Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein ( – June 12, 1941) was a member of a gang of
hitmen, operating out of
Brooklyn, New York in the 1930s, known as
Murder, Inc.
Born Meyer Goldstein, Goldstein grew up in
East New York, Brooklyn, New York, and initially led the crime syndicate Murder, Inc. together with
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles. Goldstein later committed murders under the orders of
Lepke Buchalter
Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke or Lepke Buchalter, (February 6, 1897March 4, 1944) was an American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one of the premier labor racketeers in New York Cit ...
and
Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia.
Around midnight on June 12, 1941, Goldstein and
Harry Strauss were executed by
electric chair
An electric chair is a device used to execute an individual by electrocution. When used, the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg. This execution method, ...
at
Sing Sing
Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. It is about north o ...
prison.
See also
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Capital punishment in New York (state)
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Capital punishment in the United States
In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 ...
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List of people executed in New York
This list of people executed in New York gives the names of some of the people executed in New York, both before and after statehood in the United States (including as New Amsterdam), as well as the person's date of execution, method of executio ...
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1900s births
1941 deaths
20th-century executions by New York (state)
20th-century executions of American people
Criminals from Brooklyn
Executed gangsters
Executed people from New York (state)
Jewish American gangsters
Mafia hitmen
Murder, Inc.
People executed by New York (state) by electric chair
People executed for murder
People from East New York, Brooklyn
20th-century American Jews
Inmates of Sing Sing
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