The word 'electrocution' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to death or severe injury caused by electric shock. You can use it in any situation where someone has been seriously injured or killed by an electric shock, whether it be an accident or an execution by electric chair. Example: The worker was rushed to the hospital after suffering from electrocution while repairing a faulty wire.
Victims pursuing civil-rights litigation against Jon Burge – the Chicago police commander whose torture tactics, including electrocution and beating suspects with phone books, became notorious in his reign beginning in the 1970s – have totaled at least $64m in judgments and settlements.
People have tried just about every conceivable way to murder the mussels, from chilli powder to electrocution.
There are sickening descriptions of the "executions" of those that ran amok slow deaths by shooting and hanging, quicker by electrocution.
He'd fought in Vietnam, and wasn't scared by the mere threat of electrocution.
Nebraska was the only state still using electrocution as its sole means of execution.
Mr Somchai accused the police of using techniques such as electrocution and simulated strangling.
The pictures of abuse, especially the one on our cover of the hooded man wired as if for electrocution, stand an awful chance of becoming iconic images that could haunt America for years to come, just as the famous photograph of a naked girl running during a napalm attack did during the Vietnam war.
A declaration on independents Reprints Related items Capital punishment: The machinery of deathNov 8th 2007Even a successful electrocution is macabre.
They, again allegedly, executed some losers by electrocution and by crushing.The outcry was swift.
When a Tennessee man chose the chair in 2007, it was the state's first electrocution in almost half a century.When the electric chair was first used, in 1890, it was considered a humane alternative to hanging.
A few allow hangings and firing squads, and nine let inmates choose electrocution in some cases, but these options are seldom used.
