William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American peddler, alcoholic, and murderer, who, in 1890, became the first person in the...

of New York sentenced its first criminal, a street merchant named William Kemmler, to be executed in their new form of capital punishment. Tabloid newspapers...

on hand misjudged the voltage needed to kill William Kemmler. After the first jolt of electricity Kemmler was found to be still breathing. The procedure...

Theatre in late 2018.[citation needed] MacNeill had a small role as William Kemmler in The Current War in 2017. In 2023, MacNeill appeared as Martyn Smith...

Edison shows the Westinghouse invention as a capital punishment tool on William Kemmler, who had killed his wife. Meanwhile, Tesla demonstrates his invention...

person to be executed by electric chair, William Kemmler, and the first woman, Martha M. Place, as well as William McKinley's assassin, Leon F. Czolgosz...

Cleveland on Friday, May 16, 1884. J. Frank Hickey, the Post Card Killer William Kemmler, first person executed in the electric chair Victor Folke Nelson, sensational...

to be executed in the electric chair was William Kemmler, on August 6, 1890. Current was passed through Kemmler for 17 seconds and he was declared dead...

other machines of death. The first person to die by electrocution is William Kemmler, and newspapers label the event as "Far Worse Than Hanging". Westinghouse...

clergyman and botanical collector Rudy Kemmler (born surnamed Kemler; 1860–1909), U.S. baseball catcher William Kemmler (1860–1890), U.S. murderer; first person...

person scheduled to be executed was William Kemmler, convicted of murdering his wife with a hatchet. An appeal on Kemmler's behalf was made to the New York...

turned over to the New York Medico-Legal Society. On August 6, 1890, William Kemmler was executed by electrocution. Southwick was present and is reported...

through musical theatre, receiving positive reviews for his role as William Kemmler in the Indian Ink production of The Dentist's Chair. Shannon Huse,...

took two surges of electricity lasting nearly two minutes to kill William Kemmler, the electric chair replaced hanging as the most efficient and preferred...

introduction of the electric chair. It was first used two years later when William Kemmler became the first person in the world to be executed by electricity...

brain science. Spitzka was the attending physician at the execution of William Kemmler in New York's Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890, the first execution...

December 6, 1889. The electric chair was first used in the execution of William Kemmler on August 6, 1890, two years after Druse's execution. Some doubt was...

officials to replace the gallows with the electric chair in New York. William Kemmler (1890) – Electric chair. The first man to be electrocuted using the...

in Auburn, New York. It is heavily implied that he is the ghost of William Kemmler, the first inmate executed by electric chair at Auburn Prison in 1890...

New York's first state electrician. He carried out the execution of William Kemmler, the first man executed with the electric chair, and that of Martha...

himself, dying two days later. August 6 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair. August...

move by hiring the best lawyer of the day to (unsuccessfully) defend William Kemmler, the first man scheduled to die in the chair. The War of Currents ended...

Sundance Film Festival in 2019. He recently earned praise as axe murderer William Kemmler in the 2020 Sundance film Tesla, by Michael Almereyda. Notable stage...

choreographer and director Avery Robert Dulles, cardinal and theologian William Kemmler, Auburn Prison inmate, first person executed by electric chair Michael...

tract soon became the Adirondack Park. During his tenure as governor, William Kemmler was executed in the electric chair, the first inmate in the country...

examples of botched executions that have occurred in the United States. William Kemmler was the first person executed in the electric chair, in 1890. After...

was also the site of the first electrocution in the world, that of William Kemmler. Edwin Davis, the first state electrician, initially trained two men...

(1956) İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1973) Ned Kelly (1880) and armed robbery William Kemmler (1890) Thomas Kent (1916) Charles Kerins (1944) Karl-Otto Koch (1945)...

legislation before the first person was executed via the electric chair, William Kemmler in New York's Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890. 1881 Metal detector...

on Lake Pepin killing 98. August 6 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair. August...