title: List of people executed in Wyoming
text: # List of people executed in Wyoming
  
  The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Wyoming.
  
  A total of 7 men were executed prior to Wyoming becoming a State on July 10, 1890:
  
  | | Executed person | Date of execution | Method | Crime |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | John Boyer | April 21, 1871 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 2 | William Tousant Kensler | November 19, 1874 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 3 | Leroy Donovan | January 18, 1884 | Hanging | Murder and robbery |
  | 4 | George Cooke | December 12, 1884 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 5 | John Owens | March 5, 1886 | Hanging | Murder and robbery |
  | 6 | Benjamin Carter | January 26, 1888 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 7 | George Black | February 26, 1890 | Hanging | Murder |
  
  18 men were executed by the state of Wyoming between its statehood and the Supreme Court ban on executions in 1972:
  
  | | Executed person | Date of execution | Method | Crime |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Charles Miller | April 22, 1892 | Hanging | Murder and robbery |
  | 2 | Frank Howard | December 7, 1894 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 3 | James Keffer | September 24, 1902 | Hanging | Murder and robbery |
  | 4 | Thomas Horn | November 20, 1903 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 5 | Joseph Seng | May 24, 1912 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 6 | Warren Jenkins | November 14, 1913 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 7 | Willard Flanders | June 16, 1916 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 8 | Wilmer Palmer | August 11, 1916 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 9 | Oscar White | October 20, 1916 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 10 | Yee Geow | March 11, 1921 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 11 | George Brownfield | March 10, 1930 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 12 | Charles Aragon | May 14, 1930 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 13 | Talton Taylor | May 11, 1933 | Hanging | Murder |
  | 14 | Perry Carroll | August 13, 1937 | Lethal gas | Murder |
  | 15 | Stanley Lantzer | April 19, 1940 | Lethal gas | Murder |
  | 16 | Cleveland Brown, Jr. | November 17, 1944 | Lethal gas | Murder and rape |
  | 17 | Andrew Pixley | December 10, 1965 | Lethal gas | Murder and rape |
  
  Wyoming enacted its post-Furman death penalty statute on February 28, 1977. One man has been executed in the state of Wyoming since then:
  
  | | Executed person | Race | Date of execution | Method | Murder victim(s) | Under Governor |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Mark Hopkinson | White | January 22, 1992 | Lethal injection | Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green | Mike Sullivan |
  
  One federal execution has taken place in Wyoming:
  
  | Executed person | Date of execution | Crime | Method | Under President |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Henry Ruhl | April 27, 1945 | Murder on a Government Reservation | Lethal gas | Harry S. Truman |
  