By the Associated Press
Raleigh, March 21—Warden Sam Busbee of the State prison announced today he appointed Joe Stone of Robeson county, a guard at the prison, as temporary executioner of the State prison.
Stone received his appointment under a bill ratified by the 1925 General Assembly creating the position of State executioner and providing for the payment of $25 to the man holding the post for every person electrocuted. His duty will be to turn the switch sending the death-dealing current into the prisoner’s body.
Stone will officiate next Thursday for the first time when Albert Harlee, also of Robeson county, is scheduled to die for murder.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 21, 1925
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