State electrician

The official title of "state electrician" was given to some American state executioners in states using the electric chair during the early twentieth century including the New York State Electrician.[1][2]

The first state electrician was Edwin Davis in the state of New York. He carried out the execution of William Kemmler, the first man executed with the electric chair. Davis also conducted the electrocution of the first woman on the electric chair - that of Martha M. Place.

List of State Electricians
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
gollark: Please, this incident report log thing is used by me too, and I can hardly do much with your IP.
gollark: PotatOS isn't *literally* insane.
gollark: Why?
gollark: That key SHOULD only let you issue new nigh-useless keys and view the reports.
gollark: `IgjuLVkKGYiyDIckqY_7` is the public-access key.

References
  1. Craig Brandon McFarland, The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History, 2009, page 208
  2. Collier's - Volume 102 - 1938 - Page 43

See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.