[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In the Dumbbell Murder Case, the basis for the movie Double Indemnity, the murderers were executed ten months after the crime. The case was notable also for the fact that the female murderer's execution was secretly photographed by a New York Daily News reporter who witnessed the murders, and featured on the front page of the paper the next day. The monicker Dumbbell refers to the public appraisal of the murderers, and not the instrument used to kill the victim.

Ten months after garretting her husband.

[rlmorel]

Garroted the guy. Egad. Wonder what that was all about.

“YA WON’T FORGET TO PUT YOUR DRINK DOWN ON THE COASTER AGAIN NOW, WILL YA?”

[rlmorel]

It’s interesting, there was a lot of that thing going on back then, people trying to take pictures of executions and sell them for money.

Well, today we got the Internets.

[hanamizu]

In the Dumbbell Murder Case, the basis for the movie Double Indemnity, the murderers were executed ten months after the crime.

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The would-be assassin of FDR, Guiseppi Zangara, who missed FDR but killed the mayor of Chicago was executed five weeks after his crime. This was in 1933, still within living memory of the very old amongst us.

The idea that murderers sentenced to death two decades ago still have appeals is obscene.