Tag: electric chair

Nicholas Ingram Electrocuted in 1995

Thirty-one-year-old Nicholas Lee Ingram became the first British-born murderer to be executed in the United States since 1936, when he was put to death in Georgia’s electric chair on Friday, April 7, 1995, for the brutal murder of Mr. J. C. Sawyer and the attempted murder of his wife, Mary. Background Ingram was born in … Read more

The Electric Chair

Prior to 1890, most American executions were by hanging, the method that had been inherited from Britain. Many prisoners died slowly by strangulation and even occasionally, if the drop was too long, by decapitation. The administration of the death penalty was in the hands of county sheriffs who individually got very little practice at carrying out … Read more