Pedro Medina

executions."And the BBC report highlights a specific case that illustrates exactly why the electric chair was relegated to museums for decades.

It's the 1997 execution of Pedro Medina in Florida.

Right.

So during electrocution, a brine-soaked sponge is placed between the electrode and the prisoner's head to conduct the electricity into the brain.

But, um, yeah, it was one of the last uses of Old Sparky, as they called it.

Uh, you had, uh, Pedro Medina, the, uh, a- and Tiny Davis, the two guys.

One of them had flames shoot out of his head.

The other one-