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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Jesse Bishop

Jesse Walter Bishop was an American criminal convicted of the December 1977 murder of David Ballard during a robbery at a Las Vegas Strip casino. Bishop was executed in 1979 by the state of Nevada via gas chamber, becoming the first person to be executed in Nevada since 1961. He was also the first person to be executed in Nevada since the reinstatement of the death penalty, and the third in the United States. Bishop had spent twenty years of his life incarcerated for various felony offenses and bragged about having committed an estimated eighteen homicides.

March 1, 1933 - October 22, 1979
Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out. — © Jesse Bishop
Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.
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