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 legal 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 spree 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.
Name | Race | Age | Date of execution | County | Crime | Victim(s) | Governor |
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Ernest L. Hoefgen | White | 32 | March 10, 1944 | Marion | Murder | Bruce Smoll, 18, white [1] [a] | Andrew Frank Schoeppel |
Fred L. Brady | White | 46 | April 15, 1944 | Cowley | Murder-Robbery | Joe Williams, black [2] | |
Clark B. Knox | Black | 26 | Wyandotte | Murder | Edward F. Nugent, white (patrolman) [3] | ||
Cecil Tate | White | 21 | July 29, 1947 | Kingman | Murder-Robbery | Arnold McClelland, 36, white [4] [b] | Frank Carlson |
George F. Gumtow | White | 23 | |||||
George Miller | Black | 60 | May 6, 1950 | Miami | Murder | Mike Churchill, 48, white (police chief) [5] | |
Preston McBride | White | 25 | April 6, 1951 | Reno | Murder | John Watkins, white [6] | Edward F. Arn |
James Lammers | White | 26 | January 5, 1952 | Doniphan | Murder | Four people, white [7] [c] | |
Nathaniel Germany | Black | 30 | May 21, 1954 | Wyandotte | Murder | David Gray, white [8] | |
Merle William Martin | White | 45 | July 16, 1954 | Johnson | Murder | Willard Carver, white (deputy sheriff) [9] | |
Lowell Lee Andrews | White | 22 | November 30, 1962 | Wyandotte | Murder | Three people, white [10] [d] | John Anderson Jr. |
Richard E. Hickock | White | 31 | April 14, 1965 | Finney | Murder-Robbery | Clutter family (four people), white [11] | |
Perry Edward Smith | White | 28 | |||||
George Ronald York | White | 23 | June 22, 1965 | Russell | Murder-Robbery | Otto Zeigler, 69, white [12] [e] | |
James Douglas Latham | White | 23 |
Note: This list only contains non-military executions at the Kansas State Penitentiary. [13] [14]
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