The Electric Chair(1976)
If You Kill...You Pay The Price In...THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
The murder of an innocent, happy couple leads to a courtroom trial that would sentence the killer to death, but who really did it?
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The murder of an innocent, happy couple leads to a courtroom trial that would sentence the killer to death, but who really did it?
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1976-06-04
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If You Kill...You Pay The Price In...THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
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