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