Federal Executions 1927-2003

Posted: November 01, 2002

Federal Death Penalty

NAME	METHOD	RACE	OFFENSE	AGE	DATE	PLACE*
Aldermon, James	Hanging	Unk	Murder	Unk	08/17/27	FL
Panzram, Carl	Hanging	White	Murder of Laundry Foreman	36	09/05/30	KS
Barrett, George	Electrocution	White	Murder of N.B. Klein, FBI Man	Unk	03/24/36	IN
Gooch, Arthur	Hanging	White	Kidnapping	27	06/19/36	OK
Gardner, Earl	Hanging	Indian	Murder (wife and infant son)	30	07/12/36	AZ
Chebatoria, Anthony	Hanging	White	National bank robbery (killed)	39	07/08/38	MI
Seadlund, Henry	Hanging	White	Kidnapping (Chas. Ross)	27	07/14/38	IL
Suhay, Robert	Hanging	White	Murder (Agent Baker)	25	08/12/38	KS
Applegate, Glenn	Hanging	White	Murder (Agent Baker)	34	08/12/38	KS
Dalhover, James	Electrocution	White	Bank robbery and murder (Brady gang)	32	11/18/38	IN
Charles, Nelson	Hanging	Indian	Murder (mother-in-law)	37	11/10/39	AK
**Haupt, Herbert	Electrocution	White	Sabotage	22	08/08/42	DC
**Heinck, Heinrich	Electrocution	White	Sabotage	Unk	08/08/42	DC
**Keiling, Edward	Electrocution	White	Sabotage	Unk	08/08/42	DC
**Neubauer, Herman	Electrocution	White	Sabotage	Unk	08/08/42	DC
**Quirin, Richard	Electrocution	White	Sabotage	Unk	08/08/42	DC
**Thiel, Werner	Electrocution	White	Sabotage	Unk	08/08/42	DC
Arwood, Clyde	Electrocution	White	Murder of federal employee	24	08/14/43	TN
Ruhl, Henry	Gas chamber	White	Murder on a government reservation	36	04/27/45	WY
Nelson, Austin	Hanging	Black	First degree murder of a merchant	28	03/01/48	AK
Watson, David Joseph	Electrocution	Black	Murder on the high seas	23	09/15/48	FL
Shockley, Samuel Richard	Gas chamber	White	Murder	36	12/03/48	CA
Thompson, Meran Edgar	Gas chamber	White	First degree murder	31	12/03/48	CA
Ochoa, Carlos Romero	Gas chamber	White	Murder	27	12/10/48	CA
LaMoore, Eugene	Hanging	Black	First degree murder of a merchant	Unk	04/14/50	AK
Rosenberg, Julius	Electrocution	White	Espionage	35	06/19/53	NY
Rosenberg, Ethel (f)	Electrocution	White	Espionage	37	06/19/53	NY
Hall, Carl Austin	Gas chamber	White	Kidnapping and murder	34	12/18/53	MO
Heady, Bonnie Brown (f)	Gas chamber	White	Murder	41	12/18/53	MO
Puff, Gerhard A.	Electrocution	White	Murder of an FBI agent	39	08/12/54	NY
Brown, Arthur Ross	Gas chamber	White	Kidnapping (victim not released unharmed)	30	02/24/56	MO
Krull, George	Electrocution	White	Rape	34	08/21/57	GA
Krull, Michael	Electrocution	White	Rape	32	08/21/57	GA
Feguer, Victor	Hanging	White	Kidnapping	28	03/15/63	IA
McVeigh, Timothy	Lethal Injection	White	Murder	33	6/11/01	IN (OK)
Garza, Juan Raul	Lethal Injection	Hispanic	Murder	44	6/19/01	IN (TX)
Jones, Louis, Jr.	Lethal Injection	Black	Murder	53	3/18/03	IN (TX)
Total: 37 executions

* Place refers to state where inmate committed the crime and was executed. In 1999, the federal Bureau of Prisons has converted an old cell block in Terre Haute, Indiana, into a new facility for condemned federal prisoners. In 1995, Terre Haute was modified to include an execution chamber. Since that time, all Federal executions take place in Indiana. For those prisoners executed after 1990, the state in parenthesis indicates the state where the crime was committed.

** Tried by a military commission appointed by President Roosevelt on July 8, 1942.

Source: General Services Administration, October 12, 1993 (with updates by DPIC). For federal executions prior to 1927, see DPIC's Espy File page.

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