Conviction
Albert Fish was officially arrested on December 13th, 1934. On March 11th, 1935, Fish was put on trial and tried for the murder of Grace Budd. The persecution did not try to charge him for his other murders due to the fact that there was no physical evidence for those cases. All they had where Fish's letters and his word. The trial took ten days and Fish was found guilty. He was sentenced to death by electrocution. Fish later wrote in a letter that he was excited to die in this manner, because it was a method that he had not yet been able to try on his body. On January 16th, 1936, Fish was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison. He was 66 years of age when he was electrocuted, making him the oldest to ever die of execution.