Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following are lists of people executed in the United States. By state This ... List of people executed in Kansas; List of people executed in Kentucky;
No one has been executed by the state of Kansas since 1965, although capital punishment is legal there. Historically, 58 people have been executed in the area now occupied by the state. Many of these were federal executions of soldiers and POWs, often at the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth. Fourteen German POWs were executed ...
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.
Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma over recommendations for clemency from the parole board. He spent much of his childhood in Wichita. ‘A piece of my heart is gone’: Funeral held in ...
Robert McGladdery (1961) last execution in Northern Ireland; Dennis McGuire (2014) Duncan McKenzie (1995) first post-Gregg execution in Montana; Harold McQueen Jr. (1997) first post-Gregg execution in Kentucky; Daisy de Melker (1932) George Mercer (1989) first post-Gregg execution in Missouri; Louisa May Merrifield (1953)
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Last execution date Name Crime Method C Algeria: August 1993 [1] seven unnamed Islamic terrorists: terrorism: firing squad: A Angola: 1977 [2] Nito Alves and many of his supporters treason: firing squad: A Benin: 23 September 1987 [3] murder: A Bophuthatswana: 13 December 1990 [4] [5] Alpheus Sekoboane murder: hanging: D Botswana: 11 June 2021 ...