Capital punishment in Montana

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Montana.[1]

The state has not carried out an execution in over seventeen years, with its last execution carried out in 2006, when David Thomas Dawson was executed.[2] Montana currently has two men on death row:[3] Ronald Allen Smith and William Jay Gollehon. Since 2015, there has been a de facto moratorium on capital punishment in Montana as a result of a court ruling that found that the state's lethal injection method violated the Montana Constitution.[4]

  1. ^ "State by State". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
  2. ^ "Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
  3. ^ "Capital Punishment, 2021 – Statistical Tables (Table 1)". Retrieved April 30, 2024.
  4. ^ "Death Penalty | ACLU of Montana". www.aclumontana.org. February 26, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2024.