Capital punishment in Massachusetts was a legal form of punishment from 1620 to 1982 when it was declared unconstitutional. The last executions were gangsters Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson on the 8th/9th of May 1947 for the murder of Robert Williams, a former U.S. Marine. Both were executed via Electric Chair.
The first recorded execution in Massachusetts was John Billington. He was executed by hanging on the September 30, 1630 in Plymouth for murder.
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