First black to execute using portable electric chair. The saddest story from-history Willie Mae Bragg

First black to execute using portable electric chair. The saddest story from-history Willie Mae Bragg



Was sentenced to death for murdering a pharmacist in 1939.
On the day of his execution, he was strapped in, and as the current went through him - he went unkilled. His final cries were for the strap to be removed.

After surviving, he then filed a lawsuit claiming he was safe from execution as they had already executed him and that he simply hadn’t died.
It was an ominous case. Most of the executions in 1940’s Mississippi (one of the most racist states in the US) were of black people.
His appeal failed and he was executed the following year by a portable Electric Chair that had been put into use


They typically don’t serve “the last meal” on the day of the execution as people can rarely eat.

They have also begun putting spending limits on last meal requests, $30-$50, as many death row inmates have ordered King’s feasts, only for them not to eat a single bite, as a final f#%k you to the system.
One more also,
A man used to drive around with a wheelchair and a generator in his pickup truck, as his job was to move the electric chair to its next location

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