The Electric Chair – ‘A Buffalo Man Invented It. A Buffalo Man Was The First Victim’
That was the headline in the Buffalo News in 1979.
Although, the first execution using the electric chair actually happened in 1890 to a Buffalo man named William Kemmler who killed a woman using a hatchet. Ironically, the person who invented to the electric chair was also from Western New York, Buffalo dentist Alfred P. Southwic...
