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  1. Victor Harry Feguer (1935 – March 15, 1963) was a convicted murderer, and the last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v. Georgia , as well as the last person put to death in the state of Iowa .

  2. Aug 12, 2021 · Victor Feguer was the last person executed by the federal government in 1963 for kidnapping and killing a doctor in Iowa. Learn about his crime, trial, appeal, and execution in this web page by a death penalty scholar.

  3. Jun 8, 2001 · It was a far different scene in 1963, when Victor Feguer was hanged without fanfare. 38 Years Later, Stark Contrasts in Tales of 2 Federal Executions - Los Angeles Times Media: When Timothy J...

  4. Oct 17, 2015 · Victor Feguer was a drifter who kidnapped and killed a doctor in Iowa and was hanged in federal prison. He asked for an olive as his last meal and hoped for peace from his grave.

  5. Jun 9, 2001 · Victor Feguer was a paranoid schizophrenic who kidnapped and killed a doctor in 1960. He was hanged in 1963 and remained the last federal death-row inmate until Timothy McVeigh in 2001.

  6. Mar 24, 2013 · Feguer was sentenced to hanging Jan. 15, 1963, at the Iowa Penitentiary in Fort Madison. An appeal for executive clemency was then sent to President John F. Kennedy. A one-month stay of execution ...

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  8. May 6, 2001 · On March 15, 1963, in a converted auto-repair shop on the grounds of the state penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa, a twenty-seven-year-old man named Victor Feguer was hanged by the neck until...