Capital punishment in the state of Vermont ended in 1972 for all crimes due to Furman v. Georgia.
Lionel Goyet, a soldier who was Absent Without Leave for the fifth time, robbed and killed a farmhand, and was sentenced to death in 1957.
[1] His sentence was commuted six months later,[2] and Goyet was conditionally pardoned in 1969.
[3] He had no further problems with the law, and died of heart failure in 1980.
[4] Vermont had a pre-Furman statute providing death by electrocution for treason until the punishment was replaced by imprisonment and a potentially additional fine.