Executed
Richard Eugene Hickock
Richard Hickock was executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing on April 14, 1965, alongside Perry Smith. The Kansas City Star's 2025 account says the two men were hanged on the prison's original gallows. A local history page records the execution together with Smith's.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Kansas State Penitentiary (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.