Ruth Snyder
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May Ruth Snyder was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized p
Snyder, c. 1925–1928
Judd Gray, the man with whom Snyder had an affair
Mug shot for her transfer to Sing Sing Prison in 1927
Ruth Snyder's mid-execution photo taken by Tom Howard and published the next day in the New York Daily News
Martha M. Place
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Martha M. Place was an American murderer and the first woman to die in the electric chair. She was executed on March 20, 1899, at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for the murder of her 18-year-old step
Ruth Snyder
…to death. Ruth was imprisoned at Sing Sing in Ossining, New York. On January 12, 1928, she became the first woman to be executed at Sing Sing since Martha Place in 1899 and the third woman to be executed in New York. Ruth went to the electric chair 10 minutes before Judd Gray, her former lover. Her execution…
Martha Place