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Capital Punishment in Territorial Alaska:
The Last Three Executions
by Averil Lerman
Originally published in Frame of Reference [Alaska Humanities Forum] 9(1): 6–9, 16–19, April 1998. Reprinted
with permission.
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Alaska as a state has never had a death penalty. However, in Alaska's territorial days, eight men were executed under civil authority between 1900 and 1957. This article provides an account of the last three executions in Territorial Alaska between 1939 and 1950: Nelson Charles, Austin Nelson, and Eugene LaMoore.
Research for this article was supported with grants from the Alaska Humanities Forum and the National Endowment for the Humanities and assistance from the Alaska Native Justice Center. In addition to studying teh documentary record of these cases, which all took place in Territorial Alaska between 1939 and 1950, the author conducted over fifty interviews. |
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Lerman, Averil (
April 1988). "Capital Punishment in the Territorial Alaska: The Last Three Executions." In Melissa
S. Green, compiler (1998-2009), Focus on the Death Penalty (website).
Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. <http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/pagenamejuneau.html>
(accessed date).
Originally published in Frame of Reference [Alaska Humanities Forum] 9(1): 6–9, 16–19, April 1998.
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