Ronald Lee Wolfe | |
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Born | United States | September 3, 1930
Died | May 8, 1964 | (aged 33)
Cause of death | Execution by gas chamber |
Other names | Ward Jewel Hopkins Albert John Strouse Jewel Karvey Hopkins |
Criminal status | Executed |
Conviction(s) | Rape |
Criminal penalty | Death |
Ronald Lee Wolfe (September 3, 1930 – May 8, 1964) was the last person executed in the United States for non-homicidal rape,[1][2] and second-to-last put to death for crime other than murder (the last was James Coburn, electrocuted in Alabama the same year for robbery).[3] He was also second-to-last person executed in Missouri before the U.S. moratorium on capital punishment.[4]