On this date in 1944... Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, longtime New York City racketeer and reputed overseer of the underworld'...

(Wikipedia). Call it whatever you want. Old Sparky, Old Smokey, Sizzlin’ Sally or Gruesome Gertie, the electric chair has alway...

Sing Sing Warden Lewis Lawes had no doubt on the evening of January 5, 1939: He had just presided over the electric-chair-execution of an in...