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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, Wyoming carried out only one execution: that of Mark Hopkinson in 1992 for ordering the murder of four people. As of March 2022, there are no defendants who are sentenced to death in Wyoming.
Hopkinson was pronounced dead at 12:57 a.m. on January 22, 1992. His execution was the 159th carried out in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and the first in the state of Wyoming since the 1965 execution of Andrew Pixley.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Wyoming. A total of 7 men were executed prior to Wyoming becoming a State on July 10, 1890: Executed person
Four days later on Sept. 24, two men were executed within an hour of each other: Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri at 6:10 p.m. CT even though the prosecutors in the case and the victim ...
Glynn Simmons has always maintained his innocence in the 1974 murder case of Carolyn Sue Rogers, but on July 20, a judge finally listened, vacating the 70-year-old's conviction and ordering him a ...
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.
In what one anti-death penalty group called "extraordinary," six men have been executed in the U.S. since Sept. 20. Two more executions are set for Oct. 17.
In October 1984, both McCollum and Brown were sentenced to death, with Brown becoming the youngest person on North Carolina's death row. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used McCollum's case to justify the existence of the death penalty. [152] After appealing, both death sentences were overturned in 1988, and the two had retrials in 1991.