Tag: last meals

• 1954, a mass break-out from Sing Sing’s Death House (almost) and Sing Sing’s last ‘triple-hitter.’

  

  Rosario, believing he had done enough to catch the right eyes, awaited his clemency and heard nothing. There was no more ominous silence than when a Governor was considering clemency, it usually meant there wouldn’t be any.

  CrimeScribe

  November 4, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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