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Martha M. Place, first woman executed in electric chair...
Martha M. Place, first woman executed in electric chair...
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March 21, 1899
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, March 21, 1899
* First woman to die in electric chair...
* Martha Place - 1st report...
Page 4 has one column headings: "MRS. PLACE EXECUTED", "Went To The Chair Quietly And Died Instantaneously", "The First Woman Killed By The State With The Electric Current...". This is a 1st report coverage on the execution of Martha M. Place, the very 1st woman to die by the electric chair.
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wikipedia notes: Having never executed a woman in the electric chair, those responsible for carrying out the death warrant devised a new way to place the electrodes upon her. They decided to slit her dress and place the electrode on her ankle. Edwin Davis was the executioner. According to the reports of witnesses, she died instantly.
The governor of the State of New York Theodore Roosevelt was asked to pardon Place, but he refused. Martha Place was buried in the family cemetery plot in East Millstone, New Jersey without religious observances.
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