On this day: March 30

  1. 1908
    Prison Auburn Prison · Chester Gillette

    After the Court of Appeals upheld the verdict and Governor Charles Evans Hughes refused clemency, Gillette was executed in the electric chair here.

  2. 1985
    Victim Derek Haysom · Haysom murders

    A retired Canadian steel executive, born in South Africa, who had led two Nova Scotia crown corporations.

  3. 1985
    Victim Nancy Haysom · Haysom murders

    An artist.