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Slayer Thompson Executed in Pennsylvania Electric Chair
BELLEFONTE, Pa. Cleveland Thompson, 36, died Monday night in the electric chair for killing Pittsburgh bartender Wallace Russell nearly a decade ago. After multiple appeals and delays, Governor Lawrence denied clemency and the Pardon Board refused commutation. Thompson was convicted in two trials of the Sept. 13, 1949, slaying during an attempted bar robbery.
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