"York and James Latham were hanged by Kansas in 1965. His execution was witnessed by 12 members of local and regional media, prison officials, and representatives of the families of the three victims. He ate salmon and potatoes for his last meal. His last words, spoken from the second floor of the indoor gallows, were recorded by the media witnesses as: Dodd was executed by hanging at 12:05 a.m. on January 5, 1993 at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. He was pronounced dead by the prison doctor and his body transported to Seattle for autopsy. The King County Medical"
"""it brought peace to the victims' families"". Dodd was sentenced to death in 1990 for stabbing the Neer brothers to death, as well as for the separate rape and murder of Lee Iseli. Less than four years elapsed between the murders and Dodd's execution. He refused to appeal his case or the capital sentence. He insisted that he was uncontrollable and would kill again, stating in one court brief: ""I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape or kill someone else. If I do escape, I promise you I will kill and rape again, and I will"
"choice, made no selection, so was executed by the lethal gas default in August 1993. Following a legal challenge and Ninth Circuit appeal court decision in 1996, lethal gas was suspended, with lethal injection becoming the only method. Serial killer William Bonin was the first person to be executed under these new laws, on February 23, 1996. Thirteen people have been executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, though 119 other people have died on death row from other causes (25 of them from suicide) as of December 4, 2018. During the term of Arnold Schwarzenegger"
"to Dodd's murder of Lee Iseli. Dodd was also mentioned in Michael Connelly's novel ""The Concrete Blonde"". Several books have been written about the case, including: ""When The Monster Comes Out Of The Closet"" by Lori Steinhorst, who communicated with Dodd in writing and by phone almost daily for 18 months prior to his execution; ""Driven to Kill"" by true crime author Gary C. King; and Dr. Ron Turco's book about his experience during the initial investigation to assist in developing a profile of the killer. Westley Allan Dodd Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961 – January 5, 1993) was"
"and his predecessor had declined clemency. Mitchell's case had been heard twice by the US Supreme Court and twice by the California Supreme Court. His last words were """"I am Jesus Christ!"" There were no further executions in California until 1992, when Robert Alton Harris was gassed. The gas chamber was ruled unconstitutional in California in 1996. Aaron Mitchell (murderer) Aaron Mitchell (1930 – April 12, 1967) was executed in the gas chamber for murdering police officer Arnold Gamble in Sacramento on February 15, 1963. Mitchell was the last person to be executed in California before the Supreme Court of"
"Ronald Ryan Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. Ryan was found guilty of shooting and killing warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison, Victoria, in 1965. Ryan's hanging was met with some of the largest public protests in the history of Australia and led to the end of capital punishment. The death penalty was abolished in all states by 1985. Ronald Edmond Thompson was born at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne's inner suburb of Carlton, to John Ronald Ryan and Cecilia Thompson (née"
"lock attached to a belt and then kicked and stomped him repeatedly. Bonal died two days later. Cannady become the first charged under a 1993 law that allows offenders serving 99 years or life for previous murders to be charged with a capital offense. He was convicted in 1997 and sentenced to death. Cannady was executed on May 19, 2010. On December 17, 1999, Correctional Officer Daniel Nagle was fatally stabbed at his office in McConnell. He received seven stab wounds and died of a heart attack. It was the first murder of a prison guard in Texas state prisons"
"2018. On November 10, 2009, Virginia executed spree killer John Allen Muhammad for the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks during which 17 people were killed. His death sentence was finalized in six years. The governor has the power of clemency with respect to death sentences. The method of execution is lethal injection, unless the condemned requests electrocution instead. Under Virginia's Criminal Code, capital murder is defined as ""willful, deliberate, and premeditated"" killing involving at least one of the following aggravating factors: After the Supreme Court of the United States upheld Georgia's ""guided discretion"" laws in ""Gregg v. Georgia"", Virginia's laws were"
"the state. Almost all executions were for crimes that involved murder. A number of people were also executed for rape and there was one execution for espionage, 17-year-old alleged Confederate spy David O. Dodd, hanged by Union soldiers on January 8, 1864. In 1913 the method used was changed to the electric chair. The electric chair was constructed from the wood that had previously made up the state gallows. This electric chair would be used for all electrocutions up until 1964. Four more people were hanged in the state — one in 1913, two in 1914 and one in 1930."
