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Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder.
The chair at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton was used in the electrocution of 159 men for capital punishment in New Jersey, starting with Saverio DiGiovanni on December 11, 1907, [2] [3]: 296 and ending with Ralph Hudson on January 22, 1963, [4] which also was the final execution carried out in New Jersey. [5]
To this date, Ralph Hudson's 1963 electrocution is the last execution in New Jersey's state history. [4] In 2006, New Jersey lawmakers drafted a moratorium on executions while a task force studied the fairness and cost of the death sentence. New Jersey had eight people on Death Row at the time. [5] On December 10, 2007, the New Jersey Senate ...
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Ralph James Hudson (c. 1920 – January 22, 1963) was the last person to be executed by New Jersey. A native of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Hudson was tried and convicted of stabbing his 49-year-old estranged wife Myrtle Hudson to death as she worked in an Atlantic City, New Jersey, restaurant. [1] Hudson turned down a plea deal for second ...
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lethal injection: C California: 17 January 2006 [74] Clarence Ray Allen: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Colorado: 13 October 1997 [75] Gary Lee Davis: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Connecticut: 13 May 2005 [76] Michael Bruce Ross: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Delaware: 20 April 2012 [77] Shannon M. Johnson: aggravated ...