In a recent US teevee broadcast of "The Green Mile" the officers placed separate electrodes on each leg of the inmate plus the skull cap. Also, the "switch" was a beefy multibladed live-front 3-pole version--maybe 400-600 amperes.
The movie proved that the human body is highly capacitive. When anyone was "paralleled," the lites in the prison consistanty got brighter and, naturally, some exploded from obvious overvoltage.
