William Kemmler takes a look placid on the chair meant to be electrocuted in a few minutes, and then he turns calmly to the audience. "Gentlemen, I wish you good luck. I think I can get to a nice place and I'm ready to go. "Incredible. This man of thirty years, sentenced to death for having cut his wife with an axe, discusses the death with a huge phlegm. Unfortunately, the shock turns to a nightmare. The first jolt lasted 15 long seconds, but failed to kill him. It is necessary to give a second time to the current, with a voltage d...

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