Inmate chooses electric chair in protest at death penalty

An Ohio prisoner on death row says he'd rather go to the electric chair than be executed by lethal injection.

An Ohio prisoner on death row says he'd rather go to the electric chair than be executed by lethal injection.

John W Byrd Jr plans to choose the chair in an attempt to illustrate the brutality of capital punishment.

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