Executed
Chester Gillette
Chester Gillette was put to death in the electric chair at Auburn prison in New York on March 29, 1908, according to New York state prison officials. The day before, he wrote a letter to his brother Paul, which the prison officials made public, asking him to look after their mother and father, to be worthy of his sisters, and to follow Christ. In the letter he gave his brother keepsakes, wrote that he did not fear death, and said he would have liked to live.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: New York state prison officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.