Robert Eugene Carter

Biography

Robert Eugene Carter (February 11, 1929 – April 26, 1957) was an American man who was convicted of the 1953 murder of a Washington, D.C. police officer named George Cassels, whom Carter shot during a foot chase from a holdup Carter had committed immediately prior. Carter's execution on April 26, 1957, made him the final person to be executed prior to the death penalty's abolition in the District of Columbia in 1981.

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