Capital punishment in Montana

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Montana.

Of the states that currently retain the death penalty, Montana is the only one that has not handed down a death sentence in the 21st century. The last time the state sentenced a defendant to death was in 1996. The state has not carried out an execution in over fifteen years, with its last execution carried out in 2006, when David Thomas Dawson was executed for three murders. Montana has currently two condemned inmates, including Canadian Ronald Allen Smith for the kidnapping and murder of two Aboriginal men.