Selain menciptakan senapan mesin pertama, ternyata seorang dokter gigi yang lain menjadi penemu ide kursi listrik!! Namanya Dr. Albert P.Southwick, seorang dokter gigi yang juga insinyur dari New York.
Inspirasi memang bisa datang kapan saja dan di mana saja. Jika jaman dahulu kala Archimedes digosipkan menemukan bagaimana cara menghitung volume benda saat sedang asyik mandi, maka pada tahun 1881 pak dokter yang satu ini mendapat inspirasi saat menjadi saksi mata seorang pemabuk tua mati kesetrum listrik dari generator yang menyala. Ia begitu takjub melihat bagaimana orang tua tersebut mati dengan begitu cepat dan (terlihat) tanpa penderitaan sama sekali.
Dr Southwick berkesimpulan bahwa listrik dapat menjadi alternatif yang patut dipertimbangkan untuk menghukuman mati para pesakitan. Bekerja sama dengan gurbernur New York saat itu, pak dokter memperjuangkan peng-legal-an hukuman mati dengan cara disetrum. Hukum pertama yang memperbolehkan penggunaan listrik sebagai hukuman mati berlaku efektif mulai pada tanggal 1 Januari 1889.
Pada tanggal 6 Agustus 1890, jam 6 pagi waktu setempat, William Kemmler menjadi orang yang "beruntung" untuk dicatat oleh sejarah sebagai orang pertama yang dipanggang di kursi listrik. Ia didakwa membunuh kekasihnya dengan kapak. Namun sayangnya Kemmler tidak seberuntung pemabuk tua yang menjadi sumber inspirasi ide kursi listrik. Kemmler tidak langsung mati "dengan tenang". Ia shock dulu selama 17 detik, namun masih tetap hidup.
Ternyata teknisi yang bertugas salah memprediksi voltase listrik yang diperlukan untuk membunuh seorang manusia. Voltase listrik akan ditingkatkan dua kali lipat dari 1000 volt menjadi 2000 volt. Sialnya, generator yang digunakan sebagai sumber listrik perlu di charge ulang!! Kemmler dibiarkan menunggu dalam keadaan gosong dan mengaduh kesakitan. Usaha penyetruman kedua berlangsung selama 1 menit dengan hasil akhir berupa Kemmler yang akhirnya mati, bau daging terbakar yang memenuhi ruangan dan asap yang mengepul dari kepala Kemmler.
Beberapa kutipan tentang hukuman mati ini:
1. Westinghouse: "They would have done better using an axe"
2. Seorang reporter yang menyaksikan secara langsung: "An awful spectacle, far worse than hanging"
3. New York Herald: "Strong men fainted and fell like logs on the floor"
4. George Fell, asisten eksekutor: "The man never suffered a bit of pain"
dan terakhir….. quote dari pencetus ide kursi listrik, Alfred P. Southwick… "There is the culmination of ten years work and study!! We live in a higher civilization from this day."
Entah apa yang dipelajari para dokter gigi di universitas sehingga mereka bisa menemukan ide untuk membuat senapan mesin dan kursi listrik. Yang pasti, mulai sekarang seseorang gak bisa berpikir yang enggak-enggak begitu mendengar atau membaca kata "dokter gigi".
Tidak sampai di sana, seseorang mendapatkan iklan "mengerikan" yang seakan menjustifikasi anggapan ngawur bebek kalau dokter gigi mempunyai bakat alami menjadi seorang yang sadistis.
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addition to creating the first machine gun , a dentist turned out to be
the inventor of the idea of another electric chair ! ! His name is Dr . Albert P.Southwick , a dentist who also engineers from New York .
Inspiration really can come anytime and anywhere. If time immemorial rumored Archimedes discovered how to calculate the volume of objects while being engrossed in the bath , then in 1881 the doctor this one inspired moment into an old drunk witnesses die of electric shock generator that lights up . He was so amazed at how these parents dying so quickly and ( visible ) without suffering at all .