"a tremendous amount of remorse and pray you and your family can forgive me. God bless all of y'all"". Gore was executed by lethal injection at 6:19 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, 2012, having exhausted all legal appeals. His last meal consisted of fried chicken, French fries, and butter pecan ice cream. As Gore lay strapped to a gurney in the death chamber, he said: ""I'm sorry. I've had remorse...I'm not the man I was back then. I don't fear death."" David Alan Gore David Alan Gore (August 21, 1953 – April 12, 2012) was an American serial killer who"
"Aaron Mitchell (murderer) Aaron Mitchell (1930 – April 12, 1967) was executed in the gas chamber for murdering police officer Arnold Gamble in Sacramento on February 15, 1963. Mitchell was the last person to be executed in California before the Supreme Court of California ruled in 1972 that the death penalty was unconstitutional (the Supreme Court of the United States made a similar ruling later that year). He was the 194th person to be executed by gassing in California (1937–67), and the only person to be executed in that state during the term of Governor Ronald Reagan (1967–1975). Both Reagan"
"18, 2018, at 6:28 pm (CST), the first person executed in the United States in 2018. He was 55 years old. Before the execution he confessed that ""I made my peace"" and his last words were ""Ooh-ee, I can feel that!"". Anthony Allen Shore Anthony Allen Shore (June 25, 1962 – January 18, 2018) was an American serial killer and child molester who was responsible for the slayings of one woman and three girls. He operated from 1986 to 2000, and was known as the ""Tourniquet Killer"" because of his use of a ligature with either a toothbrush or bamboo"
"Lord"" while he lost consciousness. He appeared to stop breathing 3 minutes later and was pronounced dead at 6:18 pm. Duty was the last prisoner to be executed in the United States in 2010. He was survived by his two sons, a daughter, and several grandchildren. The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty used Duty's case to argue that capital punishment had actually set a dangerous precedent of encouraging a murder, rather than deterring it. Though the group never questioned Duty's guilt, they cited his premeditation in killing Wise, followed by his guilty plea and request for the death"
"120 years in the Menard Correctional Center for the attempted murder and rape of Beverly Washington and will be eligible for parole in 2022. Andrew Kokoraleis was sentenced to death and was executed by lethal injection on March 16, 1999. Edward Spreitzer was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted in George H. Ryan's last-minute commutation of all death sentences in Illinois in 2003. Incidentally, Andrew Kokoraleis' was Governor Ryan's only execution, just over two months into his administration. Kokoraleis was also the last inmate executed in Illinois, almost 12 years before Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation to abolish"
"Douglas Wright (murderer) Douglas Franklin Wright (March 25, 1940 – September 6, 1996) was the first criminal executed by lethal injection in Oregon. He was sentenced to death on October 11, 1993 for luring three homeless men to a remote area of Wasco County on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation with a false promise of work, and then killing them. Wright later admitted killing a fourth man, Anthony Nelson, a Makah Indian. If Wright had not quit his appeal process, he would have been tried before a federal court in the Nelson case, because killing a Native American on an"
"of severed heads and other body parts on pikes, etc., as a method to support conquest, territorial expansion, pillage and looting. Heads were displayed to terrify various peoples into submission, such as enslaved Africans, Tasmanians, Chinese, and Celts. Historically, beheading was typically used for noblemen, while commoners would be hanged; eventually, hanging was adopted as the standard means of non-military executions. The last actual execution by beheading was of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat on 9 April 1747, while a number of convicts (typically traitors sentenced to drawing and quartering, a method which had already been discontinued) were beheaded posthumously"
