New York State Department of Correction Execution Files

Alphabetical.

This series consists of 250 files for incarcerated individuals executed for capital crimes. These are not complete case files but administrative files pertinent to their actual executions. Each file typically contains identifying documents; correspondence; blotter records; notices of stays and respites of execution; and copies of court orders and other legal documents.

Files may also contain newspaper clippings about the criminal offense, trial, and subsequent execution and carbon copies of the incarcerated individual's social and criminal history narratives. Almost all case files document executions carried out by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison; scattered files relate to those who were executed in other states.

B0145 Case Files of Incarcerated Individuals Sentenced to Electrocution, generally contains more detailed information for some of the same incarcerated individuals found in this series. More, however, are represented in this series.

These records were created for administrative purposes by the Commissioner's Office of the Department of Correction.

Summary information on adult incarcerated individuals is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.