List of people executed in New York
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This list of individuals executed in New York gives the names of some of the individuals executed by the U.S. state of New York, as well as the individual's date of execution, method of execution, and the name of the Governor of New York at the date of execution. 1963 marked the last execution in New York State.
Regarding electrocutions, which comprise a large percentage of the executions:[1]
- 24 people were electrocuted at Dannemora
- 55 people were electrocuted at Auburn
- 614 were electrocuted at Sing Sing.
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
| Name of the convict | Execution date | Method | Charge | Governor | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory Peterson | 5 August 1639 | Firing squad | Unknown act of mutiny; soldier of the Fort Amsterdam garrison; first execution in New York (Manhattan) | Willem Kieft | |
| Jan Creoli | 25 June 1646 | Asphyxiation and burning | Sodomy (charged with "Sodomy, buggery, and bestiality") | Willem Kieft | |
| Jan Quisthout van der Linde | 17 June 1660 | Drowning | Sodomy (charged with "Sodomy, buggery, and bestiality") | Petrus Stuyvesant | |
| Jacob Leisler | 16 May 1691 | Hanging | Treason after leading the Leisler's Rebellion | Henry Sloughter | |
| 34 people | April 1741 | Hanging, burning | New York Conspiracy of 1741 | George Clarke | |
| John André | 2 October 1780 | Hanging | British spy who recruited Benedict Arnold; assisted in attempted surrender of West Point, New York | James Robertson (colonial governor)/George Clinton (elected governor) | |
| Francis Uss | 11 July 1789 | Hanging | Convicted of breaking open and burglarizing a business establishment in Poughkeepsie, New York[2] | George Clinton | |
| Anthony Cornish[3] | 3 August 1789 | Hanging | Murder | George Clinton | |
| Samuel Cook (or Samuel Cooke) | 24 June 1791 | Hanging | Convicted of forgery. At age 84, Cooke was one of the oldest persons legally hanged in the U.S. The crime involved a falsified legal document used to defraud. | George Clinton | |
| Whiting Sweeting | 26 August 1791 | Hanging | Murder of Albany County Constable Darius Quimby on 3 January 1791[4] | George Clinton | |
| James McLean | 28 August 1807 | Hanging | Murder of William Orr[5] | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| Alpheus Hitchcock[6] | 11 September 1807 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Belinda Bailey Hitchcock | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| Rufus Hill[7] | 12 August 1808 | Hanging | Murder of Mary Sisson | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| Thomas Qua | 12 August 1808 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Margaret Qua | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| James Dougherty | 6 August 1813 | Hanging | Murder of John Wait | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| John Black, Mahlon Christie, Isaac Kent, and George Orcote | 4 June 1814 (other accounts indicate date was in the spring of 1812 or around New Year's Eve 1813)[8] | Shot | Desertion | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| James Graham[9] | 29 July 1814 | Hanging | Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| Mary Antoine | 30 September 1814 | Hanging | "[K]illed a 'female' who had 'alienated her husband's affection'"; daughter of Abram Antoine [qv] | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| Charles Thompson and James Peters (aka Peterson)[10] | August 1815 | Hanging | Murder of James Burba | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| Barent Becker[11] | 6 October 1815 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Ann Becker | Daniel D. Tompkins | |
