Executed
Antonio Viandante
Antonio Viandante worked as a shoe repairman in Manlius, New York, and a newspaper account notes that he had once been a police sergeant in Italy. He was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on the night of April 10, 1924, and journalist Boyden Sparks, present as a witness, described the walk to the death house and the final moments in the chamber. The same account reports that he had tried to hang himself in his cell the night before.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Boyden Sparks, journalist invited as a witness (witnesses).