On this date, October 29, 1901, the assassin of
President William McKinley, Leon Czolgosz was executed by the electric chair
in 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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