Condemned
How New York evaluated 34 gruesome means of execution before settling on electricity (The Condemned, epilogue)
From hanging to hari-kari, the list went into gruesome detail.
Child bride and her lover arrange murder of Syracuse businessman in 1933 (The Condemned, Episode 5)
Three were involved in the hit, but only one was sent to the electric chair.
The Condemned: 3 brothers executed in less than 15 minutes at Dannemora’s electric chair in 1903
Just 26 New Yorkers died at Clinton State Prison's electric chair. Three of them were brothers who died within 15 minutes of each other in 1903.
Itinerant lumberjack kills Syracuse woman, heads to the chair in 1938 (The Condemned, Episode 4)
The desperation that led him to murder earned him just $2.35.
Game night with the guys ends in murder for Syracuse man in 1928 (The Condemned, Episode 3)
A confrontation between rivals ends in death for one and sends the other to the electric chair.
The Condemned: How a drunken saloon boast led to the invention of the electric chair
The story of how the death of a Buffalo man from electricity gave a dentist an idea that changed American capital punishment.
Infamous criminal kills beloved cop in downtown Syracuse in 1893 (The Condemned, Episode 2)
He was one of the first to be executed by electricity in Auburn, N.Y.
Jealous husband kills two in Manlius, is sent to the electric chair in 1924 (The Condemned, Episode 1)
The first episode in our six-part series about capital punishment in Upstate NY.
The Condemned Podcast: All episodes, videos in one place; plus how to subscribe
The true-crime podcast will tell the stories of five men, each sent down “the last mile” to be executed in a machine that was invented in Upstate New York.
The Condemned: Witnesses gather at Sing Sing prison for the execution of a Manlius shoe repairman in 1924
A reporter responds to a "grisly" invitation to attend the execution of a Manlius murderer.
The Condemned: Meet Richard Shanahan, the Syracuse lawyer who kept many of his clients out of the electric chair
Defense attorney Richard Shanahan appeared in many of the most sensational trials on Syracuse during the early 20th sentury.
The Condemned: The first use of the electric chair left many of its witnesses horrified in 1890
Designed to be more humane than hanging, the first use of the electric chair, at Auburn Prison on Aug. 6, 1890, was described by the Syracuse Standard as "scientific butchery."
'The Condemned’: Upstate NY invention, the electric chair, led new age of capital punishment (video)
The Condemned, a new podcast by syracuse.com, launches June 1.
1887: The botched hanging of Roxalana Druse helped open the way for the electric chair
The hanging of Roxalana Druse in 1887 was the last time a woman was hanged in New York State.
1924-1929: Meet Syracuse’s ‘Death Juror,’ the farmer who helped send two men to the electric chair
Incredibly, Arthur Poyle, of Jordan, served on two capital punishment trials as a juror in less than six years.