CondemnedAn inside look into one of the most mythologized prisons in modern America the Sing Sing death house In the annals of American criminal justice, two prisons stand out as icons of institutionalized brutality and deprivation: Alcatraz and Sing Sing. In the 70 odd years before 1963, when the death sentence was declared unconstitutional in New York, Sing Sing was the site of almost one half of the 1,353 executions carried out in the state. More people