Lepke Buchalter
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Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke, Lepke Buchalter or Judge Louie,, was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one o
Buchalter in 1939
Buchalter during his 1941 sentencing in New York for murder
Cover of the first issue of Crime Does Not Pay (Lev Gleason Publications, July 1942), featuring the story of "Killer Lepke - alias Louis Buchalter"
Sing Sing
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Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum-security prison for men operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York, United Sta
Lepke Buchalter
…be executed after being convicted of murder. Buchalter was executed using the infamous "Old Sparky" electric chair after being sent "up the river" to Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Buchalter was born on February 6, 1897, into a large Ashkenazi Jewish family on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His parents emigrated separately…
Sing Sing
State Prison at Sing Sing, New York, an 1855 engraving
Warden T. M. Osborne
Aerial view of Sing Sing, 1937