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Daryl Holton electrocution burns called "normal":  Sheila Burke has this article in the Nashville Tennessean, entitled "Minor burns during execution called normal," with autopsy results and other follow-up to Wednesday's execution by electrocution of Daryl Holton in Tennessee.  Excerpt:...After Holton was pronounced dead, a spokeswoman for the prison system said the execution had been carried out according to Tennessee law. Days before, the man who built Tennessee's electric chair in 1989 said he feared the contraption had been modified in such a way that Holton would be tortured.Fred Leuchter, the Malden, Mass., man who built the chair, had asked Gov. Phil Bredesen not to use it. But Wiechert, the engineer who modified the chair, had said repeatedly that it would work as intended and that Leuchter's original chair was flawed...continue to full post

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