means that the condemned will pass by the control panel on his way in, and hear the hum of the electricity which will soon be surging through his body.
@CondemnedGirl that one is good but they dont turn on the current i met someone that worked of florida's death row and he said you dont hear a pop like on this one and he witnessed jesse tafero's execution in 1990 and leo jones in 1998. the officers bothched his execution because the victem was a state trooper
From 1920 to 1997, 15 prisoners were executed in Nebraska's electric chair whom were Allison Cole, 21, and Allen Grammer, 22, in 1920, James King, 26, in 1922, Walter Simmons, 24, in 1925, Henry Bartlett, 35, and Frank Carter, 46, in 1927, Frank Sharp, 49, in 1928, Henry Sherman, 20, in 1929, Joseph Macavoy, 23, in 1945, Timothy Iron Bear, 22, in 1948, Roland Sundahl, 20, in 1952, Charles Raymond Starkweather, 20, in 1959, Harold Lamont Otey, 43, in 1994, John Joseph Joubert, 33, in 1996, and Robert E. Williams, 61, in 1997.
I'm curious I've seen videoes of electric chairs and some tell us how many volts of electricity the chair is set to? Even though Nebraska no longer uses the electric chair.
+don owens ok. Thanks for your reply. I watch the prison show lockup on MSNBC and they were in Nashville, Tennessee and their electric chair is 1750 volts as well. Some are set to more.
+Billy Rife I think on florida's electric chair is. Set to 2400 and when Georgia had one but not anymore it was 2000 volt. Saw a report on that on RUclips.
@98katman If they do, they're dead a split second later, so they won't care. Maybe it's a cue to get ready for what's about to happen. "Flash before my eyes. Now it's time to die. Burning in my brain. I can feel the pain." - Ride The Lightning byMetallica
Yeah I remember that show as a teenager. 48 Hours: Death by Midnight on CBS. Harold Otay escaped death on that show but was electrocuted a few months later, his appeals exhausted.
Oh, it'll hurt forever, a man on a documentary was an former Corrections officer, he had a very insanely true line, he says "When I give the Order to Execute, its a real, physical, violent Jolt of the Body", so true! First cycle of current is supposed to be 20,000 AC volts, causing massive damage to the vatal organs, when the current is switched off the Condemned is unconscious, if the condemned heart is still beating and he or she is still alive an low voltage 10,000 should be able to stop his/her heart leading to Cardiac arrest. There is no escape from the electric chair for any Condemned Prisoner, none.
That system wouldn't be practical, its the amperage that kills, not so much the voltage. Usually they use around 8 amps which would be tough to get from solar panels or batteries
you know if you ever need the chair tested let me know. I got a mayor in my town that got caught kissing his underage boyfriend in the city hall restrooms and the state dis nothing. If your not using the chair this weekend could i barrow it?
You would execute a person for being gay ? I agree that the mayor should not be kissing his underage boyfriend in the city hall restroom, but to kill him for it ? You must be out of your mind !
@nicspic2011 Nebraska's clemency Board is made up of the Governor, Secretary of State, and the Attorney General. Otey had a good lawyer that brought up in appeals that the Attorney General sat on the clemency board, yet his office pushed for his execution, a conflict of interest. The death row row cells were always in the hospital ward (even in the old buildings they were demolished in 1980) until they built the prison in Tecumsah in 2003 and moved death row there.
I would like to see them flip the switch for like ten seconds, and then check the body after a 5 minute cool down. This way we will know if it's instant, and that the other 2 jolts of 200 and 800 or 1800 volts may not be necessary. Maybe after the first ten seconds the brain may be unconscious but the heart might still beat. Only way to know is to try it, unless there are studies out there that have some conclusion.
In the initial electrocution in New York, they only ran it for 15 seconds. Turned out the guy was still alive and moaning. Took them a while to get enough power to turn the current back on. A very grisly scene. The guy was an axe murderer and it was suggested afterward they could have done a better job with an axe.
