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In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...

Nebraska Electric chair becoming historical artifact Robert Williams died 11 years ago sitting in Nebraska's electric chair. It's almost a sure bet he will go down in history as the last man executed ...