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Bud Peterson

Date Executed: February 25, 1949

Race: Black

For: MURDER

From: Logan County

How: HANGED

Bud Peterson from Logan County was the last man hanged. Peterson was sentenced to death for killing a woman over a poker debt.

According to an Associated Press account of the 1949 execution, just before the trap doors of the wagon house dropped open, Peterson said he got good treatment at the prison.

He then addressed about 10 witnesses who had gathered. "Look what sin has brought me," Peterson said. "You folks should stay on this side with Jesus."

Peterson's family refused to claim his body, so he was buried in the penitentiary cemetery.