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Title: Execution Record of Last Person Hung at Folsom Prison
Creator: Williamson, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981/03/10
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: Record of last execution by hanging in Folsom Prison. The prisoner was Charles McGuire who had been convicted of first degree murder and was hanged on Dec. 3, 1937. The record notes the passage of the new law specifying execution to be by lethal gas.
Type: image
Identifier: 30B82C19-B4D6-43D0-A97D-095224135311
1983/001/SBPM06577a
Subject: Folsom Prison
Represa, Ca
Sacramento County
McGuire, Charles

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