| James Hamilton | 6 November 1818 | Hanging | Murder of U.S. Rifle Corps Major Benjamin Birdsall | DeWitt Clinton | |
| John Van Alstine (aka Van Alstyne) | 19 March 1819 | Hanging | Murder of Schoharie County Deputy Sheriff William Huddleston | DeWitt Clinton | |
| James Teed | 16 April 1819 | Hanging | Murder | DeWitt Clinton | |
| David Dunning | 16 April 1819 | Hanging | Murder | DeWitt Clinton | |
| Abram (or Abraham) Antoine | 12 September 1823 | Hanging | "[For] avenging the execution of his daughter Mary Antoine [qv] by murdering the man [John Jacobs] whose testimony hanged her."[12] | Joseph C. Yates | |
| John Hallock | August 1836 | Hanging | Murder | William L. Marcy | |
| Edward Coleman | 12 January 1839 | Hanging | Murder of his wife | William H. Seward | |
| Aaron B. Stookey[13] | 19 September 1851 | Hanging | Murder of Edward Moore | Washington Hunt | |
| Otto Grunsig[14] | 27 February 1852 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Victorine Grunsig | Washington Hunt | |
| Nicholas Saul | 28 January 1853 | Hanging | Murder of Charles Baxter | Horatio Seymour | |
| Nicholas Howlett | 28 January 1853 | Hanging | Murder of Charles Baxter | Horatio Seymour | |
| Joseph Clark[15] | 11 February 1853 | Hanging | Murder of NYPD Policeman George T. Gillespie on 10 July 1851 | Horatio Seymour | |
| Patrick Fitzgerald[16] | 15 November 1853 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Margaret Fitzgerald | Horatio Seymour | |
| James L. Hoare[17] | 27 January 1854 | Hanging | Murder of Susan McAnnany | Horatio Seymour | |
| John Hadcock[18][19] | 24 February 1854 | Hanging | Murder of Mrs. Mary E. Gregg | Horatio Seymour | |
| John Dorsey[20] | 17 July 1857 | Hanging | Murder of Ann McGirr (a.k.a. Ann Hopkins) | John Alsop King | |
| James Rogers[21] | 12 November 1858 | Hanging | Murder of John Swanson | John Alsop King | |
| James Stephens[22] | 3 February 1860 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Sophie Stephens | Edwin D. Morgan | |
| John Crummins[23] | 30 March 1860 | Hanging | Murder of Dennis McHenry | Edwin D. Morgan | |
| Albert W. Hicks | 13 July 1860 | Hanging | Piracy. Notable because he was the last person to be executed for this crime in the United States (although the execution of the slaver Nathaniel Gordon in 1862 was under the terms of the Piracy Law). | Edwin D. Morgan | |
| Nathaniel Gordon | 21 February 1862 | Hanging | Slaver | Edwin D. Morgan | |
| Bernard Friery | 17 August 1866 | Hanging | Murder of Harry Lazarus | Reuben Fenton | |
| Frank Ferris | 19 October 1866 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Mary Ferris | Reuben Fenton | |
| Henry Gardner | 1 March 1867 | Hanging | Murder of Amasa Mullock[24] | Reuben Fenton | |
| George Wagner[25] | 1 March 1867 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Mary Wagner | Reuben Fenton | |
| Jeremiah O'Brien[26] | 9 August 1867 | Hanging | Murder of Lucy McLoughlin (a.k.a. Kate Smith) | Reuben Fenton | |
| Theodore Nicklas[27] | 18 March 1870 | Hanging | Murder of his uncle, Dr. Andrew Mead | John Thompson Hoffman | |
| John Reynolds[28] | 8 April 1870 | Hanging | Murder of William Townsend | John Thompson Hoffman | |
| John Real[29] | 5 August 1870 | Hanging | Murder of Patrolman John Smedick | John Thompson Hoffman | |
| John Thomas | 10 March 1871 | Hanging | Murder of Walter Johnson[30] | John Thompson Hoffman | |
| Edward Rulloff | 18 May 1871 | Hanging | Murder of Frederick Merrick | John Thompson Hoffman | |
| Charles Eacker | 26 May 1871 | Hanging | Murder of Thomas E. Burdick | John Thompson Hoffman | |
