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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.
Notably, on December 26, 1862, Minnesota was the site of the largest mass execution in United States history when 38 men, all Dakota men involved in the Dakota War of 1862, were simultaneously executed by hanging on the same gallows in Mankato, Minnesota, after being convicted of various capital crimes including murder, being an accessory to ...
[15] In 1911, State Representative George MacKenzie authored a bill to abolish the death penalty, and on 22 April 1911, Governor Eberhart signed it into law, thereby abolishing capital punishment in the state. Williams was the last person to be executed in Minnesota's history. No executions have taken place in Minnesota since his hanging in 1906.
List of people executed in Minnesota; List of people executed in Mississippi; ... This page was last edited on 8 January 2025, at 21:18 (UTC).
A Minnesota man was on "a mission" when he executed his father in front of fellow relatives after he broke into the older man's rural hunting cabin and shot him multiple times before fleeing.
Last execution date Name Crime Method C Algeria: August 1993 [1] seven unnamed Islamic terrorists: terrorism: firing squad: A Angola: 1977 [2] Nito Alves and many of his supporters treason: firing squad: A Benin: 23 September 1987 [3] murder: A Bophuthatswana: 13 December 1990 [4] [5] Alpheus Sekoboane murder: hanging: D Botswana: 11 June 2021 ...
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 ...
The last execution in Kentucky took place on November 21, 2008. Marco Allen Chapman was the last person in the state to be executed. He was executed by lethal injection.