A lot is known about the effects of electricity on the human body, so using someone as a guinea pig isn't necesarry, it won't yield any new information. The initial high voltage shock is needed to overcome the human body's internal resistance and create a path for the current, along with knocking out the condemned. The cycles after that are just to ensure a guaranteed outcome without charring the body too much.
Man when you hear that electric current humming, you know s--t just got real.
Electric chair is no joke
If the condemned wants a cremation,, just let the chair run for an hour !!!
Lol 😆
You are world class bastard
Video's from the 90's look to me now like video's from the 70's did when I was a kid. Dammit I hate getting older.
Exactly!!
True. I guess the film just gets old. I was born in 76, so I know what you mean.
To be fair, this video looks like it was recorded on "super long play" mode where you could get 6 hours of video on a regular VHS tape at the expense of image quality, and on top of that, when the tape is played over and over, it wears out the image and sound even more. There are good quality videos from back in the 90s
he needs to accept the chair and not fight it !!!
The electric chair is the best.
At 00:23, against the wall in the background, you can see the sponges for the head and leg electrodes, and right next to them, the electrodes themselves in the open box.
It's Otey, throw the switch!
Flash before my eyes, now it's time to die. Burning in my brain, I can feel the flame...
Wait for the sign to flick the switch of death. It's the beginning of the end...
Sweat chilling cold, as I watch death unfold. Consciousness is my only friend.
Richard Wolfe those are lyrics from Ride The Lightning
Richard Wolfe Metallica's 2nd album released in 1984 was entitled Ride The Lightning.
Hello there how dose the elecrtic chair work please thank you.
the inmate gets strapped to this thing, an electrode (where the electricity enters and leaves the body) is attached to his head and to one leg, then he gets shocked by electricity. the exact procedure varies by state, but the first shock is around 2000 volts for around 10 seconds. then comes the second shock, which has a lower voltage (around 500-1000 volts) for up to a minute and is intended to damage vital organs other than the brain, the third one is 2000 volts for 10 seconds again. again, the procedures vary by state
Hello airbus thank you four your help on the electric chair and four replying back to me allso.
Basically, it electrocutes the condemned to death, frying every part of the body.
Basically, the condemned is electrocuted to death.
If I was the dude they used to test the chair, you better believe I'll be holding the fuses for the damn thing in my hand the whole time!
Well im pretty sure its a dry run, where they leave all the switches in the off position, but yeah i know what you mean
I can't lie, that hum is chilling.
Interesting fact, Willy Otay had the exact same date of birth as the woman he murdered, same year and everything.
And that's why astrology is all bullshit.
This show was from 1992 folks. 48 Hours did a follow up of it in 1994 after Harold Otey finally rode the lightning. Two other men were executed in the electric chair in 1996 and 1997.
In 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that electrocution was "cruel and unusual" and Nebraska joined most other states in going to lethal injection. No executions have been done in Nebraska since.
scarpfish
This isn't from the first episode, it's from the follow up, Death By Midnight: The Final Countdown. Have you seen the original episode that aired in 1992?
nikko Jenkins felt the wrath of the state
@ferretweasel6895
He’s alive still and the state let the public feel the wrath of Jenkins
On June 11, 1977 Jane McManus' brother, John, found her battered body lying in her rented house near the Ak-Sar-Ben racetrack in Omaha. She had been raped, stabbed, strangled with her belt and bludgeoned with a hammer.
After getting leads that pointed to Harold Lamont "Willi" Otey, Omaha police tracked him down in January 1978 at the Florida Downs track near Tampa, Fla. Over the course of two days, Otey talked with police for more than eight hours. He gave a tape-recorded, detailed account of the McManus murder and told police he'd committed at least 10 rapes in six years.
On April 13, 1978, a Douglas County District Court jury found Otey guilty of first degree murder in the commission of a sexual assault.
Otey was executed in the electric chair at Nebraska State Penitentiary on September 2, 1994.
Wow, if ever there was someone who deserved to fry. What a subhuman excuse of a person.
I guess that’s a lol then?
