Research

Scope and Content Note

The series consists of two volumes (one of them disbound) used to track events relating to incarcerated individuals scheduled for execution at Sing Sing. Logs contain the person's name and consecutive number; county of sentencing and date received; week execution scheduled; name and address of family; name of spiritual advisor and name of attorney.

Listed are the dates of descriptions of events including: receipt of appeals; receipt of respite or commutation by the governor; receipt of notice from Court of Appeals affirming execution decision; discharge by reversal of decision; and the date and time that the execution was performed.

Volume 1 contains records of incarcerated individuals with consecutive numbers 66117 through 76556, dating 1915 to 1924. Volume 2 (disbound) contains records of incarcerated individuals dating from 1925 to 1960. This volume also contains a grouping of documents entitled "Statistics Relative to Sentences for Murder in the First Degree," dating 1925 to 1969, which for each year lists each person that was executed, transferred to other facilities, discharged by reversal of judgment, or had their sentences commuted.