New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial Quotes
New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial
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“On March 1, 1907, New Jersey passed a law authorizing execution by electrocution, thus becoming only the third state in the nation to adopt electrocution as its form of capital punishment. Until that time, most states hanged condemned prisoners. Carl Adams, the founder of Adams Electric in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, built this electric chair, known as “Old Sparkey.”
― New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial
― New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial
