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The Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) is an Iowa Department of Corrections maximum security prison for men located in the Lee County, Iowa, community of Fort Madison.This facility should not be confused with the Historical Iowa State Penitentiary, which was shut down in 2015 [1] after being open for 175 years. [2]
Operational structure. Headquarters. Des Moines, Iowa. Agency executive. Beth Skinner, Director. Website. Official website. The Iowa Department of Corrections is a state agency operating prisons in Iowa. It has its headquarters in Des Moines.
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]
Anamosa State Penitentiary, 1911. As of February 21, 2016, the penitentiary was home to approximately 855 inmates with another 175 in segregation and has 357 staff members. [6] Inmates working in the Iowa Prison Industries produce metal stamping, custom wood, printing, metal furniture, sign, and cleaning products at the penitentiary.
Charles Noel Brown (June 21, 1933 – July 24, 1962) [ 1] and Charles Edwin Kelley (February 17, 1941 – September 6, 1962) were American spree killers who killed three people and wounded three others in a five-day, three-state rampage in February 1961. The duo, who said they shot the victims to avoid leaving witnesses, were labeled the "Mad ...
Victor Harry Feguer (1935 – March 15, 1963) was a convicted murderer, and the last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia, as well as the last person put to death in the state of Iowa. While the media did not pay much attention to Feguer or his execution at the time ...
Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431 (1984), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that created an "inevitable discovery" exception to the exclusionary rule.The exclusionary rule makes most evidence gathered through violations of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure, inadmissible in criminal trials as "fruit of the poisonous tree".