This reminds me about a story on the news back in the 1970's.
A newspaper reporter wanted to experience what it was like to be on death row and get the electric chair.
It was arranged he would go into prison in California as an inmate and go through everything that a condemned man would go thru leading up to his execution so he could write about it.
After a couple of days there was a mix up and the reporter was mistaken for a real condemned man and he actually got taken to be executed and he was in a panic as the guards didn't believe his story that he was a reporter. He was actually strapped into the chair and had a hood placed over his head, just like a real death row person would have.
However, just as the guard was about to switch the chair on and fry the guy, the lights came up and the guy's newspaper boss appeared and explained that it was just a set up to give him a real feeling of actually being about to be fried in the chair.
Tragically, when the guys hood as removed it turned out he had experienced a massive heart attack and died thru the fear of what he thought was happening. So he died in old sparky for the art of journalism. I'm thinking this was around 1975.