Title	Ray Freeman portrait
Subject	Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections Capital punishment--Ohio--History Electrocution Death row Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
Time Period	1930s
Place	Jackson County (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio) Columbus (Ohio)
Description	The east annex of the Ohio Penitentiary, where death row and the execution chamber were located, displayed photographs of hundreds of prisoners who were condemned to death throughout the state’s history. This portrait of Ray Freeman of Jackson County, OH is one of them. Freeman was convicted along with Herbert Thacker, another Jackson County resident, for the murder-robbery of 74-year-old Stephen Huntley. The caption at the bottom of the photograph reads: “No. 185, Ray Freeman of Jackson County, Electrocuted November 22, 1934, for the Murder of Stephen Huntley.” Altogether there were 315 people who were electrocuted at the Ohio Penitentiary between 1897 and 1963. Ray Freeman was the 185th prisoner to be executed in this manner. He was 25-years-old when he died.
Date of Original	1934
Collection	Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
Source	State Archives Series 1000 AV; Box 3, No. 185
Format	Picture Mounted on Board
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	AL08244.tif
Image Height	2468
Image Width	2468
File Size	27508264 Bytes
Date created	2011-08-06

Ray Freeman portrait

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