The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...
The crime and trial fueled a gruesome media circus that drove the Lindberghs to Europe—and Hauptmann to the electric chair ... Hauptmann was executed in a prison in Trenton, New Jersey.
For the indictment charges that Hauptmann alone planned and executed the kidnaping that ... whether they should doom Hauptmann to the electric chair or bring in a recommendation of life imprisonment.