On this date in 1929, John Fabri — or Giovanni Fabri, as you’d call him in his native Italy — died in Sing Sing prison’s electric chair.

This case is the subject of an episode from the well-producedd Syracuse.com miniseries The Condemned. Enjoy it here; the entire series is here.

Thanks to @kilamdee for the tip on this resource.

On this day..

• 2014: Zhou Youping, serial kinkster
• 1941: Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, the first martyr of Free France
• 1741: John Ury, schoolmaster
• 1354: Fra Moriale, condottiero entrepreneur
• 1783: William Wynne Ryland, court engraver
• 1865: Gerardo Barrios, Salvadoran statesman
• 2007: John Joe "Ash" Amador
• 1890: Otto Leuth
• 1541: Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese crusader in Ethiopia
• 1938: Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist leader
• 1906: Zinaida Konoplyannikov, assassin
• 1966: Sayyid Qutb