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. ^[1] Since 1976, sixteen people have been executed under federal jurisdiction by the United States federal government. All were executed by lethal injection at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. ^[2]

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	Federal District	Method	Victim(s)	President
1	Timothy James McVeigh	White	33	M	June 11, 2001	Western District of Oklahoma	Lethal injection	8 federal law enforcement officers [a]	George W. Bush
2	Juan Raul Garza	Hispanic	44	M	June 19, 2001	Southern District of Texas		Thomas Albert Rumbo, Gilberto Matos, and Erasmo De La Fuente [b]
3	Louis Jones Jr.	Black	53	M	March 18, 2003	Northern District of Texas		U.S. Army Private Tracie Joy McBride
4	Daniel Lewis Lee	White	47	M	July 14, 2020	Eastern District of Arkansas		William Frederick Mueller, Nancy Ann Mueller, and Sarah Elizabeth Powell	Donald Trump
5	Wesley Ira Purkey	White	68	M	July 16, 2020	Western District of Missouri		Jennifer Long [c]
6	Dustin Lee Honken	White	52	M	July 17, 2020	Northern District of Iowa		5 murder victims [d]
7	Lezmond Charles Mitchell	Native American	38	M	August 26, 2020	District of Arizona		Alyce Slim and Tiffany Lee
8	Keith Dwayne Nelson	White	45	M	August 28, 2020	Western District of Missouri		Pamela Butler
9	William Emmett LeCroy Jr.	White	50	M	September 22, 2020	Northern District of Georgia		Joann Lee Tiesler
10	Christopher Andre Vialva	Black	40	M	September 24, 2020	Western District of Texas		Todd Bagley and Stacie Bagley
11	Orlando Cordia Hall	Black	49	M	November 19, 2020	Northern District of Texas		Lisa Rene
12	Brandon Anthony Micah Bernard	Black	40	M	December 10, 2020	Western District of Texas		Todd Bagley and Stacie Bagley
13	Alfred Bourgeois	Black	56	M	December 11, 2020	Southern District of Texas		Jakaren Harrison
14	Lisa Marie Montgomery	White	52	F	January 13, 2021	Western District of Missouri		Bobbie Jo Stinnett
15	Corey Johnson	Black	52	M	January 14, 2021	Eastern District of Virginia		7 murder victims [e]
16	Dustin John Higgs	Black	48	M	January 16, 2021	District of Maryland		Tamika Black, Tanji Jackson, and Mishann Chinn

Demographics

Race
Black	7	44%
White	7	44%
Hispanic	1	6%
Native American	1	6%
Age
30–39	2	13%
40–49	7	44%
50–59	6	38%
60–69	1	6%
Sex
Male	15	94%
Female	1	6%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	0	0%
2000–2009	3	19%
2010–2019	0	0%
2020–2029	13	81%
Method
Lethal injection	16	100%
President (Party)
Gerald Ford (R)	0	0%
Jimmy Carter (D)	0	0%
Ronald Reagan (R)	0	0%
George H. W. Bush (R)	0	0%
Bill Clinton (D)	0	0%
George W. Bush (R)	3	19%
Barack Obama (D)	0	0%
Donald Trump (R)	13	81%
Joe Biden (D)	0	0%
Total	16	100%

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. ^[3] 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. [4]	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. [5]
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. [6]
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. [6]
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. [7]
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. [8]
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. [9]
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. [10]
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. [11]	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. [12]	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. [13] [14]	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. [15]
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. [16]	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	Kidnapped two police officers in Texas and released them in Oklahoma. Seriously injured one of the officers which made the Kidnappings a capital offense.
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. [17] After his execution was botched. Congress passed a law stating that all federal executions would now be carried out using whatever method was used in the state. Previously, all federal executions had to be carried out by hanging on federal territory. [18]
Anthony Chebatoris	Hanging	Murder during a bank robbery	July 8, 1938	Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), Milan, Michigan	The only person ever to be executed in 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. [19]
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. [20] [21]
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. [22] [23]
Nelson Charles	Hanging	Murder	November 10, 1939	Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska	Killed his mother-in-law in the Alaska federal territory. [24]
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. [25]	Harry S. Truman
Austin Nelson	Hanging	Murder	March 1, 1948	Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska	Killed a Juneau grocery store owner in 1946. [26]
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. [27]
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. [28]
Eugene LaMoore	Hanging	Murder	April 14, 1950	Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska	Killed a Juneau grocery store owner in 1946. [29]
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. [30]
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

Main article: Capital punishment by the United States military

Main article: List of people executed by the United States military

Between 1942 and 1961, a total of 160 soldiers convicted of criminal offences were executed by the US military, most of these during World War II. ^[31] This figure does not include individuals executed by the US military for varied contraventions of the laws of war during wartime. ^{[32] [33] [34]} 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. On January 31, 1945, Private Eddie Slovik, was the last American soldier to be executed for the military offence of desertion. ^{[35] [36] [37]}

See also

• List of death row inmates held by the United States federal government
• Capital punishment by the United States federal government
• Capital punishment in the United States
• List of people executed for crimes committed within the District of Columbia

Notes

1. McVeigh was also responsible for the killing of 160 additional people and injuring over 680 others through the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
2. The jury also found beyond a reasonable doubt that Garza was responsible for the murders of Antonio Nieto, Bernabe Sosa, Diana Flores Villareal, Oscar Cantu, and Fernando Escobar Garcia.
3. Purkey was also responsible for the murder of Mary Ruth Bales.
4. The 5 victims were: Greg Nicholson, Lori Ann Duncan, Kandace Duncan, Amber Duncan, and Terry DeGeus.
5. The 7 victims were: Louis Johnson, Bobby Long, Anthony Carter, Dorothy Armstrong, Curtis Thorne, Linwood Chiles, and Peyton Johnson.

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