Pretty cool! I prefer classic black leather for the straps and mask, though..
They're killing a man, not catering to your bdsm fantasy
give 'em a good manly jolt...it's good for what ails 'em!
How old do you have to be to get the electric chair done to you?
41
18
The youngest was George stinney at 14, and he was fasley accused..
@@arielmateojesusdelacruz5186in the modern era you have to be 18 to be sentenced to death. Stinney was executed in 1944 when they would do it to basically anyone old enough to be held criminally responsible, doesn’t help that he was black either.
Creepy. Just creepy. The warden, I mean, is kind of like an accountant mixed with a mortician.
So funny and MACABE that is what he looks like,and the voice.
That was now-retired Warden's Assistant Chuck Howenstein. When Nebraska used the electric chair, the law required that the warden perform the duties of executioner, although he could delegate the duty to another person. I'm guessing that Howenstein was probably the guy that threw the switch on Walkin' Willie. Talk about a creepy, unemotional guy. Although, I support the death penalty, I honestly couldn't imagine myself being put in a position to actually throw the switch on a man. Nebraska used the chair three more times before it was placed into mothballs. The state now uses lethal injection for executions, and the state's first execution by injection was carried out on Carey Dean Moore last spring.
I would NOT,NOT,want to meet Owenstien in any dark room,anywhere
@@kathyheitchue6069 Charles "Chuck" Hohenstein died at the age of 70 in 2002.
FindaGrave profile:
www.findagrave.com/memorial/70411679/charles-raye-hohenstein
Both.
How painful is the electric chair?
Very painful. It basically electrocutes your body.
Its said that the first jolt renders someone unconscious, fast enough before any pain is felt, however no one can be absolutely sure of that. Theres a couple of rare cases in history of people surviving the attempt, but I would have to do deeper research to see what they said.
Extremely painful, more painful than getting shot by an firing squad. 10,000 AC volts on a lower voltage jolt, 20,000 AC volts on a much higher jolt, you can't resist that, that is a lot of pain to endure.
@@tonychen3368 They don't use voltage that high. The state of Tennessee use 1750 volts and 7 amps of electricity. Florida in the past use 2500 volts and 8 amps. When they do the 2 jolt method the voltage usually goes down to around 600 volts or so
Yes
It looks and sounds terrifying...😨
Well,yeah,.?
It does indeed look primitive, like a bunch of cords plugged into a big electric box or transformer. Everything in you screams DANGER.
@@bobjones2460 Exactly, like an antique killing device. You can really see that thing has quite some history. And probably a body count as well....
@N bro are you kidding me? You know this chair can make you chicken 100 volts is enough to destroy human body but the chair has over 1k volts you know how powerful that is?!
@@Some_Random_Humans Neither volts or amperrage by itself can kill, it's the combination of both which does the trick. Static electricity created by walking on a carpet can give you shocks of many thousands of volts and except for a little bit of pain it does nothing, certainly not destroy you ;-)
@eIectroexecutee Yes, very simple controls, no timer, just one knob to turn. Looks like it has three positions: High Voltage - Off - Low Voltage. The big circuit breaker at the bottom of the panel is probably the connection between the control panel and the wires leading to the chair.
As for the restraints, I'd favor big, heavy old-fashioned irons. Even modern cuffs look to flimsy for such a solemn occasion.
Im curious if givent the opportunity would you flip the switch on someone in the electric chair who was guilty? I find it all interesting but wonder if I could ever do it.
If the condemned killed any member of my family (my parents, my husband, my daughter, best friend) then YES! Yes I could. Then I'd sleep well that night.
@wardenphil good question they use the high voltage causes the inmate to go unconisous and the low voltage to destroy the interior of the body and if the inmate is not pronounced dead they use another surge of electricty i live in florida and the method of execution here is Electrocution for the sentenced before 1999 and lethal injection for all death sentences
Stange; I wonder which state is considered the Electric Chair Capital of the U.S? # FLORIDA, LOUISIANA, TENNESSEE etc...
Saved the seat nice and warm for you.
