Execution by electrocution (referre to as the Electric Chair) is an execution method in which the person being put to death is strapped to a specially built chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. This execution method has been used only in the United States and, for a period of several decades, in the Philippines (its first use there in 1924, last in 1976). The electric chair has become a symbol of the death penalty; however, its use is on a decline.