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  2. List of people executed in New Jersey - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Capital punishment in New Jersey - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Howard Unruh - Wikipedia

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    Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer [note 1] who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, on September 6, 1949 [5] in an incident that became known as the Walk of Death.

  5. Ralph Hudson - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Old Smokey - Wikipedia

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    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] Hauptmann was executed on ...

  7. Lists of people executed in the United States - Wikipedia

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  8. List of people executed by the United States federal government

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    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 ...

  9. Morristown Green - Wikipedia

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    Around the year 1000, the Morristown area was inhabited by Munsee Lenape people. Circa 1500, Morris County was part of the Lenapehoking, i.e., modern-day New Jersey. [3] Arrowheads found in Munsee encampments throughout the Washington Valley suggest that they hunted wolf, elk, and wild turkey for game and likely ate mussels from the Whippany ...