William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American murderer who was the first person executed by electric chair. He was convicted...

its first criminal, a street merchant and convicted murderer named William Kemmler, to be executed in their new form of capital punishment. Tabloid newspapers...

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

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...

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

Cleveland on Friday, May 16, 1884. J. Frank Hickey, the Post Card Killer William Kemmler, first person executed in the electric chair Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg...

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...

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...

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...