Tag: John Eldon Smith

• On This Day in 1924 – Howard Hinton, Georgia’s first electrocution.

  It’s common to find ‘Peachtree Bandit’ Frank Dupre, armed robber and murderer executed on September 1, 1921 with Luke McDonald, listed as the last man to hang in Georgia. He wasn’t. That was Arthur Meyers, a murderer hanged at Augusta on June 17, 1931 for a murder committed in March, 1924. McDonald, despite dying with…

  CrimeScribe

  September 13, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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