Charles A. Kelly (died September 6, 1962) was the last person executed by Iowa. In 1965, Iowa abolished its death penalty and no one has been executed by the state since then. 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.