1. Victor Harry Feguer was an American convicted murderer who was known as the last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following Furman v Georgia, as well as the last person put to death in the state of Iowa.
Victor Feguer was a drifter, native to the state of Michigan.
When Dr Bartels arrived, Victor Feguer kidnapped and killed him in Illinois.
Alford later told a local newspaper he suspected Victor Feguer was a crook because he had an out-of-state car but no title papers.
Victor Feguer said he killed the drug addict and dumped his body in the Mississippi River.
Iowa's governor, Harold Hughes, an opponent of capital punishment, along with Victor Feguer's attorney, contacted Kennedy to request clemency for Victor Feguer.
Victor Feguer was held at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.
Victor Feguer was taken back to Iowa because Leavenworth was not set up at the time to perform executions.
On March 5,1963, Victor Feguer was taken to the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa and placed in the state's death row to await execution.
Victor Feguer remained there for the next ten days until his execution was carried out.
Victor Feguer spent those ten days quietly; guards said he was a model prisoner.
Victor Feguer told guards he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his grave "as a sign of peace".
On March 14,1963, Victor Feguer sat in an all-night vigil with a Roman Catholic priest.
The witnesses included an Associated Press journalist and John Ely, then a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, whose witnessing of the execution reinforced his opposition to the death penalty, leading him to work to abolish the state death penalty in Iowa, which occurred in 1965, but which had no effect on the federal law under which Victor Feguer had been executed.
Victor Feguer was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Madison City Cemetery in Iowa wearing a second new suit that was provided for his burial.
Victor Feguer would be the last person to be executed in Iowa.