The HORRIFIC Execution Of The First Man To Sit On The Electric Chair

[@Tomcatntbird]

As an electrician, I know that it's amperage that kills you not voltage. But I guess at that time they didn't know that

[@patrickvolk7031]

I think they did know. The problem was they used the second electrode on his back, and not his ankle. They were trying to just zap his brain. They knew a voltaic pile could cause a frog muscle to twitch, or a charge from a Leyden jar (original capacitor). They got the idea from seeing people who died from contacting electrical wires (like for streetcars, or power). They seemed like they went very quickly. Death by electrocution is not just enough current to induce fibrillation or the heart - it's intended to destroy your brain and your vital organs while you're knocked unconscious by the initial shock, by paralyzing them with current long enough, and cooking them. Normally they wait five minutes for the body to cool.

[@Tomcatntbird]

@@patrickvolk7031 good grief, that movie crap they portray people able to breath and make noise while being electrocuted is ridiculous. The diaphragm siezes and all muscles clinch, so what the movies show is absolutely false, especially green mile.

[@blacksheep1971]

"Styropyro" would disagree!

[@stonemaze9925]

@@patrickvolk7031 Ewww....

[@patrickvolk7031]

@Stonemaze99 Execution is brutal. One of the big factors in choosing an execution method is one that seems quick with no duress to the condemned. Ideally like turning off a light with no blood.

[@hunterslaptop7024]

Edison zapped an elephant to propagandize Westinghouse's AC current as dangerous. Amazing that Edison attempted toss the entire invention under the bus (and Tesla) for whatever ludicrous reasons. DC has its applications, but distance is surely not one. Westinghouse was an icon and good man, while I have no words for Edison.

[@buckshot6481]

Edison has Rockefeller money behind him. He wanted to bury Tesla and his sponsor Westinghouse. DC would've blacked out the sky with so many wires but Edison didn't care, sort of like today, the big money don't live near their policies.

[@johnnyx53]

I believe Edison was both jealous and scared, as he knew his DC current was limited and he perceived Tesla and Westinghouse as a threat-unbeatable competition

[@hunterslaptop7024]

@@johnnyx53 Edison reminds me of Jim Carey as the Grinch. "Tomorrow I solve world hunger, tell no one", just nowhere near as funny. I also recently found out that Ford's main development building in Detroit had the brightest of the brightest names inscribed across the facade including Edison, but strangely not Westinghouse. Then if I remember correctly, it was JP Morgan that put the final nail in the Westinghouse Empire. These elites were in a clique and likely hated George for merely being a nice guy for creating things like the 5 day work week and company houses they could buy. Nothing is ever as it seems so it seems.

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

>> i do! Edison was ass-ho!

[@wayneheigl5549]

edison was a piece of garbage, a nasty old man .

[@annalee5751]

Weird. If you say "Im in no hurry to be executed" is not a shocker, but he was in no hurry as he wanted to be sure it was done correctly. For someone they called a dumb vegetable vendor, he seemed pretty wise to the fact the state was a clown show at any time in history.

[@annalee5751]

@@tinygrim Malcolm Gladwell. "Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't". Like me I tried to continue on school while out on my own, but bus fair became a bar too high, so technically I only ever graduated grade 7. Its been 100% street smarts thats kept my head not only above water, but better off than many of my peers that had the wealthy parents. People judge others by the life they themselves lived, but as they say, dont judge a man until you walked a mile in his shoes. For me, tenacity won out over adversity....tacitly.

[@bobhill3941]

@@annalee5751 I'm proud of you and what you've accomplished with the hand you were dealt. I too, graduated high school and got to go to collage and graduated with honours thanks to programs that met me where I was and catered to my abilities with teachers and family who helped me along the way throughout my life.

[@wayneheigl5549]

anna new york state is still a clown show just like (washing_ scam D.C. ) and the big (CLOWN).

[@robertschmidt7625]

After Kemmler was declared dead, Westinghouse commented 'They could have done a better job with an axe'.

[@crystalbishop6971]

It seems Kemmler didn't stand a chance at a decent life; both parents died of alcoholism and he was left an orphan. It's no reason to kill a partner for supposingly stealing, but it seems he should have gotten life without parole. At that time, they really didn't know enough about electrocution to make it a safe and effective way of execution. Very sad ending for Kemmler and his partner.

[@johnjohnon8767]

Kemmler didnt have a chance. Other people in his circumstances didnt kill or harm others in large numbers Life Is not always fair for everyone. There are no guarantees, just choices made, and consequences.

[@wayneheigl5549]

how can execution by electrocution be (safe) especially for the condemned . but you have to say it is effective in the end when they were done roasting you like a pig. they should have put an apple in his mouth . right up to the end they sent so much voltage and current through you that you got so hot that they had to let you cool down before removing you from the chair .

[@sixslinger9951]

oh spare me your pity for this dude. he got what he deserved.

[@renee1961]

How Horrifying for Mildred! My GOD! Cold-blooded, and EVIL!!

