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Montana currently has two men on death row: [3] Ronald Allen Smith and William Jay Gollehon. Since 2015, there has been a de facto moratorium on capital punishment in Montana as a result of a court ruling that found that the state's lethal injection method violated the Montana Constitution. [4]
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.
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]
The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information may become outdated.
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.
While Indigenous people make up 6 percent to 6.5 percent of Montana’s population, they account for 30.6 percent of missing persons cases. Out of the 2,263 reported missing in Montana last year ...
As Freddie Eugene Owens lives the last hours of his life, USA TODAY is sharing some of the South Carolina death row inmate's handwritten letters to a woman he loved. At times furious and at others ...
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...