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Electric Chair: Death
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Fifth, Provenzano claims that death by electrocution in Florida's electric chair is not instantaneous or painless, and that he will suffer conscious pain because his brain will not immediately cease functioning once the electrical current is applied to him. Additionally, he claims he will suffer disfigurement and mutilation.
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The image of the electric chair was first used by Warhol in 1964 in the 'Death and Disaster' series, a loose group of works that occupied the artist from 1962 to 1965. Warhol noted that it was Henry Geldzahler, then curator of Twentieth Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
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If that were the rule, it is likely that Nebraska would have no choice but to lose the electric chair. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on what you think about the death penalty), there is no clear rule about the Eighth Amendment.
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