March 23, 1924 - Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky

The "Mad Dog killings" were a spree of robberies and murders committed by serial killer Joseph Louis Taborsky and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Culombe, throughout Connecticut in 1950 and between 1956 and 1957. Authorities and newspapers dubbed the killings the "Mad Dog killings" due to the brutality of the murders committed; Taborsky himself was also often given the moniker "Mad Dog." Taborsky and Culombe robbed and murdered six people during the 1956–1957 spree.

Following the murders, Taborsky and Culombe were both apprehended. Both were charged with just two of the murders, convicted, and sentenced to death, and Taborsky became the last person executed in Connecticut's electric chair, as well as the final person subjected to execution in Connecticut before a nationwide moratorium halted all executions in the United States. Until the lethal injection execution of serial killer Michael Bruce Ross in 2005, Taborsky's was the last execution in Connecticut in 45 years. Culombe's death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he died in prison in 1970.

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