Oscar Comery

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Oscar Comery was hanged in Concord, New Hampshire at 12:31 a.m. at the New Hampshire State Prison. According to the Concord Evening Monitor, February 18, 1916, Oscar J. Comery was convicted of murdering his wife. He confessed to killing his wife by poisoning her with strychnine by replacing the quinine his wife normally took with the poison. An autopsy was performed and strychnine was determined to be the cause of death.

Mr. Comery killed his wife on November 29, 1914, was arrested on January 1, 1915, brought to trial on February 8, 1915, where he "pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree with the expectation that the court would sentence him to life imprisonment" (Concord Evening Monitor).

Oscar Comery was one of only three people executed by the State of New Hampshire in the 20th century.