- Keith Zettlemoyer
Keith Zettlemoyer (c. 1956 –
May 2 ,1995 ) was convicted of the October 1980 murder of Charles DeVetsco, a friend who was planning to testify against him in a robbery trial. He was executed in 1995 by the state ofPennsylvania bylethal injection at the age of 39. He became the first person to be executed in Pennsylvania since 1976 when the death penalty was reinstated.See also
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List of individuals executed in Pennsylvania
*Capital punishment in the United States Sources
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2D9133FF930A35756C0A963958260 Pennsylvania Execution First Since '62] . "
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* Roddy, Dennis. [http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/19990703roddy.asp Natural born killers] . "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette " (1999-07-03 ). Retrieved on2007-11-18 .
* [http://vls.law.vill.edu/locator/3d/May1995/95a1034p.txt http://vls.law.vill.edu/locator/3d/May1995/95a1034p.txt]
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