"by the state of Arkansas since ""Furman v. Georgia"", , after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas and that came into force on March 23, 1973. He was also the 570th person executed overall since the United States resumed executions on January 17, 1977. Alan Willett Alan Willett (June 27, 1947 – September 8, 1999) was executed at age 52 for the 1993 murders of his 13-year-old son, Eric, and his mentally disabled brother, Roger Willett in Johnson County, Arkansas. Willett's daughter Ruby Ann Willett and another son Jonathan survived the attack. Alan Willett was sentenced to death"
"adopted for use in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom performed its last execution in 1964, and abolished capital punishment for murder the following year, thereby rendering any debate over method moot. A number of states still allow the condemned person to choose between electrocution and lethal injection. In all, fourteen inmates nationwide – seven in Virginia, three in South Carolina, three in Tennessee and one in Arkansas – have opted for electrocution over lethal injection. The most recent use of the chair was on December 6, 2018, when David Earl Miller was executed in Tennessee after he elected to"
"was focused around humane methods of execution. Lethal injections became more common in the states rather than the electric chair. Johnny Garrett of Texas was executed in February 1992 for allegedly raping and murdering a nun. In March 2004 cold-case DNA testing identified Leoncio Rueda as the rapist and murderer of another elderly victim killed four months earlier. Immediately following the nun's murder, prosecutors and police were certain the two cases were committed by the same assailant. The flawed case is explored in a 2008 documentary entitled ""The Last Word"". In 2015, the Justice Department and the FBI formally acknowledged"
"and weapons charges. However, Ellison was released in 1987 after agreeing to testify against the leader and six senior members of the Aryan Nations. All seven men were arrested and indicted on charges of sedition. The jury found all the defendants not guilty on all charges. Upon his release from federal prison, Ellison moved to Elohim City. Richard Wayne Snell, the man who shot and killed the police officer and a pawn shop owner, was sentenced to death by lethal injection, which was carried out on 19 April 1995, the same day as the Oklahoma City bombing. There are several"
"Ronald Wolfe (rapist) Ronald Wolfe was the last person executed in the United States for non-homicidal rape, and second-to-last put to death for crime other than murder (the last was James Coburn, electrocuted in Alabama the same year for robbery). He was also second-to-last person executed in Missouri before the U.S. moratorium on capital punishment. Wolfe, a 34-year-old man, was put to death in Missouri's gas chamber on May 8, 1964. He was convicted of brutal attack of an 8-year-old girl on October 18, 1959 near Troy, Missouri, just 3 days after his release from the federal penitentiary in Georgia."
"to death. His wife Verna testified against him, and divorced him while he was on death row (she was sentenced to two life terms for her part in the crimes). Stafford married again—twice—while awaiting execution. Stafford was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection on July 1, 1995. In his final moments, Stafford reportedly spoke in tongues to his third wife. Less than two weeks later, Assistant Attorney General Sandy Howard received a $5 Sirloin Stockade gift certificate with the message ""Hey, you got away with it. I am murder [sic] and you help [sic] do it! I am innocent and"
"television program ""America's Most Wanted"" and currently, ""The Hunt with John Walsh"". Convicted serial killer Ottis Toole confessed to Adam's murder, but was never convicted for this specific crime due to loss of evidence and a recanted confession. Toole died in prison of liver failure on September 15, 1996. Although no new evidence has come forth, on December 16, 2008, police announced that the Walsh case was closed as they were satisfied that Toole was the murderer. On the afternoon of July 27, 1981, Adam's mother, Revé, took him shopping with her to the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida ()."
