Harris A. Smiler

Harris A. Smiler was among the first four convicts to be executed by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison, in Ossining, New York.

Electrocution at Sing Sing	Age at death	Execution date
Harris A. Smiler	32	July 7, 1891
James Slocum	22	July 7, 1891
Joseph Wood	21	July 7, 1891
Schihick Judigo	35	July 7, 1891
Martin D. Loppy	51	December 7, 1891
Charles McElvaine	20	February 8, 1892
Jeremiah Cotte	40	March 28, 1892
Fred McGuire	24	December 19, 1892
James L. Hamilton	40	April 3, 1893
Carlyle Harris	23	May 8, 1893

The electric chair was installed in Sing Sing Prison, in 1891, just a year after it was first used to execute William Kemmler at Auburn Prison, also in New York State. By the end of the 1800s, 29 inmates had been executed by this means. The United States and United Kingdom both began independently tracking murder rate and other crime statistics in earnest at the start of the next century.