Ruth Brown Snyder

Ruth Brown Snyder was an American woman who was executed by electric chair in 1928 for the murder of her husband. She was the first woman to be executed in the United States using the electric chair. Snyder was born in 1900 in New Jersey and grew up in a middle-class family. She married her husband, Albert Snyder, in 1920 and the couple had a daughter together. However, their marriage was marked by infidelity and abuse, and Snyder eventually became involved with a man named Allen Lee Davies. The two conspired to murder Snyder's husband, and on November 16, 1927, they electrocuted him on a homemade electric chair in their home. Snyder was arrested and tried for the crime, and she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She was executed by electric chair on June 15, 1928, at the New Jersey State Prison.