I actually rather die in Nebraska's chair than Alabama's (if the chair didn't cease in use). Not only is the death quicker due to the higher ampage, but the warden sounds more educated and doesn't say "windur."
Yeah, I like Assistant Warden Chuck! He has a great attitude, even a sense of humor.
The reason why the assistant warden in the clip for Alabama's chair said "Windur" is because that's how people down south talk; same if you heard a person in Massachusetts talking about execution in an electric chair.
Ti Ng the lil' winderrrrrrr !!! 😂😂
Ti Ng wats wrong with saying windur?
Funny as hell....'Bamas chair looks like it was ripped off from IKEA, and is painted with yellow paint left over from a DOT project,check it Out
nice Machine
Not sure I'd want to sit in that thing oh, it doesn't look very comfortable or safe! Will it kill him to put a little padding in the chair?
I have seen photos and a longer version of this video, and when they aren't using it, all the wires and straps are removed and the chair is nothing but a wood chair, perfectly safe, though creepy
Nebraska no longer uses the electric chair. It was decommissioned following the Nebraska Supreme Court's ruling that execution by electrocution violated the Nebraska Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. The execution of Carey Dean Moore in Nebraska a number of months ago, was carried out by lethal injection.
Very stupid decision
@@user-nf3yw7xh8ntrue the chair us better
I graduated high school 29 years ago today
Me 20 years ago today
The electric chair is as American as apple pie . The electric current consists of the condemned individual’s own electrons , which are caused to flow from the point of low electrical potential through the body which is like a lumped parameter resistor , to the point of high potential . This potential difference is provided by the apparatus supporting the chair in the death chamber .
Hello there what istate in america is this in please.
read the title lol. its Nebraska
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"No one has been put to death in Nebraska since 1959."
His name was Charles Starkweather. Electrocuted on Thursday, June 25th. 11 years later I was born on a Thursday, June 25th.
then you are the reincarnation of Charles Starkweather.
32 years for me. 25th of June, 1991
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Dude, I can't unhear it....I never thought about the humming sound! That's scary man!
Everyone exepts that electricity sound used in movies and in real life its a boring and much more terrifying hum.
@@mr.atomic2970 *accepts - OMG 🙄
@@dannydougin3925bruh sorry I meant to type expects.
Nebraska Electric Chair wants to make his final chunk of change so he can go out with a way to help his community
Good old sparky
I remember this. Its in my neighborhood. A constant electrical humming noise was added to the original video 😂. That’s unfortunate and dumb.
You mean in reality when it's being used you don't hear the mains hum from the transformer? I thought that's pretty normal for such a big transformer as the one they would use in an execution?
Actually Joe the sound wasn't added cus the power lines near my ex's house in Mexico; FREAKEN HUMMS VERY LOUD JUST LIKE THAT!
@@johnrodriguez2922 lmao
New imagine 2200 v alternating current going through your body 12 amps maybe 80 milliamps to stop the heart.
I'm no doctor but even if it didn't stop the heart, that electricity surely does other catastrophic damage to the body doesn't it?
Death by electrocution passes to the heart until get is recorded by by law.
I’m assuming that’s the same chair they fried Starkweather in.
Yes, that was the only electric chair ever used in Nebraska.
@@MontgomeryMall Harold Lamont "Willie" Otey was executed in that electric chair in 1994, convicted serial killer John Joseph Joubert in 1996 and Robert E Williams in 1997.
Yep. Poor Charlie got himself electrocuted on my birthday. Thanks Nebraska. :-/
@MrNWA4Life Can you upload the whole episode on youtube??
Or is the chair wires in the back long wires from the chair probably one water barrel separated so that the so that the water barrel or the water only touches leaves of the wires and then you have the transformer wire separated in generating through the water through the chair wires to equate the resistance of a human body that's how it works it doesn't really probably doesn't really take a lot of current for the human body anyway as far as amps go but AC current is really dangerous no matter how you look at it you can have it set to its weakest and it's lowest current and it's still dangerous.
