Courthouse Square, Greensburg

Pennsylvania · USA · Execution site

The office building stands on the site of the old county jail, where hangings were carried out. In 1984 dispatchers saw the lower half of a hanging man on.

The Courthouse Square office building in Greensburg, Pennsylvania was built on the site of the old county jail, which was in use from the early 1900s until the 1960s. Executions by hanging were carried out there in the early years.

The account that keeps the building on record is from 1984 and it has an unusual witness.

Staff in what was then the 911 dispatch centre saw, on a video security monitor, the transparent image of the lower part of a man hanging. The camera was pointed along a hallway.

A security camera is about as neutral an observer as exists, and a dispatch centre is staffed by people whose entire job is to watch monitors and report accurately what they see on them. Whatever was on that screen, it was seen by people trained not to embellish.

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