CRIME HISTORY - Head of Murder, Inc.executed at Sing Sing

On this day, March 4, in 1944, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter — the head of Murder, Inc. — was executed in New York. He is the only major mob boss to be executed in the United States.

Murder, Inc. was a hit squad established at the formation of the national crime syndicate. The unit, run out of a Brooklyn candy store, was responsible for 400 to 800 murders.