First execution by electric chair
- Who
- Unknown
- What
- First
- Where
- United States (Auburn Prison,New York)
- When
- 01 January 0001
The first person ever to be executed by the electric chair was William Kemmler (USA) who was electrocuted on 6 August 1890 in Auburn Prison, New York, USA.
Kremmler was sentenced to death for murdering his lover Tillie Ziegler with an axe, in 1888.