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List Of People Executed By Electrocution
This is the list of people executed by electrocution through the electric chair. The electric chair was mainly used in the United States from the 1890s till today, and the Philippines from 1926 to 1976. United States Alabama *John Louis Evans and Wayne Eugene Ritter, both convicted of killing a pawn shop owner. * Larry Gene Heath, who kidnapped and killed his pregnant wife. *Edward Dean Horsley Jr., accomplice of executed killer Brian Keith Baldwin. *Walter Hill, convicted serial killer. *Henry Francis Hays, a member of Ku Klux Klan who was executed for the lynching of Michael Donald . * Brian Keith Baldwin, who was executed for killing a woman but allegedly innocent. Accomplice of Edward Dean Horsley Jr. (also executed). *Lynda Lyon Block, who was convicted of killing a police officer. Block committed the murder alongside her husband George Sibley, he was executed on August 4, 2005, by lethal injection. * Billy Wayne Waldrop, along with William Eugene Singleton and Henry Leslie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Electric-chair
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Straits of Florida to the south, and The Bahamas to the southeast. About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. It has the List of U.S. states by coastline, longest coastline in the contiguous United States, spanning approximately , not including its many barrier islands. It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of over 23 million, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, third-most populous state in the United States and ranks List of states and territories of the United States by population density, seventh in population density as of 2020. Florida spans , ranking List of U.S. states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Swindler
John Edward Swindler (May 12, 1944 – June 18, 1990) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who was executed by the state of Arkansas for the 1976 murder of a Fort Smith police officer. He was also convicted of the murders of two teenagers in Columbia, South Carolina, and was charged but never convicted of another murder in Florida. Swindler was the first person to be executed by the state of Arkansas since 1964, and is the only person to have been executed in the electric chair in Arkansas since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976. Murder Swindler shot and killed police officer Randy Basnett in the afternoon of September 24, 1976. Basnett had stopped at a service station at the Kelley Highway exit in Fort Smith, Arkansas, when Swindler also stopped there in a stolen car with a South Carolina license plate. Swindler was returning to Leavenworth, Kansas to settle some personal grudges that had arisen when he had been imprisoned there. Passing the I-54 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Puff
Gerhard Arthur Puff (February 13, 1914 – August 12, 1954) was a longtime criminal, gangster, and FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive who was executed by the federal authorities in New York for killing a federal agent. Background Born in Dresden, Germany, the 13-year-old Puff, along with his mother and five-year-old brother, arrived in the US on June 6, 1927, at Ellis Island on board from Bremen. The family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1934, but by 1940, he was an inmate in the Wisconsin State Prison in Waupun, Wisconsin. He then would be in and out of prison for the next decade serving several prison terms for disorderly conduct, theft of domestic animals, assault, intent to commit armed robbery, escaping custody, driving stolen vehicles, breaking and entering, and prison escape. On May 2, 1951, Puff was arrested by the Milwaukee Police Department for armed robbery and held on $3,000 bond. While in jail awaiting trial he became acquainted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 about north of Midtown Manhattan on the east bank of the Hudson River. It holds about 1,700 Prisoner, inmates as of 2007, and housed the Execution chamber#Locations, execution chamber for the State of New York for a period, with the final execution there occurring in 1963; instead Green Haven Correctional Facility had the execution chamber by the late 20th Century, before the total abolition of Capital punishment in New York (state), capital punishment in New York in 2007. The name "Sing Sing" derives from the Sintsink Native American tribe from whom the New York colony purchased the land in 1685, and was formerly the name of the village. In 1970, the prison's name was changed to Ossining Correctional Facility, but it reverted to its original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius And Ethel Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (born Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of First Chief Directorate, spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were Capital punishment by the United States federal government, executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining (village), New York, Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime. Other convicted co-conspirators were sentenced to prison, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass (who had made a Plea bargain, plea agreement), Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working at the Project Y, Los Alam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida State Prison
