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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Edison shows the Westinghouse invention as a capital punishment tool on William Kemmler, who had killed his wife. Meanwhile, Tesla demonstrates his invention...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • clergyman and botanical collector Rudy Kemmler (born surnamed Kemler; 1860–1909), U.S. baseball catcher William Kemmler (1860–1890), U.S. murderer; first person...
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