"Alan Willett Alan Willett (June 27, 1947 – September 8, 1999) was executed at age 52 for the 1993 murders of his 13-year-old son, Eric, and his mentally disabled brother, Roger Willett in Johnson County, Arkansas. Willett's daughter Ruby Ann Willett and another son Jonathan survived the attack. Alan Willett was sentenced to death for convictions in the 1993 Johnson County killings of his 13-year-old son, Eric, and his mentally disabled brother, Roger. Alan Willett's daughter and another son survived the attack. Willett said that he wanted to die and waived his right to post-conviction remedies. Willett’s last meal was"
"Death Penalty) Act, temporarily abolishing capital punishment for murder for 5 years. The Act was renewed in 1969, making the abolition permanent. With the passage of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 1998, the death penalty was officially abolished for all crimes in both civilian and military cases. Following its complete abolition, the gallows were removed from Wandsworth Prison, where they remained in full working order until that year. The last woman to be hanged was Ruth Ellis on 13 July 1955, by Albert Pierrepoint who was a prominent hangman in the 20th century in"
"Constitution. David Earl Miller, executed in the electric chair at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee on December 6, 2018 was the most recent execution by electrocution. Prior to Miller, the most recent electrocution was of Edmund Zagorski, also at the Riverbend Maximun Security Institution, occurring 35 days prior to Miller on November 1, 2018. The most recent execution in the electric chair outside of Tennessee was Robert Gleason, who was executed in the electric chair at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, on January 16, 2013. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/11/01/execution-edmund-zagorski-tennessee-electric-chair/1853152002/ Electric chair Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric"
"1966 for secret executions. In Switzerland it was used for the last time by the canton of Obwalden in the execution of murderer Hans Vollenweider in 1940. The guillotine was also introduced into Greece in 1834, along with the firing squad, as a method of execution. It was last used in Greece in 1913. In Sweden, where beheading became the mandatory method of execution in 1866, the guillotine replaced manual beheading in 1903 and it was used only once, in the execution of murderer Alfred Ander in 1910 at Långholmen Prison, Stockholm. He was also the last person to be"
"murder; Moody was sentenced to death by electric chair in 1997. He entered death row on February 13, 1997, and was executed by lethal injection on April 19, 2018, at the age of 83 years, becoming the oldest inmate executed in the United States in the post-Furman era, surpassing the previous record set by John B. Nixon Sr., who was executed at the age of 77 years. In 1990, Congress passed H.R. 3691, a bill sponsored by Ben Erdreich renaming the federal building and courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, as the Robert S. Vance Federal Building and United States Courthouse in"
"Brandon Astor Jones Brandon Astor Jones (February 13, 1943 – February 3, 2016) was an American criminal who was executed by lethal injection by the state of Georgia on February 3, 2016. Jones, age 72, was the oldest person on Georgia's death row at the time he was executed. Jones was first sentenced to death on October 17, 1979 for his involvement in the felony murder of Roger Tackett on June 17 of that year during a robbery of a Tenneco convenience store, of which Tackett was the manager. Jones was convicted in relation to this murder along with Van"
"Brandon Astor Jones Brandon Astor Jones (February 13, 1943 – February 3, 2016) was an American criminal who was executed by lethal injection by the state of Georgia on February 3, 2016. Jones, age 72, was the oldest person on Georgia's death row at the time he was executed. Jones was first sentenced to death on October 17, 1979 for his involvement in the felony murder of Roger Tackett on June 17 of that year during a robbery of a Tenneco convenience store, of which Tackett was the manager. Jones was convicted in relation to this murder along with Van"
"original cemetery near D Division, are awaiting identification at the Melbourne morgue or have been returned to their families. In 2011, Ned Kelly's remains were once again exhumed and returned to his surviving descendants for a proper family burial. The identified remains of Kelly did not include most of his skull. DNA testing also established another complete skull believed to be Kelly's was not in fact his. Ronald Ryan, the last man executed at Pentridge Prison, was also the last man to be executed in Australia. He was hanged in ""D"" Division at 8:00am on 3 February 1967 after being"
"Various methods of capital punishment have been replaced by lethal injection in most states and the federal government. Many states that offered hanging as an option have since eliminated the method. Condemned murderer Victor Feguer became the last inmate to be executed by hanging in the state of Iowa on 15 March 1963. Hanging was the preferred method of execution for capital murder cases in Iowa until 1965, when the death penalty was abolished and replaced with life imprisonment without parole. Barton Kay Kirkham was the last person to be hanged in Utah, preferring it over execution by firing squad."
"opposition to the death penalty in general. Beazley was one of the last juvenile offenders to be executed in the United States. In 2005, the Supreme Court (in ""Roper v. Simmons"") banned the practice of executing offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes. Napoleon Beazley Napoleon Beazley (August 5, 1976 – May 28, 2002) was a convicted murderer executed by lethal injection by the State of Texas for the murder of 63-year-old businessman John Luttig in 1994. Beazley shot Luttig in his garage on April 19, 1994 in order to steal his family's car."