When the time came for prison officers to transport Rudd from death row to the execution chamber he resisted. Officers used pepper gas to control Rudd and he gave no further trouble. Rudd kept his promise to refuse his last meal. (15 November 2001)
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Friday 18th of May 1928 (x) — The home of New York State Electrician aka executioner Robert Elliott is bombed by persons unknown. The bombing was presumed to be a revenge for the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti.