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...York Correspondent James Wilde also visited a prison for TIME's death-penalty coverage, the Green Haven maximum-security institution in Stormville, N.Y. His goal: to sit in the nation's most famous electric chair, brought there in 1975 from Sing Sing. For half an hour, Wilde occupied the chair, imagining what a prisoner thinks and feels during the final minutes of his life...
...still works. First used in 1890, it is the world's oldest and most prodigious electric chair: 695 convicted men and women died in its grip, nearly one a month for the better part of a century. For most of those years it was housed at Sing Sing, contributing to that place's hellhole notoriety. Now it squats on the fourth floor of Green Haven prison in New York...
...state has killed no one since the summer of 1963, when Eddie Lee Mays was electrocuted at Sing Sing. And for some time to come, this prototypical electric chair with the flip nickname ("Old Sparky") seems likely to remain nothing more than a grim curiosity. The state's new Governor, Mario Cuomo, promises to veto any capital-punishment statute the New York legislature passes, just as his predecessor did every chance...
Anybody can sing and chant...
...thug blowing up a bank in "There Goes a Tenner." Her frequent use of electronic voice-altering techniques help set the mood of many of the songs. At the end of "Keep it Open" the words are lost and her voice seems to become another instrument. She seems to sing backwards along a wavering Oriental line...