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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 ...
At least 361 people have been officially executed in New Jersey (including the pre-Revolution Colony of New Jersey) starting with the execution of a slave named Tom for rape in 1690 and ending with the execution of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. The last execution for a crime other than murder was of Andrew Clark in 1872 for rape.
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 ...
Image credits: history_memes_balll I have to admit that history was never my favorite subject in school. For some reason, my teachers just could not convince me that it was relevant to my life at all.
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Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
People executed by New Jersey (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to death by New Jersey" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Paterson, New Jersey with the textile mills on the right, c. 1906. Paterson's strike was part of a series of industrial strikes in the garment and textile industries of the American East from 1909 to 1913. The participants of these strikes were largely immigrant factory workers from southern and eastern Europe.