This week in 1957
February 9th, 2015 by admin
“We might as well have gone in there six years ago.”
— Louis Smith (aka Gene E. Garland) , convicted of murder, gas chamber, California.
Executed February 8, 1957
Smith, along with accomplice John Allen, was convicted of killing inmate/ barber Willard Burton while all three were serving life sentences in Folsom Prison. The evening before their execution, Allen and Smith played pinochle for hours with a guard.
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