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	Sparky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sparky, one of the numerous nicknames given to Rygel XIV in Farscape by John Crichton
		Sparky, the nickname for the character of Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr.
		Old Sparky, a nickname for the state of Florida's electric chair
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sparky (284 words)

	Old Sparky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs of Texas, New York, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Georgia, and Florida.
		These lawsuits ultimately came to the Florida Supreme Court in the fall of 1999, when a bare majority (4 of the 7 Justices) found that the electric chair was constitutional in a case brought by death row inmate Thomas Provenzano.
		The Green Mile and its movie The Green Mile by Stephen King uses Old Sparky as the official method of execution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Sparky (876 words)

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		Rapist and murderer Clark Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.
		Murderer William Hedden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.
		Robber and murderer Harry Thompson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Arkansas, USA.
	www.clubmoral.com /ddv/44/died_44.html (4784 words)

	Meet the Horses
		Sparky Spirit - Our oldest resident at 23 years old, Sparky is our official greeter and beginning horse.
		She is a 21 year old Quarter Horse and has had two babies, both of whom are here on the farm.
		Not really a baby anymore at 7 years old, but as the first foal born on the farm, he is our namesake and pet.
	mypeoplepc.com /members/apachiedragon/dragonslairstables/id1.html (660 words)

	CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - SI Flashback: Sparky Anderson - Tuesday February 29, 2000 05:21 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sparky Anderson, the 16th manager to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, chose a Cincinnati Reds cap to be included on his plaque.
		In 1989 Sparky took 17 days off in the middle of the season for what he describes as "personal reasons." Sparky is old enough to remember when there were such things as "personal reasons," and, admirably, his personal reasons remain personal.
		Sparky is the last American celebrity not to gleefully fly his dirty laundry from a flagpole in the town square.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/news/2000/02/29/anderson_flashback (4046 words)

	State: The story of Old Sparky
		The chair quickly earned the names "Old Sparky" and "Old Smokey," and for the next few decades, about five inmates a year were electrocuted.
		The decision came despite two 1997 polls suggesting Floridians were ready to banish Old Sparky, and last year, the Legislature passed a bill authorizing lethal injection -- but only if the courts were to retire the chair.
		Earlier this year, corrections officials decided that Old Sparky, whose wood was cracking, needed to be replaced.
	www.sptimes.com /News/92599/State/The_story_of_Old_Spar.shtml (2129 words)

	Florida court refuses to pull plug on electric chair
		OLD Sparky, Florida's 74-year-old electric chair, is to be put to use again following a ruling from the state's top appeals court.
		An appeal against further use of Old Sparky was mounted by lawyers for the next prisoner in line for execution, Leo Jones.
		Old Sparky passes electricity in a two-minute cycle, with the power reaching a lethal peak three times at about 2,000 volts and 14 amps.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/10/22/wspk22.html (507 words)

	Daily Free Press -Online opinion Monday, November 29, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” had been in use for 75 years until, after many botched executions where flames engulfed the heads of the prisoners, the chair was replaced with another similar rickety one.
		But Davis was spared none of the torture of Old Sparky, and his face bled from behind his mask, leaving a large visible stain on his shirt.
		Old Sparky has revoked that right from too many Florida prisoners and should be retired.
	www.collegepublisher.com /media/paper87/DFPArchive/opinion/1129993.cfm (288 words)

	Guardian \| Lawyers use gruesome pictures in battle to ban Old Sparky
		Since 1923, 239 people have gone to their deaths strapped in the chair known as "Old Sparky", including 44 since the resumption of capital punishment in 1976.
		Davis, who had been on death row since 1982 for killing a Jacksonville woman and her two daughters, was the most recent man to die in the chair.
		Provezano's lawyers, who are also arguing in a separate appeal that their client, who thinks he is Jesus Christ, is insane and unfit to be executed, argue that the pictures confirm that Old Sparky is a "cruel and unusual" punishment, and thus unconstitutional.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3898452-103681,00.html (682 words)

	News Herald Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Her father, Leonard "Sparky" Hudson Robinson, made a lot of money in his life, and Juanetta was his only heir.
		Old "Sparky" had died, and his wife had passed on long before him.
		So it fell to Sparky to make sure she didn't run off with a "no-good," as he called most every marriageable male in the county.
	www.newsherald.com /gulf/rg102397.htm (584 words)

	Rocky Mountain Horse Trek
		Sparky my 20 yr old, is getting his first experience as a pack animal.
		But that wasn’t going to be the end of Sparky’s shenanigans, on the way back up the trail, his breast collar broke and old Sparky just stepped out of those packs like they were a pair of pants.
		Sparky did his magic and slipped his packs again as he climbed out of the hole we had camped in.
	www.sonic.net /tfoot/articles/BAB/horsetrek.htm (6189 words)

