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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .
The Fayette County Public Library houses microfilm records of census records from 1840 to 1930, newspapers from 1906-present, WV county death, marriage, and birth records, Fayette County yearbooks, local magazines, family collections, the West Virginia Collection, and other miscellaneous collections about West Virginia.
Capital punishment was abolished in the U.S. State of West Virginia in 1965. Prior to secession from the Confederacy and admission to the Union on June 20, 1863, West Virginia was a part of Virginia. Under Virginia's authority, 43 people were executed; there were 112 executions after West Virginia achieved statehood.
Anna Johnson Gates (January 25, 1889 - January 12, 1939) was an American suffragist and Progressive Era politician who was the first woman elected to the West Virginia Legislature. She married Harry Gates, and after his death, she married Tom Gates in 1915.
Mamie Thurman (1900–1932) was an American woman whose slain body was found and recovered on 22 Mine Road near Holden, West Virginia on June 22, 1932. The site is about 7 miles from Logan, West Virginia. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1900.
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Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Harry Powers (1932) known as "the Bluebeard of West Virginia" Alfredo Prieto (2015) Marion Albert Pruett (1999) known as "the Mad Dog" Iskandar Rahmat (2025) Gilles de Rais (1440) known as "Bluebeard" Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (2006) known as "the Railroad Killer" Darrell Keith Rich (2000) known as "the Hilltop Rapist"