Original sentence: Also convicted and sentenced to death for the same crime were two of Buchalter's lieutenants who had participated in the planning and carrying out of the Rosen murder, Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, and Louis Capone (no relation to Al Capone).He is the only major mob boss to have been killed by state or federal authorities
Edited sentence: Also convicted and sentenced to death for the same crime were two of Buchalter's lieutenants who had participated in the planning and carrying out of the Rosen murder, Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, and Louis Capone (no relation to Al).As many as a hundred corpses have been attributed to Lepke.Capital punishment in the United States.He is the only major mob boss to have been executed by state or federal authorities.List of individuals executed in New York.Louis "Lepke" Buchalter from Ron Arons' lecture "The Jews of Sing Sing".Robert Lowell's poetry collection Life Studies (1959) contains "Memories of West Street and Lepke", supposedly recording the poet seeing Lepke in prison.Spartacus Educational: Louis Lepke.The Last Days of Lepke Buchalter by Allan May