Death chair installed
New Jersey Mirror, 4 Dec 1907 The death chair has been installed at the State Prison and an Italian, convicted of murder in Somerset county, will be the first to thus pay the penalty for his crime in New Jersey. Giovanni's execution will be followed within the ensuing fortnight by three others, two of the murderers now awaiting electrocution being the negroes who so foully slew the defenceless wife and servant of an aged Camden county farmer while the husbands of the two victims were trying to save what they could from the burning barn which the murderers had previously fired. For such brutes the electric chair offers almost too merciful an agency through which the world is to be rid of them.