Execution chamber
An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which a legal execution is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison, although not always at the same prison where the death row population is housed. Inside the chamber is the device used to carry out the death sentence.
United States
In the United States, an execution chamber will usually contain a lethal injection table. In most cases, a witness room is located adjacent to an execution chamber, where witnesses may watch the execution through glass windows. All except for one of the states which allow capital punishment are equipped with a death chamber, but many states rarely put them to use. The sole exception is New Hampshire, who has not had an inmate on death row since the 1940s. Kansas, Nebraska and California are the only states to have an execution chamber, which is equipped to execute an inmate by lethal injection, which has never been used, while the State of New York had its execution chamber closed under the David Paterson administration, following the 2004 New York Court of Appeals decision in People v. LaValle, which ruled the state's death penalty statute unconstitutional.
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Death Chamber
by: Fear My ThoughtsIce -- waking up in a death chamber, my body cold
Light -- in my head sucking out what they call soul
Flesh -- begins to rot slowly
Pouring my inside out stuck here with the pain running in circles
Ride -- hovering over the desolated ground
Sigh -- once again I hear the voices call
Breed -- through a whole in the sky they would fall
Pouring my inside out stuck here with the pain running in circles
Never did I feel consequences on my walk thought I was invulnerable and strong enough to fight them
I didn't know that I was watched from behind I couldn't see a thing cause I had already been blinded
The further I walked the less I felt the pain the more vanished my hope I could survive
Then I tumbled and I felt and couldn't get back on my feet
The earthshake had broken the horizon
Line -- over the massive mountains the would step
Die -- my fate was sealed now I couldn't turn back
Time stands still
Flesh and bones wasted life stuck here with the pain holding my breath the last
The sourness in me
The weakness I felt
Blind - had only been
Wise - can't hear a thing
Time - wretched hole in me