 The Sheriff of Monroe County in his duties as the enforcement arm of the Courts, carried out a total of seven executions by hanging before NYS took over Capital Punishment in 1888.Although carried out of the public view, they were such an event that the Militia had to be called out for crowd control.Over these many decades, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) has become one of the premier law enforcement and corrections agencies in the State of New York and of the Nation.