| 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 |
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* 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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