A prisoner sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, New York, refused to permit the prison surgeon to perform an emergency operation for acute appendicitis to prolong his life until he wan executed on April 1. The surgeon and nurses were waiting when Ross Caccamlse. 24, the condemned man. rose from the stretcher and said, "I won’t go through with it.” The physicians fear a fatal attack at any time, if he is not operated on.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 11
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