List Of People Executed By The United States Federal Government
The following is a list of people executed by the United States federal government.
Post-Gregg executions
Sixteen executions (none of them military) have occurred in the modern post-Gregg era. Since 1963, sixteen people have been executed under federal jurisdiction by the United States federal government. All were executed by lethal injection at USP Terre Haute.
| No. | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of execution | Crime | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timothy McVeigh | White | 33 | M | June 11, 2001 | Murder of eight federal law enforcement officers through the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The bombing killed 168 people and injured over 680 others. | George W. Bush |
| 2 | Juan Raul Garza | Hispanic | 44 | M | June 19, 2001 | Murder of Thomas Albert Rumbo, Gilberto Matos, and Erasmo De La Fuente in conjunction with a drug-smuggling ring in the early 1990s. The jury also found beyond a reasonable doubt that he was responsible for the murders of Antonio Nieto, Bernabe Sosa, Diana Flores Villareal, Oscar Cantu, and Fernando Escobar Garcia. | |
| 3 | Louis Jones Jr. | Black | 53 | M | March 18, 2003 | Kidnapping, rape, and murder of 19-year-old U.S. Army Private Tracie McBride on February 18, 1995. | |
| 4 | Daniel Lewis Lee | White | 47 | M | July 14, 2020 | Racketeering-related murders of William Mueller, his wife, and his 8-year-old stepdaughter on January 11, 1996. Mueller was a local gun dealer and Lee and his co-defendant, Chevie Kehoe, planned to use stolen merchandise from Mueller to set up a white ethnostate in Spokane, Washington. | Donald Trump |
| 5 | Wesley Ira Purkey | White | 68 | M | July 16, 2020 | Kidnapping, rape, and murder of 16-year-old Jennifer Long in 1998. Purkey then dismembered and burned her body and scattered the remains into a septic pond. He was also convicted of the murder of 80-year-old polio patient, Mary Ruth Bales, in state court. | |
| 6 | Dustin Lee Honken | White | 52 | M | July 17, 2020 | Murder of five people in Iowa in 1993. Honken, who was aided by his girlfriend, Angela Johnson, committed the murders to eliminate witnesses against his drug dealing operation. | |
| 7 | Lezmond Charles Mitchell | Native American | 38 | M | August 26, 2020 | Carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, and murder of 63-year-old Alyce Slim and her 9-year-old granddaughter Tiffany Lee on October 28, 2001. He stabbed Slim 33 times to her death and slit Lee's throat before dropping rocks on her head. Lezmond's co-defendant, 16-year-old Johnny Orsinger, received a life sentence since he was too young to be executed. | |
| 8 | Keith Dwayne Nelson | White | 45 | M | August 28, 2020 | Kidnapping, rape, and murder of 10-year-old Pamela Butler on October 12, 1999. | |
| 9 | William Emmett LeCroy Jr. | White | 50 | M | September 22, 2020 | Carjacking, rape, and murder of Joann Lee Tiesler on October 7, 2001. | |
| 10 | Christopher Andre Vialva | Black | 40 | M | September 24, 2020 | Carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, and murder of Todd and Stacie Bagley on June 21, 1999 at Fort Hood. | |
| 11 | Orlando Cordia Hall | Black | 49 | M | November 19, 2020 | Kidnapping, rape, and murder of 16-year-old Lisa Rene in 1994. | |
| 12 | Brandon Bernard | Black | 40 | M | December 10, 2020 | Carjacking, kidnapping, robbery, and murder of Todd and Stacie Bagley in 1999 at Fort Hood. | |
| 13 | Alfred Bourgeois | Black | 56 | M | December 11, 2020 | Sexual assault, abuse, torture, and murder of his 2-year-old daughter Jakaren Harrison in June 2002 at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. | |
| 14 | Lisa Marie Montgomery | White | 52 | F | January 13, 2021 | Murder of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett and kidnapping of Stinnett's daughter from her womb on December 16, 2004. | |
| 15 | Corey Johnson | Black | 52 | M | January 14, 2021 | Murder of seven people in Richmond, Virginia, in 1992 as part of a drug-trafficking ring. | |
| 16 | Dustin John Higgs | Black | 48 | M | January 16, 2021 | Kidnapping and murder of three women on the Patuxent Research Refuge on January 27, 1996. |
Earlier non-military executions, 1900 to 1963
From 1790 to 1963, there were 332 Federal, 271 Territorial and 40 Indian Tribunal executions according to the most complete records. The youngest person executed was James Arcene on June 18, 1885, at the age of 23 for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was 10 years old.
