The Sash Weight Murder
Ruth Brown Snyder\xa0(March 27, 1895 \u2013 January 12, 1928) was an American\xa0murderer. Her\xa0execution\xa0in the\xa0electric chair\xa0at\xa0New York's\xa0Sing Sing Prison\xa0in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a well-publicized photograph.