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The First Photograph of an Execution by Electric Chair The photograph is the first known image of a execution at Sing Sing and the first photograph of an electrocution. Sing Sing Correctional Facility, 1928: Ruth Snyder is executed by electrocution. The photograph is the first known image of a execution at Sing Sing and the first photograph of an electrocution.l In 1925, Ruth Snyder, a housewife from Queens, New York, took a lover, Judd Gray, a corsetmaker from upstate. Already married to Albert Snyder, an arts editor at MotorBoating magazine, she hid the affair for nearly three years. But on March 12, 1927, she and Gray planned a murder. After taking out a forged insurance policy, the two killed Ruth’s husband and staged a burglary scene. It didn’t take long for law enforcement to connect the dots, and a few months later, Gray and Snyder found themselves charged with first degree murder. The court case was front page news and both Ruth and Judd found themselves constantly photographed