• According to court papers, dogs that lost fights were sometimes killed by electrocution or hanging.

    BBC: US dog fight pair plead guilty

  • The electricity remains disconnected because of fire and electrocution risks from damaged wiring.

    NPR: 2 Years On, Slow Quake Recovery In New Zealand

  • Parliament approved several methods for applying the death penalty, the Post Courier reported, including hanging, lethal injection, firing squad and electrocution.

    BBC: PNG repeals sorcery law and expands death penalty

  • Unicef also identified road accidents, burns, falls, animal bites, electrocution and suffocation as other causes of serious injury and death.

    BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Bangladesh child accidents shock

  • Environmental Health wants to introduce regular inspections to improve living conditions and reduce the risk of fire or electrocution from faulty wiring.

    BBC: Val Cameron

  • In 2005, country-wide riots erupted after the electrocution of two teenagers from another Parisian suburb - Clichy-sous-Bois - in an electricity sub-station.

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  • Officials say the city's water is still safe to drink and that the fish were killed from illegal fishing by electrocution and poisoning.

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  • The U.S. Supreme Court's 1890 decision not to hear Kemmler's appeal is still cited as proof that electrocution is neither cruel nor unusual.

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  • According to Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, cases of torture, including electrocution, burning detainees with hot irons and beating detainees to death, have been recorded.

    NPR: Iraqi Agency Targets Police Torture

  • His was one of nine electrocution deaths in Iraq blamed on "improper grounding or faulty equipment, " according to a Pentagon inspector-general's report released Monday.

    CNN: Claims against contractor dismissed in soldier's death

  • Three of the men, including Vick, also "executed" several dogs that did not perform well in training, by hanging, drowning, electrocution and slamming them to the ground.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | Brutal culture of US dog fighting

  • Thieves are still prepared to put themselves at serious risk of injury, or even death through electrocution, to hack through cables for a few pounds of wiring.

    BBC: Police target ?770m worth of metal cable thefts

  • Deaths tied to those storms were reported from Ohio to New Jersey, all of them linked to downed trees except for the electrocution of a man in Washington.

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  • Edison sent word to the commission that although he would like to see capital punishment abolished altogether, death by electrocution was the most humane method--and AC the preferred current.

    FORBES: The warlock of Menlo Park

  • In all, the south Texas flooding killed 31 people during that October 1998 weekend: 26 drownings, two tornado deaths, two heart attacks and one electrocution-drowning, a federal report said.

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  • In all, the south Texas weather killed 31 people during that October 1998 weekend: 26 drownings, two tornado deaths, two heart attacks and one electrocution-drowning, a federal report said.

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  • In all, the south Texas flooding killed 31 people during that October 1998 weekend: 26 drownings, two tornado deaths, two heart attacks and one electrocution-drowing, a federal report said.

    CNN: Flooding kills 1 in San Antonio, Texas

  • Jim Childs, a master electrician and the top civilian expert in an Army safety survey, said problems were "everywhere" in Iraq, where 18 U.S. troops have died by electrocution since 2003.

    CNN: 'Multiple' failures led to Iraq electrocution, Pentagon says

  • The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1890 not to hear Kemmler's appeal is still cited as proof that electrocution is neither cruel nor unusual punishment (which is banned by the U.S. Constitution).

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  • Though Kemmler confessed to the crime and said publicly that he was prepared to die, Westinghouse secretly financed an all-out legal effort to win a stay of execution, challenging the constitutionality of electrocution.

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  • Though Kemmler had confessed to the crime and had said publicly he was prepared to die, Westinghouse secretly financed an all-out legal effort to win a stay of execution, challenging the constitutionality of electrocution.

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  • An estimated 98, 000 injuries occur in nontraffic crashes on private roads, collisions with pedestrians on driveways, and two-vehicle crashes in parking facilities, the report said, while 743, 000 injuries happened from noncrash incidents like hyperthermia and electrocution.

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  • Grab hold and electrocution will surely follow.

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  • Earlier this month, SolarEdge launched a new generation of power optimizers that it claims is more energy efficient than previous versions, with fewer parts and more safety features to reduce the risk of solar-panel fires and electrocution.

    FORBES: SolarEdge Raises $37M From GE, Other Investors And Sets Sights On IPO

  • In my bedroom in Georgia, I had disconnected the speaker of my Philco TV set (surely risking electrocution) so I could watch Johnny on the sly, my headphones in place, long after my bedtime had come and gone.

    WSJ: Remembering a time before 'Tonight' left New York

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