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| Ohio's Electric Chair Becomes History |
| By NewsNet5 |
| Published: 03/11/2002 |
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State prison officials plan to dismantle Ohio's electric chair and remove it from the death house at the Lucasville penitentiary. Eventually, the chair will be shipped to the Ohio Historical Society. Ohio's electric chair, also known as 'Old Sparky,' put 312 men and women to their deaths. The chair was first built and used in 1897. It replaced the gallows that were used when hanging was the means of execution. Its inventor, Dr. David Rockwell, was from Milan, Ohio -- the same city where Thomas Edison was born. According to NewChannel5, Rockwell felt it was indecent to hang people. He believed the electric chair would be quicker, less painful and more humane. The first person to die in Ohio's electric chair was 17-year-old Willie Haas in 1897 who was convicted for raping and murdering a farmer's wife in Cincinnati. The last person electrocuted in Ohio, Donald Reinbolt, was put to death in 1963. When the death penalty was reinstated in 1981 inmates were given a choice of electrocution or lethal injection. The state has since changed to lethal injection as the primary means of execution and recently removed electrocution as an option on Nov. 21, 2001. |
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