Editing Electric chair (section)

===Key events in the United States===
[[File:RedHatsExecutionChamber.jpg|thumb|The former [[State of Louisiana|Louisiana]] execution chamber at the [[Red Hat Cell Block]] in the [[Louisiana State Penitentiary]], [[West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana|West Feliciana Parish]]. The electric chair is a replica of [[Gruesome Gertie|the original]].]]

[[Martha M. Place]] became the first woman executed in the electric chair at [[Sing Sing|Sing Sing Prison]] on March 20, 1899, for the murder of her 17-year-old stepdaughter, Ida Place.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/March/First-Woman-is-Executed-by-Electric-Chair.html |title=On This Day: First Woman Executed by Electric Chair |publisher=Findingdulcinea.com |access-date=2014-02-11 |archive-date=2012-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911140301/http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/March/First-Woman-is-Executed-by-Electric-Chair.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
[[Leon Czolgosz]] was executed in the electric chair at New York's Auburn Prison on October 29, 1901, for the [[Assassination of William McKinley|assassination of then-President William McKinley]].

The first photograph of an execution by electric chair was of housewife [[Ruth Snyder]] at Sing Sing on the evening of January 12, 1928, for the March 1927 murder of her husband. It was photographed for a front-page story in the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' the following morning by news photographer [[Tom Howard (photographer)|Tom Howard]] who had smuggled a camera into the death chamber and photographed her in the electric chair as the current was turned on. It remains one of the best-known examples of [[photojournalism]].<ref>Time-Life Books, 1969, p. 185</ref>

A record was set on July 13, 1928, when seven men were executed consecutively in the electric chair at the [[Kentucky State Penitentiary]] in [[Eddyville, Kentucky|Eddyville]], Kentucky.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/state-by-state/kentucky |title=Kentucky: Other Interesting Facts |website=deathpenaltyinfo.org |access-date=May 2, 2021}}</ref>

On June 16, 1944, an African-American teenager, 14-year-old [[George Stinney]], became the youngest person ever executed in the electric chair when he was electrocuted at the [[Central Correctional Institution]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]], South Carolina. His conviction was overturned in 2014 after a circuit court judge vacated his sentence on the grounds that Stinney did not receive a fair trial. The judge determined that Stinney's legal counsel was inadequate, thus violating his rights under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Mark R. |title=South Carolina Killers: Crimes of Passion |url=https://archive.org/details/southcarolinakil00jone |url-access=registration |access-date=November 24, 2014 |year=2007 |publisher=[[The History Press]] |isbn=978-1-59629-395-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/southcarolinakil00jone/page/38 38]–42 |chapter=Chapter Five: ''Too Young to Die: The Execution of George Stinney Jr.'' (1944)}}</ref>

On May 3, 1946, an African-American teenager named [[Willie Francis]] became the first person known to have survived the electric chair in the [[Louisiana State Penitentiary]] in [[West Feliciana Parish]], Louisiana. His appeals to the death penalty failed, and was executed again on May 9, 1947, at age 18. His trial has claimed to be unfair, which the trial also violated his Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to the U.S. Constitution.

On May 25, 1979, in Florida, [[John Spenkelink]] became the first person to be electrocuted after the ''[[Gregg v. Georgia]]'' decision by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in 1976. He was the first person to be executed in the United States in this manner since 1966.

The last person to be executed by electric chair without the choice of an alternative method was [[Lynda Lyon Block]] on May 10, 2002, in Alabama.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/block775.htm|title=Lynda Lyon Block #775|website=www.clarkprosecutor.org|access-date=2017-01-05}}</ref>

The most recent execution by electric chair was of [[Nicholas Todd Sutton]] on February 20, 2020, in Tennessee.