This week in 1938

March 15th, 2015 by admin

“I did not merit the electric chair.”

— Lester Brockelhurst, convicted of murder, electric chair, Arkansas.
Executed March 18, 1938

Brockelhurst, a former Sunday school teacher, confessed to killing three men across eighteen states after he and a female companion embarked on a robbery spree.

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