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I ran across this article and looked it over including the references. The title Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson is strange since it includes two different names. The main problem is that the article is not specifically about either person but "the death penalty in Massachusetts", or the abolition of the death penalty in Massachusetts, which seems equivalent to Capital punishment in Massachusetts or even "Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts" (the book) rather than the two names listed in the title.
When looking at the references I found that Alan Rogers was listed in both and the reference "Success—At Long Last: The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts, 1928–1984" was actually a link to "Boston College Law", that is used three times in the article but nothing on the subjects. A search for the subjects on that site returned "No Results".
This leaves "Alan Rogers (2008). Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press)" as a general reference. The book title does not point to either of the article title subjects and this would mean that the article is not titled correctly. I went to the "External links", to see if Executions in Massachusetts would shed some light on things, but that returned a "Not Found", so is a dead link.
I now have questions of the validity of this article on Wikipedia. Otr500 (talk) 03:07, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]