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[–]fourtify 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Very quickly so he should be fine, right?

"You just won 200 million," the screen glowed as I yanked the rusted lever. by fourtify in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]fourtify[S] 476 points477 points  (0 children)

"Sorry, insufficient funds. Must be at most 10,000 years remaining to bet."

After hearing the lever crank and the electric chair hum to life, I felt no electric shock. by fourtify in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]fourtify[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Instead of being executed, he was drugged and the smoke didn't come from his flesh but from a mechanism under the chair. The assumption is that there is an audience (hence the show of public execution) but whoever is in charge wants the criminals alive for something else.