Tag: Warden Lewis Lawes

• On This Day in 1925 – John Hurlburt performs his last execution. ‘Yellow Charleston’ has his last dance.

  

  A few years ago I covered the story of John Hurlburt, New York’s second ‘State Electrician.’ Trained by predecessor Edwin Davis, Hurlburt executed 140 prisoners during his tenure. Hurlburt’s official debut was executing George Coyer and Giuseppe DeGoia at Auburn Prison on August 31 1914. Unofficially he had already executed prisoners under Davis’s supervision. As…

  CrimeScribe

  September 17, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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