| Patrick Morrissey | 6 September 1872 | Hanging | Murder of his mother. (The executioner was future President of the United States, Grover Cleveland.) | John Thompson Hoffman | |
| John Gaffney | 14 February 1873 | Hanging | Murder of Patrick Fahey. (The executioner was future President of the United States, Grover Cleveland.) | John Adams Dix | |
| William Foster | 21 March 1873 | Hanging | Murder of Avery D. Putnam | John Adams Dix | |
| Michael Nixon | 16 May 1873 | Hanging | Murder of Charles Phifer | John Adams Dix | |
| William Thompson, William Ellis and Charles Weaver (a.k.a. Charles Weston) | 17 December 1875 | Hanging | Murder of Abraham Weisberg[31] | Samuel J. Tilden | |
| Johnny Dolan | 21 April 1876 | Hanging | Murder of James H. Noe | Samuel J. Tilden | |
| Peter H. Penwell | 20 July 1877 | Hanging | Murder of his wife[32][33] | Lucius Robinson | |
| Samuel Steenburgh | 19 Apr 1878 | Hanging | Murder of Jacob S. Parker | Lucius Robinson | |
| William Merrick[34] | 29 January 1879 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Julia A. Merrick | Lucius Robinson | |
| Chastine Cox | 16 July 1880 | Hanging | Murder of Jane L. DeForest Hull[35] | Alonzo B. Cornell | |
| Pietro Balbo | 6 August 1880 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Maria Dichaco Balbo[36] | Alonzo B. Cornell | |
| Joseph Abbott | 6 January 1882 | Hanging | Murder of George Reed, a fellow Elmira Reformatory inmate[37] | Alonzo B. Cornell | |
| William Sindram | 21 April 1882 | Hanging | Murder of Catharine Craves[38] | Alonzo B. Cornell | |
| Augustus D. Leighton | 19 May 1882 | Hanging | Murder of Mary Dean | Alonzo B. Cornell | |
| Michael E. "Mike" McGloin | 9 March 1883 | Hanging | Murder of Louis Hanier | Grover Cleveland | |
| Pasquale Majone | 9 March 1883 | Hanging | Murder of mother-in-law, Maria Velindino Selta[39] | Grover Cleveland | |
| Edward Hovey | 19 October 1883 | Hanging | Murder of sister-in-law, Fanny Vermilyea[40] | Grover Cleveland | |
| Charles Clarke[41] | 23 May 1884 | Hanging | Murder of his wife, Martha Clarke | Grover Cleveland | |
| William Menken[42][43] | 1885 | Hanging | Murder of Mary Bradhoft | David B. Hill | |
| George H. Mills[44] | 10 April 1885 | Hanging | Murder of his wife | David B. Hill | |
| Miguel Chacon | 9 July 1886 | Hanging | Murder of Maria Williams | David B. Hill | |
| Roxana (or Roxalana) Druse | 28 February 1887 | Hanging | Murder of her husband William Druse; last female to be hanged in New York | David B. Hill | |
| Danny Lyons | 21 August 1888 | Hanging | Murder of Joseph Quinn | David B. Hill | |
| Francis Asbury Hawkins a.k.a. Ashbury Hawkins | 11 December 1888 | Hanging | Murder of his mother, Cynthia A. Hawkins, on 1 October 1887 | David B. Hill | |
| John Greenwall (né Johann Theodore Wild) | 6 December 1889 | Hanging | Murder of Lyman Smith Weeks; last hanging in New York | David B. Hill | |
| William Kemmler | 6 August 1890 | Electric chair | Murder of Tillie Ziegler; first use of the electric chair in the world | David B. Hill | |
| Joseph Wood | 7 July 1891 | Electric chair | Murder of a fellow laborer | David B. Hill | |
| James Slocum | 7 July 1891 | Electric chair | Murder of his wife | David B. Hill | |
| Levy Smiler | 7 July 1891 | Electric chair | Murder of his mistress | David B. Hill | |
| Shibuya Jugiro, a Japanese seaman | 7 July 1891 | Electric chair | Murder of one of his comrades | David B. Hill | |
| Joseph Wood | 2 August 1892 | Electric chair | Murder | Roswell P. Flower | |
| Carlyle Harris | 7 May 1893 | Electric chair | Murder of his wife, Helen Potts | Roswell P. Flower | |
| Robert W. Buchanan[45] | 1 July 1895 | Electric chair | Murder of his wife by poison | Levi P. Morton | |
