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The End of Its Rope: New Hampshire's Last Execution

The End of Its Rope: New Hampshire's Last Execution

Allen, David Story

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CriminologyRegional: New EnglandTrue Crime

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ISBN10: 1963714393
ISBN13: 9781963714395
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publisher
Pages: 176
Language: English
In 1939, New Hampshire did something it has never repeated: it hanged a murderer. The impact of the man's crimes washed into Massachusetts, where acrimony that the Bay State had freed the convict drove a push for removal of a veteran judge from the bench. The End of Its Rope chronicles the last hanging performed in the Granite State, the crimes that led to it, and the motivations that led a member of the bar to set these events in motion.

What was so distinct about Howard Long's crimes that they prompted this sentence and had people applying to witness the execution? New Hampshire had the death penalty on the books for decades afterward, but never applied it. The state abolished capital punishment was abolished in 2019, but did nothing as heinous as Long's acts occur there following his hanging? What was set in motion on a farm in Belmont, Massachusetts and led to some sordid acts on two lonely backroads, changed three families forever and caused the Granite State to do something extraordinary. Through interviews, state archives, daily accounts of investigations, a trial and appeals, the author traces a meandering trail that began in a home for wayward women in Connecticut and ended with a trap door being released on a July night in 1939.

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