1st Woman in Electric Chair Thought Being Female Would Save Her | Martha Place

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Amber Lee Hughes shocked the world in 2023 when she drowned her 4-year-old stepdaughter Nada-Jane Challita in a bathtub after a fight with the child's father. But this horrific crime of stepmother jealousy and rage isn't new. 127 years earlier, Martha Place committed the exact same crime - and became the first woman ever executed in the electric chair.

In this episode of Ti's Hot Mess History, I'm taking you back to 1898 Brooklyn, where Martha Place's jealous rage toward her stepdaughter Ida ended in brutal murder. The shocking parallels between Martha's case and Amber Lee Hughes' recent conviction prove that some crimes transcend time.

Martha Place made history on March 20, 1899, when she was strapped into the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison - the first woman to ever face this method of execution. Her crime? Murdering her 17-year-old stepdaughter in a fit of jealous rage, just like Amber Lee Hughes would do over a century later.

This is the untold story of America's first female electric chair execution, the stepmother murder that shocked the nation, and how history repeats itself in the most chilling ways.