A little too late to help this man out, but yesterday, Nebraska's Unicameral (the only one body legislature around) voted to repeal the death penalty.
Had they done so some 47 years ago, perhaps this fellow would still be hanging around.
Charlie Starkweather, accompanied by his 14 year old girlfriend, killed eleven people, including his girlfriend's mother, stepfather and little sister, in a spree that ended when they were finally caught in Wyoming. Charlie gave up after he was cut by glass and convinced himself that he would bleed out if he didn't get help.
A little over a year later, he was executed by the electric chair in Nebraska.
On a side note, Charlie's girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, went to school with my mother. My mom remembers Caril and I think she knew her family too. We will have to ask her.
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Nebraska's Capitol
For more info about Charlie and Caril, and their gruesome killing spree, head over to the Wyoming history page here:
Charles Starkweather
