•
Frank Abbandando and
Harry Maione, hitmen and members of
Murder, Inc., both executed in 1942. •
George Appo, 19th-century pickpocket and con artist. •
Charles Becker, NYPD Lieutenant convicted for the murder of
Herman Rosenthal and executed at Sing Sing on July 30, 1915. •
Maria Barbella, the second woman sentenced to death by electric chair. The sentence was later overruled as her attorneys argued the judge overseeing her first trial pushed jurors to convict in his instructions. After a second trial she was found not guilty and was set free in 1896. •
Robert Bierenbaum, convicted in October 2000 of having murdered his estranged wife, Gail Katz-Bierenbaum, 15 years earlier. •
Louis Buchalter, American mobster and head of
Murder, Inc. who served 18 months at Sing Sing for
grand larceny. On January 22, 1920, he returned to Sing Sing on a 30 month sentence for attempted burglary. Caldwell was pardoned by then NY Governor Odell in November 1903. •
Louis Capone and
Emanuel Weiss, members of
Murder, Inc., both executed in 1944. •
Frank Cirofici,
Harry Horowitz, Jacob Seidenshner, and Louis Rosenberg, accomplices of Charles Becker, were all executed in 1914. •
Charles Chapin, editor of
New York Evening World, convicted of the murder of his wife in 1918, popularly known as the "Rose Man of Sing Sing". •
Eva Coo, American brothel keeper, innkeeper, and speakeasy operator who was convicted of murdering a hired hand, and executed in 1935 •
Mary Frances Creighton, suspected serial killer, executed, along with Everett Applegate, in 1936. • Robert John Cronin, raped and impregnated an 11-year-old girl from
Niskayuna, New York, in 2018, serving a 24-year sentence. •
Monk Eastman, New York gangster and leader of the
Eastman Gang, was sentenced to 10 years at Sing Sing in 1904. •
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, so-called Lonely Heart Killers, were both executed in 1951. •
Albert Fish, early-20th century American serial killer, child kidnapper/rapist/mutilator, cannibal, forger, con artist and obscene letter sender, executed in 1936. •
Paul Geidel, formerly, the longest-serving prison inmate in the United States whose sentence ended with his parole, who served 68 years and 296 days in various New York state prisons. •
Martin Goldstein and
Harry Strauss, hitmen and members of
Murder, Inc., were both executed in 1941. •
Mary Jones, a 19th-century
transgender prostitute who was a center of media attention for coming to court wearing feminine attire. •
Leroy Keith, serial killer, executed in 1959. •
Fritz Julius Kuhn, German former leader of the
German American Bund, incarcerated at Sing Sing various times between 1939-1945 and deported to
Germany. •
Angelo LaMarca, convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Peter Weinberger, executed in 1958. •
James Larkin, political activist and union leader sentenced to five to ten years in Sing Sing prison for "criminal anarchy" in 1919. • John Katehis, convicted for the murder of
George Weber. •
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, head of
the Genovese crime family convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution in 1936. Was later moved to
Clinton Correctional Facility, until he was deported back to
Italy. •
Clarence Maclin, sentenced to 17 years for a robbery conviction in the mid-1990's, and after his release became a screenwriter and actor, writing and starring in the 2023
Academy Award nominated film
Sing Sing. • Michael Magnan, murdered a passenger in a taxi in 2012. •
Eddie Lee Mays, executed in 1963, became the last person executed in New York. • Joesph Pabon, murdered Eridania Rodriguez in 2009. •
Carl Panzram killer •
George C. Parker, infamous con man known for "selling" the Brooklyn Bridge. •
John Roche, serial killer and rapist, executed in 1956. •
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in 1953 for conspiring to pass secrets of the American atomic bomb project to the
Soviet Union during
World War II. •
Norman Roye, serial killer and rapist, executed in 1956. •
Hans Schmidt, executed in 1916, was the only Roman Catholic priest executed in the United States. •
Tony Sirico, actor known for his role as
Paulie Gaultieri on the critically acclaimed television series
The Sopranos, convicted of
felony weapons possession and served 20 months of his four-year sentence at Sing Sing. •
Ruth Snyder, executed along with Henry Judd Gray in 1928, Snyder's execution was illegally photographed. •
Willie Sutton, career criminal who escaped December 11, 1932. •
Joseph Valachi, member of the
American Mafia, served his first prison sentence (of approximately one year) at Sing Sing before he was 20 years old. •
Jon-Adrian Velazquez, served a 25 years to life sentence after wrongfully convicted for murder, released in 2021. •
Ferdinand Ward,
Gilded Age swindler who ran a New York City investment firm with
Ulysses S. Grant Jr., son of former
President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant, revealed to be a
Ponzi scheme that bankrupted the Grant family in 1884. •
Richard Whitney served a sentence for embezzlement at Sing Sing from 1938 until 1941. •
Frederick Charles Wood, serial killer, executed in 1963. ==See also==