Dr. Southwick concluded that electricity could be an alternative worth considering to sentence the convict . Working closely with the Governor of New York at that time , the doctor - lawyer legal fight early death by electric shock . The first law allowing the use of electricity as the death penalty took effect on January 1, 1889 .
On August 6, 1890 , at 6 am local time , William Kemmler became the " lucky " to be recorded by history as the first baked in an electric chair . He was charged with killing her boyfriend with an ax . But unfortunately not so lucky Kemmler old drunk who became a source of inspiration ideas electric chair . Kemmler was not immediately die " quietly " . He was in shock during the first 17 seconds , but still alive .
It turned out the technician in charge of one predicts the electrical voltage needed to kill a human being . Electric voltage will be increased two -fold from 1000 volts to 2000 volts . Unfortunately , the generator is used as a power source needs to be in charge again ! ! Kemmler left waiting in a state of Hirst and moaning in pain . Effort second shock lasted for 1 minute with a final result of Kemmler is finally dead , the smell of burning flesh filled the room and the smoke from the head of Kemmler .
Some quotes about the death penalty :1 . Westinghouse : "They would have done better using an ax "
2 . A reporter who witnessed firsthand : "An awful spectacle , far worse than hanging "
3 . New York Herald : " Strong men fainted and fell like logs on the floor "
4 . George Fell , assistant executioner : " The man never Suffered a bit of pain "
and finally ..... quote of the originator of the idea of the electric chair , Alfred P. Southwick ... " There is the culmination of ten years work and study ! ! We live in a higher civilization from this day . "I wonder what is learned at university dental professionals so that they can find an idea to make a machine gun and an electric chair . To be sure , from now someone can not think that baseball - baseball when he heard or read the word " dentist " .
Do not get there , someone get ads " terrible " that seemed to justify the erroneous assumption that the duck dentists have natural talent to be a sadist .
Inspiration really can come anytime and anywhere. If time immemorial rumored Archimedes discovered how to calculate the volume of objects while being engrossed in the bath , then in 1881 the doctor this one inspired moment into an old drunk witnesses die of electric shock generator that lights up . He was so amazed at how these parents dying so quickly and ( visible ) without suffering at all .
Dr. Southwick concluded that electricity could be an alternative worth considering to sentence the convict . Working closely with the Governor of New York at that time , the doctor - lawyer legal fight early death by electric shock . The first law allowing the use of electricity as the death penalty took effect on January 1, 1889 .
On August 6, 1890 , at 6 am local time , William Kemmler became the " lucky " to be recorded by history as the first baked in an electric chair . He was charged with killing her boyfriend with an ax . But unfortunately not so lucky Kemmler old drunk who became a source of inspiration ideas electric chair . Kemmler was not immediately die " quietly " . He was in shock during the first 17 seconds , but still alive .
It turned out the technician in charge of one predicts the electrical voltage needed to kill a human being . Electric voltage will be increased two -fold from 1000 volts to 2000 volts . Unfortunately , the generator is used as a power source needs to be in charge again ! ! Kemmler left waiting in a state of Hirst and moaning in pain . Effort second shock lasted for 1 minute with a final result of Kemmler is finally dead , the smell of burning flesh filled the room and the smoke from the head of Kemmler .
Some quotes about the death penalty :1 . Westinghouse : "They would have done better using an ax "
2 . A reporter who witnessed firsthand : "An awful spectacle , far worse than hanging "
3 . New York Herald : " Strong men fainted and fell like logs on the floor "
4 . George Fell , assistant executioner : " The man never Suffered a bit of pain "
and finally ..... quote of the originator of the idea of the electric chair , Alfred P. Southwick ... " There is the culmination of ten years work and study ! ! We live in a higher civilization from this day . "I wonder what is learned at university dental professionals so that they can find an idea to make a machine gun and an electric chair . To be sure , from now someone can not think that baseball - baseball when he heard or read the word " dentist " .
Do not get there , someone get ads " terrible " that seemed to justify the erroneous assumption that the duck dentists have natural talent to be a sadist .
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