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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Vermont from 1778 to 1954. Capital punishment was abolished in Vermont in 1972. [1] From 1778-1954, 26 people were executed in Vermont, 21 by hanging and 5 by electrocution. [2] 24 of the executions were of males, while 2 were of females. [2]
Capital punishment in the state of Vermont ended in 1972 for all crimes due to Furman v. Georgia . The state last executed a prisoner, Donald DeMag, in 1954, after he received the sentence for a double robbery-murder he committed after escaping prison.
Vermont State Hospital, [1] alternately known as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane and the Waterbury Asylum, was a mental institution built in 1890 in Waterbury, Vermont to help relieve overcrowding at the privately run Vermont Asylum for the Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, now known as the Brattleboro Retreat.
Page was born in Westfield, Vermont, the son of Russel Smith Page (1813–1893) and Martha Malvina Smalley Page (1821–1907).Russel S. Page was a farmer, banker, businessman, and public official who served in several local offices, was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, and held the county offices of sheriff, assistant judge, and probate judge.
A man has been arrested over the leak of graphic crime scene photos taken from the wooded trail where teenage best friends Libby German and Abby Williams were brutally murdered.. In what marks the ...
William Henry Wills (October 26, 1882 – March 6, 1946) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He was the 61st lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and the 65th governor of Vermont from 1941 to 1945. In 1944, Wills was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. [1]
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Kissell drilled a perfect goal in the extra period to lift Vermont to a 2-1 win over Marshall to officially win the 2024 Men’s College Cup and claim the program’s first ever national championship.