| Bartholomew Shea[46] | 11 February 1896 | Electric Chair | Murder of election reformer Robert Ross | Levi P. Morton | |
| Giuseppe Constantino | 22 June 1897 | Electric chair | Murder of Pietro Galliotti | Frank S. Black | |
| Martin Thorn | 1 August 1898 | Electric chair | Murder and dismemberment of William Guldensuppe | Frank S. Black | |
| Martha M. Place | 20 March 1899 | Electric chair | Murder of her daughter, Ida Place | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Leon F. Czolgosz | 29 October 1901 | Electric chair | Murder of US President William McKinley | Benjamin Odell, Jr. | |
| James P. "Whitey" Sullivan[47] | 24 March 1903 | Electric chair | Murder of Matthew Wilson during a bank robbery | Benjamin Odell, Jr. | |
| William "Goat" Hinch[48] | 6 July 1903 | Electric chair | Murder of Matthew Wilson during a bank robbery | Benjamin Odell, Jr. | |
| Willis, Frederick, and Burton van Wormer (brothers)[49] | 1 October 1903 | Electric chair | Murder of uncle, Peter Hallenbeck | Benjamin Odell, Jr. | |
| Chester Gillette | 30 March 1908 | Electric chair | Murder of Grace Brown | Charles Evans Hughes | |
| Charles H. Rogers[50] | 20 July 1908 | Electric chair | Murders of Fred and Willis Onley, and Alice Ingerick | Charles Evans Hughes | |
| Angelo Laudiero[51] | 20 July 1908 | Electric chair | Murder of Michael DeOmbro | Charles Evans Hughes | |
| Fred Gebhardt | 12 June 1911 | Electric chair | Murder | John Alden Dix | |
| Salvatore Condido[52] | 6 May 1912 | Electric chair | Murder | John Alden Dix | |
| Nicolo Consuli | 28 May 1912 | Electric chair | Murder | John Alden Dix | |
| Giuseppe Cerelli | 8 July 1912 | Electric chair | Murder | John Alden Dix | |
| Santo Zanza | 8 July 1912 | Electric chair | Murder of Mrs. Mary Hall[53] | John Alden Dix | |
| Filippo DeMarco, Angelo Giusto, Lorenzo Cali, Salvatore DeMarco and Vincenzo Cona[54] | 12 August 1912 | Electric chair | Murder of Mrs. Mary Hall | John Alden Dix | |
| John W. Collins[55] | 12 August 1912 | Electric chair | Murder of police officer Michael Lynch | John Alden Dix | |
| Joseph Ferrone[56] | 12 August 1912 | Electric chair | Murder of his wife, Kate | John Alden Dix | |
| Matteo Dell Omo[57] | 16 December 1912 | Electric chair | Murder | John Alden Dix | |
| Joseph Garfalo[58] | 10 February 1913 | Electric chair | Murder | William Sulzer | |
| Donato Cardillo[59] | 10 February 1913 | Electric chair | Murder | William Sulzer | |
| Frederick Poulin[60][61] | 12 February 1913 | Electric chair | Murder of Charles Leonard | William Sulzer | |
| William Linglui | 5 May 1913 | Electric chair | Murder | William Sulzer | |
| Raffaele Ciavarella | 21 May 1913 | Electric chair | Murder | William Sulzer | |
| Andrew Manco[62] | 2 July 1913 | Electric chair | Murder | William Sulzer | |
| Frank Cirofici | 13 April 1914 | Electric chair | Murder of Herman "Beansie" Rosenthal | Martin H. Glynn | |
| Harry Horowitz | 13 April 1914 | Electric chair | Murder of Herman "Beansie" Rosenthal | Martin H. Glynn | |
| Pietro Rebacci[63] | 22 June 1914 | Electric chair | Murder | Martin H. Glynn | |
| George Coyer[64] | 31 August 1914 | Electric chair | Murder of his wife, Elizabeth Coyer | Martin H. Glynn | |
| Vincenzo Campanelli[65] | 26 February 1915 | Electric chair | Murder | Charles S. Whitman | |
| Giuseppe Gino[66] | 22 March 1915 | Electric chair | Murder | Charles S. Whitman | |
| Vincenzo Buoninsegno[67] | 31 May 1915 | Electric chair | Murder | Charles S. Whitman | |
| Joseph Ferri | 30 June 1915 | Electric chair | Murder | Charles S. Whitman | |
| Charles Becker | 30 July 1915 | Electric chair | Murder of Herman "Beansie" Rosenthal | Charles S. Whitman | |