	Cool Florida Stuff
		Seems the last guy sat in Sparky had flames shoot out of his head, thereby upsetting the egghead bleeding heart anti-death penalty pinkos here.
		The coolest thing about this was that after they repaired Sparky they made Leo Jones, the 'on deck batter' as it were, watch the tests that verified Sparky was ready to go.
		Governor Lawton Chiles complemented the Florida Supreme Court for ruling that Old Sparky was a 'humane, legal way to execute killers'.
	home.att.net /~frankpat/flcool.html (1704 words)

	Execution Methods Report: Appendix D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The problem is, Old Sparky apparently is broken, but rather than fix it, perhaps the'state should consider putting it into retirement.
		Known as Old Sparky, Florida's electric chair appears to have a malfunction.
		What must be determined however, is that the state should not become involved in repairing or replacing Old Sparky.
	www.fcc.state.fl.us /fcc/reports/methods/emappb.html (2165 words)

	It's Not Unusual: 8th Amendment Ok's Old Sparky
		The case has been filed on behalf of convicted murderer Anthony Bryan, against Old Sparky, which is the nickname of the electric chair used in the state of Florida.
		Old Sparky is so named for its tendency to emit smoke and flames from its headpiece during executions.
		The reason Thomas makes this argument is to point out that death by electrocution is cruel, which, of course, it is, and that it therefore constitutes "cruel and unusual" punishment, which it just as surely does not.
	shinbone.home.att.net /sparky.htm (838 words)

	Meet Our Shelties
		She was born on May 15, 2001, two days before Sparky.
		We had him since he was five weeks old.
		She and Sky looked exactly alike until they were about 12 weeks old.
	www.eaglecreekequestriancenter.com /id7.html (316 words)

	Paw Prints Foundation - Available Cats
		Sparky - four year old Sparky is white with orange smudges all over his big body.
		He came to us when his 91 yr old "Mom" passed away, and HER children put this declawed sweetie outside to fend for himself.
		Lucky - four year old Lucky is a Black and White male with short hair; he's about 13 lbs, and follows us around the house, and greets anyone that comes to the door.
	www.bemikitties.com /pawprints/cats.html (704 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Row over new electric chair
		He was the first person to die in Florida's new electric chair, built to replace "Old Sparky", which had been used since 1923 to execute more than 200 people.
		By the time the 159kg man was pronounced dead, witnesses said blood covered the collar of his white shirt, and had left a stain on his chest about the size of a dinner plate, even oozing through the buckle holes of the leather chest strap holding him to the chair.
		Correction officials had previously said "Old Sparky" was falling apart, and had raised concern after an execution in 1997 when flames shot from the condemned man's head.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/389772.stm (350 words)

	More reactions...
		Sparky espouses the Charlie Brown persona, even to telling a disbelieving interviewer (me) a couple of years ago that he sees himself as "nonentity" who just happens to be able to draw.
		SPARKY MAY not like the comparison, but there IS the example of Mickey Mouse, you know.
		Fate dictated a different timetable when he was diagnosed with colon cancer and last month underwent emergency surgery for a blocked aorta, at the same time suffering a series of small strokes from which he is slowly recovering.
	www.peanutscollectorclub.com /retire2.html (2823 words)

	Texas Prison Museum, Huntsville, Texas
		The Museum's prize possession is Old Sparky, an electric chair that fried 361 prisoners between 1924 and 1964.
		An exhibit devoted to other notable prisoners includes the carbines used by Bonnie and Clyde, but most of it is given over to lesser-known convicts such as Candy Barr (an exotic dancer) and Annie Williams, who cut up her two kids and hid the body parts in her freezer.
		The prison hardware exhibit is fairly routine -- an old ball and chain, padlocks, handcuffs -- but it goes on to explain that in former years Texas prisons would reduce their overcrowding, and make a tidy profit, by leasing convicts to private industry.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/TXHUNprison.html (905 words)

	Sparky's Page
		Sparky is an umbrella cockatoo, about six years old.
		Ignoring our dog, Guy, Sparky had decided that he was number two in our flock, and he was determined to prove that to Sandy.
		The little sneak would be very sweet and friendly toward her when the #1 flock member was around, but as soon as Michael was out of sight, he would try to intimidate her and even beat up on her by banging her with his huge beak.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/5651/sparky.htm (744 words)

