On this date, October 29, 1901, the assassin of President William McKinley, Leon Czolgosz was executed by the electric chairin Auburn Prison in New York. He was executed on Oct. 29, 53 days after the crime and 47 after the president’s death. I personally wish that the death penalty could be enforced in a swift and sure manner like they did in those years where the crime is guilty beyond any doubt.
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Leon Czolgosz |
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"Contemplate that if Hitler falls into our hands we shall certainly put him to death. Not a Sovereign who could be said to be in hands of Ministers, like Kaiser. This man is the mainspring of evil. Instrument - electric chair, for gangsters no doubt available on lend-lease." - Winston Churchill, 6 July 1942 |
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