Executed
George Dessy
George Dessy was hanged at Carmel, in Putnam County, New York, in 1844, in an execution watched by a large crowd. The New-York Daily Tribune gives his age as 15, while The Liberator, citing the Tribune, gives it as 18. The Tribune reports that he was taken from the jail in white with a rope around his neck, seated on a platform before about 3,000 people, then led into a temporary enclosure and hanged while clergymen addressed him. The Tribune also reports that state law called for private executions and that the crowd was fighting and rioting nearby. His sister was waiting with a wagon to take his body away.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: New-York Tribune (reporters).