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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 ...
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He was the final person executed in New Jersey's history. [14] [15] James Koedatich (1948–present), was sentenced to death for raping and murdering two women in two months in late 1982. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment [16] Peter Kudzinowski (1903–1929), serial killer who killed a man and two children. He was executed in 1929.
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...
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.
The old Essex County Jail is located in the University Heights section of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.The jail is Essex County's oldest public building and a national landmark of value for its architectural and social history.