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May Ruth Snyder (née Brown; March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph.
Jan 12, 2023 · In four minutes, “Ruthless Ruth” Snyder, a woman who’d murdered her husband for insurance money, would die in the electric chair.
May 23, 2018 · Ruth Snyder's crime and execution were nothing special until a photo of her electric chair in action ended up on the front page of the daily news.
Apr 10, 2014 · With Tennessee Senators voting Wednesday to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment....
The photograph of Ruth Snyder's execution in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on January 12, 1928, remains one of the most infamous images in the history of American criminal justice.
Apr 11, 2015 · It’s the first photo showing an execution by electric chair, and was captured by photographer Tom Howard at the execution of Ruth Snyder back on January 12, 1928. Snyder had been arrested,...
Aug 6, 2018 · It may be the most famous tabloid photograph of all time: Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at the moment of her electrocution. The image was taken in Sing Sing prison with a camera strapped to photographer Tom Howard’s ankle.
Jul 1, 2024 · 1927. In 1927, a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her lover murdered her husband, bashing his head in with a window-sash weight. Caught and convicted, the two were sent to the electric...
Surveilance photo taken of convicted murderer Ruth Snyder during her execution by electric chair at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York.
The picture he snapped of Snyder strapped in the electric chair, as the lethal current surged through her body, appeared the next day on the front page of the Daily News, under the one-word headline, "Dead!" The illicit photograph is still considered the most remarkable, albeit repulsive, exclusive in the history of criminal photojournalism.