Still the electric chair should be brought back in some cases because of shortage of lethal injection drugs or other means of execution.
True
Why do they use low voltage for portions of the execution?
..... 1k is low???? Are you crazy 100 can make you like chicken what about 1k???
I know an irish electrician who was sent to maintain that chair, but he refused point blank he said he wouldn't have anything to do with it , he reckoned in his professional opinion it was a fuckin death trap
I would not even want to sit in the chair for the practice
I wouldn't either. People pee and crap in that chair. Flesh burns. Nope. I'm not going anywhere near that thing.
Agree. They sterilize it after each execution supposedly. I agree though I wouldn't want to sit or touch it either knowing that people have died in it. The thought of it is gross. Imagine sitting in it and then jumping into your car seat, or the sofa in your home. I say NFW.
It's not for sanitary reasons that I would not want to sit in the electric chair, it would be the eerie feeling. It just isn't something I would care to do. Just as I would not want to lie in a casket.
Neither would I. I would probably have a heart attack just sitting in there getting strapped in, my heart would be racing so fast!
Rick Olson . I agree. not for me.
@makeupgals18 Don't worry, that was just a rehearsal - the "inmate" was actually a correctional officer.
Ride the Lightning
There was a full documentary about ths. Does any1 have the link?
I wonder where they got that oddball cycle: 8 seconds of high voltage and 22 seconds of low voltage. I mean, why not 10 and 20, or 15 and15? Would it really make any difference?
I remember a report on the Florida chair from long ago, before they had the automatic timer. It was simple - just high voltage, on or off. The electrician said the executioner turned off the power "When it's been on long enough, when the skin's burnin'".
The first cycle is designed to render the condemned unconscious. The follow up cycle should stop their heart. Too long on high voltage things get burnt and smokey.
Bring back " Old Sparky" in a heart beat.... And we will take back our society back quickly... " You will think twice before you commit a crime again....." A few examples and you got it baby, I better be a good citizen or I will get juiced , love the humming sound !
Yeeeeeaaaaaaah I think you need help
The sound is scary as shit
Why don't we put a few heads on poles again to remind all the bindlestiffs of the world not to mess in our sh*t.
@@downlink5877 not at all , just to send a message to all the criminals ," look tough guy's you commit crime , your getting zapped " no more tax payers money paying for your 3 meal's a day, for the next 25 year's... Give them Volts poor victims and their family's for suffering for these savages !
@@kathyheitchue6069 that's what we need the 2 cables and the water running. .3,568 volts ... " Look you committed murder , now it's time to light you up" ! Like a Christmas tree... No second chance !
They have quite a few transformers in this electric chair to make sure that it's going to do the job that they are hoping for which is punishment for taking another life the person should think about it when they took the person's if they didn't want their life taken they should have thought about it.
so the first lever at 0:13 was the chair's kill switch (Or kill lever), the lever at 0:22 was to turn on the chair's power, and the switch at 0:27 was to release the lethal current. am I correct or am I wrong?
Seems about right, from what we can see, theres a video like this about the alabama electric chair, and there are 4 switches total on that one
Electric chairs cycled through various voltages during an electrocution, more modern ones did it automatically according to pre-programmed settings, but with the older ones the executioner had to manually cycle it with levers, or in this case a rotary switch.
The first 10 to 15 seconds the chair runs through a high cycle of between 2200 to 2500 volts, which has the purpose of knocking out the condemned and causing massive brain damage, along with overcoming the human body's resistance and to create a path for the current to flow. After that it runs through a medium cycle of 800 or so volts for about half a minute, which has the purpose of causing massive damage to the heart through depolarising the heart muscles. And finally it runs through a low cycle of 400 or so volts for 1,5-2 minutes, with the intention of further damaging all vital organs and ensuring permanent cardiac arrest. By the end of the electrocution the condemned's brain will have literally been boiled, as will some other organs and fluids close to the electrodes. Running these various cycles ensures instant deep unconsciousness, massive and permanent organ damage, and a swift and irreversible death. If the chair would be run on high cycle for the entire duration that would all be ensured as well, but the outcome would be considerably more messy and bring a serious risk of the condemned's head catching fire.
