Registered Traveler. The Registered Traveler Pilot Program was an airline passenger security assessment system tested in the United States air travel industry in 2005. It was used in several U.S. airports in a voluntary pilot phase and continues in operation in several airports around the country.
Only six states, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, still authorize use of the electric chair, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The six states will electrocute only those inmates who request it, according to The Washington Post.
Alfred P. Southwick Inventor of the electric chair Alfred P. Southwick was a Buffalo dentist whose experiments with electric current led to his creating the electric chair to be used in the execution of criminals. William Kemmler was executed on August 6, 1890 at Auburn NY prison for the murder of Matilda âTillieâ Ziegler. Kemmler was the first electrocution of a murderer conducted in America. Southwick is buried in section 31 of Forest Lawn.