'Keep him away!'

November 2018 issue contents
Features

'Keep him away!'

'He's coming to take me to the CHAIR!'
 

By Thomas Hunt

Carbone

One of the more celebrated murder investigations of legendary New York Police Department Detective Joseph Petrosino involved his effort to save the life of a man condemned to die in the electric chair. While Petrosino succeeded in correcting a miscarriage of justice and establishing the innocence of the convicted murderer by locating and arresting the actual guilty party, whether he can be said to have saved a “life” depends largely on one’s point of view...

Eleven pages including twelve images and a page and a half of notes.

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