[@lachbullen8014]

In Red Dead Redemption 2 you can do a series of side quests for this chap I'm not actually sure if he's based off the actual guy who invented the electric chair..

[@ReviewsChannel-e4r]

The guy who invented the electric chair was a NY dentist who was inspired after hearing about a drunken dock worker placing both hands on an electric generator. Instant death.

[@ernestweaver9720]

Excellent job. I read about this when in college. I really wonder if he was conscious during his ordeal. Great job on this video.

[@marniekilbourne608]

I'm sure that he was.

[@564df6g5h4d6f5g4h6d5]

I live in Auburn. Great insights and images that I have never seen before. The whole thing was part of the battle between AC and DC. You kinda missed that part.

[@stephenlamley541]

It's amps that kill not so much voltage.

[@brianjones3191]

I always thought so too, but recently was told that voltage is also a necessary component.

[@dennisyoung4631]

You need the voltage to make the amps flow: I = E/ R. R - resistance - is more or less a constant. E - voltage - is the independent variable. I - current - is the dependent variable. The more Voltage, the more current.

[@renee1961]

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[@lorenzbroll101]

Chair invented by a dentist - figures. Died of a slowly boiled brain than an electric shock then?

[@LostSouLVL]

We need capital punishments back asap. There is nothing but that to do with drugdealers, groomers and other pedophiles, murderers and terrorists of the usual kind. Those type of felons are only safe when they are no more. A life for a life.

[@joekavanagh7171]

Great to see such a kind and forgiving nature.

[@havanadaurcy1321]

And freedom for the PROVEN innocent.

[@LostSouLVL]

@@a1c3c3u Actually I forgot rapists.

[@peterpiper482]

@@joekavanagh7171 Depends on how close to you the murdered person was. As a young man I asked my father "Why hang people" His answer "So they don't do it again" Well a murderer in our country was released, apparently reformed after murdering his girlfriend and promptly did it again.Murdered the next one. I thought of my fathers's words and after a lifetime as an abolitionist, I understand what he was saying.I wonder how the girls parents feel.I know the first girls father committed suicide when the second one occured!!!!

[@cariza5]

There is nothing brutal or barbaric about this execution plus no form of execution for murder is brutal or barbaric as these evil monsters deserve it, what about their victims.

[@spearamintwolf6225]

While I generally agree with this sentiment, there have been innocent people executed, and if there's even the slightest chance that it happens again (it no doubt will), the means, and indeed very concept of execution comes into question. If it were me there would have to be ZERO reasonable doubt of guilt prior to any execution (hard evidence only, not circumstantial or singular witness testimony and only for mass, premeditated or excessively cruel murders. Then if execution was required, I would give the prisoner a choice of execution method (Guillotine, Gallows, Firing Squad, Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, or if available Lethal Injection) maybe a few others within reason. The choice would not be limited by what the public considers 'cruel and unusual' only by the prisoner's choice.

[@Pleasiotic1]

@@spearamintwolf6225 I would give creative options as well such as fighting a large bear or vitamin supplements.

[@ReviewsChannel-e4r]

Or teens who commit mass murder at schools because they have no coping skills?

[@richardsanjose3692]

You missed the most important point Edison and Tesla's employer were fighting over whether America would be at or DC and Edison was DC and wanted to prove ac was to dangerous and convinced his political allies to execute a man with ac to prove his point. Turned out that Edison was wrong as there wouldn't have been enough copper in the world to make DC viable.

[@captaintrizer]

Love the CnC red alert 2 voice over lol 😆

[@joekavanagh7171]

There's a reason why executions are never televised. It's because people would be so revolted that they would call for an immediate end to the death penalty.

[@sillyoldbastard3280]

We had public executions in many western nations into the late 19th century and in parts of Europe to the 1930s. Mass crowds attended

[@joeblow9374]

actually, it would be great if they were televised. it would cut down on crime. but it would need to be televised daily to have an impact.

[@joekavanagh7171]

@@joeblow9374 it would not cut down on crime at all. Even the strongest advocates of the death penalty would admit that it's not a deterrent to crime. They want to use it as revenge, not a deterrent. As a deterrent, the death penalty has failed abysmally in the US, which continues to have one of the highest crime rates in the world, with mass killings a common feature.

[@joeblow9374]

@@joekavanagh7171 what part of daily don't you understand? i want to see their bodies displayed on the "Appian way".

[@joekavanagh7171]

@@joeblow9374 I understand what you are trying to say, but it's rubbish. Daily showings of executions would not cut down on crime. It would horrify people, who would call for an immediate end to the death penalty. And what's the Appian Way got to do with anything? That's in Italy.

[@renee1961]

I believe the Last Execution in Pennsylvania was in 1962, in the Electric Chair.

[@renee1961]

I'm from outside Philly. I never knew this!

[@johncitizen3927]

As long as the killers die. I dont care.

[@alastairgreen2077]

Sit in, not on.

[@kleomenis456]

Justice delivered

[@feo2569]

A true "Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it" moment.

