List of people executed in Kansas
This is a list of people executed in Kansas.
No one has been executed by the state of Kansas since 1965, although capital punishment is legal there. Historically, 58 people have been executed in the area now occupied by the state. Many of these were federal executions of soldiers and POWs, often at the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth. Fourteen German POWs were executed at Leavenworth in 1945.
The last executions in Kansas were at the Kansas State Penitentiary, when spree killers James Latham and George York were executed for murder in 1965. Except for John Coon, executed in 1853 by firing squad, all federal and state executions in Kansas have been by hanging.
List of people executed in Kansas
[edit]| List of People Executed in Kansas | ||||||
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| Number | Name | Date | Notes | |||
| 1 | George Miller | May 6, 1950 | ||||
| 2 | Preston McBride | April 6, 1951 | ||||
| 3 | James Bernard Lammers | January 5, 1952 | ||||
| 4 | Nathaniel Germany | May 21, 1954 | ||||
| 5 | Merle Martin Jr. | July 16, 1954 | ||||
| 6 | Lowell Lee Andrews | November 30, 1962 | ||||
| 7 | Richard Eugene Hickock | April 14, 1965 | [A] | |||
| 8 | Perry Edward Smith | April 14, 1965 | [A] | |||
| 9 | George Ronald York | June 22, 1965 | ||||
| 10 | James Douglas Latham | June 22, 1965 | ||||
| Note: This list contains only non-military executions in Kansas since 1950. | ||||||
- Notes
- ^ a b Hickock and Smith committed the Clutter family murders on November 15, 1959.