List of people executed in Kansas
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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 available 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 serial 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. The current method of execution is by lethal injection.
List of people executed in Kansas
| 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 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 Hickock | April 14, 1965 | [A] | |||
| 8 | Perry Edward Smith | April 14, 1965 | [A] | |||
| 9 | James Latham | June 22, 1965 | ||||
| 10 | George York | 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.