Cirullo, ?: 1906

Mrs. Rocco Cirullo was murdered by her husband, Rocco, on December 27, 1906.  He was convicted in January 1907 of first degree murder and sentenced to death.  Cirullo was noted in the Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charity, as having met twice with the Secretary of the Committee of Lunacy at the request of the Board of Pardons.  At their second visit, on September 27, 1910, he was found to have recovered from his “mental disorder,” as predicted he might.  He was one of three Blair County murderers awaiting execution cited in the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in the article, Delay in the Execution of Murderers, held at Bedford Springs in 1911 (also noted were James Farrell and Frank Wilson).  His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Board of Pardons.  Although he applied for a pardon in by his attorney, A.V. Dively, on September 18, 1918, he was not released.  He served 23 years in Western Penitentiary, being released in 1930.