These were installed instead. Westinghouse appears to have paid for a lawyer for the defendant in question, William Kemmler, in the hopes that the court would find the electric chair to be cruel ...

It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890, and even though the first electrocution was clumsy at best, other states soon followed the lead.[17] The Second Great Reform era was 1895-1917.

(By the way, did you know that the word ‘electrocute’ was developed to describe the first electrical execution—of Buffalonian Walter Kemmler in ... arc lights along William Street ...

Like Queen Elizabeth, she loves horses and a great tiara moment. Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Prince William knew just what to say when a student asked about his royal status. The Prince of ...

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Prince William is the eldest son of Charles and his first wife Diana, Princess of Wales. In his early life, he grew up at Kensington Palace with his younger brother Prince Harry, where he still ...

Prince William met Kate Middleton when they were both students at the University of St Andrews and the pair began dating in 2003. The couple announced their engagement in November 2010 and were ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla — William Byron fortuitously missed the ferocious wrecks down the stretch at the Daytona 500 that knocked out contenders racing for the checkered flag and left him with a ...

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The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

William’s father, John Shakespeare, was a member of the borough council of Stratford-upon-Avon. William was the third of eight children, though his two elder siblings did not survive childhood.