List of people executed in Iowa
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963.
Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965.[1] 45 people were executed in Iowa from 1834-1963, all by hanging.[2] In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection.[3]
List of people executed in Iowa
[edit]State executions
[edit]Name | Race | Sex | Date of Execution | Method | Crime(s) |
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Patrick O’Connor | White | M | June 30, 1834 | Hanging | Murder |
William McCauley | May 13, 1845 | Murder | |||
William Hodge | July 15, 1845 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Stephen Hodge | Robbery and Murder | ||||
William Hinkle | August 13, 1858 | Murder | |||
F. Gillick | April 27, 1860 | Murder | |||
N. A. Johnson | May 18, 1860 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Daniel Clifford | June 19, 1860 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Benjamin McComb | February 17, 1865 | Murder | |||
Chester Bellows | December 16, 1887 | Murder | |||
Henry Schmidt | January 15, 1888 | Murder | |||
James Dooley | January 19, 1894 | Rape and Murder | |||
Jacob Cumberland | February 8, 1895 | Murder | |||
Joseph Smith | Black | April 20, 1906 | Murder | ||
John Junkins | July 29, 1910 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Stanley Grammell | July 5, 1918 | Rape | |||
Robert Johnson | Rape | ||||
Fred Allen | Rape | ||||
Ira Pavey | White | September 8, 1922 | Murder | ||
Eugene Weeks | September 15, 1922 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Orrie Cross | November 24, 1922 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Earl Throst | March 9, 1923 | Murder | |||
William Olander | September 7, 1923 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Roy Maupin | Black | January 18, 1924 | Murder | ||
Archie Burris | January 2, 1925 | Murder | |||
Harland Simmons | White | November 16, 1925 | Robbery and Murder | ||
J. A. R. Altringer | November 6, 1931 | Murder | |||
Elmer Brewer | June 5, 1935 | Murder | |||
Pat Griffin | Murder | ||||
Reginald Tracy | November 29, 1935 | Murder | |||
Allen Wheaton | January 24, 1938 | Robbery and Murder | |||
John Mercer | Murder | ||||
Franz Jacobson | April 19, 1938 | Murder | |||
Marlo Heinz | Murder | ||||
Walter Rhodes | May 7, 1940 | Murder | |||
Ivan Sullivan | November 12, 1941 | Murder | |||
Stanley Kaster | December 29, 1944 | Robbery and Murder | |||
William Jarrett | February 23, 1945 | Murder | |||
William Heincy | March 29, 1946 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Philip Heincy | Robbery and Murder | ||||
Corliss Bruntlett | July 6, 1949 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Edward James Beckwith | August 4, 1952 | Rape and Murder | |||
Charles Noel Brown | July 24, 1962 | Robbery and Murder | |||
Charles Edwin Kelley | September 6, 1962 | Robbery and Murder |
Federal executions
[edit]Name | Race | Sex | Date of Execution | Place of Execution | Method | Crime(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Victor Feguer | White | M | March 15, 1963 | Iowa State Penitentiary | Hanging | Kidnapping (victim killed) |
Dustin Lee Honken | July 17, 2020 | USP Terre Haute | Lethal injection | Murder |
See also
[edit]- Capital punishment in Iowa
- Capital punishment by the United States federal government
- Capital punishment in the United States
References
[edit]- ^ "Abolition of capital punishment in Iowa". statelaws.findlaw.com. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Executions in Iowa, from 1834-1963". deathpenaltyusa.org. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Dustin Lee Honken executed". apnews.com. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.