Yea ik it
Johnbreighner Like the ohio warden said "thats correct".
I'd be interested to know how safe the procedure is for those participating. I notice there is lots of black matting around the chair and where the executioner stands. I presume if you stepped off that black matting or touched the person in the chair you could also get zapped? There must be potential for something to go badly wrong and for the execution team to be injured by stray current?
There was heavy rubber mats the death team left the room which is quite small. The viewing glass is right in front of the chair 🪑 the curtains were pulled back after the inmate was seated . The chair is located behind the front desk of NSP where you greet visitors and or staff gets checked in. The viewing room is used for storage when there is no planed execution. There was only 1 chuck and he seemed to like his job in all aspects .
Nobody was close to the chair when it was in use. I wouldn't want to be there when they test it in a barrel of water. Water + high voltage aren't a good combination. If something goes wrong, electric arc burns a hole in barrel etc. somebody could get shocked. Better to have a nice dry pack of resistors.
Correct. The condemned often void their bladder and bowels during electrocution, and seeing as urine is a good conductor of electricity it's best not to be to near while he/she is frying in the chair...
So he murdered a beautiful woman...and the excerpt moved on quickly so no details were given out.
+kentishtowncowboy The clip was cut short to get to the next part of the story regarding rehearsals for Otey's execution; Harold Lamont Otey was electrocuted in 1995.
Thanks for the update. I'll have a look. Thanks again.
@@EricEbac22
1994 not 1995
How about instead of using the chair, the condemned man is hypnotised, told his name is Jimmy and then instructed to go and collect a frisbee in the substation next to the prison. When he goes to pick up the frisbee he touches the live terminal it is positioned on and BOOM, he gets shocked with 66,000volts. that would surely be more effective than 2000v. Venturing into an energised substation means instant death whereas the Chair doesn't kill instantly as far as we know.
Dean man walking on the Green Mile.
Mr Jangles?
Damn, i love the electric chair - it's very scary, but i love it! :3
Me too....got books on the damn thing
Ive been obsessed since ive been a kid too..not sure why lol,...Whose manual do you have? TN? FL? Or KY’s....Those are the only ones i can seem to find.....ive always been fascinated by what the different head and leg pieces used by each state look like...everytime i find a picture or piece of info i havent seen, im like a little kid..
How did you bid on the electrode? Was Fred Leuchter the one auctioning it?
Do you have a link to FL and KY's manual?
kittian you can make a home made one with the right transformer and timer and fry yourself to a crispy crackely crunch
Brutal
Imagine if one of their hands slipped when they practiced and they hit the lever 💀
The switch on that gray electrical box I'm sure would be off, as well as that big vertical switch, as well as that rotating switch. All 3 would have to be on to send electricity to the chair, and I'm sure all the switches are in the off position when they practice strapping down a guard.
This comes from an episode of CBS News 48 Hours, the episode's titled Death By Midnight, The Final Countdown. Aired in December 1994. I got a copy from CBS News on tape, cost a small fortune, but nice to be able to watch. First use in many years? That's an understatement. It's mentioned here that there hadn't been an execution since 1959, 35 long years! The last execution was Charles Starkweather, executed on my birthday, June 25, 1959!
Following Harold "Walking Willie" Otey, Nebraska electrocuted two other inmates. Nebraska's state supreme court in a case ruled that electrocution violated the Nebraska Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. In response, Nebraska's one house unicameral Legislature passed legislation to change the mode of inflicting death in an execution to death by lethal injection. No one has been executed by lethal injection since the bill became law, in that a number of inmates still have appeals in the stream; and also the federal Drug Enforcement Agency confiscated Nebraska's supply of the lethal chemicals, which had been purchased from a foreign distributor.
Do you have a link to the video ??
I can’t seem to find it
@@Mr.paint123
I guess you can't read where I said I ordered a VHS copy from CBS. This was probably almost 25 years ago.
