Walter LaGrand

Age: 37

Summary: German citizen who along with his brother was convicted of the fatal stabbing of bank branch manager Ken Hartsock during a botched robbery at the Valley National Bank in 1982 in southern Arizona, whose case drew widespread attention in Germany, which has no death penalty, prompting repeated diplomatic protests and an appeal to an international court, whose brother Karl LaGrand was put to death for the same crime becoming the first German citizens to be executed in the United States since World War II.

Cause of Death: Executed by gas chamber

Born: January 26, 1962

Died: March 3, 1999

Location: Phoenix, Arizona