give someone the chair

Meaning: (chieflyUS,idiomatic)Tosentencea person toexecutionby means of theelectric chair.1997July 7, Sidney Zion, “High Court Takes Low Road to Justice”, inNew York Daily News, retrieved 3 Mar. 2009:Joseph O'Dell, convicted of a brutal rape and murder, was sentenced to death after a Virginia prosecutor told the jury that if they didn'tgive him the chair, he'd one day get out and be free to kill again.

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