Executed
Victor Feguer
Victor Harry Feguer spent his last days on death row at the Iowa Penitentiary in Fort Madison, where he talked with his priest and wrote letters. He was hanged there on March 15, 1963, after a federal court sentence of death, appeals, and a one-month stay. According to The Gazette, President John F. Kennedy declined to commute the sentence. An ABC News account from 2001 says he had been moved to death row ten days before the execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: U.S. District Court, Judge Graven (court); Iowa State Penitentiary (the agency that held him).