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A total of 1,043 people have been executed in Pennsylvania since 1693, [2] [3] the third highest of any other state or commonwealth in the Union, after New York (1,130) and Virginia (1,361). [ 4 ] Until 1915, hanging was the common method of execution. 1915 saw the first use of the electric chair , even though it was approved by the ...
Prior to its closure, SCI Graterford housed male death row inmates. [12] Pennsylvania has only executed three inmates since 1976. The first was Keith Zettlemoyer in May 1995, followed by Leon Moser in August 1995. The third and most recent execution was carried out in July 1999, with the execution of Gary M. Heidnik.
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution.
List of people executed in Pennsylvania; List of people executed in Rhode Island; ... This page was last edited on 8 January 2025, at 21:18 (UTC).
This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later found to be wrongly convicted.Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously. [1]
The family of Alexander McClay Williams, a Black teen who was executed in Pennsylvania after being convicted of murder in 1931, have filed a lawsuit nearly 100 years after his death.
Christopher Collings' last words, meal before execution in 2007 rape, murder of 9-year-old girl revealed
— George Stinney, African-American child and youngest American with an exact age executed by the United States (16 June 1944), on whether he had any final words before his wrongful execution via electric chair. 14-year-old Stinney was tried and sentenced to death by Judge Philip H. Stoll in under three hours on 14 April after an all-white ...