Albert T. Patrick

He was charged with conspiring to murder Rice on 24 September 1900, convicted on 26 March 1902 and sentenced to be electrocuted.

His appeals of the conviction – and his filing of a formal complaint against the practice of solitary confinement – delayed the execution of the sentence.

[2] In 1906, Governor of New York Frank W. Higgins commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.

[3] Doubts about the evidence caused the Governor John Alden Dix to pardon him in 1912.

[6] It was said that the conduct of the case during the 12 years between being charged and being pardoned cost Patrick and his friends $162,000.