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Victor Harry Feguer (1935 – March 15, 1963) was a convicted murderer, and the last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia , as well as the last person put to death in the state of Iowa .
Aug 12, 2021 · Victor Feguer was the last person executed by the federal government in 1963 for kidnapping and killing a doctor in Iowa. Learn about his crime, trial, appeal, and execution in this web page by a death penalty scholar.
Oct 17, 2015 · Victor Feguer was a drifter who kidnapped and killed a doctor in Iowa and was hanged in federal prison. He asked for an olive as his last meal and hoped for peace from his grave.
Mar 15, 2013 · Ex-TH reporter looks back at the 1963 execution of a man who kidnapped and killed a Dubuque doctor in 1960. At midnight, a prison chef served Victor Harry Feguer his last meal just as the young killer had requested it: a single olive, with the pit.
Jun 9, 2001 · Victor Feguer was a paranoid schizophrenic who kidnapped and killed a doctor in 1960. He was hanged in 1963 and remained the last federal death-row inmate until Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
Mar 15, 2013 · Victor Feguer was the last person executed by the federal government in the 20th century for kidnapping and murdering a doctor. He was hanged in Iowa in 1963, despite the opposition of the state governor and the clemency request of President Kennedy.
FEGUER, Victor Harry. (1935--Fort Madison, IA, Mar. 15, 1963) Victor Harry Feguer was the last person to be executed in America before capital punishment was banned as a sentence until 1976. He remains the last person to be put to death in Iowa after he was found guilty of killing Dr. Edward BARTELS .
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