manner_of_death martha m. place
Martha M . Place ( September 18 , 1849 -- March 20 , 1899 ) was the first woman to die in the electric chair . She was executed on March 20 , 1899 at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for the murder of her stepdaughter Ida Place . ___MASK60___ is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck . The " Oxford English Dictionary " states that ___MASK60___ in this sense is " specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck ", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain " ___MASK60___ ". ___MASK60___ has been a common method of ___MASK67___ since medieval times , and is the official execution method in numerous countries and regions . The first account of execution by ___MASK60___ was in Homer ' s " Odyssey ". In this specialised meaning of the common word " hang ", the past and past participle is " hanged " instead of " hung ". Execution by electrocution , performed using an electric chair , is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg . This execution method , conceived in 1881 by a Buffalo , New York dentist named Alfred P . Southwick , was developed throughout the 1880s as a humane alternative to ___MASK60___ and first used in 1890 . This execution method has been used in the United States and , for a period of several decades , in the Philippines ( its first use there in 1924 , last in 1976 ).