Nebraska State Penitentiary - Notable Inmates

Notable Inmates

  • George Contant Sontag, imprisoned for theft; later sent to Folsom State Prison in California for train robbery.
  • Charles Starkweather, Nebraska 1958 spree killer, sentenced to death; executed in the prison's electric chair on June 25, 1959.

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