More than a century ago, William Kemmler, a vegetable seller, became the first person to be executed by an electric chair, marking a grim milestone in the evolution of capital punishment. On August 6, ...
In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...
On Aug. 6, 1890, officials at Auburn Penitentiary in New York executed William Kemmler, a 30-year-old alcoholic who was convicted of murder after he drove a hatchet into his lover’s head while she was ...
Photo of Auburn Prison electric chair in the early 1900s. (Auburn Correctional Facility) The first ever execution by electrocution was carried out at the Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890. Considered a ...
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August 6, 1890, Auburn, New York: William Kemmler, 30, a vegetable peddler in the slums of Buffalo, was the first person in the US to die by electrocution. He was convicted and sentenced to death for ...
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