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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, Wyoming carried out only one execution: that of Mark Hopkinson in 1992 for ordering the murder of four people. As of March 2022, there are no defendants who are sentenced to death in Wyoming.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Wyoming. ... Wyoming enacted its post-Furman death penalty statute on February 28, 1977. [1]
Hopkinson was pronounced dead at 12:57 a.m. on January 22, 1992. His execution was the 159th carried out in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and the first in the state of Wyoming since the 1965 execution of Andrew Pixley.
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Scheduled to be put to death in February 2010, he sought and received a stay of execution in December 2009. It was overturned in 2014. The state originally planned to seek a reinstatement of Eaton's death sentence, before dropping their request in September 2021. [2] Prior to his removal from death row, Eaton was the only inmate on Wyoming's ...
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Fielder’s case has been joined with the case of Hugo Villanueva-Morales, a Kansas City, Kansas, man accused of murder in a 2019 mass shooting at a KCK bar, for the death penalty hearing, the ...