[@careywestbrook9102]

Cool. Should bring it back. Too many people get away with muder today.

[@rossbrown6641]

Yeah, far too many MUDERS!

[@wayneheigl5549]

as an electrician , maybe they were playing with him . HA HA HA . LOL LOL LOL

[@emmanueluzoigwe6385]

Edison was a bad competitor

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

And here i was thinking it was Wilson J. McDaniels 😉

[@TheFunkhouser]

Very sad 😮‍💨

[@louiseblack3337]

It was tested successfully the day before killing a horse

[@johnlepage5486]

How did they get the horse to sit on the chair?

[@chrism9493]

I agree with the witnesses, I’ve always thought that this was a particularly cruel and unusual execution method. It can almost be categorized as torture. Hanging should still be the standard because it instills fear unlike the lethal injection, and there’s not much of a mess to clean up.

[@joekavanagh7171]

You wouldn't be saying that if your son or daughter was getting the rope.

[@chrism9493]

@@joekavanagh7171 I wouldn’t raise a child to do something that warrants any kind of execution. But even if it happened, I still think hanging would be preferable to a death doctor performing a procedure. When you hang, gravity is the executioner and gravity doesn’t receive compensation for killing anyone.

[@johnnyx53]

I agree-and the elaborate machines as the electric chair, gas chamber,etc are expensive to operate and maintain in working order. Lethal injection has too many roadblocks, as availability of the right drugs, medical personnel refusing to sell them or perform the execution, etc. A rope and gravity or a bullet to the head-much better.

[@nathansyupp1137]

After testing on animals, who did he use as the first test subjects? Surely there were more than one. This man was the first to be SENTENCED to death by electric chair. But definitely not the first to take it for a ride lol.

[@XGRIMYONEX]

There always has to be a first.

[@bigneiltoo]

The people who kept the electric chair in service moved on to bring us things like that BEEP BEEP noise when trucks back up, leaf blowers run by people who don't speak English, mask mandates, vax passports and that message on your Blu Ray that says "This operation is currently prohibited for this disc".

[@gregoryquint7653]

And the ridiculous amount of movie trailers on those disks 20 years later still having to skip through them. The reason they failed.

[@havanadaurcy1321]

You know nothing of the party switch, do you?

[@demetrioalbidrez684]

The Electric Chair is like ; A human barbecue and the smell is so horrific . The Pain is Beyond Believe !! 😱😱😱

[@Andrew-df1dr]

Every execution was brutal.

[@cherokeemapcrew]

I believe that’s the point.

[@gwine9087]

If that was not and is not cruel and unusual punishment, what is?

[@cherokeemapcrew]

Killing someone with a hatchet?

[@gwine9087]

@@cherokeemapcrew If done right, it would be much quicker.

[@yhird]

Ghastly.

[@dixiederivatives]

Bring back some of those great forms of capital punishment! Sounds to me that he met a much less brutal death then being axed to death as he did to his girlfriend!

[@paulcrombie9623]

Mind you, they can put our Bodge in the chair, then share his podgy pork meat around in the food banks, been ages since I could afford a bit of pork! We, we, wey, wey, blurrhg blurrggh blurrghg, I, I, I, ouch, that burns, bloobaloopaloop!!

[@robertenox7668]

Hmph! Didn't go well? He was killed.

[@incredingo]

cooked

[@GOLDENPKG]

3:16

[@janibeg3247]

i know some of his relatives

[@dovidell]

If the person convicted of a heinous, and wicked crime is unrepentant, even proud of the evil he/she has committed , then YES , I believe a form of execution that " matches that crime" SHOULD BE " administered .

[@KravenTheHaunter]

Oh, and will you be making those examinations yourself, or will you be trusting a murderous state to dictate who's naughty to you while they tuck you into bed at night?

[@garycostello4294]

Even back then people thought the EC was barbaric. Capital punishment in general is barbaric. What we need in this world is more love and forgiveness not more violence and state sponsored blood thirsty revenge. I feel badly for this poor guy but he will be redeemed in the spiritual world. And bad karma will come to all those involved in this

[@TheSuperHarrygeorge]

And your thoughts for the victims of these murderers 🤔

[@RickyisSwan]

Religious rubbish

[@mrlopezsbrother4373]

I think being murdered by a monster with a hatchet is cruel and unusual punishment

[@truthteller8459]

As usual with this channel skip to the last tenth of the video to see what the title is about. The first nine-tenth of this channels videos is a waste of time.

[@ShortsMaGeeTV]

Bro literally you are complaining just to complain. This comment makes zero sense

[@fpostolache]

Westinghouse was a promoter of ac. He was opposed to Edison that promoted dc. About the murderer, no pity. At 10 yo he could not read or write. Nowadays this ability is conquered at 7

[@b1646717]

Don't tell me you don't understand electricity, show me.

[@Toniii1]

I like how he says many were left trying to figure out why the device was created in the first place. It was so barbaric. Ingrained violence is why they used it. Natural energy🤣 They liked to see people cook then call it science.

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