 FACT: When Horatio Caine meets with Detective Mac Taylor, they talk  about the death penalty. When Mac says they have the death penalty  in New York, Horatio reminds him that they havent executed anyone  since 1976. The actual last time someone was executed in New York  was on June 15, 1963 when Eddie Mays went to the electric chair for  murder and robbery. Shortly thereafter, the New York Court of  Appeals found the death penalty unconstitutional. Nobody has been  executed in New York to date since.