@@MrNWA4Life yeah, I read where you find a copy but someone on RUclips actually posted the full video a few years ago and I’ve been searching for the full video agin but without any luck
I don’t know if the person removed it or if youtube did so ?
But I’d like to watch the whole video again
And you posted that comment over a decade ago, So unless you’ve been living under a rock or the moon Mr. NWA4life
Someone must have a video of it that they can post online
It looks like there's just one door into the death chamber, which means that the condemned will pass by the control panel on his way in, and hear the hum of the electricity which will soon be surging through his body.
In a longer version of this video, you can see the control panel room has a door, which I assume would be closed most of the time
Wish they would bring this back.
Should be mandatory in all 50 states...
@CondemnedGirl that one is good but they dont turn on the current i met someone that worked of florida's death row and he said you dont hear a pop like on this one and he witnessed jesse tafero's execution in 1990 and leo jones in 1998. the officers bothched his execution because the victem was a state trooper
And Tafero was innocent
From 1920 to 1997, 15 prisoners were executed in Nebraska's electric chair whom were Allison Cole, 21, and Allen Grammer, 22, in 1920, James King, 26, in 1922, Walter Simmons, 24, in 1925, Henry Bartlett, 35, and Frank Carter, 46, in 1927, Frank Sharp, 49, in 1928, Henry Sherman, 20, in 1929, Joseph Macavoy, 23, in 1945, Timothy Iron Bear, 22, in 1948, Roland Sundahl, 20, in 1952, Charles Raymond Starkweather, 20, in 1959, Harold Lamont Otey, 43, in 1994, John Joseph Joubert, 33, in 1996, and Robert E. Williams, 61, in 1997.
I'm curious I've seen videoes of electric chairs and some tell us how many volts of electricity the chair is set to? Even though Nebraska no longer uses the electric chair.
1750 volts
+don owens ok. Thanks for your reply. I watch the prison show lockup on MSNBC and they were in Nashville, Tennessee and their electric chair is 1750 volts as well. Some are set to more.
+Billy Rife I think on florida's electric chair is. Set to 2400 and when Georgia had one but not anymore it was 2000 volt. Saw a report on that on RUclips.
+Billy Rife 0:36 13Amp 2.5KV
Anywhere from 1600 to 2600 volts
have they ever had to shut down resatate do to stay or failure
@98katman If they do, they're dead a split second later, so they won't care. Maybe it's a cue to get ready for what's about to happen. "Flash before my eyes. Now it's time to die. Burning in my brain. I can feel the pain." - Ride The Lightning byMetallica
Yeah I remember that show as a teenager. 48 Hours: Death by Midnight on CBS. Harold Otay escaped death on that show but was electrocuted a few months later, his appeals exhausted.
@CondemnedGirl where can i find this video? or others like this??
Charles Starkweather had a seat in that chair. I can’t say that I feel bad about that fact.
That's gotta hurt.
Oh, it'll hurt forever, a man on a documentary was an former Corrections officer, he had a very insanely true line, he says "When I give the Order to Execute, its a real, physical, violent Jolt of the Body", so true! First cycle of current is supposed to be 20,000 AC volts, causing massive damage to the vatal organs, when the current is switched off the Condemned is unconscious, if the condemned heart is still beating and he or she is still alive an low voltage 10,000 should be able to stop his/her heart leading to Cardiac arrest. There is no escape from the electric chair for any Condemned Prisoner, none.
Damnnnn so I’m assuming this is where Charles Starkweather died
Yeah he was the one who died there in 1959, before Wili Otey did in 1994
@@airbus_a320neo that’s damn freaky bro…looking at a spree killers death location😬
can we get free tickets for trump to that ride?
Harold Lamont "Wili" Otey was executed on September 3rd, 1994. Electrocuted in the Nebraska electric chair.
