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practical details of the chair were finalised by the first State Electrician, Edwin 
Davis. On the morning of his execution, August 6, 1890, Kemmler was awakened 
at 5:00 ... was composed at his execution; he did not scream, cry or resist in any 
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binge the night before when he became enraged with his girlfriend, Tillie Ziegler. 
... to a neighbor's house and announced he had just murdered his girlfriend. ... be 
the first person executed in an electric chair under New York's new execution law
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dead girlfriend Tillie Ziegler, who he had killed with an axe. ... On January 1, 
1889, the world's first electrical execution law went into ... His body lunged every 
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, 1890, William Kemmler, a peddler from Buffalo, N.Y., who had murdered his 
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li>1890 , New York became the first state to ... </li></ul>NY had 695 executions 
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But he execution was anything but quick, as the lethal injection machine sat and 
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prison maintained that Gray had died painlessly and was brain

Question: In 1890 William Kemmler, who had killed his mistress, became the first convict to be executed this way
Answer: electrocution