Henry Seadlund

Henry Seadlund (died July 14, 1938) was a 27-year old woodsman, executed by the United States Federal Government in Illinois for kidnapping.

He and his accomplice, James Gray, kidnapped Charles Ross, a wealthy greeting card manufacturer. After receiving a $50,000 ransom from Ross' wife, Seadlund killed Ross and Gray.

Seadlund was not tried for murder by the state of Illinois, but for kidnapping by the Federal Court. Because at this time kidnapping was a federal capital offense he received death sentence and was put to death by electric chair in Joliet Prison (Cook County, Illinois).

Seadlund was the seventh federal inmate executed under administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and, as of 2008, last person executed in Illinois on federal warrant.

ee also

* Capital punishment by the United States federal government
* Arthur Gooch

References

* [http://www.deathrowspeaks.info/federal/federaldeathpenalty.html#Method Federal Death Penalty]
* [http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/DATA%20FEDERAL.htm List of pre-Furman federal executions]
* [http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/ILLINOIS.htm List of pre-Furman Illinois executions]