Luis Jose Monge

Mass murderer
4known / alleged victims
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Case Facts
Gender
male
Country
USA
Location
Denver, Colorado, USA
Date of birth
August 21, 1918
Age at first offence
45
Characteristics
incest
Victim profile
His pregnant wife Leonarda, and three of the couple's ten children, Alan, 6; Vincent, 4; and Teresa, eleven months
Method of murder
Beating with a steel bar - Stabbing with knife - Strangulation
Date(s) of murder
1963
Years active
1963
Date of arrest
Same day (surrenders)
Status
Executed

Executed by asphyxiation-gas in Colorado on June 2, 1967

Case Summary

Background

Luis Jose Monge was executed by asphyxiation-gas in Colorado on June 2, 1967.

Monge’s execution was the last execution both in Colorado and in the United States prior to the 1972 Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia. It would be ten full years before any state would carry out another execution and 30 years before Colorado itself would do so.

Monge’s execution was one of only two executions to occur in the United States in 1967. It was also the last execution by gas chamber in Colorado.

After his wife had discovered he’d had an incestuous relationship with one of their daughters, his wife discovered the incestuous relationship.

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