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An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room in which a legal execution is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison. They are not always at the same prison where the death row population is located. Inside the chamber is the device used to carry out death sentence. In the United States, an execution chamber will usually contain either an electric chair or a lethal injection table. However, certain states do have execution chambers set up to carry out execution by hanging, firing squad, or the gas chamber. Adjacent to an execution chamber is normally a witness room, where witnesses may watch the execution through glass windows. Each state that allows capital punishment is equipped with a death chamber, but some states rarely use it.

See also

• Capital punishment
• Prison