AS A TENNESSEAN, THIS NOV. 2018 DAILY MAIL UK ARTICLE ABOUT A GUY WHO MAKES HOMEMADE ELECTRIC CHAIRS

Image and description are from the Daily Mail website and the image is copyrighted by the Associated Press. For nearly three decades, Fred Leuchter, a self-taught electrocution, had a successful career in the business where he had a specialty of devising, selling and installing equipment for carrying out executions. He provided his services in at least 27 states and was the leading go-to expert in the area. He is pictured above center in an undated photo standing near the control panel for the electric chair he built. In 1988, he, (Fred Leuchter) was commissioned by the State of Tennessee to build an electric chair, the one that just recently killed Edmund Zagorski, a convicted murderer.