Capital punishment in Montana

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Montana.

The state has not carried out an execution in over seventeen years, with its last execution carried out in 2006, when David Thomas Dawson was executed. Montana currently has two men on death row: Ronald Allen Smith and William Jay Gollehon. Since 2015, there has been a de facto moratorium on capital punishment in Montana as a result of a court ruling that found that the state's lethal injection method violated the Montana Constitution.

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