Of course, the difficulty here is the "portability" factor 1) Not many cities have electric power in 1877 2) Those that do probably don't have a place one could plug in to get the massive amounts of juice an electric chair would need. 3) A generator capable of creating the voltage needed to fry a man would be massive, or if small enough to port around, very difficult to create (I'd place it at least Full House or four of a Kind dept. & that's just for the generator!) I mean we don't really have generators that small today. I think an even more interesting form of execution would be the ghost rock chamber: A sealed compartment which exposes the condemned to massive amounts of ghost rock vapors until they combust, leaving behind a heart-sized chunk of ghost rock, which of course is given to the victim's family as a form of compensation. A chunk like that must be worth a couple hundred dollars >=] xxoo The Wanderer ******************************* ----- Original Message -----
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