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May Ruth Snyder (née Brown; March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York 's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph.
The image appeared to have caught the subject in motion from the execution, which added to the already dramatic scene. Tom Howard's photo of Ruth Snyder's execution, on January 12, 1928, was published the following day on the front page of the New York Daily News.
Murder-Robbery Ruth Brown Snyder: 12 January 1928 Murder of her husband Albert Snyder with her lover, Judd Gray: Judd Gray 12 January 1928 Murder of Ruth Snyder's husband, Albert Snyder Phillip Ecker [85] 1 March 1928 Murder Wilmot Leroy Wagner [92] [b] 21 June 1928 Murder of two police officers, Robert Roy and Arthur Rasmussen [93] Joseph ...
The first photograph of an execution by electric chair was of housewife Ruth Snyder at Sing Sing on the evening of January 12, 1928, for the March 1927 murder of her husband. It was photographed for a front-page story in the New York Daily News the following morning by news photographer Tom Howard who had smuggled a camera into the death ...
Paul Scrimo, 66, was acquitted on Thursday in Nassau County Court in the strangulation death of Ruth Williams in 2000, Newsday reported. Scrimo was convicted of murder in 2002, but an appeals ...
Ruth Brown (1928–2006) was an American singer-songwriter. Ruth Brown may also refer to: Ruth Brown (librarian) (1891–1975), Oklahoma librarian and civil rights activist; Ruth Snyder (1895–1928), née Brown, American executed for the murder of her husband
An Alabama inmate on Thursday won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state must allow his personal pastor in the death chamber.
Billy Brown seen in this March 9, 1982 photo, the day of the double-murder of Susanna Flores Brown and her 8 year-old daughter Francisca Antoinette Martinez. According to Reporter-News file ...