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Picture an Execution: The First Amendment and the Spring 2025 Push for Death Chamber Access

Summary by First Amendment Watch
Perhaps the most strikingly normal thing about Ruth Snyder’s last moment on earth in 1928 is that she was wearing a perfectly fashionable dress. Only the helmet, the mask, and the leather straps around her arms and legs indicate that she sits lifeless in New York’s electric chair.   We know what Ruth Snyder wore to her execution and how her body appeared nearly a century ago because a reporter snuck a camera into Sing Sing’s death chamber and to…
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First Amendment Watch broke the news in on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
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