In 1964, Missouri executed "habitual criminal" Ronald Lee Wolfe for the brutal, non-homicidal rape of an 8-year-old girl. He would be the last person in American history executed for the crime. Discover the 1959 case that set a grim precedent, its path to the gas chamber, and how it was ultimately cited in the landmark Kennedy v. Louisiana Supreme Court decision that changed capital punishment forever.
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