Giuseppe Zangara 1900 – 1933

Biography

Giuseppe Zangara was born on September 7, 1900, in Ferruzzano, a small village in southern Italy. Little is recorded of his early life, but his story would become one marked by tragedy and violence that would ultimately end in his execution.

On March 20, 1933, Zangara was put to death by electrocution at Union Correctional Institution in Florida. He was convicted of murder, a crime that had brought him into the criminal justice system and sealed his fate. His execution came at a time when capital punishment was carried out swiftly and without the lengthy appeals processes that would later become standard practice.

Following his death, Zangara was laid to rest at Florida State Prison Cemetery in Union County, where he remains interred. His grave serves as a final resting place, marking the end of a life that had become defined by criminal conviction and legal consequence. Though the details of his crime have faded from popular memory, Zangara’s name endures in the historical record of Florida’s past.