![]() ![]() ![]() Even the needs of women sentenced to death were accounted for. The building would have it's own kitchen, it's own hospital- and an execution & coroner's room far away from the living quarters of the condemned. A building condemned prisoners would never ever have to leave. ![]() ![]() This new building envisioned a virtual assembly of death. By 1905, blueprints for a new Death House had been drawn. Rest assured, no one cheated death at Sing Sing! The condemned in the next room could hear all of these details, some as they waited to be next in line. They had to saw open the cranium of the deceased, to discover the official cause of death. God forbid the condemned be still be alive at this point! A mortician's saw whirled in the next room immediately after the condemned was declared dead. If that didn't break'em, the cycle was just repeated. Another 1500 jolt, and the body usually could no longer cope. The body relaxed at 500 volts, trying to cope, even as it broke down. It was a regimen designed to break down the body's ability to deal with shock. Fellow death row inmate could hear executions taking place, as the electric chair cycled from 1500 volts to 500 and back to 1500 again. The original Death House at Sing Sing was a woefully inadequate building. ![]()
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