Posted on 03/21/2024 2:15:19 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1963, hardened killer Frederick Charles Wood, 51, became the next-to-last prisoner to be executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York.
Although he came from a respectable, law-abiding family, Wood had a terrible temper and was very experienced at homicide. The man’s murderous career makes him the perfect poster child for the death penalty.
He committed his first murder while he was in his mid-teens, poisoning a girlfriend. He was out in only a few years, however, and fell back into crime: in 1933, he committed another horrific slaying. This time his victim, also female, was a stranger. Wood reportedly beat her with an iron bar and crushed her skull, and stabbed her over 140 times.
He served seven years and was paroled in 1940. In 1942, he killed again — for the third time. Wood attacked a man, hit him with a beer bottle, stomped on his head and slashed his throat. The victim, he said, was bothering his girlfriend.....
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Bring back the electric chair or the gallows! Let the state’s people decide if they want a death penalty. Then expand it to include molestation of children, rape, drug dealing, kidnapping.
After sentencing, put the criminal on a fast track to execution limiting the number of appeals. Have the sentence carried out in 60 days.
Warehousing these rats feeding them and providing medical care, clothing entertainment, etc. is just plain stupid. Make criminals work ten hours a day!
I commend his cheerful attitude toward a quick departure
LOL, his last name is “Wood”.
On this day in 1556, martyr Thomas Cranmer was burned at the stake.
who knew NY has always been a woke, soft-on-crime sh**hole?
I was about to post the exact same sentiment, but you said it first.
Unreal that it’s been insane for that long!
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