Hale said that Smith had threatened to beat his brains out and that White had told him, “We will have to put you in the hot chair.” Then, he said, the agents shoved him in a special chair, attached wires to his body, and put a black hood over his head and a device like a catcher’s mask over his face. “They kept talking about putting the juice to me and electrocuting me and did shock me,” Hale said.
