List of individuals executed in Wyoming

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Seven persons were executed in Wyoming prior to its statehood in 1890.

Executed person Date of execution Method Crime
1 John Boyer 21 April 1871 hanging murder
2 William Tousant Kensler 19 November 1874 hanging murder
3 Leroy Donovan 18 January 1884 hanging murder and robbery
4 George Cooke 12 December 1884 hanging murder
5 John Owens 5 March 1886 hanging murder and robbery
6 Benjamin Carter 26 January 1888 hanging murder
7 George Black 26 February 1890 hanging murder

A total of 18 individuals were executed in the state of Wyoming prior to the 1972 Supreme Court capital punishment ban.

Executed person Date of execution Method Crime
1 Charles Miller 22 April 1892 hanging murder and robbery
2 Frank Howard 7 December 1894 hanging murder
3 James Keffer 24 September 1902 hanging murder and robbery
4 Thomas Horn 20 November 1903 hanging murder
5 Joseph Seng 24 May 1912 hanging murder
6 Warren Jenkins 14 November 1913 hanging murder
7 Willard Flanders 16 June 1916 hanging murder
8 Wilmer Palmer 11 August 1916 hanging murder
9 Oscar White 20 January 1916 hanging murder
10 Yee Geow 11 March 1921 hanging murder
11 George Brownfield 10 March 1930 hanging murder
12 Charles Aragon 14 May 1930 hanging murder
13 Talton Taylor 11 May 1933 hanging murder
14 Perry Carroll 13 August 1937 gas chamber murder
15 Stanley Lantzer 19 April 1940 gas chamber murder
16 Cleveland Brown, Jr. 17 November 1945 gas chamber murder and rape
17 Henry Ruhl 27 April 1944 gas chamber murder
18 Andrew Pixley 10 December 1965 gas chamber murder

Only one individual has been executed in the state of Wyoming since 1976:

Executed person Date of execution Method Crime Under Governor
1 Mark Hopkinson 22 January 1992 lethal injection murders of Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green Mike Sullivan

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  • You Are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution: Untold Stories of Men Legally Executed in Wyoming Territory, Larry K. Brown, Tamarack Books Inc., Boise, Idaho, 1997
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