who was the first person to be legally executed using an electric chair
William Kemmler William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 â€“ August 6, 1890) of Buffalo, New York, was a convicted murderer and the first person in the world to be legally executed using an electric chair.
Guillotine The guillotine remained Franceâ€™s standard method of judicial execution until as recently as the abolition of capital punishment in 1981.[3] The last person to be executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi, who was guillotined on 10 September 1977.