| Father Hans B. Schmidt | 18 February 1916 | Electric chair | Murder of Anna Aumüller; Schmidt remains the only Roman Catholic priest ever executed for murder in the United States | Charles S. Whitman | |
| Charles Sprague[68] | 1 May 1916 | Electric chair | Murder | Charles S. Whitman | |
| Rickey Harrison | 13 May 1920 | Electric chair | Murder of Canadian soldier George Griffelns | Al Smith | |
| John Emieleta | 8 January 1925 | Electric chair | Murder and robbery of Lee Jong | Al Smith | |
| John Rys (a.k.a. Joseph Adams) | 8 January 1925 | Electric chair | Murder and robbery of Lee Jong | Al Smith | |
| Charles Goldson | 6 January 1927 | Electric chair | Murder of a night watchman in Manhattan | Al Smith | |
| Paul Hilton | 17 February 1927 | Electric chair | Murder | Al Smith | |
| Ruth Brown Snyder | 12 January 1928 | Electric chair | Murder of her husband Albert Snyder with her lover, Judd Gray | Al Smith | |
| Judd Gray | 12 January 1928 | Electric chair | Murder of Ruth Snyder's husband, Albert Snyder | Al Smith | |
| Frank Plaia | 30 January 1930 | Electric chair | Murders of Sorro Graziano and his wife, Mary | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Michael Sciafoni | 30 January 1930 | Electric chair | Murders of Sorro Graziano and his wife, Mary | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Stephen "Bolly" Ziolkowski | 29 May 1930 | Electric chair | Murder of John Perraton during robbery of Fedders Manufacturing company | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Italo Ferdinandi | 12 December 1930 | Electric chair | Murder and robbery | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Francis Crowley | 21 January 1932 | Electric chair | Murder of police officer Frederick Hirsch | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Tony Marino, Joseph Murphy, Francis Pasqua and Daniel Kriesberg | June and July 1934 | Electric chair | Murder of Michael Malloy[69][70] | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Eva Coo | 27 June 1935 | Electric chair | Murder of Henry Wright | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Patrick Downey | 11 July 1935 | Electric chair | Murder and rape | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Albert Fish | 16 January 1936 | Electric chair | Kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd (confessed to killing other children)[71] | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Frank Flynn | 27 February 1936 | Electric chair | Murder and rape | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Everett Appelgate | 17 July 1936 | Electric chair | Murder of his wife, Ada Appelgate | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Mary Frances Creighton | 17 July 1936 | Electric chair | Murder of Ada Appelgate | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Major Green | 19 August 1937 | Electric chair | Murder and burglary | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Joseph Carosella | 20 February 1941 | Electric chair | Murder and robbery | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Harry Strauss | 12 June 1941 | Electric chair | Member of Murder, Inc. | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Martin Goldstein | 12 June 1941 | Electric chair | Member of Murder, Inc. | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Harry Maione | 19 February 1942 | Electric chair | Member of Murder, Inc. | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Frank Abbandando | 19 February 1942 | Electric chair | Member of Murder, Inc. | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| Anthony Esposito | 12 March 1942 | Electric chair | Murders of Alfred Klausman and NYPD traffic officer Ed Maher | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| William Esposito | 12 March 1942 | Electric chair | Murders of Alfred Klausman and NYPD traffic officer Ed Maher | Herbert H. Lehman | |
