1. Capital Punishment
The electric chair was first used on August 6, 1890, to execute William Kemmler of Buffalo, New York. ... New York later reinstated the death penalty law with death by lethal injection. ... Grasso had admitted to killing two elderly people over a six-month period of time in Oklahoma and in New York City. ... On July 3, 1991, Grasso robbed and strangled Leslie Holtz of New York City. ... The New York court sentenced him to 20 years to life and th...
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