List of people executed by the District of Columbia

Capital punishment in the District of Columbia has been abolished since 1981. However, a number of executions were carried out under the District's jurisdiction before then.

Before 1973, the District of Columbia was exclusively governed by Congress, which included establishing all local laws. Until 1962, the District of Columbia was the last jurisdiction in the United States with mandatory death sentences for first degree murder (the last U.S. state with mandatory death sentences for first degree murder was Vermont). Mandatory death sentences were abolished by the HR5143 (PL87-423), signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on March 22, 1962. ^[1] Rape was also a capital offense. ^[2]

The D.C. capital punishment law was nullified by the Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia in 1972 and formally repealed by the D.C. Council in 1981.

The first recorded execution in the District of Columbia, was the hanging of James McGirk in 1802. Hanging was the method of execution used in the District until 1928, when it was replaced by the electric chair. The last execution under the authority of the District took place in 1957, when Robert Carter was executed. All executions were conducted at the D.C. Jail.

The president of the United States has sole pardoning power in the District.

List of non-federal executions in the District of Columbia

Name	Race	Age	Date of Execution	Crime	President
Daniel Woodward	White	?	September 2, 1853	Executed for the December 1852 murder of his wife. [3]	Franklin Pierce
James W. Powers	White	19	June 26, 1858	Executed for the murder of Edward Lutz in a restaurant. [4]	James Buchanan
Jeremiah Hendricks	Black	?	April 1, 1864	Executed for the murder of a white man. [5]	Abraham Lincoln
Emanuel Pollard	?	?	July 8, 1864	Executed for murder.
Cornelius Tuell	White	?		Executed for the hammer murder of his wife. [6]
James Grady	White	?	March 24, 1871	Executed for the murder of 75-year-old Fanny Faulkner. [7]	Ulysses S. Grant
George W. Jenkins	Black	?	October 31, 1872	Executed for the May 14, 1871, murder of his wife with a butcher's cleaver. [8]
Barney Wood	White	?	December 6, 1872	Executed for the August 12, 1871, murder of Samuel M. Cheeseman. [9]
Charles Johnson	Black	?	December 10, 1872	Executed for the September 28, 1872, murder of his wife in Georgetown. [10]
Thomas Wright	Black	?	June 6, 1873	Executed for the murder of Roger Smith. [11]
Henry Young	Black	?	November 28, 1873	Executed for the March 1872 murder of Virginia drover Frank Hahn. [12]
James M. W. Stone	Black	35	April 2, 1880	Executed for the murder of his wife. [13]	Rutherford B. Hayes
Edward Queenan	Black	?	November 19, 1880	Executed for the January 7, 1879, murder of George P. Hirth. [14]
Joseph Bedford	Black	?
Charles Julius Guiteau	White	38	June 30, 1882	Executed for the assassination of president James Garfield on July 2, 1881.	Chester A. Arthur
Charles Shaw	Black	?	January 19, 1883	Executed for the murder of his sister, Susan Ann Carter. [15]
John Langster	Black	?	May 15, 1885	Executed for the murder of officer Fowler while escaping a chain gang on September 9, 1884. [16]	Grover Cleveland
Louis Sommerfield	White	54	April 30, 1886	Executed for the murders of his wife and son-in-law. [17]
Richard Lee	Black	?		Executed for the murder of his wife. [17]
Antonio Nardello	White	22	May 28, 1886	Executed for the murder of Carmine Rotunno in July 1885; confessed to two murders in Maryland before his execution. [18]
Albert Green	Black	?	April 5, 1889	Executed for murder.	Benjamin Harrison
Nelson Colbert	Black	?	May 17, 1889	Executed for the October 3, 1888, murder of Philip Wentzell in Northeast Washington. [19]
