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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>You see stories of people getting accidentally electrocuted in everyday life and dropping dead instantly

Likewise, there are stories every day of people being electrocuted who don’t die. [90% of people struck by lightning actually survive.](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html#:~:text=But%20the%20odds%20of%20being,all%20lightning%20strike%20victims%20survive) Guess you could say that electricity isn’t as efficient of a killer as it is made out to be.

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