History Of The Death Penalty

By brayy
  • William Bruce Mumford- Hanging

    William was the first person ever to be convicted of Treason against the Federal Government, He tore down a American flag off of a building in public.
  • William Kemmler- First electric chair

    They claimed he was a peddler, Alcoholic, Murderer he became the first person to be executed by electric chair
  • Mata Hari- death by Firing Squad

    She was german spy during World War I and she was death of one thousand allied forces,once found out they gave her death of Firing Squad.
  • Gee Jon- lethal Gas

    Gee was the first Asian in America to be executed by Lethal Gas, he was 29 years old. His crime was killing a elderly person of a rival gang.
  • Lischia Edwards - Death by hanging

    She was convicted of Rape, and back then that was a huge charge ( still is) and they publicly hung her.
  • George Junius Stinney Jr- electric chair

    He was a black boy that did not have a fair trial at the age of 14, he got the death penalty. His crime was killing two girls ages 11 and 7.
  • Gary Gilmore

    Gary was convicted of a double murder that happened in Utah, he died to a firing squad in 1977
  • Charles Brook- First lethal injection

    Murdering a Mechanic in Texas, He was the first person to get executed by lethal injection
  • Walter Legrand

    He was the last person executed in the country by lethal gas, for robbing a bank. Legrand was later killed in 1999 in Arizona
  • Juan Garza- Lethal Injection

    He was the first major Kingpin to be put to death by the law, he had charges stacked up very high, murder, rape, kidnapping. He was caught and killed