Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Four persons were executed in Wyoming prior to its statehood in 1890. Leroy Donovan, d. 18 January 1884 by hanging, for murder and robbery George Cook, d. 12 December 1884 by hanging, for murder. Benjamin Carter, d. 27 January 1888 by hanging for murder. George Black, d. 26 January 1890 by hanging, for murder. A total of 18 inviduals were executed in the state of Wyoming prior to the 1972 Supreme Court capital punishment ban. Charles Miller, d. 22 April 1892 by hanging, for murder and robbery. Frank Howard, d. 7 December 1894 by hanging, for murder. James Keffer, d. 25 September 1903 by hanging, for murder and robbery. Thomas Horn, d. 20 November 1903 by hanging, for murder. Joseph Seng, d. 24 May 1912 by hanging, for murder. Warren Jenkins, d. 14 November 1913 by hanging, for murder. Willard Flanders, d. 16 June 1916 by hanging, for murder. Wilmer Palmer, d. 11 August 1916 by hanging, for murder. Oscar White, d. 20 January 1916 by hanging, for murder. Geow Yee, d. 11 March 1921 by hanging, for murder. George Brownfield, d. 10 March 1930 by hanging, for murder. Charles Aragon, d. 14 May 1930 by hanging, for murder. Talton Taylor, d. 11 May 1933 by hanging, for murder. Perry Carroll, d. 13 August 1937 by gas chamber, for murder. Stanley Lantzer, d. 19 April 1940 by gas chamber, for murder. Cleveland Brown, Jr., d. 17 November 1945 by gas chamber, for murder and rape. Henry Ruhl, d. 27 April 1945 by gas chamber, for murder. Andrew Pixley, d. 10 December 1965 by gas chamber, for murder. Only one individual has been executed in the state of Wyoming since 1976: Mark Hopkinson, d. 22 January 1992 by lethal injection for the murders of Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green. See Also Capital punishment in the United States This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.