George and Michael Krull

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George Krull (1921–1957) and Michael Krull (1924–1957) were brothers from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania who became the only people ever executed in Georgia on a federal death warrant. The two were executed for raping a woman in a national park. These were the last non-military executions for rape by the federal government. The last were in 1896, when all five members of the Rufus Buck Gang were hanged side-by-side in Arkansas for gang raping a woman during a violent crime spree.

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