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No one has been executed by the state of Kansas since 1965, although capital punishment is legal there. Historically, 58 people have been executed in the area now occupied by the state. Many of these were federal executions of soldiers and POWs, often at the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth. Fourteen German POWs were executed ...
From 1853 to 1965, 76 executions were carried out under Kansas' jurisdiction. [2] All but one, the first, were by hanging. [3] These do not include executions that took place at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth and United States Disciplinary Barracks; while located within Kansas borders, these hangings were performed under federal government and U.S. military jurisdiction respectively.
Robert David Bennett (1932) last execution in Australia for a crime other than murder; Rainey Bethea (1936) last public execution in the United States; Jacques Chausson (1661) attempted homosexual rape of a young nobleman; Caryl Chessman (1960) Richard Cornish (1625) homosexual rape of an endentured servant; Carlo Fantom (1643) Thomas Knapton ...
Among the notable inmates executed at the prison were Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, who were convicted for murdering four members of the Clutter family on November 15, 1959, in their ...
The Republican state attorney general is pushing for legislation changing the execution process and authorizing a new and controversial execution method. Kansas hasn’t executed anyone in six ...
Sarah Gonzales-McLinn spoke to The Star from prison in Topeka. She wants the governor to reduce her sentence because of the abuse that preceded her grisly crime and the ways she’s changed since.
People executed by Kansas (2 C) Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to death by Kansas" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed in Oklahoma over recommendations for clemency from the parole board. He spent much of his childhood in Wichita. ‘A piece of my heart is gone’: Funeral held in ...