Duncan Peder McKenzie, Jr., (October 5, 1951 – May 11, 1995) was convicted of the murder of Conrad, Montana

Conrad, Montana

Conrad is a city in and the county seat of Pondera County, Montana, United States. The population was 2,753 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Conrad is located at ....

 schoolteacher Lana Harding on January 21, 1974. After conviction, he was on death row

Death row

Death row signifies the place, often a section of a prison, that houses individuals awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution , even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.After individuals are found...

 for 20 years, receiving eight stays of execution

Stay of execution

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. His ninth stay of execution was denied by the United States courts of appeals

United States courts of appeals

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McKenzie was executed on May 11, 1995. He was the first person executed in Montana since 1943.

See also

• Capital punishment in the United States
  Capital punishment in the United States
  Capital punishment in the United States, in practice, applies only for aggravated murder and more rarely for felony murder. Capital punishment was a penalty at common law, for many felonies, and was enforced in all of the American colonies prior to the Declaration of Independence...
  
  
• List of individuals executed in Montana