Benjamin Hawkins	Black	29	May 29, 1890	Executed for the March 14, 1889, murder of his wife Cora in South Washington. [20]
Howard J. Schneider	White	?	March 17, 1893	Executed for the January 31, 1892, murder of his wife, Amanda Hamlink Schneider; also murdered her brother, Frank Hamlink. [21]	Grover Cleveland
Thomas Crumpton	Black	43	April 27, 1894	Executed for the June 11, 1893, murder of 24-year-old George Shanklin. [22]
James L. Travers	Black	22	July 19, 1895	Executed for the November 1894 murder of his mistress, Lena Gross. [23]
Joseph A. Beam	White	?	July 26, 1895	Executed for the December 1894 murder of his step-daughter, Annie Leahy. [24]
John Harris	Black	23	February 14, 1896	Executed for the July 4, 1895, murder of Matthew Spruell in Boston, Georgetown. [25]
Irving I. Ford	Black	?	June 26, 1896	Executed for the May 4, 1895, murder of 16-year-old Elsie Kreglo during a rape attempt. [26]
Charles Winston	Black	24	May 5, 1899	Executed for the December 13, 1897, murder of his wife, Emma. [27]	William McKinley
William Strathers	Black	25		Executed for the October 15, 1898, murder of his lover, Rose Talbot. [27]
Edward Smith	Black	47	May 12, 1899	Executed for the November 15, 1897, murder of Edmonia Jackson. [28]
George W. Horton	White	50	December 8, 1899	Executed for the June 24, 1898, murder of his lover, Jane Nicholson. [29]
Benjamin H. Snell	White	42	June 29, 1900	Executed for the August 6, 1899, razor murder of 13-year-old Lizzie Weisenberger. [30]
Nelson Vale	Black	59	July 6, 1900	Executed for the January 1900 shooting murder of Alexander Jackson in Tenleytown. [31]
Frank W. Funk	White	25	November 9, 1900	Executed for the June 1898 murder of an elderly man, William H. Brooks, in his home during a robbery. [32]
Elijah Chapman	Black	33	May 23, 1902	Executed for the January 1, 1902, fatal stabbing of his alleged common-law wife, Ida Simms, during an argument. [33]	Theodore Roosevelt
John T. St. Clair	Black	26	January 30, 1903	Executed for the April 1902 shooting murder of Daisy Maddox during an argument. [34]
Benjamin G. Hill	White	52	July 24, 1903	Executed for the November 1902 shooting murder of his wife, Carrie. [35]
John W. Burley	Black	43	August 26, 1904	Executed for the rape of four-year-old Adeline Turner in April 1903. [36]
Augustus L. Shaffer	White	39	February 10, 1905	Executed for cutting the throat of his divorced wife in August 1903. [37]
William W. Hamilton	Black	27	February 2, 1906	Executed for the June 1904 murder of Mary Elizabeth Butler. [38]
Charles Edward Grant	Black	21	November 16, 1906	Executed for the murder his common-law-wife, Eva Barnes, whom he stabbed with a knife during a quarrel. [39]
William Burge	Black	23	April 23, 1907	Executed for the January 1905 murder of his wife, Daisy. [40]
Joseph Paolucci	White	31	March 23, 1908	Executed for the September 1906 shooting of a woman who had rejected him for a relationship, Elizabeth V. Dodge. [41]
Albert Brown	Black	23	June 29, 1908	Executed for the murder of his brother Harvey in November 1907. [42]
Richard Gregory	Black	37	February 15, 1909	Executed for the August 1907 murder of William A. Garner with a club. [43]
Samuel Rauen	White	25	February 14, 1913	Executed for fatally shooting his wife and his brother, Ozelah Jones Rauen and John M. Rauen, in front of his wife's home in March 1912. [44]	William Howard Taft
Nathaniel Green	Black	23	June 9, 1913	Executed for the Christmas Day, 1912, rape of Adelaide E. Grant. [45]	Woodrow Wilson
James F. Allen	Black	36	September 12, 1917	Executed for the November 1915 murder of his wife Flora in their home in Georgetown. [46]
James H. Jackson	Black	27	March 2, 1920	Executed for the murder of a young war worker, Lillian Hood, in January 1919. [47]
