Antonio Paretti

Anthony Paretti, of 23 Skill­man Av, Brook­lyn, was sen­tenced to Sing Sing death house for his part in the slay­ing of Nicholas Ter­ra­nova and Charles Ubri­aco in 1916. Paretti orig­i­nally fled to Italy to escape cap­ture. He returned to New York in March, 1926, think­ing that most of the wit­nesses against him would be gone. How­ever, he was tried and con­victed of mur­der in the first degree.

His brother Aniel­lio Paretti, who had been released from Sing Sing in July 1923, came to visit sev­eral times. On the six weeks lead­ing up to his exe­cu­tion, War­den Lawes ordered the prison and river front guarded 24 hours a day, rather than the usual 16 hours. On Feb­ru­ary 9^th, 1927 Paretti was exam­ined, declared sane and fit for exe­cu­tion. He was reported to be exert­ing pow­er­ful pres­sure upon politi­cians to get his sen­tence com­muted to life impris­on­ment. On the day of exe­cu­tion, the usual elec­tro­car­dio­gram was not given due to lack of arrange­ments. He was elec­tro­cuted under the juris­dic­tion of the state of New York on 17^th Feb­ru­ary, 1927 at the age of 35. One of the last men to visit Paretti before his death was called Vito Genovese.