Burlington County Prison Museum Association 

From the founding of the county in 1694 until 1906, when executions were moved to Trenton, 43 people that we know of were legally executed in Burlington County. (We do not as yet have any record of anyone being “lynched”, that is, hanged by an angry mob for a perceived wrongdoing.) Their crimes were murder, burglary, horse theft, rape, treason, home invasion
and highway robbery, but only murder after 1786.  All but nine were executed before the Burlington County Prison was built in Mount Holly in 1811. 
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Of the nine who were executed after the prison was built in 1811, two were inmates in the jail when sentenced, but were executed on off-site: Elizabeth Freeman, who slit her husband’s throat in 1831 and Joel Clough, who stabbed
his landlady’s daughter in 1833. The other seven were led from the dungeon out into the jail yard to be executed.
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All executions before 1906 were by hanging.  The last two people sentenced to death in Burlington County, Giovanna Iraca in
1918 and Louis Lively in 1922, were executed in Trenton by electrocution. We have written about some those executed in our newsletters over the years. Look on our newsletter archive under the “Resources” tab and type “execution” or the name you are looking for in the search box. The following is a list of all people sentenced to death in Burlington County who were executed. (Those who were sentenced to death but who received a reprieve are not included.)