Why are electric chairs not able to kill people instantly?

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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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It was designed to be more humane than hanging, but not too humane, in accordance with the amount of vengeance demanded by Americans in the late 1800s.

Lethal injection was developed to be more humane than electrocution, but still, not too humane, in accordance with the amount of vengeance demanded by Americans in the 1980s.

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