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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Montana since capital punishment was resumed in 1976. A total of 3 people convicted of murder have been executed since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. They were all executed by lethal injection. Terry Langford and David Dawson waived their appeals and asked that their executions be ...
From 1608 to 1976, Montana executed 71 people [44] by hanging. [45] Since 1976, three males have been executed in Montana by lethal injection: Duncan Peder McKenzie Jr., Terry Allen Langford, and David Thomas Dawson. [2] On May 10, 1995, Duncan Peder McKenzie Jr. was the first person executed in Montana by lethal injection. [46]
David Thomas Dawson (October 20, 1957 – August 11, 2006) [1] was an American convicted murderer who was executed at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. Dawson was executed for the April 1986 murders of the Rodstein family in Billings, Montana. He remains the most recent person executed in Montana. [2]
William Jay Gollehon and Douglas Duane Turner were a pair of American murderers who committed six killings at Montana State Prison, five of which were committed during a riot on September 22, 1991. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Both were previously convicted of other murders (Gollehon with one and Turner with three) and would receive a death sentence plus ...
Ronald Allen Smith (born September 7, 1957) is a Canadian man who was sentenced to death in Montana for murdering two people. As of 2019, Smith is one of two prisoners on Montana's death row (the other is William Gollehon). [3]
McKenzie was executed on May 10, 1995. He was the first person executed in Montana since 1943, and also the first ever U.S. death row inmate to spend twenty years or more on death row and still eventually be executed. [3] He is one of only three people to have been executed in Montana since the reinstatement of the death penalty.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Terry Allen Langford (May 18, 1966 – February 24, 1998) [1] was an American convicted murderer who was executed by lethal injection in Montana. Langford was executed for the July 1988 murders of Ned and Celene Blackwood, in Ovando, Montana. His case was profiled in the true crime television series, Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets.