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Wyoming and the Death Penalty

Wyoming allows the death penalty as an option in cases of first-degree murder, including both premeditated and felony murder.

The sentence is death by lethal injection and lethal gas only if injection is held unconstitutional.

Minimum age for death penalty: 16

Executions since 1977: 1

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