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Clayton Octave Fouquette

Clayton Octave Fouquette


Clayton Fouquette was executed at the Nevada State Prison on April 13, 1953. He was convicted of killing University of Nevada student Donald Brown in a botched robbery attempt in a Boulder City, Nevada service station on August 19, 1948. His execution was postponed eight times between 1948 and 1953 before the sentence of death was carried out in the gas chamber. Fouquette was a native of Foley, Minnesota and at the time of his death was forty years of age. His occupation was listed as plumber.