Abstract: A lamp socket, which includes a socket body, a socket cap fastened to the socket body to hold down an electric wire, a first terminal and a second terminal mounted in respective terminal mounting slots in the socket body and pierced through the insulator of the electric wire into contact with a respective conductor in the electric wire, wherein the first terminal has a first vertical section positioned in one terminal mounting slot at the socket body and terminating in a pointed tip for contacting with one conductor in the electric wire, a second vertical section positioned in a locating blind hole inside the socket body, and a horizontal section connected between the first vertical section and the second vertical section and attached to the inside wall of the socket body.