Tag: State Governor

• On This Day in 1952, Edward Kelly and Wallace Ford, Jr.

  

  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 die including Lonely Hearts Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck on…

  CrimeScribe

  October 30, 2018

  True Crime, Uncategorized

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