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William Williams (c. 1877 – 13 February 1906) was a Cornish miner and the last person executed by the state of Minnesota in the United States. Williams was convicted for the 1905 murders of 16-year old John Keller and his mother, Mary Keller in Saint Paul, and his subsequent botched execution led to increased support for the abolition of capital punishment in Minnesota in 1911.
This is a list of people executed in Minnesota as both a territory and a state. Between Minnesota's first recorded execution in 1854 (which occurred while it was a territory) and the state's final recorded execution in 1906, there were at least 70 legal executions in Minnesota. All executions in Minnesota were carried out by hanging.
Between 1854 and Minnesota's final execution in 1906, at least 70 people were executed in the Minnesota Territory and the State of Minnesota, all by hanging. [1] [2] The first execution in Minnesota's history was the 1854 hanging of a Native American man, known in Anglicanized spelling as Uhazy or Yuhagu, for murder.
Minnesota (convicted) New York , New Jersey , California (confessed) Harry T. Hayward (c. 1865 – December 11, 1895) was an American high society socialite during the Gilded Age , who lived a secret life as a gambler , arsonist , murderer , and suspected serial killer .
Ann Bilansky (born Mary Ann Evards Wright) (c. 1820 – March 23, 1860) was an American housewife convicted in 1859 of poisoning her husband with arsenic. [1] [2] She is the only woman in Minnesota to receive the death penalty and the first white person in the state to be executed by hanging.
Grayson's execution began just after 6 p.m. at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, AL, when the curtains of the execution chamber were opened.
A 31-year-old Minnesota man is accused of shooting his father nine times "execution-style" at the family’s rural hunting cabin, police said. Kirk Edward Hazlett III, 31, of Cambridge, is charged ...
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