Tag: old sparky

• Sparky’s Revenge; South Carolina considers reinstating the electric chair.

  

  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 executing them, but can’t obtain the legally-approved means to do it. […]

  CrimeScribe

  January 14, 2018

  True Crime, Uncategorized

  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

• Paul Jawarski – Pennsylvania’s Phantom Dynamiter.

  

  Meet Paul Poluszynski, alias ‘Paul Jawarski’, known throughout Pennsylvania as ‘The Phantom.’ Before the end of his extremely violent (and, some might say, mercifully brief) criminal career he claimed to have killed twenty-six people including four police officers and a payroll security guard. His gang, the ‘Flatheads’, also committed the first-ever robbery using a landmine. […]

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  August 19, 2014

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• True Crime Blogs And Websites: Some Top Picks.

  

  So, as you’re no doubt aware, I have an interest in true crime and I ted to cover the more unusual bits and pieces. If you’re interested in the subject generally then it’s hard to avoid the plethora of websites and blogs out there that deal with it, although the tone and style of some […]

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  August 18, 2014

  Odds And Ends, Press And Politics, True Crime

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• On This Day in 1960 – Henry ‘Snow’ Flakes. Out For The Count.

  

  Meet Henry Flakes. Chances are that even if you’re a boxing fan you’ve probably never heard of him, but you might have done if things had gone differently. Henry was a young up-and-coming heavyweight during the late 1940’s, tipped by many in boxing and the press as a future champion and the best young heavyweight […]

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  July 17, 2014

  Odds And Ends, True Crime, Uncategorized

  armed robbery, boxers, Boxing, Buffalo, DeWitt Lee, drug addiction, drugs, electric chair, electrocuted, Eliot Ness, Henry Flakes, Joseph Friedman, last meal, last mile, Madison Square Garden, murder, murderer, New Jersey, New York, New York City, New York State, Niagara Falls, old sparky, Oscar Fraley, Pat Comiskey, Snow Flakes, Untouchables, Walter Green