March 23, 1924 - Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky
What distinguishes Taborsky's case is less the body count than the trajectory: a first brush with the law that ended in near-execution, followed by release, and then a second spree of robberies and killings across Connecticut that left six people dead. He became the last person executed in Connecticut's electric chair, a distinction that places him at a specific hinge point in the state's — and ultimately the nation's — history of capital punishment.
From Wikipedia
The "Mad Dog killings" were a spree of robberies and murders committed by serial killer Joseph Louis Taborsky and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Culombe, throughout Connecticut in 1950 and between 1956 and 1957. Authorities and newspapers dubbed the killings the "Mad Dog killings" due to the brutality of the murders committed; Taborsky himself was also often given the moniker "Mad Dog." Taborsky and Culombe robbed and murdered six people during the 1956–1957 spree. Taborsky and Culombe also robbed, shot, and beat a number of other victims who survived the "Mad Dog" crime spree. The murders led to Connecticut liquor stores implementing modified hours of operation, as Taborsky and Culombe frequently targeted liquor stores.
Following the murders, Taborsky and Culombe were both apprehended. Both were charged with just two of the murders, convicted, and sentenced to death, and Taborsky became the last person executed in Connecticut's electric chair, as well as the final person subjected to execution in Connecticut before a nationwide moratorium halted all executions in the United States. Until the lethal injection execution of serial killer Michael Bruce Ross in 2005, Taborsky's was the last execution in Connecticut in 45 years. Culombe's death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he died in prison in 1970.
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