Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity
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punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime
books, crime films and crime studies. Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
Thomas E. Dewey built a political career around hounding the
Jewish gangster Lepke. His execution in 1944 — the first of a
major underworld figure – riveted the attention of a nation and
was in doubt up to the last minute. by Allan May It was
Thursday, March 2, 1944, and time was running out in Sing Sing
prison for Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and four of his henchmen who
were facing execution with him. Condemned to the electric chair
with Lepke were Emmanuel "Mendy" Weiss and Louis Capone, for the
murder of candy storeowner Joseph Rosen; and Joseph Palmer and
Vincent Sallami, for the murder of Brooklyn detective Joseph
Miccio. From the pre-execution chamber that the underworld
called the "Dance Hall," Lepke seemed confident that the legal
maneuverings of his attorney, J. Bertram