Florida State Prison (FSP), otherwise known as Raiford Prison, is an American correctional institution located in unincorporated Bradford County, Florida, with a Raiford postal address. It was formerly known as the "Florida State Prison-East Unit" as it was originally part of Florida State Prison near Raiford (now known as Union Correctional Institution). The facility, a part of the Florida Department of Corrections, is located on State Road 16 right across the border from Union County. The institution opened in 1961, even though construction was not completed until 1968. With a maximum population of over 1,400 inmates, FSP is one of the largest prisons in the state. FSP houses Florida's one of two male death row cell blocks and the State of Florida execution chamber. Union Correctional Institution also houses male death row inmates while Lowell Annex houses female death row inmates. Inmates however are moved to Florida State Prison for "Death Watch" after their death warrant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Joseph Watson
David Joseph Watson (September 23, 1923 – September 15, 1948) was a member of the United States Navy who was executed by the U.S. government for a murder committed on the high seas (a federal offense). Watson was convicted of the murder of Benjamin Leroy Hobbs, a fellow seaman, aboard a U.S. naval ship that was docked in Florida. After two trials, Watson was executed in Florida's electric chair since, at the time, federal death row inmates were executed by the primary method of execution prescribed in the state where they committed their offense. Watson was the third inmate executed on a federal death warrant under President Harry S. Truman, as well as the second executed in Florida, after James Alderman in 1929. Background and murder Newspaper accounts described David Watson as a Black American "navy cook" who was "short, stocky, and powerfully built," with an "above average" education. He was a native of Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia, who spent some time in the Virginia Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee State Penitentiary
Tennessee State Prison is a former correctional facility located six miles west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee on Cockrill Bend. It opened in 1898 and has been closed since 1992 because of overcrowding concerns. The facility was severely damaged by an EF3 tornado in the tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2020. History First structure (1831–1898) The first Tennessee State Penitentiary, located on what is now 15th Avenue between Church Street and Charlotte Avenue, became operational on January 1, 1831 with 200 cells, a warden's residence, and a hospital. Modeled after the Auburn Penitentiary in both discipline and design, the prison was the first of its kind in Tennessee and the South. Inmates were subject to policies and practices championed by the Auburn model, such as "during the day the prisoners, with downcast eyes, labored silently together in workshops, while at night they slept alone in separate cells. Under no circumstances could they communicate with one another, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Arwood
James Clyde Arwood (September 7, 1901 – August 14, 1943) was the only person executed by the United States federal government in Tennessee. He was sentenced to death after his conviction of murdering William Pugh, a federal agent, during a raid of Arwood's illegal still. Arwood was executed in the electric chair at age 41 in Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. Arwood was the last federal inmate executed under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Early life James Clyde Arwood was born in Ripley, Tennessee, on September 7, 1901, to James Monroe Arwood and Dora Arwood (née Akin). According to his death certificate, Arwood was employed as a barber. He was married to Bessie Arwood, although they divorced sometime before his execution. Murder of J.W. Lunsford On August 2, 1931, Deputy Sheriffs James Wyatt Lunsford and C.A. Borders went to the home of Arwood's brother, Cornelius Arwood, near Ripley, Tennessee, following a report that Clyde Arwood had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Eugene Carter
Robert Eugene Carter ("United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", database, ''FamilySearch'' (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K3J-9S6R : 13 February 2023), Robert E Carter (registration required) – ) was an American man who was convicted of the 1953 murder of a Washington, D.C. police officer named George Cassels, whom Carter shot during a foot chase from a holdup Carter had committed immediately prior. Carter's execution on April 26, 1957, made him the final person to be executed prior to the death penalty's abolition in the District of Columbia in 1981. Background Robert Carter was born on , to William and Martha Carter. He was African American. At the time of his death, he was married to Ruby Carter, and they had two young children, a girl and a boy; at the time of Cassels' murder, Carter's wife was pregnant with a third child. Carter had no criminal record prior to the robbery and murder that resulted in his death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
