Legal Executions in New Jersey

A Comprehensive Registry, 1691-1963

• Author(s): Daniel Allen Hearn,
• Publisher: McFarland
• Pages: 456
• ISBN_10: 0786421010
  ISBN_13: 9780786421015
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) , Law / General , Social Science / Criminology , Social Science / Penology , Social Science / Death & Dying ,

Description:... Third in a series, this book chronicles the use of the death penalty by civil and military authorities in what is now the state of New Jersey. While the entire number of legal executions that took place in New Jersey will probably never be known, this book covers all documented executions conducted in or by the state from 1691 through 1963 (the last year any executions were carried out). Each entry includes the executed's name, age, gender, and race, a detailed account of the crime for which he or she was sentenced to death and information on the place and method of execution.