Davis' last meal request was for ice cream. Shortly before his execution Davis also requested a cigarette – as a smoking ban was in place in Colorado prisons his request was denied. Davis was the only person to date to have been subject to the death penalty in Colorado since its reinstatement in 1977. (13 October 1997)
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Tuesday 8th of August 1950 (-) — SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Schmitt is executed by the firing squad. Schmitt was the only German Nazi to be executed in Belgium.