You see stories of people getting accidentally electrocuted in everyday life and dropping dead instantly, why aren’t electric chairs engineered with that amount of power?
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People rarely die instantly from electrocution.
Anyone in the trades has had to sit through safety videos of them describing how you go when you get hit with high current.
People will ignite when a breaker box blows up in their face and live long enough to reach the hospital.
For someone to drop dead on the spot the current has to cross your heart. Left arm to right leg, or reverse, is the quickest way, or arm to arm but if you are sweating it will carry across skin before you finally go.
The electric chair is killing you by cooking your brain, not by stopping your heart, and depending on the paths the current takes to get to ground that can lead to a very long, painful death.
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