Frank Bowman	Black	39	October 22, 1920	Executed for the 1916 murder of a paralyzed man, Clarence J. Keefer. [48]
William H. Campbell	Black	22	March 11, 1921	Executed for the murder of Gertrude Mann in her home during a burglary in March 1920. [49]	Warren Harding
John McHenry	White	19	March 17, 1922	Executed for the murders of Washington policeman James E. Armstrong and auto accessory dealer Wallace W. Mulcare. [50]
Earnest A. Shands	Black	29	March 9, 1923	Executed for the August 1922 murder of his wife Catherine with an axe. [51]
George S. Banton	Black	20	April 20, 1923	Executed for the August 1922 murder of grocer Samuel Frye during a robbery. [52]
Charles Price	Black	32	May 3, 1923	Executed for murdering Robert Smith in May 1918 in a dispute over a bottle of liquor. [53]
George S. Epps	Black	31	May 24, 1923	Executed for the December 1921 murders of his wife Katie and her friend Mrs. Hodge at their home. [54]
Rufus Gordon	Black	37	June 23, 1923	Executed for the September 1919 murder of grocer Simon Miller during a robbery. [55]
Ralph Thomas	Black	40	January 15, 1925	Executed for the murder of his wife, Sadie Thomas, on August 1, 1923. [56]	Calvin Coolidge
Herbert L. Copeland	Black	50	January 22, 1925	Executed for murdering two policemen and a deputy sheriff in 1918. Last condemned inmate to be hanged in the District of Columbia. [57]
Philip Jackson	Black	30	May 29, 1928	Executed for the rape of Daisy Welling on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. First condemned inmate to be electrocuted in the District of Columbia. [58]
Nicholas L. Eagles	White	34	June 22, 1928	All three were executed for the murder of DC policeman Leo W. Karl Busch on September 28, 1926. [59] [60]
Samuel Mareno	White	21
John R. Proctor	White	20
Andrew J. Hawkins	Black	31	June 5, 1930	Executed for the December 1928 murder of his sweetheart, Ruth Watkins. [61]	Herbert Hoover
Cardoza Bell	Black	24	March 6, 1931	Executed for the August 1929 shotgun murder of his 25-year-old companion, Alice Metz. [62]
Alfred S. Aldridge	Black	21	May 6, 1932	Executed for the murder of DC policeman Harry J. McDonald. [63] [64]	Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Borum	Black	26	June 29, 1932	Executed for the murder of Prohibition (ATF) federal agent Lamar Watson York in 1930. [65] [66]
John Logan	Black	24
Charles Morris	Black	33	March 12, 1932	Executed for the murder of Maggie Landon in July 1930 on the C&O Canal Bridge. [67]
William C. Robinson	Black	20	October 27, 1933	Both men were executed separately for the July 1931 murder of taxi driver Mannie Solomon during a hold-up. [68] [69]
Charles Washington	Black	23	November 24, 1933
Benjamin Montague	Black	29	December 1, 1933	Executed for the murder of his common-law-wife in June 1932. [70]
Ralph E. Holmes	Black	25	January 12, 1934	All three men were executed for the August 1932 beating death of U.S. Park Police Officer Milo J. Kennedy. [71] [72]
Joseph J. Jackson	Black	20
Irvin Murray	Black	26
Ernest H. Bolden	Black	25	April 27, 1934	Executed for the July 1932 murder of his 25-year-old estranged wife Elsie; also murdered her 54-year-old mother. [73]
Joe Goodman	Black	39	June 1, 1934	Both men were executed for the January 1933 murder of store owner William Sims during the robbery of his feed store in the Benning area of the District. [74]
George Pitmond	Black	35
Albert Preston	Black	38	March 20, 1936	Executed for the February 1935 fatal shooting of Clarence E. Yancey in a dispute over a $1.50 gambling debt. [75]
John R. Cummings	Black	27	April 23, 1937	Both men were executed for the March 1935 fatal shooting of 42-year-old truck driver Joseph Wushnak during a robbery. [76]
Willett Marcus	Black	21
