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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 ...
An unemployed Pennsylvania resident and self-proclaimed militia leader uploaded a 14-minute YouTube video that displayed the severed head of his father, whom he said "is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to this country". Police subsequently confirmed that the father had died and his head had been removed, and charged him with first-degree ...
Articles related to filmed executions, covering the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment.
A convicted murderer stretched himself between a pair of parallel walls to escape from a Pennsylvania prison, newly released surveillance video showed Wednesday.
Josh Shapiro called for the abolition of the death penalty, saying his views have evolved and that he now believes it is morally wrong.
Chilling video shows a wealthy California businesswoman being chased around her car and then gunned down in a parking lot — in what cops call a “murder-for-hire scheme” orchestrated by her ...
People executed by Pennsylvania by electric chair (5 P) H. People executed by Pennsylvania by hanging (8 P) L. People executed by Pennsylvania by lethal injection (3 P)
The shooter in an apparent murder-suicide that stemmed from an argument over shoveling snow in Pennsylvania last week was at one point a member of the U.S. Navy, according to an obituary.