| William Diaz | 8 July 1943 | Electric chair | Murder of Edwin Berkowitz | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Benitez DeJesus | 8 July 1943 | Electric chair | Murder of Edwin Berkowitz | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Edward Haight | 8 July 1943 | Electric chair | Murders of Helen Lynch and Margaret Lynch | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Louis Buchalter | 4 March 1944 | Electric chair | Member of Murder, Inc. | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Louis Capone | 4 March 1944 | Electric chair | Member of Murder, Inc. | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Emanuel Weiss | 4 March 1944 | Electric chair | Member of Murder, Inc. | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Edward Kahkoska, Eugene Koberski and Henry Suckow[72] | 6 March 1947 | Electric chair | Murders of Jack Hylands and Tony Marchisella | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Ward Caraway | 3 July 1947 | Electric chair | Murder and robbery | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| John M. Dunn | 7 July 1949 | Electric chair | Murder of Anthony "Andy" Hintz | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Andrew "Squint" Sheridan | 7 July 1949 | Electric chair | Murder of Anthony "Andy" Hintz | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Raymond Fernandez | 8 March 1951 | Electric chair | Murders of Janet Fay, Delphine Downing, and Rainelle Downing | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Martha Beck | 8 March 1951 | Electric chair | Murders of Janet Fay, Delphine Downing, and Rainelle Downing | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Julius Rosenberg | 19 June 1953 | Electric chair | Espionage | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Ethel Rosenberg | 19 June 1953 | Electric chair | Espionage | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Gerhard Puff | 12 August 1954 | Electric chair | Murder of an FBI agent | Thomas E. Dewey | |
| Elmer "Trigger" Burke | 9 January 1958 | Electric Chair | Murder of Edward "Poochy" Walsh | Averell Harriman | |
| Angelo La Marca | 7 August 1958 | Electric Chair | Kidnapping and murder of Peter Weinberger, an infant[73][74] | Averell Harriman | |
| Ralph Dawkins | 16 July 1959 | Electric Chair | Murder and robbery | Nelson Rockefeller | |
| Henry Flakes | 19 May 1960 | Electric Chair | Murder of Joseph Friedman in a 1958 robbery | Nelson Rockefeller | |
| Eddie Mays | 15 August 1963 | Electric chair | Murder and robbery. This was the last execution in New York prior to the death penalty being declared unconstitutional in New York. | Nelson Rockefeller |
As a result of several United States Supreme Court decisions, capital punishment was suspended in the United States from 1972 through 1976.
Since 24 June 2004, the New York State death penalty statute has been declared unconstitutional by the New York Court of Appeals.[75]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "The Chair & Ron Arons' "Jews of Sing Sing" Lecture". New York Correction History Society. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
- ^ Info regarding hanging of Francis Uss
- ^ Info re execution of Anthony Cornish
- ^ Execution of Whiting Sweeting
- ^ "James McLean had to be, in effect, hanged twice in order that the death sentence imposed on his conviction for murder be carried out. His "double hanging" was ironically fitting since he apparently had killed two men even though he was tried for the murder of only one of them."