| Name | Method | Offense | Date of execution | Location | Note | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Walkingshield | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | October 24, 1902 | Minnehaha County Jail, Sioux Falls, South Dakota | Killed a woman on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| George Bear | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | December 5, 1902 | Minnehaha County Jail, Sioux Falls, South Dakota | Killed two men on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. | |
| Charles Barrett | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | July 17, 1903 | Federal Jail, McAlester, Oklahoma | Convicted of robbing and killing an elderly man on Indian territory near Calvin, Oklahoma. | |
| Dora Wright | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | July 17, 1903 | Federal Jail, McAlester, Oklahoma | Convicted of beating, torturing and mutilating her young stepdaughter, Bessie Williams at their home in Moshulatubbee District located near Wilburton, Oklahoma. | |
| Rufus Binyon | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | September 22, 1905 | Federal Jail, Ardmore, Oklahoma | Convicted of raping and murdering an eight year old orphan girl in his care at his home in May, 1900 on Indian territory. | |
| Grant Williams | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | November 3, 1905 | Federal Jail, McAlester, Oklahoma | Convicted of murdering railroad paymaster in dispute over paycheck on October 19, 1904 near Ardmore, Oklahoma. | |
| Harry Scott | Hanging | Murder on the high seas | July 6, 1906 | New Hanover County Jail, Wilmington, North Carolina | Killed five crew members during a mutiny aboard the vessel the Harry Berwind. | |
| Robert Cotton | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | September 4, 1906 | Federal Jail, Vinita, Oklahoma | Convicted of fatally stabbing his wife at their home in Vian, Oklahoma on August 6, 1905. | |
| John Goodwin | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | May 13, 1913 | Gila County Jail, Gila County, Arizona | Killed two merchants on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. | Woodrow Wilson |
| William Stewart | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | May 30, 1914 | |||
| Henry Brown | Hanging | Murder on federal property | September 1, 1921 | Baltimore City Jail, Baltimore, Maryland | Killed a nurse at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. | Warren Harding |
| Sam Greenhill | Hanging | Murder on federal property | October 9, 1925 | Lauderdale County Jail, Florence, Alabama | Killed a War Department police officer who had apprehended him poaching near the Nitrate Plant No. 1 at the federal reservation in Muscle Shoals. | Calvin Coolidge |
| George Sujyanmie | Hanging | Murder on military reservation | October 10, 1925 | Fort Whipple, Prescott, Arizona | Killed a man on the grounds of Fort Whipple, Arizona. | |
| James Alderman | Hanging | Murder on the high seas | August 17, 1929 | Coast Guard Base Six, Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Killed two U.S. coastguardsmen and a Secret Service agent. | Herbert Hoover |
| Carl Panzram | Hanging | Murder | September 5, 1930 | United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas | Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. | |
| George Barrett | Hanging | Murder of a federal officer | March 24, 1936 | Marion County Jail, Indiana | The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Arthur Gooch | Hanging | Kidnapping | June 19, 1936 | Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma | The only person executed under the Federal Kidnapping Act in which the victim did not die. | |
| Earl Gardner | Hanging | Murder on an Indian reservation | July 12, 1936 | Coolidge Dam, Gila County, Arizona | Killed his wife and son on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. | |
| Anthony Chebatoris | Hanging | Murder during a bank robbery | July 8, 1938 | Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), Milan, Michigan | The only person ever to be executed from the State of Michigan since its admission to the Union. | |
