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1. Leavenworth Times: News Index
www.leavenworthtimes.com/artic - [Cached]Published on: 9/5/2004 Last Visited: 9/5/2004
THE GRAVES (Times photo/Connie Parish) Jerry Collins and Sam Dominguez, kneeling, visit the graves of George Gumtow and Cecil Tate.
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After Jerry Collins started working at the Kansas State Penitentiary in the early 1960s, he witnessed four legal hangings.
But he became especially intrigued by tales told about a hanging that occurred 15 years before he started work at the maximum-security prison at Lansing.
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To this day, their story stands out in Collins' mind more than any of the other Kansas executions, all of which he's extensively researched.
That's because the two were hanged back to back, simultaneously.
As far as Collins and a Kansas State University professor can tell, this never happened anywhere else in the United States. Collins met the professor in 1981, when he was writing a book on capital punishment and they contacted corrections officials across the nation about it.
Collins cited several other reasons the hanging of the young men interested him. The time between their sentencing for the crime -- murdering a 60-year-old Calista, Kan., farmer and his 36-year-old son -- and the execution of the two young hitchhikers was only 57 days.
Kansas Gov.
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Collins has spent considerable time finding out about the execution, which occurred on July 29, 1947. As a young officer, he lived on the fourth floor of the prison's administration building -- ironically the spot where the new execution chamber was built in the last few years. This time, however, the means will be lethal injection rather than hanging -- the accepted method through the last one, which occurred on June 22, 1965.
During Collins' stay on the fourth floor, he became friends with two older officers, who had 30 years of experience at the penitentiary.
Both had worked in what was later called the Segregation & Isolation Building, where death row inmates were housed.
During their conversations, Collins took notes. One officer had diaries he kept with notes about the executions, as well as some photos. These he allowed Collins to copy.
Over the years, Collins traveled to Kingman -- the county seat of Kingman County-- several times to verify what he knew about Gumtow and Tate's crimes and the legal process that led to their hanging.
To that end, he's collected court documents as well as newspaper clippings to find out what happened and he's matched it up with what he read in the diaries and heard in conversations. -
2. Leavenworth Times: News Index
www.leavenworthtimes.com/artic - [Cached]Published on: 9/2/2004 Last Visited: 9/2/2004
THE GRAVES (Times photo/Connie Parish) Jerry Collins and Sam Dominguez, kneeling, visit the graves of George Gumtow and Cecil Tate.
...
After Jerry Collins started working at the Kansas State Penitentiary in the early 1960s, he witnessed four legal hangings.
But he became especially intrigued by tales told about a hanging that occurred 15 years before he started work at the maximum-security prison at Lansing.
...
To this day, their story stands out in Collins' mind more than any of the other Kansas executions, all of which he's extensively researched.
That's because the two were hanged back to back, simultaneously.
As far as Collins and a Kansas State University professor can tell, this never happened anywhere else in the United States. Collins met the professor in 1981, when he was writing a book on capital punishment and they contacted corrections officials across the nation about it.
Collins cited several other reasons the hanging of the young men interested him. The time between their sentencing for the crime -- murdering a 60-year-old Calista, Kan., farmer and his 36-year-old son -- and the execution of the two young hitchhikers was only 57 days.
Kansas Gov.
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Collins has spent considerable time finding out about the execution, which occurred on July 29, 1947. As a young officer, he lived on the fourth floor of the prison's administration building -- ironically the spot where the new execution chamber was built in the last few years. This time, however, the means will be lethal injection rather than hanging -- the accepted method through the last one, which occurred on June 22, 1965.
During Collins' stay on the fourth floor, he became friends with two older officers, who had 30 years of experience at the penitentiary.
Both had worked in what was later called the Segregation & Isolation Building, where death row inmates were housed.
During their conversations, Collins took notes. One officer had diaries he kept with notes about the executions, as well as some photos. These he allowed Collins to copy.
Over the years, Collins traveled to Kingman -- the county seat of Kingman County-- several times to verify what he knew about Gumtow and Tate's crimes and the legal process that led to their hanging.
To that end, he's collected court documents as well as newspaper clippings to find out what happened and he's matched it up with what he read in the diaries and heard in conversations. -
3. Leavenworth Times: News Index
www.leavenworthtimes.com/artic - [Cached]Published on: 8/30/2004 Last Visited: 8/30/2004
After Jerry Collins started working at the Kansas State Penitentiary in the early 1960s, he witnessed four legal hangings.
But he became especially intrigued by tales told about a hanging that occurred 15 years before he started work at the maximum-security prison at Lansing.
...
To this day, their story stands out in Collins' mind more than any of the other Kansas executions, all of which he's extensively researched.
That's because the two were hanged back to back, simultaneously.
As far as Collins and a Kansas State University professor can tell, this never happened anywhere else in the United States. Collins met the professor in 1981, when he was writing a book on capital punishment and they contacted corrections officials across the nation about it.
Collins cited several other reasons the hanging of the young men interested him. The time between their sentencing for the crime -- murdering a 60-year-old Calista, Kan., farmer and his 36-year-old son -- and the execution of the two young hitchhikers was only 57 days.
Kansas Gov.
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Collins has spent considerable time finding out about the execution, which occurred on July 29, 1947. As a young officer, he lived on the fourth floor of the prison's administration building -- ironically the spot where the new execution chamber was built in the last few years. This time, however, the means will be lethal injection rather than hanging -- the accepted method through the last one, which occurred on June 22, 1965.
During Collins' stay on the fourth floor, he became friends with two older officers, who had 30 years of experience at the penitentiary.
Both had worked in what was later called the Segregation & Isolation Building, where death row inmates were housed.
During their conversations, Collins took notes. One officer had diaries he kept with notes about the executions, as well as some photos. These he allowed Collins to copy.
Over the years, Collins traveled to Kingman -- the county seat of Kingman County-- several times to verify what he knew about Gumtow and Tate's crimes and the legal process that led to their hanging.
To that end, he's collected court documents as well as newspaper clippings to find out what happened and he's matched it up with what he read in the diaries and heard in conversations.
