Willie Francis' Leather Hood

Origin
Willie Francis (1929 - 1947) was a black juvenile offender sentenced to death at sixteen for the murder of a Cajun pharmacy owner who once employed him. Sentenced to execution by electrocution he survived when the chair malfunctioned. In 1946 during the execution the teenage screamed from behind the leather hood as the electricity was applied. The normally silent execution had failed after police discovered the portable electric char to have been improperly set up by an intoxicated guard.

Effects
Prevents electrocution