Table of Contents
Introduction 7
1 Grover Cleveland: President, Politician, and Hangman 9
2 Roxalana Druse: New York's Last Woman to Hang 18
3 Harry Carleton, John Greenwall, and the End of New York's Rope 28
4 William Kemmler: The First Man Ever to be Legally Electrocuted 38
5 Carlyle Harris and Robert Buchanan: Morphine Murderers 48
6 Martha Place: The First Woman in the Electric Chair 58
7 The Assassination of President William McKinley 67
8 Chester Gillette: An American Tragedy 77
9 Oreste Shillitoni: Escape from the Death House 86
10 Gerald Chapman: America's First Public Enemy Number One 96
11 The Castellammarese War 106
12 Michael Malloy: The Man Who Would Not Die 116
13 Murder Incorporated 125
14 The Lonely Hearts Killers 136
15 Willie Sutton: King of the Bank Robbers 144
16 Eddie Lee Mays: New York's Last Execution 151
Bibliography 159
