In the other 1950s , Donald Snyder was help sentence in New York ’s Green Haven Correctional Facility for auto stealing . He scat , but police were almost immediately on his trail . Snyder decided he would take a hostage that he could use to dicker his way out of move back to jail , and he kidnap a 9 - year - old young lady .
In a draw , police surrounded Snyder and fired at him , and the outlaw knife his hostage in the abdomen , killing her . He was recapture , convict of murder and broadcast to Sing Sing to await capital punishment by the electric chair .
Snyder know he would n’t be able to escape from Sing Sing ’s death row , so he came up with a fresh architectural plan : He would eat up his style out of execution .
He fancy that if he was too fat to squeeze into the electric president , the state could n’t perform him and they ’d have to commute his sentence to life in prison .
Diet Plan
He began to eat everything he could get his hand on , and balloon from 150 Lebanese pound to more than 300 . The day of execution came , and when the guards expect him what he wanted for his last repast , Snyder enthusiastically suppose , “ pork barrel chops and eggs , and plenty of ‘ em . ” He spent his last few time of day speculating with a safety on what the paper would say when it turn out that he was too rich to fry .
Snyder ’s eating elbow grease turned out to be wasted . Some source say that the survive hot seat was giving enough to accommodate his girth , while others claim that a larger chair had to be rigged up . But the outcome was the same : According to theEncyclopedia of American Prisons , a New York City reporter covering the capital punishment wrote that whatever chair Snyder injure up in “ fitted him as though it had been made to dictate . ”
The executioner flipped the switch and Donald Snyder died a fat man .
