List of people executed in Iowa
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963.
Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965.[1] 45 people, all of them men, were executed in Iowa from 1834–1963, all by hanging.[2] In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection.[3]
List of people executed in Iowa
State executions
| Name | Race | Age | Date of Execution | Crime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick O'Connor | White | June 30, 1834 | Murder | |
| William McCauley | May 13, 1845 | Murder | ||
| William Hodge | July 15, 1845 | Murder-Robbery | ||
| Stephen Hodge | ||||
| William Hinkle | August 13, 1858 | Murder | ||
| F. Gillick | April 27, 1860 | Murder | ||
| N. A. Johnson | May 18, 1860 | Murder-Robbery | ||
| Daniel Clifford | 22 | June 19, 1860 | Murder-Robbery | |
| Benjamin McComb | February 17, 1865 | Murder | ||
| Chester Bellows | 28 | December 16, 1887 | Murder | |
| Henry Schmidt | 20 | January 15, 1888 | Murder | |
| James Dooley | 18 | January 19, 1894 | Murder-Rape | |
| Jacob Cumberland | 48 | February 8, 1895 | Murder | |
| Joseph Smith | Black | 43 | April 20, 1906 | Murder |
| John Junkins | 24 | July 29, 1910 | Murder-Robbery | |
| Ira Pavey | White | 30 | September 8, 1922 | Murder |
| Eugene Weeks | 27 | September 15, 1922 | Murder-Robbery | |
| Orrie Cross | 26 | November 24, 1922 | Murder-Robbery | |
| Earl Throst | 26 | March 9, 1923 | Murder | |
| William Olander | 29 | September 7, 1923 | Murder-Robbery | |
| Roy Maupin | Black | 26 | January 18, 1924 | Murder |
| Archie Burris | 33 | January 2, 1925 | Murder | |
| Harland Simons | White | 26 | November 16, 1925 | Murder-Robbery |
| Joseph A. R. Altringer | 23 | November 6, 1931 | Murder | |
| Patrick Griffin | 37 | June 5, 1935 | Murder | |
| Elmer Brewer | 40 | |||
| Reginald Tracy | 54 | November 29, 1935 | Murder | |
| John Mercer | 29 | January 24, 1938 | Murder | |
| Allen Wheaton | 21 | Murder-Robbery | ||
| Marlo Heinz | 32 | April 19, 1938 | Murder | |
| Franz Jacobson | 30 | |||
| Walter Rhodes | 32 | May 7, 1940 | Murder | |
| Ivan Sullivan | 30 | November 12, 1941 | Murder | |
| Stanley Kaster | 36 | December 29, 1944 | Murder-Robbery | |
| William Jarrett | 54 | February 23, 1945 | Murder | |
| William Heincy | 45 | March 29, 1946 | Murder-Robbery-Burglary | |
| Philip Heincy | 73 | |||
| Corliss Bruntlett | 52 | July 6, 1949 | Murder-Robbery | |
| Edward James Beckwith | 31 | August 4, 1952 | Murder-Attempted rape | |
| Charles Noel Brown | 29 | July 24, 1962 | Murder-Robbery | |
| Charles Edwin Kelley | 21 | September 6, 1962 |
Federal and military executions
| Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of Execution | Place of Execution | Method | Crime(s) | Victim(s) | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley Tramble | Black | 31 | M | July 5, 1918 | Camp Dodge (military execution) | Hanging | Rape | Jessie Barnes, 17, white | Woodrow Wilson |
| Nelson Johnson | 30 | ||||||||
| Fred Allen | 22 | ||||||||
| Victor Feguer | White | 27 | March 15, 1963 | Iowa State Penitentiary | Kidnapping (victim killed) | Edward Bartels, 34, white | John F. Kennedy | ||
| Dustin Lee Honken | 52 | July 17, 2020 | USP Terre Haute | Lethal injection | Murder | Kandace Duncan and Amber Duncan, 10 and 6, white[a] | Donald Trump |
See also
Notes
- ^ Also convicted of murdering Greg Nicholson (34, white), Lori Ann Duncan (31, white) and Terry DeGeus (32, white).
References
- ^ "Abolition of capital punishment in Iowa". statelaws.findlaw.com. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Executions in Iowa, from 1834–1963". deathpenaltyusa.org. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Dustin Lee Honken executed". apnews.com. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.