Austin Nelson and Eugene LaMoore dating history

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Austin Archibald Nelson (October 1, 1918 – March 1, 1948) and Eugene R. LaMoore (February 22, 1904 – April 14, 1950) were the last two people to be judicially executed in the Territory of Alaska. Nelson and LaMoore were both convicted in separate trials of the December 1946 murder of Jim Ellen, a grocery store owner from Alaska's capital of Juneau, committed during a robbery of Ellen's store. Nelson's trial took place in 1947, and LaMoore testified in defense of Nelson's alibi before authorities connected him to Ellen's murder as well, leading to his own trial and conviction in 1948. Both men were sentenced to death. While Nelson was the second-to-last person executed in Alaska's history, LaMoore's execution two years later designated him as the final person to be executed in Alaska's history, as the then-territory abolished the death penalty in 1957 and never reinstated capital punishment after statehood in 1959.