A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured ... Sigmon is to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber and have a hood placed over his head and a target placed ...

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The electric chair used by Texas was nicknamed "Old Sparky." It is now displayed at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, where the state's death chamber is located. Lethal gas is authorized as ...