List of people executed in Wyoming

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  | Date of execution  | Method  | Crime

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1  | John Boyer  | April 21, 1871  | Hanging | Murder
2  | William Tousant Kensler  | November 19, 1874  | Murder
3  | Leroy Donovan  | January 18, 1884  | Murder and robbery
4  | George Cooke  | December 12, 1884  | Murder
5  | John Owens  | March 5, 1886  | Murder and robbery
6  | Benjamin Carter  | January 26, 1888  | Murder
7  | George Black  | February 26, 1890  | Murder

18 men were executed by the state of Wyoming between its statehood and the Supreme Court ban on executions in 1972:

| Executed person  | Date of execution  | Method  | Crime

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1  | Charles Miller  | April 22, 1892  | Hanging | Murder and robbery
2  | Frank Howard  | December 7, 1894  | Murder
3  | James Keffer  | September 24, 1902  | Murder and robbery
4  | Thomas Horn | November 20, 1903  | Murder
5  | Joseph Seng  | May 24, 1912  | Murder
6  | Warren Jenkins  | November 14, 1913  | Murder
7  | Willard Flanders  | June 16, 1916  | Murder
8  | Wilmer Palmer  | August 11, 1916  | Murder
9  | Oscar White  | October 20, 1916  | Murder
10  | Yee Geow  | March 11, 1921  | Murder
11  | George Brownfield  | March 10, 1930  | Murder
12  | Charles Aragon  | May 14, 1930  | Murder
13  | Talton Taylor  | May 11, 1933  | Murder
14  | Perry Carroll  | August 13, 1937  | Lethal gas | Murder
15  | Stanley Lantzer  | April 19, 1940  | Murder
16  | Cleveland Brown, Jr.  | November 17, 1944  | Murder and rape
17  | Andrew Pixley | December 10, 1965  | Murder and rape

Wyoming enacted its post-Furman death penalty statute on February 28, 1977.[1] One man has been executed in the state of Wyoming since then:

| Executed person  | Race  | Date of execution  | Method  | Murder victim(s)  | Under Governor

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1  | Mark Hopkinson | White  | January 22, 1992  | Lethal injection | Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green  | Mike Sullivan

One federal execution has taken place in Wyoming:

Executed person  | Date of execution  | Crime  | Method  | Under President

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Henry Ruhl | April 27, 1945 | Murder on a Government Reservation | Lethal gas | Harry S. Truman

## See also

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* Capital punishment in Wyoming
* Capital punishment in the United States

## References

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1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 23, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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