The first execution by electric chair at Sing Sing took place in 1891.
Eastern daylight time on Monday in the first execution by the federal government since 1963.
In 1924, the first execution by gas chamber took place, in Nevada.
The first execution by the federal government in 37 years has been scheduled for Nov. 15 at a federal prison in Indiana, the Justice Department said today.
Under Clements, the state also began to gain its current reputation for toughness on crime, vastly expanding the prison system and in December 1982 carrying out the first execution by lethal injection.
A10 Three men convicted of raping, kidnapping and killing dozens of people in Kut, Iraq, will be put to death in the first execution by Iraq's civilian courts since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said.
Both victims and voyeurs of violence throughout the ages fill the pages, from the first execution by guillotine in Paris, 1792, to those who pressed their faces against glass cases in museums to view severed heads, to videos of decapitations circulating online.
California is set to put to death a man convicted in 1985 of killing four people, in what, barring a reprieve, would be the fourth execution by the state in as many years and the first under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This informal moratorium came to an end in January, when Lebanon held its first executions since 1998, two by firing squad and one by hanging.
The first executions took long to complete.
