Massachusetts' Electric Chair
1901 - 1947

65 Executions

Just after Midnight on August 23, 1927 three men were electrocuted at the Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown by the hand of Robert G. Elliott, Executioner.  Celestine Madieros, a gangster, went first followed by Nicola Sacco, a cobbler and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler. The last 2 were found guilty of the double murder of F. A. Parmenter, Paymaster and Alesandro Bernadelli, Guard in a robbery at a South Braintree, Massachusetts Shoe Factory in which $15,000 was taken and never recovered. Fred Leuchter|
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