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Inside America's worst ever execution: Faulty 'old sparky' electric chair made murderer writhe in agony and caused his body to COMBUST in spectacle so horrific that warden now campaigns against death penalty
A faulty electric chair during an execution caused a murderer to suffer severe agony and his body to combust, leading the warden to campaign against the death penalty.
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