William Francis Kemmler was the first person executed by an electric chair, carried out at New York's Auburn Prison. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a ...

Most in New York state know that there hasn't been an execution here in many years. But just how long ago was the last execution?

How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photo of an Execution by the Electric Chair In January 1928, Tom Howard of the “Daily News” smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a ...