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The first recorded death by penalty was in ancient Egypt in the 16th century BC. A man was accused of sorcery and magic and was hence forced to take his own life.

China established the death penalty on their shores in the 18th Century.

The first recorded death by penalty in the US was a man named William Kemmler. A known ax murderer of New York was sentenced the death penalty by electric chair on August 6, 1890. Amazingly, it took TWO tries to kill him. They had to INCREASE the voltage to 1,000 before he successfully died.

New York no longer uses the electric chair, instead lethal injection.

Hundreds of thousands have been doomed to death row ever since all over the world.

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