Description of execution by electrocution (1) - The prosecutor talks much about the death penalty and whether there are mitigating circumstances sufficient to preclude imposing a death sentence. That's lawyer talk. What the prosecutor is really asking you do is to kill (name the defendant). It's as simple as that. S/he is asking you asking you to cause (name the jurisdiction) to pull a switch that will put 5000 volts of electricity through the body of of the (name the defendant). Not the way (name the defendant) looks as he sits here today, but only after his head is first shaved so that they can put on the oil which will allow the electricity to flow more surely through his body. Not the way he looks today, but after they put him in a diaper, because when you are electrocuted you lose control of your bodily functions and they want to make sure that the death room is clean. Not the way he looks today, but after they put a mask over his head, not so he can't see what is going to happen, but so that the witnesses who by law view the electrocution can't see his eyes bursting from their sockets and blood gushing from his nose as the voltage hits him.