Legal
Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming
Written by R. Michael Wilson
Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911 is the foundational work for documenting every legal execution in fifteen western jurisdiction.
This book covers executions before each jurisdiction became a state, but the work on the same fifteen jurisdictions after statehood is progressing. The encyclopedia on legal executions in the seven northwestern states - North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon - will be released in November of this year and is comprehensive through 2010. The manuscript on executions in the five southwestern states – Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Nevada - through 2010 is completed; the work has already begun on Nebraska and Kansas; and work will begin for "Oklahoma, including the Indian Territory" by November.
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Each execution is presented as a separate case history with at least three parts are addressed:
Throughout the process of legal executions there are often excited utterances by any party, detailed confessions, interesting words during the legal proceeding and at sentencing, and those final words by victims or by the condemned can elicit every imaginable emotion. Big Blend Radio - Robert Michael Wilson was a featured guest on Way Back When radio on August 21, 2010. To listen to Bob's interview about executions in the Midwest, please click here. |
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Big Blend Radio - Robert Michael Wilson was a featured guest on Way Back When radio on July 24, 2010. To listen to Bob's interview about executions in the Southwest, please click here. To listen to the entire show, please click here.
Wilson's books include Drenched
in Blood, Rigid in
Death; the true story of
the Wickenburg massacre;
Tragic Jack; the true
story of Arizona Pioneer
John William Swilling;
Encyclopedia of
Stagecoach Robbery in
Arizona; Crime &
Punishment in Early
Arizona; Murder &
Execution in the Wild
West; Great Stagecoach
Robberies of the Old
West; Great Train
Robberies of the Old
West; Frontier Justice
in the Wild West;
Bungled, Bizarre and
Fascinating
Executions; and his
latest book,
Encyclopedia of
Stagecoach Robbery in
Nevada. In addition to
his books, he has also
written numerous
articles for various
publications, including
Old West magazine--and
appeared on the History
Channel production,
Massacres, as an old
west consultant. For
more about R. Michael
Wilson,
click here.