Norman W. Robinson	Black	29	March 18, 1938	Executed for the September 1936 murder of 42-year-old lodging house proprietress Florence Goodwin. [77]
Will Kinard	Black	38	February 2, 1939	Executed for the November 1936 murder of his wife Laura during a domestic argument. [78]
William I. Robinson	Black	36	October 9, 1942	Executed for the rape of a 15-year-old girl near Rock Creek Park in August 1941. [79]
William T. Mumforde	Black	22	December 18, 1942	Executed for the murder of 62-year-old dress shop owner Fannie Cohen in February 1941. [80]
Jarvis T. R. Catoe	Black	36	January 15, 1943	Executed for the rape and murder of Rose Abramowitz, suspected in numerous other similar crimes. [81]
Monroe D. Neely	Black	37	December 14, 1945	Executed for the murder of DC police officer Charles Johnston in May 1943. [82] [83]	Harry S. Truman
Earl McFarland	White	25	July 19, 1946	Executed for the rape and murder of 18-year-old government worker Dorothy Berrum in October 1944. [84]
William Copeland	Black	38	December 20, 1946	Executed for the February 1944 fatal shooting of his 43-year-old sister-in-law, Dora M. Johnson. [85]
Julius Fisher	Black	34		Executed for the March 1944 murder of 37-year-old librarian Catherine Reardon at the Washington National Cathedral. [86]
Joseph Medley	White	45		Executed for the murder of a 50-year-old acquaintance, Nancy Boyer. [87]
Alfred L. Hawkins	Black	24	October 31, 1947	Executed for the murder of 33-year-old grocery store clerk Paul Knight during a holdup robbery. [88]
Jesse Patton	Black	23	December 10, 1948	Both men were executed for the murder of pharmacist Maurice L. Bernstein during the June 1946 robbery of his drugstore. [89]
Reginald J. Wheeler	Black	28
Shirley Harris	Black	25	January 14, 1949	Executed for the March 1947 murder of 54-year-old Frank C. Kelly during a holdup. [90]
John H. Hall	Black	35	February 25, 1949	Executed for the October 1946 rape of an 8-year-old girl. [91]
Theodore M. Holmes	Black	22	March 15, 1949	Executed for the March 1948 rape of an 9-year-old girl. [92]
George Garner	Black	26	July 29, 1949	Both men were executed for the robbery-murder of taxi cab driver Howard Jones in February 1948; both also accused of murdering another taxi cab driver. [93]
Lawrence Garner	Black	24
Fred S. Pritchett	White	41	February 15, 1952	Executed for the July 1949 murder of locomotive engineer Clyde L. King on railroad property. [94]
William A. Tyler Jr.	Black	20	July 26, 1952	Executed for the murder of two night watchmen, 57-year-old Oliver R. Hess and 67-year-old James C. Carpenter, at Lansburgh's department store during a burglary in April 1950. [95]
Albert Allen	Black	25	March 20, 1953	Convicted of the robbery and murder of his co-worker, 38-year-old George Schomber, in January 1950. [96]	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Eugene Carter	Black	28	April 26, 1957	Convicted of the July 1953 robbery and murder of an off-duty D.C. police officer, George Cassels. Last man to be executed in District of Columbia. [97] [98]

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77. "Man Dies in Chair For Killing Woman". Washington (District of Columbia) Evening-Star. March 18, 1938. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
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90. "Trigger Man of Kelly Executed in Electric Chair". Washington (District of Columbia) Evening-Star. January 14, 1949. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
91. "Hall sings Spiritual That He Wrote, Then Dies for Attacking Girl, 8". Washington (District of Columbia) Evening-Star. February 25, 1949. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
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