 Kelly and Charles Brown were together convicted by a jury of the murder of a man in Walnut, Iowa.The court sentenced them both to death by hanging; Brown was executed at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison on July 24, 1962, and Kelly was hanged at the same prison on September 6.In 1965, the Iowa General Assembly passed a law that abolished the death penalty as a possible punishment; it was signed into law by Governor Harold Hughes.