June 19, 1880 - Rich Owens
For nearly three decades, Owens served as the official executioner at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, carrying out 65 state-sanctioned executions — a tenure that places him among the most prolific figures of his kind in American penal history. His inclusion here stems not from any single act but from the accumulated weight of that role, compounded by ten additional killings outside his official capacity.
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Richard "Rich" Ernest Owens (June 19, 1880 – February 26, 1948) was Oklahoma's executioner from 1918 to 1947 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Rich Owens killed 66 men, 65 by electrocution and one by hanging. Rich faced murder charges four times in his life, but all four times juries acquitted him. At the age of 13, he killed a horse thief who was riding his father's horse. Owens was also the boss of a prison work crew. He died of liver cancer on February 26, 1948, in North McAlester, Oklahoma.
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