Elmo Lee Smith

Elmo Lee Smith (March 21, 1921 – April 2, 1962) was an American convicted murderer executed in Pennyslvania for the 1959 rape and murder of a teenage girl. On December 28, 1959, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Smith abducted 16-year-old Maryann Mitchell while she was returning home from the cinema, and he raped and killed her thereafter. Mitchell's body was located in a muddy gully in Lafayette Hill three days after her disappearance. The investigations eventually led to the arrest of Smith, who was charged with the kidnapping, rape and murder of Mitchell. Smith was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury, and he was sentenced to death and executed by the electric chair on April 2, 1962. Smith was the last person to be executed by electrocution in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.