Written for Friday Fictioneers. My story follows the picture prompt. For other entertaining stories just click on the blue frog at the end of this post.
In 1890, Joseph Kemp was convicted of violently murdering his common-law wife with a hatchet and sentenced to death via the electric chair. What made that special, is that Joseph was to be the very first man in the world to die in this manner, so of course nothing could go wrong.
The warden was very nervous. This, of course, was his first execution. He wanted everything to go according to plan. But it worked well enough on their equine test subject, he reasoned, so how could it not succeed on a much smaller man?
“Flip the switch” he commended.
Nothing happened.
Word count = 100
Oh Danny Boy! 
Thanks for this morbid slice of history. Well done.
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Thank you. I just read your post about the man dying from Aids. Pretty powerful stuff.
DJ
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Forgot to pay the bill? 😉
great little tale.
Randy
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This is an interesting story, but not how things actually happened, I take it. A well written and interesting piece.
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Actually it was written on an actual story. Click on the link in the comment made by subroto below.
DJ
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Nicely done. That is a good historical imagining and I like your story better than what actually happened with William Kemmler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kemmler)
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Bingo! He was the basis of my little post.
DJ
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“Sorry about that sir, just a temporary glitch, I promise you’ll be dead in just a few more minutes, I do apologise for the delay.” 🙂
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That’s how I should have ended the post!
DJ
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Ugh!! Skin is crawling…..!
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Success!
DJ
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Oh dear. How did it end up? Did the warden try again?
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Yes he did! With more success.
DJ
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I have heard this story before, but I didn’t know it was true. How interesting! Good job and Thanks! Nan 🙂
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Thanks Nan. Always glad to have you stop by.
DJ
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