List of people executed in Wyoming
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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Wyoming.
A total of 7 men were executed prior to Wyoming becoming a State on July 10, 1890:
| class="wikitable" |
| !Executed person
!Date of execution !Method !Crime |
|---|
| 1
|John Boyer |April 21, 1871 |rowspan="7"|Hanging |Murder |
| 2
|William Tousant Kensler |November 19, 1874 |Murder |
| 3
|Leroy Donovan |January 18, 1884 |Murder and robbery |
| 4
|George Cooke |December 12, 1884 |Murder |
| 5
|John Owens |March 5, 1886 |Murder and robbery |
| 6
|Benjamin Carter |January 26, 1888 |Murder |
| 7
|George Black |February 26, 1890 |Murder |
18 men were executed by the state of Wyoming between its statehood and the Supreme Court ban on executions in 1972:
| class="wikitable" |
| !Executed person
!Date of execution !Method !Crime |
|---|
| 1
|Charles Miller |April 22, 1892 |rowspan="13"|Hanging |Murder and robbery |
| 2
|Frank Howard |December 7, 1894 |Murder |
| 3
|James Keffer |September 24, 1902 |Murder and robbery |
| 4
|November 20, 1903 |Murder |
| 5
|Joseph Seng |May 24, 1912 |Murder |
| 6
|Warren Jenkins |November 14, 1913 |Murder |
| 7
|Willard Flanders |June 16, 1916 |Murder |
| 8
|Wilmer Palmer |August 11, 1916 |Murder |
| 9
|Oscar White |October 20, 1916 |Murder |
| 10
|Yee Geow |March 11, 1921 |Murder |
| 11
|George Brownfield |March 10, 1930 |Murder |
| 12
|Charles Aragon |May 14, 1930 |Murder |
| 13
|Talton Taylor |May 11, 1933 |Murder |
| 14
|Perry Carroll |August 13, 1937 |rowspan="4"|Lethal gas |Murder |
| 15
|Stanley Lantzer |April 19, 1940 |Murder |
| 16
|Cleveland Brown, Jr. |November 17, 1944 |Murder and rape |
| 17
|December 10, 1965 |Murder and rape |
Wyoming enacted its post-Furman death penalty statute on February 28, 1977.{{cite web|url=http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=June 15, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523143211/http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state/ |archivedate=May 23, 2015 }} One man has been executed in the state of Wyoming since then:
| class="wikitable" |
| !Executed person
!Race !Date of execution !Method !Murder victim(s) !Under Governor |
|---|
| 1
|White |January 22, 1992 |Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green |
One federal execution has taken place in Wyoming:
| class="wikitable" | ||||
| Executed person
!Date of execution !Crime !Method !Under President | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Ruhl | April 27, 1945 | Murder on a Government Reservation | Lethal gas | Harry S. Truman |