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Posted on November 4, 2018
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? It’s been quite some time since I last posted ere, but I have been extremely busy with paid work and earning a living. Part of that has been writing my first book. Criminal Curiosities is a collection of…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, crime, crime and punishment, Crime Wave, criminal, criminal history, criminals, criminology, death penalty, Death Row, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, gallows, gangs, gangster, gangsters, Gee Jon, guillotine, Han van Meegeren, hanged, hanging, hangman, Hermann Goering, History, Holland, Ireland, Irene Schroeder, Lincoln, murder, murdered, murderer, murderers, Netherlands, Nicolas jacques Pelletier, Paul Jawarski, Pennsylvania, poison, prison, punishment, robbery bank robber, Sadamichi Hirasawa, State Electrician, true crime, UK, Unit 731, William Horry, William Kemmler, William MArwood, writing
Posted on October 30, 2018
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1952 was a quiet year for the Sing Sing death house. Only three prisoners walked their last mile, Edward Kelly and Wallace Ford, Jr on October 30 and before them Bernard Stein on March 6. That was pretty quiet considering 1951 saw eight inmates…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1950, 1951, 1952, Auburn, Auburn Prison, condemned, crime, crime and punishment, criminal, criminals, Dannemora, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, Eddie Lee Mays, Edward Kelly, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, electrocution, Genesee County, Joseph Francel, murder, murdered, murderers, New York, New York State, Sing Sing, Sing Sing death house, State Electrician, State Governor, Thomas Dewey, true crime, USA, Wallace Ford, Warden Wilfred Denno, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler
Posted on October 7, 2018
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Execution has long been part of criminal history, society’s ultimate sanction for the very worst offenders. Less enthusiastic supporters regard it as a necessary evil and a deterrent even while acknowledging its distasteful nature. Opponents believe it no deterrent at all, that it’s applied…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, condemned, crime, crime and punishment, crime history, death, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, detectives, discrimination, electric chair, electrocute, electrocuted, Ephie Foster, executed, execution, executions, gallows, Grady Jarratt, History, Jimmy Thompson, justice, law, Louisiana, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Marvin Wiggins, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison, prisoners, racism, regular or extra crispy, Sam Jones, St Martinville, true crime, USA, Vincent Venezia, Willie Francis
Posted on August 15, 2018
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August 15, 1963 was an historic day in New York’s penal history, although nobody involved knew it at the time. New York’s lawmakers didn’t know it. the Warden of New York’s infamous Sing Sing Prison (now the Ossining Correctional Facility) didn’t know. Dow Hover,…
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Category: Odds And Ends, True CrimeTags: Americans, botched, Boxing, capital punishment, condemned cell, convicted, conviction, court, courtroom, crime, crime and punishment, crime of the century, death, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, defence, electric chair, executed, execution, executioner, executions, FBI, Golden Age, judges, justice, law and order, lawyers, lethal injection, miscarriage of justice, murder, murderer, New York, not guilty, old sparky, pop culture, prison, prosecutor, robbers, shot, Sing Sing, true crime, United States, wrongly convicted
Posted on August 6, 2018
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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…
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Category: History, Odds And Ends, True CrimeTags: Albert Pierrepoint, Alfred Southwick, Auburn, Auburn Prisod, capital punishment, Charles Durston, crime, crime and punishment, David Hill, death, Death Commission, death penalty, Death Row, Edwin Davis, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, executed, executions, Florida, George Westinghouse, hanging, Harold Brown, History, J P Morgan, John Hurlburt, justice, law, murder, murderer, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Robert Elliott, Roxalana Druse, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Thomas Edison, Tillie Ziegler, true crime, USA, William Kemmler
Today it’s Friday July 13, 2018. July 13, 1928 was also a Friday, a Friday delivering the ultimate in bad luck to 11 men in three different States… In Mississippi’s Yazoo County murderer Will Burdo nervously awaited his date with the hangman. While…
