Executed

Ronald Watson

21 years old · died January 2, 1947 · Southeast State Correctional Facility, Windsor County, Vermont

Ronald Watson was a 21-year-old Canadian farmhand. He was executed in the electric chair at Windsor State Prison in Vermont on January 2, 1947, and was told of the time only eight hours beforehand, according to a later account by John Lippman in the Valley News. A Burlington Free Press reporter wrote that he met death calmly after speaking with a Catholic priest and asking the priest to bless him.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Burlington Free Press reporter (reporters).

Source

Windsor prison's electric chair rests at Vermont Historical Society John Lippman, Valley News (via VTDigger), August 9, 2017

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