Tag: West Virginia

• On This Day in 1959; Elmer Brunner, the last execution in West Virginia.

  

    West Virginia has never been known as a hard-line death penalty State, abolishing capital punishment in 1965. After 1899 there were 104 hangings and, with a change in method, nine electrocutions. Elmer Brunner’s, on April 3, 1959 was the last. Brunner wasn’t a notable murderer in himself. His crime, murdering homeowner  Ruby Miller, was…

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  April 3, 2018

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