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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]
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...
Iowa's last execution was in 1963 at the Iowa State Penitentiary. Victor Harry Feguer was hanged for murder and kidnapping under federal law. The last people executed in Iowa under state law were ...
The following are lists of people executed in the United States. By state This ... List of people executed in Iowa; List of people executed in Kansas;
Feguer, the last person to be executed in Iowa, was charged with murder after abducting and killing a doctor. For his last meal, he requested a single olive with the pit left in. He believed the ...
Spencer was found unresponsive, and jail and medical workers reportedly performed life-saving measures, reviving her. But she later died at a hospital, according to a news release by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Authorities have not completed their investigation. Jail or Agency: Polk County Jail; State: Iowa; Date arrested or booked: 6/9/2016
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