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The state's execution list opens with a St. Joseph County hanging, and this county's pair closes its local course in 1928. The Indiana Department of Correction's official list, "Indiana Executions 1897–Present," read first-hand, carries as its entry No. 1: Harry Jones, hanged 7 May 1897, county of conviction St. Joseph, crime murder — the first execution of the state's modern record is a South Bend case. The county's second entry is the checklist's other name: John Grzyb (also carried as John Hall), electrocuted 10 April 1928, St. Joseph County, first-degree murder and robbery. The pre-1897 limb stands at searched strength: compilations of Indiana's county-hanging era were scanned's searches without a St. Joseph County entry surfacing, but they were not read line by line, and the limb prints as a residue (settler: the pre-1897 execution compilations, read entire) rather than as a negative.
Principal sources: Indiana Department of Correction, "Indiana Executions 1897–Present" (in.gov/idoc), read first-hand 11 November 2026; the banked this history lk-rem-crime (the Pierpont funeral).