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Executions: the county's names, none of them Osceola's

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1897–2005 · THE STATE LIST, READ AT BOUNDARY

The checklist orders the execution list read first-hand and every county execution named, and at Osceola's boundary size the article is short because the finding is an absence. Indiana's execution record, as the Department of Correction's list gives it and as this county's builds have read it, carries three names whose offenses were St. Joseph County's: Harry Jones, hanged on May 7, 1897; John Grzyb, electrocuted on April 10, 1928; and Alan Matheney, executed on September 28, 2005, for a Mishawaka offense. No execution on the list answers to an Osceola or Penn Township offense, and no capital prosecution seated on this ground stands anywhere in the record swept for this build. The leg prints the three county names whole, as the checklist requires, and prints Osceola's line as it stands: the town and township have no name on the state's list, and never had a case that could have put one there in the record reached.

Sources: Indiana Department of Correction, execution list, as read first-hand in this county's builds (Jones, 1897; Grzyb, 1928; Matheney, 2005 — Mishawaka offense); the case sweep of this section, November 2026.

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Source: Executions: the county's names, none of them Osceola's, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/crime-public-safety/executions-the-county-s-names-none-of-them-osceola/