- ^ Execution of Alpheus Hitchcock
- ^ Online excerpt from book about Rufus Hill's trial and execution
- ^ Shooting of 4 soldiers (Black, Christie, Orcote, Kent) for desertion
- ^ Information regarding execution of James Graham
- ^ Information re executions of Charles Thompson and James Peters
- ^ Execution of Barent Becker
- ^ Information re execution of Abram (or Abraham) Antoine
- ^ Execution of Aaron Stookey, GoogleBooks
- ^ Execution of Otto Grunsig, GoogleBooks
- ^ Execution of Joseph Clark, GoogleBooks
- ^ Execution of Patrick Fitzgerald, GoogleBooks
- ^ Execution of James Hoare, GoogleBooks
- ^ Execution of John Hadcock
- ^ Info re John Hadcock
- ^ Execution of John Dorsey, GoogleBooks
- ^ Execution of James Rogers
- ^ Execution of James Stephens
- ^ Execution of John Crummins
- ^ "Henry Gardner's hanging was described at the time as "bungled, horrible and revolting" as the body had to be dropped through the trap three times."
- ^ Execution of George Wagner
- ^ Execution of Jeremiah O'Brien
- ^ Execution of Thomas Nicklas
- ^ Execution of John Reynolds
- ^ Execution of John Real
- ^ Execution of John Thomas
- ^ Executions of William Thompson, William Ellis and Charles Weaver
- ^ Reference to the execution of Peter Penwell
- ^ New York Times excerpt (dated 21 July 1877) regarding the hanging of Peter Penwell
- ^ Story of William Merrick's execution
- ^ Execution of Chastine Cox
- ^ Execution of Pietro Balbo
- ^ Reference to the execution of Joseph Abbott
- ^ Execution of William Sindram
- ^ Execution of Pasquale Majone
- ^ Execution of William Hovey
- ^ Execution of Charles Clarke
- ^ Info re execution of William Menken
- ^ Info re execution of William Menken
- ^ Report on execution of George H. Mills, The New York Times
- ^ Buchanan put to death, New York Times, July 2, 1895
- ^ Execution of Bartholomew Shea
- ^ Execution of Whitey Sullivan
- ^ Execution of William "The Goat" Hinch
- ^ Execution of van Wormer brothers
- ^ Charles H. Rogers execution
- ^ Angelo Laudiero execution
- ^ Execution of Salvatore Condido
- ^ Execution of Santo Zanza, one of six Italian men executed for the murder of Mary Hall
- ^ Executions of Cali, Cona, F. DeMarco, S. DeMarco and Giusto for the murder of Mary Hall
- ^ Execution of John W. Collins
- ^ Execution of Joseph Ferrone
- ^ Execution of Matteo Dell Omo
- ^ Execution of Joseph Garfalo
- ^ Execution of Donato Cardillo
- ^ Frederick Poulin execution
- ^ Info re Frederick Poulin
- ^ Execution of Andrew Manco
- ^ Execution of Pietro Rebacci
- ^ Execution of George Coyer
- ^ Execution of Vincenzo Campanelli
- ^ Execution of Giuseppe Gino
- ^ Execution of Vincenzo Buoninsegno
- ^ Execution of Charles Sprague
- ^ "The Durable Mike Malloy", New York Daily News
- ^ Trivia Library on murder of Michael Malloy
- ^ "Albert Fish, 65, Pays Penalty at Sing Sing". New York Times. 17 January 1936. Retrieved 2010-03-29. "Albert Fish, 65 years old, of 55 East 128th Street, Manhattan, a house painter who murdered Grace Budd, 6, after attacking her in a Westchester farmhouse in 1928, was put to death tonight in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison."
- ^ Executions of Edward Kahkoska, Eugene Koberski and Henry Suckow
- ^ FBI.gov- The Weinberger Kidnapping
- ^ The Tuscaloosa News: Cabbie Indicted in Kidnap, Murder of Weinberger Baby
- ^ Peters, Jeremy W. (14 December 2007). "New Jersey Moves to End Its Death Penalty". The New York Times.
External links [edit]
- http://www.executedtoday.com/2011/07/07/1891-new-york-electric-chair/
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycleroy/Prisons/Executions.pdf