August 6, 1890 (, GY June 21), the State of New York, the first electric chair execution of convicted murderer William Kai Mule death penalty. in 1890



[history cn], New York, USA executed murderer William Kai Mule of the first electric chair death penalty. (Lsjt.org)

specifically for the implementation of electrocution stool has a strange name, called "yellow mother (YellowMama). The electric chair is manufactured in 1927, replacing the then hanged to become the state's execution tools. So far, the electric chair has executed 177 prisoners. American's first electric chair executions in New York in 1890. "New York Times" reported that the prisoners are electrically charred, covered in blood. Despite this ultimate punishment shocking, but the electric chair is still decades after one of the most commonly used method of execution.
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