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Austin Nelson and Eugene LaMoore — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Austin Nelson and Eugene LaMoore — Wikipedia (en)},
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Austin Archibald Nelson (October 1, 1918 – March 1, 1948) and Eugene R. LaMoore (February 22, 1904 – April 14, 1950) were the last two people to be judicially executed in the Territory of Alaska. Nelson and LaMoore were both convicted in separate trials of the December 1946 murder of Jim Ellen, a grocery store owner from Alaska's capital of Juneau, committed during a robbery of Ellen's store. Nelson's trial took place in 1947, and LaMoore testified in defense of Nelson's alibi before authorities connected him to Ellen's murder as well, leading to his own trial and conviction in 1948. Both men were sentenced to death. While Nelson was the second-to-last person executed in Alaska's history, LaMoore's execution two years later designated him as the final person to be executed in Alaska's history, as the then-territory abolished the death penalty in 1957 and never reinstated capital punishment after statehood in 1959. Decades after their convictions, several legal historians and journalists, including Averil Lerman, Ed Schoenfeld, and Betsy Longenbaugh, retrospectively analyzed the condemned men's cases. Lerman found their trials to have been "riddled with misconduct and errors", and Lerman specifically said prosecutorial misconduct played a role in both Nelson's trial and LaMoore's subsequent trial. Lerman also stated that the executions of Nelson and LaMoore were emblematic of a pattern of racial discrimination in the application of the death penalty in Alaska, as Lerman identified that racial minorities, impoverished defendants, and defendants lacking access to adequate legal representation received comparatively harsher punishments than white defendants and wealthier defendants; Nelson and LaMoore were both African-American men. Lerman and Logenbaugh also posited that the controversy surrounding Nelson's and LaMoore's executions contributed to souring public perception against the death penalty in Alaska, leading to the institution's abolition seven years after LaMoore's hanging.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Austin Nelson and Eugene LaMoore» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Nelson_and_Eugene_LaMoore
Wikidata Q137123146: «last people executed in Alaska (died 1948 and 1950)» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137123146
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