List of people executed in Wyoming

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:

	Executed person	Date of execution	Method	Crime
1	John Boyer	April 21, 1871	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:

	Executed person	Date of execution	Method	Crime
1	Charles Miller	April 22, 1892	Hanging	Murder and robbery
2	Frank Howard	December 7, 1894		Murder
3	James Keffer	September 24, 1902		Murder and robbery
4	Thomas Horn	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	Lethal gas	Murder
15	Stanley Lantzer	April 19, 1940		Murder
16	Cleveland Brown, Jr.	November 17, 1944		Murder and rape
17	Andrew Pixley	December 10, 1965		Murder and rape

Wyoming enacted its post-Furman death penalty statute on February 28, 1977.^[1] One man has been executed in the state of Wyoming since then:

	Executed person	Race	Date of execution	Method	Murder victim(s)	Under Governor
1	Mark Hopkinson	White	January 22, 1992	Lethal injection	Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green	Mike Sullivan

One federal execution has taken place in Wyoming:

Executed person	Date of execution	Crime	Method	Under President
Henry Ruhl	April 27, 1945	Murder on a Government Reservation	Lethal gas	Harry S. Truman

See also

• Capital punishment in Wyoming
• Capital punishment in the United States

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 23, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.