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They called her "Gruesome Gertie." It was an inmate-given nickname for the electric chair that once sat at the end of a long hallway at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

More on Angola Prison: ACLU Louisiana emergency filing asserts kids held solitary at state adult prison Meredith G. White is the arts and culture reporter for the Shreveport Times.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a story now of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. LEILA FADEL, HOST: It's known as Angola, after the plantation that operated there in the 1800s.