Douglas Wright (murderer)

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Douglas Franklin Wright (March 25, 1940 - September 6, 1996) was the first criminal executed by lethal injection in Oregon on September 6th, 1996.

[edit] His crime

Wright was sentenced to death on October 11, 1993 for luring three homeless white men to a remote area of Wasco County aboard the Warm Springs Indian Reservation with a false promise of work, and then killing them. Wright later admitted killing a fourth man, one Anthony Nelson, a Makah Indian. If Wright had not quit his appeal process, he would have been tried before a federal court in the Nelson case because killing a Native American on an Indian Reservation is a federal crime, under the Major Crimes Act.

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