Research


Scope and Content Note

This series consists of 250 files for incarcerated individuals executed for capital crimes. These are not complete case files but administrative files pertinent to their actual executions. Each file typically contains identifying documents; correspondence; blotter records; notices of stays and respites of execution; and copies of court orders and other legal documents.

Files may also contain newspaper clippings about the criminal offense, trial, and subsequent execution and carbon copies of the incarcerated individual's social and criminal history narratives. Almost all case files document executions carried out by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison; scattered files relate to those who were executed in other states.