Electric chair
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Electric chair
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1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1999 Allen Lee Davis is executed by electric chair by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.