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Luis José Monge (June 21, 1918 – June 2, 1967) was a convicted mass murderer who was executed in the gas chamber at Colorado State Penitentiary in 1967. Monge was the last inmate to be executed before an unofficial moratorium on execution that lasted for more than four years while most death penalty cases were on appeal, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Furman v.
Davis was the only person executed in Colorado between 1968 and 2020; when the state of Colorado abolished the death penalty. [2] [12] His execution was the 417th carried out in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Davis' wife, Rebecca Fincham, died in prison in 2008 while serving a life sentence for May's murder.
In 1871, George Witherell and his accomplice, Eugene Wright, were involved in the murder of L.K. Wall in Elbert County, Colorado. Witherell bludgeoned Wall to death with a rifle, and both men subsequently covered Wall's body with stones before selling the sheep. Following the discovery of Wall's body, Witherell and Wright were identified as ...
Theodore Edward Coneys (November 10, 1882 – May 16, 1967), also known by the nickname "Denver Spiderman", was an American drifter who committed the murder of a man whose house he was illegally occupying in 1941, and continued occupying the attic of the victim's home for nine months.
Deceased; died of Glioblastoma on March 28, 2021, while being held at the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, a high-security facility in Indiana which houses federal death row. (Sentenced to death in 2008) Serial child molester and rapist; sentenced to death for a 2005 kidnapping and quadruple murder in Idaho. [79] Chevie Kehoe: 21300-009
Joseph Arridy (/ ˈ ær ɪ d i /; April 29, 1915 – January 6, 1939) [1] [2] was an American man who was falsely convicted and wrongfully executed for the 1936 rape and murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado.
The movie Canon City (1948) depicts the real-life 1947 escape of 12 prisoners from nearby Colorado State Penitentiary. [36] A diner in Cañon City is the setting of the song "Navajo Rug", which was named by the Western Writers of America as one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time. [37]
Pages in category "People from Cañon City, Colorado" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.