DAngelo136
Septrmber 2nd, not 3rd
A nesaccary Evil
They should go green and use solar panels and batteries 🔋
That system wouldn't be practical, its the amperage that kills, not so much the voltage. Usually they use around 8 amps which would be tough to get from solar panels or batteries
@@lander77477 i guess hanging comes handy and practical . Thanks for the electricity lesson , sounds right what’s written
@@birdman1843 From what I have read, the electric chair was supposed to replace hanging because there were many gruesome botched hangings
There's one way to test is the electricity is running through those cables in the water barrel. take a piss in it...
you know if you ever need the chair tested let me know. I got a mayor in my town that got caught kissing his underage boyfriend in the city hall restrooms and the state dis nothing. If your not using the chair this weekend could i barrow it?
You would execute a person for being gay ? I agree that the mayor should not be kissing his underage boyfriend in the city hall restroom, but to kill him for it ? You must be out of your mind !
@nicspic2011
Nebraska's clemency Board is made up of the Governor, Secretary of State, and the Attorney General. Otey had a good lawyer that brought up in appeals that the Attorney General sat on the clemency board, yet his office pushed for his execution, a conflict of interest. The death row row cells were always in the hospital ward (even in the old buildings they were demolished in 1980) until they built the prison in Tecumsah in 2003 and moved death row there.
Poor Starkweather but i guess he was to dumb to understand that beeing shot is much nicer
Poor Charlie got the chair on my birthday.
is there a special name for this chair??
We have the hum we got the power.
Fuck sitting in that thing for a ' Rehearsal' ... no way ❗️
Whats is that so called water barrel?
its filled with water, and they run the electricity through it to make sure the system is working
Whose here after seeing something about this in a short?
very scary...
@CondemnedGirl Where can i find this video im learning about florida's electric chair
Kyle Capone if you want to watch the Florida execution watch Aileen wuornos the selling of a serial killer the 1992 interviews
Thou shall not kill
Now ur playing with power..
The electric chair is the best.
@@AS-sw9ws .. Yes l agree..
@@andynorvell4953 Honestly, the electric chair is the best form of execution. It's quick, it's effective, and easy.
@@AS-sw9ws .. Yes used correctly it is by far the fastest..
@@andynorvell4953 exactly.
neat video does it all still work im against death penalty great musem pease
The old school gangsters from the 20's and 30's usually weren't executed. They often died in shootouts with the police or with each other.
scarpfish
Tell that to Two Gun Crowley and Louis Lepke.
I would like to see them flip the switch for like ten seconds, and then check the body after a 5 minute cool down. This way we will know if it's instant, and that the other 2 jolts of 200 and 800 or 1800 volts may not be necessary. Maybe after the first ten seconds the brain may be unconscious but the heart might still beat. Only way to know is to try it, unless there are studies out there that have some conclusion.
It's not instant i believe it basically cooks you from the inside out
In the initial electrocution in New York, they only ran it for 15 seconds. Turned out the guy was still alive and moaning. Took them a while to get enough power to turn the current back on. A very grisly scene. The guy was an axe murderer and it was suggested afterward they could have done a better job with an axe.
A lot is known about the effects of electricity on the human body, so using someone as a guinea pig isn't necesarry, it won't yield any new information. The initial high voltage shock is needed to overcome the human body's internal resistance and create a path for the current, along with knocking out the condemned. The cycles after that are just to ensure a guaranteed outcome without charring the body too much.
@@tootismcdootis9560 Death isn't instant, but unconsciousness is.
Roll on one. Roll on two.
type Florida electric chair into the search box and teh first thing that comes up will show you a video of Fla's chair from 1992
Where is he now
He was executed.
He was executed in this very chair in 1994
NEBRASKA ELECTRIC CHAIR HAS GREEN EYES HE MADE HIS NICE FAT CHUNK OF CHANGE TO HELP ENRICH HIS COMMUNITY AND THE CITIZENS WHO LIVE THERE
Fate i bravi!
What year was that?
dontbeadrone
September 2, 1994
John Joubert deserved it.
Filthy McNasty I Agree
It's the method id choose. Over in a second. You're unconscious for the rest of it
Not really