Gruesome Gertie

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Gruesome Gertie photographed in the back of the truck that took the electric chair from parish to parish. By the time Louisiana switched to lethal injection in 1991, the chair had played a role in eighty-seven executions.

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Photograph of Gruesome Gertie in the back of the truck that carried it between parishes.

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