Mullen, Judge Carmen 89
Murder, Inc. 154–160
NAACP 87, 130, 247
National Crime Syndicate 154, 160
Nazi 33, 216
Nebraska 35, 72, 107, 182, 185–187, 246
Nevada 33, 37, 246
New Hampshire 244, 246
New Jersey 45, 57, 71, 81, 108, 136, 168, 172–173, 180, 246
New Mexico 246
New York 9, 11, 15–18, 20, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33–34, 46–55, 60–62, 67–68, 72–73, 83, 94, 99–102, 106–107, 113, 136, 138–141, 154–155, 157, 160–163, 165, 169, 180, 188, 216, 221, 237–238, 245–246
North Carolina 71, 73, 122–123, 125, 128–129, 203, 246
O’Dell, Joseph 233–234
Ohio 45, 71, 109, 151, 153, 188–190, 209–210, 220, 223,
Oklahoma 34, 106, 208, 217, 221–223, 244, 246
Old Smokey 172
Old Sparky x, xii, 2, 52, 55, 67, 73–75, 81, 95, 135, 137, 154, 156, 195, 215, 217, 237, 248
Old Testament, the 3
Oregon 52, 246
Pakistan 38, 209, 245, 248
pancuronium bromide 219
Penry v. Lynaugh 206
Penry, John Paul 205–206
Pennsylvania 9–11, 72, 124, 180, 189, 246
pentobarbital 218, 222
Peterson, Derick Lynn 240
Peterson, Dr. Frederick 53–54
Philippines 28, 35, 72, 188, 195–198
Pineda, Basillo Jr. 197–199
Place, Martha 81–84
poisoning 19–20, 25, 32–33, 151, 175
potassium chloride 219
Powell, Justice Lewis 118
Prejean, Dalton 207
Price, Chef Brian 111
Pringle, Peter 240
Proffitt v. Florida 122, 125
Proffitt, Charles William 122, 127, 129
Rector, Ricky Ray 110
Rehnquist, Chief Justice William 118, 232–233
Reles, Abe 155–161
Resko, John 106
Rhode Island 8, 11, 179
Ring v. Arizona 212–213
Ring, Timothy 213
Riva, Maggie dela 196–198
Roach, James Terry 207
Roberts v. Louisiana 122–123
Roberts, Harry 123
Robinson v. California 116–117
Roosevelt, Teddy 83, 193
Roper v. Simmons 207–208
Rosenberg, Ethel 135–141
Rosenberg, Julius 135–141
Rule, Ann 142
Rush, Dr. Benjamin 9
Sacco, Nocola 175–181
Saudi Arabia 21, 38, 209, 245
Scalia, Justice Antonin 208
Schultz, Dutch 154
Schuster, Bernard 136
Semenov, Semyon 136
Seymour, Orlando 96
Shapiro, Jacob 155
shooting, as execution method 19–20, 35–37, 216
Siegel, Bugsy 154
Simmons, Christopher 208–209
Singapore 245
Sing Sing 56, 68, 72–73, 83–84, 94, 106–107, 140, 156, 163, 167
slave revolts 8–9, 27
Smith, James Edward 109
Snyder, Ruth 107
Sobell, Morton 137–139
sodium thiopental 218, 220–222
Souter, Justice David 233
South Carolina 71, 85, 87, 89–90, 109, 207, 210, 244
South Dakota 246
South Korea 245
Southwick, Dr. Alfred Porter 16–18, 39, 54
Spenkelink, John 217
Spradling, Tim vii, x
Stanford v. Kentucky 208
Stanford, Kevin 208
Starkweather, Charles 107, 182–187
Stevens, Justice John Paul 233
Stewart, Justice Potter 117
Stinney, George 85–90, 207
Strauss, Harry 157–158
Supreme Court 15, 61–62, 79, 89, 115–117, 119, 122–123, 126–129, 132, 140, 201–213, 229–230, 232–234, 241
Taborsky, Joseph “Mad Dog” 107–108
Tafero, Jesse Joseph 239–241
Tennessee 11, 109, 124, 242, 244, 246
Tesla, Nikola 44, 46–48
Texas 10, 35, 76, 99–100, 106, 109–112, 116, 122–125, 127–128, 131, 205, 209, 217–218, 221, 230, 232–233, 246, 248
The Green Mile viii
Thompson, William Wayne 208
Thompson v. Oklahoma 208
Tison v. Arizona 204–205
Tison, Gary 204–205
Topsy the elephant 98–103
Torah, the 3
Torrio, Johnny 154
Tucker, James Neil 109
Tyburn, London 6, 17, 30, 94
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo 175–182
Virginia vii–viii, ix, xii, 5–10, 71, 93, 205–206, 221, 234, 237–238, 240, 244, 246
Walton, Jeffrey 211–212
West Virginia 72
Westinghouse, George 16, 19, 44–50, 52, 54–56, 60, 62, 65,
White, Justice Byron 117, 202
Whitmire, John 111–112
Williams, George 94–95
Wisconsin 11
Woodson v. North Carolina 122–123, 125
Woodson, James Tyrone 123, 128–129
Workman, Philip 109
Wrongful Convictions, Center on 227
Wyoming 35, 185–186, 244, 246
Yakovlev, Anatoli 138
Ziegler, Matilda 57–59
Dr. Alfred P. Southwick, the dentist who advocated the electric chair, and who decided it would be a chair rather than a couch or bath.
Thomas Edison, the inventor who advocated alternating current for the electric chair.
George Westinghouse, the industrialist who opposed the development of the electric chair to preserve the reputation of his alternating current.
A horse is electrocuted in an early experiment by Harold Brown.
William Kemmler, the first victim of Old Sparky.
The electric chair in Sing Sing, New York.
The electric chair in Arkansas, used until 1948.
Topsy the Elephant was the biggest victim of execution by electricity. Although Thomas Edison filmed the execution, he had nothing else to do with it.
George Stinney, aged 14, was the youngest child sent to the chair. Accused by the State of South Carolina, he was later found to be innocent.
Ruth Snyder.
Allen Lee Davis was so obese that Florida had to make a new chair to accomodate him. The execution went badly wrong.
Ruth Snyder, photographed in her death throes with a hidden camera by Tom Howard of the New York Daily News.
Davis bled badly during the botched execution, leading to a temporary moratorium on electrocutions in Florida.
Charles Lindbergh and the prosecutor Norman Schwarzkopf during a break in the trial.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the kidnapping and murder of the baby son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh.
Charles Lindbergh gives evidence at the trial of the century.
Mob hitman Abe Reles turned state witness, and brought down Murder Inc.
Louis Buchalter, mob hitman brought down by Abe Reles.
Louis Capone and Emaneul Weiss, executed together at Sing Sing.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the couple who went to the electric chair for selling atomic bomb secrets to the Russians.
Charming serial killer Ted Bundy relaxing in court.
The original “rebel without a cause,” Charles Starkweather with his girlfriend Caril Fugate.
Robert Gleeson, who died shouting “Kiss my ass!” was the last man to die in Old Sparky.
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