Florida flambe

English Capital punishment in Florida Old Sparky Alternative forms en Florida flambé Noun en pejorative Burning (catching fire) during execution by electric chair. from the late 1990s en 1997-04-05 Leonard Pitts Fiery execution shows lie of ‘humane’ death penalty w:The Free Lance-Star A15 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19970404&id=8ukyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1QcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4295,907277&q=florida+flambe Medina was killed, then cooked, becoming the second inmate in seven years to suffer the Florida flambe. en 1997-06-06 Elizabeth Jarnagin Pro-life consistency means opposing death penalty w:Amarillo Globe-News http://amarillo.com/stories/060697/means.html There's a nice new death chamber in Terre Haute, Ind., just waiting for ya. No Florida flambe there. A slight boo-boo occurred not long ago when Florida fired up "Old Sparky" to execute a criminal. The guy's face mask flared up. Most grisly. A Florida district attorney glibly said the moral of the mishap was not to commit crime in Florida if you don't want the same treatment. en 2005-08-19 Ms. Harris's "felon purge" Cha democraticunderground.com http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=148458&mesg_id=148584 This is why harris should go down in Florida Flambe. https://web.archive.org/web/20210908195909/https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=148458&mesg_id=148584 8 September 2021 See also Appendix:American Dialect Society most outrageous words of the year References Most Outrageous Word of the Year, American Dialect Society Florida Flambé, at Medical dictionary, medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com http://www.jstor.org/pss/455740 Among the New Words American Speech 73 2 Wayne Glowka, Brenda K. Lester 197-214 1998 Richler Howard 1999 A Bawdy Language: How a Second-Rate Language Slept Its Way to the Top Stoddart 11 Metcalf Allan A. 2002 Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success Houghton Mifflin Books 191 Steinmetz Saul 2010 There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900 Harmony Books 203 en Crime Death Fire