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Martha M. Place

Martha Place' was the first of 26 women (including one juvenile) to die in the electric chair when she was executed on March 20, 1899 at Sing Sing prison.

She had been found guilty of the murder in Brooklyn, New York of her stepdaughter Ida.

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