A Condemned Man & Edwin Davis, His Executioner


Edwin Davis was the electro-executioner (officically: State Electrician) for the state of New York from 1890 to 1914. Davis was a short, wiry man with John Lennon glasses and a “drooping mustache”:

from the book, Until You Are Dead... by Frederick Drimmer

from the book, Until You Are Dead… by Frederick Drimmer