	CRIMNEWS Issue 3 No. 40 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Old Sparky, a three-legged oaken chair built by inmates to execute inmates, has been at the heart of some of America's most vigorous debates on capital punishment.
		Assistant Secretary of State William Pfeiffer said Old Sparky was ``unquestionably of historical significance,'' noting that it was used in the executions of such well-known criminals as serial killer Ted Bundy.
		The new chair used in electrocuting Davis replaced "Old Sparky," which had been used to execute more than 200 people since 1923; the electrical equipment came from the old chair.
	www.crimcase.com /news/issue3no40.html (1288 words)

	U.S. Supreme Court could turn off Florida's 'Old Sparky' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ghoulish images of executions in Florida's electric chair have led the nation's high court to consider whether the state's method of execution is cruel and unusual punishment.
		Old Sparky was replaced before the Davis execution with a new chair that, like the 1920s original, is made of oak and has the same electrical system.
		Those who want to keep the chair say any pain suffered by a condemned killer is minimal when compared to the suffering their victims endured.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/worldnation/12azap.html (660 words)

	The Green Mile by Stephen King - A Book Excerpt
		Old Sparky's clients came to a knowledge of their deaths from the ankles up.
		Two nights before she was due to sit in Old Sparky, she called me to her cell and said she had been visited by her African spirit-father in a dream.
		The wide corridor up the center of E Block was floored with linoleum the color of tired old limes, and so what was called the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.
	www.bookbrowse.com /excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=356 (1354 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - old sparky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some guy used that expression back in the Wordwizard ENDOWED CHAIR discussion and he was referring to the eclectic chair, but to tell you the truth there were two other possible OLD SPARKY’s that popped into my mind at the time.
		There was one from the way, way back, old-time radio show BIG JOHN and SPARKY which I used to listen to as a kid — which would certainly make him old now, but I don’t think so then.
		Also, Peanuts artist Schultz was nicknamed Sparky, but I don’t know about the OLD part.
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3797 (328 words)

	Horror at 'new Sparky' execution
		THE first use of Florida's new electric chair - a replacement for the 75-year-old "Old Sparky" which was scrapped after it set fire to a condemned man two years ago - ended in a grisly, bloody scene yesterday.
		Lawyers for Davis had appealed unsuccessfully to the United States Supreme Court to stop the execution, claiming the electrical equipment in the new chair was the same as in "Old Sparky" and produced insufficient voltage painlessly to kill a man the size of 25-stone Davis.
		Davis, condemned to die for battering to death a pregnant, 37-year-old mother in 1982 and then shooting her daughters, aged five and nine, was electrocuted with 2,300 volts.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/07/09/wspark09.html (321 words)

	Great Lakes WATER Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Old Sparky" competed in a field of more than 38 entries.
		The winning bid for "Old Sparky" went to Robert J. Ponton, Director of the UWM Chemistry Glass Shop.
		In addition to his official duties, Bob is the curator of the UNOFFICIAL Antique Museum of Older Scientific Equipment housed at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Chemistry Department.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/GLWI/features/sparky/sparky.html (119 words)

	USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Texas electric chair gets permanent museum home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pat Sullivan, AP A prison inmate sweeps the floor around "Old Sparky," the famous old Texas electric chair, in the new Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas.
		HUNTSVILLE, Texas —; The Texas electric chair "Old Sparky," where 361 killers met their deaths in the 20th century, gets a new permanent home Wednesday with the opening of the new Texas Prison Museum.
		The outside of the museum is designed to resemble from the outside the nearby prison in Huntsville, complete with guard tower.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/features/2002/2002-11-12-prison-museum.htm (460 words)

	Bosslandshark My Pack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She is getting a little old, and a little fat, but Hey, that happens to many of us, if we are lucky.
		Sparky Beagle said “Hey, don’t you EVEN TOUCH my pup!” And Buddy suddenly saw something that interested him and trotted off to investigate, because that old beagle is a fierce fighter when provoked.
		I stole her from my old neighbors who mistreated dogs, then shamed the teenage mother into giving her to me. I think she was part Yellow Black Mouthed Cur.
	www.webcountrystore.com /bosslandshark/pack.htm (2412 words)

	CNN - Florida court puts 'Old Sparky' on trial - July 9, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CNN - Florida court puts 'Old Sparky' on trial - July 9, 1997
		JACKSONVILLE, Florida (CNN) -- Florida's electric chair, known as "Old Sparky," has dispensed plenty of death over the years.
		If "Old Sparky" is powered down in Florida, that will leave five states -- Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Nebraska -- that use the electric chair as the sole means of execution.
	www.cnn.com /US/9707/09/old.sparky (838 words)

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