Who was the 1st person to die in the electric chair? Where did it happen? What did they do? and When did it happen?
2007-12-12 02:31:48 · 11 answers · asked by tootie 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
To you blue monkey you need to take your meds and pray on it and stop playing clue
2007-12-12 03:50:02 · update #1
by the way Carol Ann S is getting the 10 points.
2007-12-12 03:51:08 · update #2
It was William Kemmler, an ax murderer from New York on August 6, 1890."
2007-12-12 02:36:36 · answer #1 · answered by Carol Ann S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first person to be executed via the electric chair was William Kemmler in New York's Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890; the 'state electrician' was Edwin Davis. The first 17-second passage of current though Kemmler caused unconsciousness, but failed to stop his heart and breathing. The attending physicians, Dr. Edward Charles Spitzka and Dr. Charles F. Macdonald, came forward to examine Kemmler. After confirming Kemmler was still alive, Spitzka reportedly called out, "Have the current turned on again, quick — no delay." In the second attempt, Kemmler was shocked with 2,000 volts. Blood vessels under the skin ruptured and bled and his body caught fire.In all, the entire execution took approximately eight minutes. Westinghouse later commented: "They would have done better using an axe." A reporter who witnessed it also said it was "an awful spectacle, far worse than hanging." he was an ax murderer in New York City
2007-12-12 10:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first person to be executed via the electric chair was William Kemmler in New York's Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890; the 'state electrician' was Edwin Davis.
2007-12-12 10:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
March 29, 1889 - William Kemler kills his lover Matilda ("Tille") Ziegler with an axe in Buffalo, New York,
which was then known as :the "Electric City of the Future." August 6,1990 he was sentenced to death by electric chair obviously
2007-12-12 11:29:08 · answer #4 · answered by sammy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is ma answer so i hope i get 10 point's....
Well let me remmeber.....The first electric chair was made by Harold P. Brown. Brown was an employee of Thomas Edison, hired for the purpose of researching electrocution and for the development of the electric chair.[citation needed] Since Brown worked for Edison, and Edison promoted Brown's work, the development of the electric chair is often erroneously credited to Edison himself. Brown's design was based on use of Nikola Tesla's alternating current (AC), which was marketed by George Westinghouse and was then just emerging as the rival to Edison's less transport-efficient direct current (DC), which was further along in commercial development. The decision to use AC was partly driven by Edison's claims that AC was more lethal than DC, however at the very high currents used for the device, which could be as high as ten amperes, the difference in lethality between the two types of currents was approximately a factor of two, which was marginal.
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2007-12-12 10:40:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
William Kemmier, August 6, 1890, at Auburn Prison, He does not die until the second current is fired up.
2007-12-12 10:39:15 · answer #6 · answered by Sergio 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in green mile....it happened in 1998 in the movie of Tom Hanks!
2007-12-12 10:35:56 · answer #7 · answered by Jigga seeen! 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was you at the grocery store for posting this question and it happened yesterday!!
2007-12-12 10:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by ~Claire~ 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kemmler
2007-12-12 10:35:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
how is this a joke?
2007-12-12 11:24:39 · answer #10 · answered by Jessica 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