Throughout history the prison that holds six thousands people was famous by the use of the Electric Chair . The Electric chair was used for a punishment to those people that have done bad crimes. Till this day, around the world the electric chair is still in use. For people to see how it looked there are now a museum to show people the life of a prisoner was back then and now. The sing sing prison is a well known prison. It was well known for its use of the Electric chair, inmates that died in the Electric chair, and the famous people that were hold in the prison for their crimes.
The Electric chair was used for to kill people of the crimes they have done. It is a wooden chair that rapes around your legs and
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He was sent to be killed because he murdered Matilda Ziegler with an axe. He died in August 6, 1890. When they thought it was all done they checked if he was dead but they noticed that he was still breathing and turned on the electricity higher and burned him more. The text states that “At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electrocution in history is carried out against William Kemmler, who had been convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe.” William Kemmler punishment was to be killed in the electric chair because he murdered Matilda Ziegler. This women was the girl he used to love. They had to cover his face because it was to disturbing for the group of people to watch. This quotes shows what William kemmler did to be punished to be killed in the Electric chair. He was fined to pay a lot of money because what he did was huge, but he also had to risk his life to something painful. William kemmler death was really bad and disturbing that they had to cover his head with a bag because the people watching were horrified of what the electric chair can do to a human body in