| Henry Seadlund | Electrocution | Kidnapping and murder | July 14, 1938 | Cook County Jail, Illinois | Killed a man during a kidnapping for ransom. | |
| Robert Suhay | Hanging | Murder of a federal officer | August 12, 1938 | United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas | Killed an FBI agent during an attempted arrest. | |
| Glenn Applegate | Hanging | Murder of a federal officer | ||||
| James Dalhover | Electrocution | Bank robbery and murder | November 18, 1938 | Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Indiana | Killed an Indiana State Police trooper during a bank robbery in Logansport, Indiana on May 25, 1937. | |
| Nelson Charles | Hanging | Murder | November 10, 1939 | Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska | Killed his mother-in-law in the Alaska federal territory. | |
| Herbert Hans Haupt | Electrocution | Espionage and attempted sabotage as unlawful combatants for Nazi Germany | August 8, 1942 | D.C. Jail, Washington, D.C. | Tried on July 8, 1942, by a military tribunal for their role in Operation Pastorius during World War II. | |
| Richard Quirin | ||||||
| Heinrich Heinck | ||||||
| Edward Kerling | ||||||
| Herman Neubauer | ||||||
| Werner Thiel | ||||||
| Clyde Arwood | Electrocution | Murder of a federal officer | August 14, 1943 | Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, Tennessee | Killed a federal agent during a moonshine raid. | |
| Henry Ruhl | Gas inhalation | Murder on a government reservation | April 27, 1945 | Wyoming State Penitentiary, Rawlins, Wyoming | Killed a war production worker on federal property near Laramie. | Harry S. Truman |
| Austin Nelson | Hanging | Murder | March 1, 1948 | Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska | Killed a Juneau grocery store owner in 1946. | |
| David Joseph Watson | Electrocution | Murder on the high seas | September 15, 1948 | Florida State Prison, near Raiford, Florida | Killed a fellow sailor on board the USS Stribling in 1946. | |
| Samuel Richard Shockley | Gas inhalation | Murder | December 3, 1948 | California State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California | Convicted for their roles in the Battle of Alcatraz. | |
| Miran Edgar Thompson | Gas inhalation | Murder | ||||
| Carlos Romero Ochoa | Gas inhalation | Murder of a federal officer | December 10, 1948 | California State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California | Killed an immigration patrol officer near Indio, California in 1947. | |
| Eugene LaMoore | Hanging | Murder | April 14, 1950 | Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska | Killed a Juneau grocery store owner in 1946. | |
| Julius Rosenberg | Electrocution | Espionage | June 19, 1953 | New York State Prison, Sing Sing, Ossining, New York | Convicted for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and leaking American military secrets, including nuclear weapons designs. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Ethel Rosenberg | ||||||
| Carl Austin Hall | Gas inhalation | Kidnapping and murder | December 18, 1953 | Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri | Convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease. | |
| Bonnie Emily Heady | Kidnapping and murder | |||||
| Gerhard Puff | Electrocution | Murder of a federal officer | August 12, 1954 | New York State Prison, Sing Sing, Ossining, New York | Killed an FBI Special Agent. | |
| Arthur Ross Brown | Gas inhalation | Kidnapping and murder | February 24, 1956 | Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri | Kidnapped and murdered Wilma Allen in Kansas City, Missouri. | |
| George Krull | Electrocution | Kidnapping and rape | August 21, 1957 | Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia | Kidnapped and raped a woman from Chattanooga, Tennessee. | |
| Michael Krull | ||||||
| Victor Feguer | Hanging | Kidnapping and murder | March 15, 1963 | Iowa State Penitentiary, Fort Madison, Iowa | Kidnapped and murdered a physician from Dubuque, Iowa. | John F. Kennedy |
Military executions
The United States military has executed 135 people since 1916. The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of desertion.
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