Anna Antonio

A.K.A.: "Little Anna"
Classification: Murderer

Characteristics: Parricide - Murder for hire

Number of victims: 1

Date of murder: March 27, 1932

Date of arrest: May 5, 1932

Date of birth: 1906

Victim profile: Salvatore Antonio, 30 (her husband)

Method of murder: Shooting - Stabbing with knife

Location: Albany, New York, USA

Status: Executed by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison on August 9, 1934

"Little Anna" was a 28 years old italian woman with thick, long dark hair. She was very slight build.

She had hired a killer to take care of her husband, and was electrocuted on August 9, 1934 in the Sing Sing electric chair in New York.

At the time of execution Anna's frail body weighted only 85 pounds. Her head was partially shaved to prepare for electrode attachment.

The guards came for Anna at 11:00 p.m. She stood trembling in the outer corridor for ten minutes before she was allowed to proceed. She walked to the chair unassisted although nervous wearing a tight blue dress with bits of white triming on the front and across the front. She had made the dress herself. She wore one dark stocking on her left leg as she was required to keep her right leg bare for the electrode.

She sat in the chair calmly at 11:12 p.m. and repeated the Catholic prayer. Since she was so small - and her dress so tight - they had to slide the side of her dress all the way up so they could spread her legs to fit into the ancle stocks of the electric chair.

While she sat in the chair and the strap was completed, her bare right leg was held out to the side quite exposed. Her dress covered her crotch area and left leg. Anna's head hung down, her chin touched the top of her chest.

There was absolute quiet in the chamber as the deadly current sputtered and crackled.

Anna froze in the chair during the 3 jolts of electricity she was given, before she was finally pronounced dead at 11:16 p.m.

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