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Robert Greene Elliott (January 27, 1874 – October 10, 1939) [1] was the New York State Electrician (i.e., executioner) – and for those neighboring states that used the electric chair, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts – during the period 1926–1939.
State electrician Robert G. Elliott, who executed nearly 400 inmates in six states, including New York, developed an electrocution technique that came to be known as the "Elliott method" and was subsequently used by all of his successors in Sing Sing.
Since Currier had become state executioner for Massachusetts and Elliott had quit his job at Auburn for some time, Davis selected Hulbert as his new assistant and trained him to perform executions as well. [5] The electric chair in Auburn State Prison: Hulbert was the last state executioner to carry out an execution in this chair
Robert B. Elliott (1842–1884), African-American member of congress from South Carolina; Robert G. Elliott (1874–1939), American executioner based in New York; Robert Elliott (Victorian politician) (1886–1950), Australian senator; Robert Ellsworth Elliott (1901–after 1959), Canadian politician
New York State Electrician was a euphemistic title given to the chief executioner of the State of New York during the use of the electric chair.The position existed from 1890 until the state's last execution in 1963, although the final State Electrician, Dow Hover, remained on call for any future executions until the United States Supreme Court briefly abolished capital punishment with its ...
Her executioner Robert G. Elliott remarked that she seemed particularly "composed and fearless." [2] Her parting words to her six-year-old son, Donnie were "I am going to die, my boy, but I am not afraid. Be a good boy and don't be afraid." [2] Donnie was heard to remark, "I'll bet my mom would make an awful nice angel." Dague was executed the ...
In the late 1870s to early 1880s, the spread of arc lighting, a type of outdoor street lighting that required high voltages in the range of 3000–6000 volts, was followed by one story after another in newspapers about how the high voltages used were killing people, usually unwary linemen; it was a strange new phenomenon that seemed to instantaneously strike a victim dead without leaving a ...
Fellow Galleanists retaliated violently over the next several years in revenge, placing bombs at the residences of trial participants, including a juror who had served in the Dedham trial, a prosecution witness, the official executioner, Robert G. Elliott, and Judge Thayer. On September 27, 1932, a dynamite-filled package bomb destroyed Thayer ...