Louis Capone
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Louis Capone (1896 - March 4, 1944) was a New York organized crime figure and member of Murder Inc. He was not related to Al Capone.
Capone was a member of a murder-for-hire gang made up of street-level Jewish and Italian-American gangsters working out of Brooklyn, New York during the 1930s. This gang, who came to be known in the news media as Murder, Inc., carried out gangland murders in the New York City area and elsewhere, under the direction of Louis Buchalter and Albert Anastasia.
In Brooklyn in late 1941, Buchalter, Weiss and Capone were tried, found guilty and sentenced to death for the 1936 murder of Joseph Rosen, a potential witness whom Buchalter wanted to "silence." On the night of Saturday, March 4, 1944, Louis Capone was executed for his part in this murder, in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison. He was immediately followed in death by fellow henchman Weiss, and their boss, Buchalter, who also met their end that night in the same electric chair.
Capone was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, New York City, USA.
He was portrayed in the 1960 film Murder Inc. by Lou Polan.
