This list provides details of federal executions beginning in 1927. For fed­er­al exe­cu­tions pri­or to 1927, see DPIC’s Espy File page.

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

Total: 34 executions

* Place refers to state where the prisoner committed the crime and was executed. In 1999, the federal Bureau of Prisons converted an old cell block in Terre Haute, Indiana, into a new facility for condemned federal prisoners. In 1995, the government established an execution chamber in Terre Haute. Since that time, all Federal executions have taken 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.

Sources

General Services Administration, October 12, 1993. For fed­er­al exe­cu­tions pri­or to 1927, see DPIC’s Espy File page.