Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein (February 12, 1905 – June 12, 1941) was a member of a gang of
hitmen
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monet ...
, operating out of
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...
, New York in the 1930s, known as
Murder, Inc.
Born Meyer Goldstein, Goldstein grew up in
East New York, Brooklyn, New York, and initially led the crime syndicate Murder, Inc. together with
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Goldstein later committed murders under the orders of
Lepke Buchalter and
Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia.
Around midnight on June 12, 1941, Goldstein and
Harry Strauss were executed by
electric chair
The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head and leg. Alfred P. Southwick, a Buffalo, New Yo ...
at
Sing Sing
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum-security prison for men operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining (village), New York, Ossining, New York, United States. It is abou ...
prison.
See also
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Capital punishment in New York (state)
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Capital punishment in the United States
In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states (of which two, Oregon and Wyoming, do not currently have any inmates sentenced to death), throughout the country at the federal leve ...
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List of people executed in New York
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1900s births
1941 deaths
20th-century executions by New York (state)
20th-century executions of American people
Criminals from Brooklyn
Executed American gangsters
Executed people from New York (state)
American people executed for murder
Jewish American gangsters
Mafia hitmen
Murder, Inc.
People convicted of murder by New York (state)
People executed by New York (state) by electric chair
People from East New York, Brooklyn
20th-century American Jews
Inmates of Sing Sing
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