Name: Jesse Walter Bishop
Crime: Killed a newlywed man in the El Morocco hotel-casino during a robbery attempt.
Executed: Oct. 22, 1979. The 46-year-old Bishop was executed by lethal gas, the last man to die by gas in Nevada.
Name: Carroll Cole
Crime: Killed Marie Cushman in Las Vegas; convicted of killing four other women; claimed to have murdered more than a dozen women.
Executed: Dec. 6, 1985. The 47-year-old Cole was the first person to die by lethal injection.
Name: William Thompson
Crime: Killed a transient in Reno; claimed to have killed three other men and had two other murder convictions.
Executed: June 19, 1989. The 51-year-old Thompson died by lethal injection.
Name: Sean Flanagan
Crime: Killed two men in Las Vegas; crime motivated by hatred of gays.
Executed: June 23, 1989. The 27-year-old Flanagan died by lethal injection.
Name: Thomas Baal
Crime: Killed a bus driver during a Las Vegas robbery.
Executed: June 3, 1990. The 26-year-old Baal died by lethal injection.
Name: Richard Moran
Crime: Killed two in a Las Vegas bar in 1984.
Executed: March 31, 1996. The 42-year-old Morgan died by lethal injection.
Name: Richard Abeyta
Crime: Killed his sleeping ex-girlfriend by shooting her twice in the head.
Executed: Oct. 5, 1998. The 44-year-old Abeyta died by lethal injection.
Name: Alvaro Calambro
Crime: Killed Peggy Crawford with a tire iron and crushed Keith Christopher's head with a hammer.
Executed: April 5, 1999. The 25-year-old Calambro died by lethal injection.
Name: Sebastian Bridges
Crime: Killed Hunter Blatchford, who'd been romantically involved with his wife, in a desert outside Las Vegas.
Executed: April 21, 2001. The 37-year-old Bridges died by lethal injection.
Name: Lawrence Colwell Jr.
Crime: Strangled and robbed Florida tourist Frank Rosenstock.
Executed: March 26, 2004. The 35-year-old Colwell died by lethal injection.