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Yellow Mama
Yellow Mama is the nickname given to Alabama's electric chair, which was used for executions from 1927–2002.
First installed at Kilby State Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, Yellow Mama acquired its yellow color when painted using highway-line paint from the adjacent State Highway Department lab.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/04/yellow-mama-claims-her-first-victim-in.html )〕 The chair was built by a British inmate in 1927 and was first used to execute Horace DeVauhan that same year.
==Background information==
Before 1923, executions in Alabama were the responsibility of the counties and were carried out by hanging in private gallows. In 1923, legislation provided for state-performed executions by electrocution. At Kilby prison in Montgomery, a special room was designated for this purpose.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.doc.state.al.us/history.asp )〕 Inmate Ed Mason, a cabinet maker by trade who was serving 60 years for theft and grand larceny, built Yellow Mama.〔 The electric chair remained there until 1970, when it was moved to Holman Prison.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=YvdKyEJo0osC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=Ed+mason+prisoner+1927&source=bl&ots=X2Xb0wVq2v&sig=qlEjIEUehjla0At73Eq758EGfLs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=evi7T5OpE8bA6AHehpXcCg&ved=0CFMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Ed%20mason%20prisoner%201927&f=false )〕
The first execution by electrocution in Alabama was performed in the Yellow Mama on April 8, 1927.〔 Between 1930 and 1976 there were 135 executions completed using Yellow Mama. In 1983, the State Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of using lethal injections in place of electrocutions. However, the bill failed. In 1997, a bill was discussed which would allow the condemned prisoners to be executed by the option of lethal injection.
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