Tag: Joseph P Francel

• Andy Warhol, John Paonessa, the Rosenbergs and Sing Sing’s notorious death house.

  

  So, what links the icon of pop art, the atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and an almost-forgotten murderer named John Paonessa? Simple, the electric chair. Warhol used this image to create a series of coloured screenprints. Part of his recurring fascination with life’s dark side, Old Sparky was as famous as Warhol long before…

  CrimeScribe

  March 1, 2023

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

  Alfred von Wolfersdorf, Andy Warhol, art, Art History, capital punishment, crime, crime and punishment, Dance Hall, death house, death penalty, death sentence, death warrant, Dutchess County, Empire State, Ethel Rosenberg, executed, execution, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman, Governor Thomas Dewey, History, John Paonessa, Joseph Francel, Joseph P Francel, Julius Rosenberg, Lonely Hearts Killers, Martha Beck, murder, old sparky, Perry Como, Pop Art, Raymond Fernandez, Rosenbergs, Sing Sing, Sing Sing Prison, Thomas Dewey, true crime, Warden Wilfred Denno, Wilfred Denno

• On This Day in 1927 – Robert Greene Elliott executes six men in two US States on the same day

  

  Robert Greene Elliott, ‘Agent of Death’ for six US States. Meet Robert Greene Elliott. Family man, devout Methodist, Sunday school superintendent, electrical contractor and pipe smoker. He also personally executed 387 people (including 5 women) working as a freelance executioner for six US States. Elliott was (and remains) the most experienced ‘State Electrician’ in penal…

  CrimeScribe

  January 6, 2020

  True Crime, Uncategorized

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