Tag: Death Commission

• Old Sparky and the firing squad – South Carolina doubles down. Again.

  

  Whether South Carolina, bastion of tobacco country, will allow the traditional last cigarette before a firing squad is open to question. The condemned will likely smoke either way.

  CrimeScribe

  May 6, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

  Alabama, California, capital punishment, cruel and unusual, Death Commission, death penalty, electric chair, gas chamber, George Stinney, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, nitrogen asphyxia, Oklahoma, old sparky, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia

• On This Day in 1890; William Kemmler – The World’s First Legal Electrocution.

  

  August 6, 1890 saw the dawn of a new age for criminal history. At Auburn Prison in upstate New York there was the execution.of one William Kemmler, condemned for murdering girlfriend Matilda Ziegler with a hatchet. There was nothing remarkable about Kemmler (an alcoholic vegetable hawker with a vicious temper) or about his crime. There…

  CrimeScribe

  August 6, 2018

  History, Odds And Ends, True Crime

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