Cameramen line up outside the Queens County Courthouse in Long Island City where the trial for murder of Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray was in progress in 1927. This photo was used on the cover for "Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography From The New York Times," published by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1996.

Ruth Snyder was a Queens woman who murdered her husband with the help of her lover, Judd Gray, in March 1927. Their sensational murder trial started on April 18 and lasted 21 days. On May 10, 1927, The Times front page carried the overcome: "Mrs. Snyder and Gray Found Guilty in the First Degree in Swift Verdict; Both to Get Death Sentence Monday."

The case gained further infamy when Ruth Snyder was executed in Sing Sing Prison, Jan. 11, 1928. A New York Daily News photographer with a hidden camera strapped to his leg photographed Snyder dying in the electric chair. The shocking photo ran on the Daily News front page the next day.