Mark Hopkinson
Mark Hopkinson | |
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Hopkinson on March 14, 1979 | |
| Born | Mark Allen Hopkinson October 8, 1949 Evanston, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Died | January 22, 1992 (aged 42) |
| Cause of death | Execution by lethal injection |
| Occupation | Former football player |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Convictions | First degree murder (4 counts) Conspiracy to commit first degree murder (2 counts) |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 |
| Date | August 7, 1977 May 1979 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wyoming |
Mark Allen Hopkinson (October 8, 1949 – January 22, 1992) was a convicted proxy serial killer by who was responsible for arranging the 1977 murders of Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, and John Vehar, and the 1979 murder Jeffrey Green, a key witness against him, in Wyoming. Hopkinson is the only person to have been executed by the state of Wyoming since the 1960s. Gerry Spence served as the special prosecutor who won the case against Hopkinson.
Hopkinson was sentenced to death specifically for Green's murder, the deciding factor being that he had arranged it from a federal prison in California, where he was serving time for trying to arrange the murder of another man in Arizona. Prior to his execution, Hopkinson allegedly tried to arrange additional murders from death row.