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. While in the... [DOC] [TLE] The electric chair - Capital Punishment UK homepage [PAR] Prior to 1890, most American executions were by hanging, the method that ..... Of 
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A. Smiler became the first to die in Sing Sing's electric chair on July .... dubious 
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the electric chair. ... The smile hardly ever left her face while he was on the stand. [DOC] [TLE] Intimate View of the Death House; Exhibition on Sing Sing Tells of ... [PAR] Jun 21, 2000 ... Also executed there were Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the so-called 
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electrocution at Sing Sing took place on July 7, 1891. In a chair that was made at 
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Sing's chair was first put to use on July 7, 1891, when it executed 5

Question: In 1891 Harris A. Smiler became the first person executed at Sing Sing by this method
Answer: the electric chair