Public prosecutor attends hearing of Hauptmann ' s final appeal . Fourteen months after he had been condemned to death for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby and despite numerous appeals and reprieves , Bruno Richard Hauptmann was electocuted at the New Jersey State Prison , Trenton , New Jersey . He went to his death calmly , making only a short statement in which he again declared his innocence . Photo shows , Attorney General David T Clientz the Public Prosecutor ( left ) and Mr Anthony Hauck , Assistant Public Prosecutor entering the court room in Trenton , New Jersey , to hear Hauptmann ' s final appeal before the New Jersey Court of Pardons . 8 April 1936