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Category: History, True Crime, UncategorizedTags: capital punishment, castle on the cumberland, crime, death penalty, Death Row, Eddyville, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, gallows, Georgia, History, hot squat, Kentucky, last mile, Milledgeville, Mississippi, New York, old sparky, Parchman, prisons, punishment, Sing Sing, Sing Sing death house, Sing Sing Prison, Smith County, USA, Yazoo County
As regular readers know, I do like crime’s more unusual case, the firsts, lasts and onlys. Minnesota’s George Sitts is certainly one of those. Born in Leroy, Minnesota on October 29, 1913, he was a serial felon, escape artist and double cop-killer. He was the…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: 1947, capital punishment, crime, Deadwood, death penalty, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, George Sitts, History, Minnesota, murder, murderer, South Dakota, Stillwater, true crime, USA, Wyoming
West Virginia has never been known as a hard-line death penalty State, abolishing capital punishment in 1965. After 1899 there were 104 hangings and, with a change in method, nine electrocutions. Elmer Brunner’s, on April 3, 1959 was the last. Brunner wasn’t a…
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Category: True CrimeTags: 1959, Cecil Underwood, condemned, crime, death, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, electric chair, electrocuted, electrocution, Elmer Brunner, executed, execution, History, last mile, Moundsville, old sparky, punishment, true crime, USA, West Virginia
Posted on January 14, 2018
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So, the State of South Carolina (previously responsible for executing then exonerating 14-year old George Stinney) is considering dusting off Old Sparky. Difficulties in obtaining lethal injection drugs have caused a backlog on Death Row. South Carolina has numerous condemned inmates, wants to start…
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Category: True Crime, UncategorizedTags: Arizona, Arkansas, capital punishment, Clayton Lockett, condemned, death penalty, Death Row, Donald Harding, electric chair, executed, executions, Federal Drug Administration, firing squad, gallows, gas chamber, George Stinney, James Wells, lethal injection, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, old sparky, Pfizer, Politics, South Carolina, Texas, USA, Virginia, William Timmons
Posted on October 19, 2017
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It’s been quite some time since I last posted ere, but I have been extremely busy with paid work and earning a living. Part of that has been writing my first book. Criminal Curiosities is a collection of crooks, all with something about…
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Category: True CrimeTags: America, arsenic, art, California, capital punishment, convict, convicted, conviction, crime and punishment, crime history, criminal curiosites, cyanide, death penalty, electric chair, England, Eva Coo, executed, execution, executioner, firsts, forged, forgeries, forgery, France, gallows, gas chamber, Gee Jon, George Westinghouse, Goering, guillotine, Han van Meegeren, hanged, hanging, hangman, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Hermann Goering, History, Holland, Japan Sadamichi Hirasawa, last, Lincoln, long drop, Luftwaffe, murder, Nazis, Nevada, New York, Nicolas jacques Pelletier, only, Paul Jaworski, Pennsylvania, poison, poisoned, poisoner, poisoning, prison, prisoners, punishment, robbery, Sing Sing, Thomas Edison, true crime, UK, Unit 731, USA, variable drop, Vermeer, Vermeers, William Horry, William Kemmler, William MArwood, writing
Posted on September 28, 2015
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Execution has long been part of criminal history. Its more hawkish supporters consider it society’s ultimate sanction for the very worst offenders. Less enthusiastic supporters regard it as a necessary evil and a deterrent to other criminals even while acknowledging its distasteful nature. Opponents…
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Category: True CrimeTags: Americans, capital punishment, condemned cell, convicted, conviction, court, courtroom, crime, crime and punishment, cruel and unusual, death, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, electric chair, executed, execution, executioner, executions
Posted on October 24, 2014
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A person’s last words are often revealing, telling us something about them and their outlook on the life. Coming, as they do, right before that person’s death, it often doesn’t really matter to that person what they say or how it’s interpreted afterwards. From…
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Category: UncategorizedTags: American Civil War, Americans, army, Benedict Arnold, capital punishment, courage, crime, death, Death Row, Douglas Fairbanks, electric chair, executed, execution, firing squad, George Appel, James French, John Sedgwick, Marshal Ney, Mata Hari, Napoleon, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Queen Elizabeth I, Sing Sing Prison, Tom Ketchum, Wilderness
