The Gruesome Crimes Of Martha Place, The First Woman To Die In The Electric Chair
Martha Place brutally murdered her 17-year-old stepdaughter Ida with acid in 1898 and was executed by electric chair the following year. Public DomainA mug shot of Martha Place taken at Sing Sing Prison . 1899 . On March 20 , 1899 , an strange execution took place at Sing Sing Prison in New York . Eleven men had been execute by the galvanising professorship in the state , but on that day it was a woman who entered the performance chamber — a convict manslayer named Martha Place ....