Thomas J. Sullivan, a Pennsylvania State Constable, was shot and killed on July 12, 1907, after he and a fellow officer confronted two burglars in East Pittsburgh. Sullivan apprehended one of the suspects and was escorting him to the police station when the man pulled a gun and shot him.
Both men fled and were never apprehended.
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Author: Bill Lofquist
I am a sociologist and death penalty scholar at the State University of New York at Geneseo. I am also a Pittsburgh native. My present research focuses on the history of the death penalty in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pa.
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