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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963. Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965. [1] 45 people were executed in Iowa from 1834-1963, all by hanging. [2] In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection. [3]
The last execution to take place in Iowa was on March 15, 1963, at Iowa State Penitentiary, when Victor Harry Feguer was hanged for murder and kidnapping; however, Feguer's execution was under federal law; Feguer's execution was the last federal execution until Timothy McVeigh's in 2001. [5]
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Before that, he served on the Iowa Court of Appeals and as a district judge. William Morris covers courts for the Des Moines Register. He can be contacted at wrmorris2@registermedia.com or 715-573 ...
His conviction and execution have been ascribed by researchers to anti-Roman Catholic and anti-Irish immigrant bias. [5] He was convicted for the murder of Amasa Sprague, a Cranston textile factory owner. The court justices, who included Justice Job Durfee, were involved in all three trials as both trial judges and the court of final appeal. [6]
The following are lists of people executed in the United States. ... List of people executed in Iowa; ... List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim;
The family of Alexander McClay Williams, a Black teen who was executed in Pennsylvania after being convicted of murder in 1931, have filed a lawsuit nearly 100 years after his death.
Capano was having an affair with the victim prior to her murder. [132] Nancy Riggins Stephen Paul Riggins Hanover, Maryland July 1, 1996 July 20, 2001 Nancy Riggins disappeared after learning about her husbands affair with the couple's 18-year-old babysitter, who was underage when the affair began, and threatening to report it and divorce him.