Floyd Hewitt portrait   Save
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
Description: Floyd Hewitt, of Ashtabula County, electrocuted January 6, 1928, for the Murders of Mrs. Fred Brown and 5 year old son Frederick, Jefferson, Ohio. He was a white male, seventeen years old and his occupation is not listed. He was the youngest person in the country to be executed. He was said to be of low intelligence and became confused easily. He is buried in the Ohio State Prison Cemetery in Lucasville, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08184
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment--Ohio; Portrait photography
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)