Wyoming
Twenty-six executions have been conducted in Wyoming (including 1 federal execution and 18 executions since statehood in 1890). Male executions are conducted at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, female executions at the Wyoming Women's Center in Lusk (there have been none to date). Wyoming allows execution by lethal injection, although a gas chamber is available if lethal injection is impractical. Wyoming's most recent execution was Mark Hopkinson in 1992.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dale Wayne Eaton | Kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault, and murder by bludgeoning and stabbing of a Billings, Montana woman in March 1988 | 2004 | Currently Wyoming's only death row inmate |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Death Row Inmates
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“The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the people of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the people of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)