Generally, no cameras are allowed at executions, but for this execution, a reporter smuggled in a trick camera hidden under his pants so he could take the picture without anyone realizing it. The picture proved quite popular with the voyeuristic populace.
Signed Edward Dalton Stevens.
The gloomy picture here :
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/ruth-snyder-in-chair
Generally, no cameras are allowed at executions, but for this execution, a reporter smuggled in a trick camera hidden under his pants so he could take the picture without anyone realizing it. The picture proved quite popular with the voyeuristic populace.