List of people executed in Vermont

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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Vermont from 1778 to 1954.

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Capital punishment was abolished in Vermont in 1972. [1] From 1778-1954, 26 people were executed in Vermont, 21 by hanging and 5 by electrocution. [2] All but one of those executed were white. 24 of the executions were of males, while 2 were of females. [2]

Executions 1778-1954

NameRaceAgeSexDate of ExecutionCountyMethodCrime(s)Victim(s)Governor
David ReddingWhite24MJune 11, 1778 Bennington Hanging Treason Thomas Chittenden
Cyrus DeanWhiteMNovember 11, 1808 Chittenden MurderJonathan Ormsby and Asa Marsh, white Isaac Tichenor
Samuel GodfreyWhiteMFebruary 13, 1818 Windsor MurderThomas Hewlett, 46, white (guard) [3] Jonas Galusha
Luther VirginiaBlackMJanuary 14, 1820 Franklin MurderRufus W. Jackson, white
Archibald BatesWhite33MFebruary 6, 1839 Bennington MurderHarriet Jane Bates, 29, white (sister-in-law) Silas H. Jennison
William BarnettWhite58MJanuary 20, 1864 Chittenden MurderAnne Barnett, 35, white (wife) [4] J. Gregory Smith
Sandy KavanaughWhite61M Chittenden MurderKatharine Kavanaugh, white (wife) [5]
John WardWhiteMMarch 21, 1868 Chittenden MurderEphriam Griswold, 57, white [6] John B. Page
Hiram MillerWhite30MJune 25, 1869 Windsor Murder-RobberyJoshua Goshing and Abigail Gowing, 56 and 51, white [7]
Henry WelcomeWhite18MJanuary 20, 1871 Chittenden Murder-RobberyPerry Russell, 72, white [8] John Wolcott Stewart
Henry Boudreau GravelinWhiteMMarch 14, 1879 Windsor MurderHerbert White, white [a] [9] Redfield Proctor
John P. PhairWhite33MApril 10, 1879 Rutland Murder-RobberyAnn Frieze (girlfriend) [10]
Asa S. MagoonWhite59MNovember 28, 1879 Washington MurderRufus Streeter, 70, white [11]
Edward TatroWhite23MApril 2, 1880 Franklin Murder-RapeAlice A. Butler, 20, white
Edwin Clay HaydenWhite33MFebruary 25, 1881 Orleans MurderGertrude White Hayden, 23, white (wife) Roswell Farnham
Royal CarrWhiteMApril 29, 1881 Washington MurderWilliam Wallace Marcommock, 35, white/Native American [b] [12]
Emeline Lucy Meaker White44FMarch 30, 1883 Washington MurderAlice Meaker, 9, white (husband's half-sister) John L. Barstow
Sylvester Henry BellWhite58MJanuary 1, 1892 Franklin MurderEmma Bell, white (wife) Carroll S. Page
Mary Rogers White22FDecember 8, 1905 Bennington MurderMarcus Merritt Rogers, 32 (husband) Charles J. Bell
Elroy KentWhite33MJuly 5, 1912 Rutland Murder-RobberyDelia Belle Congdon, 41, white John A. Mead
Arthur BosworthWhite28MJanuary 2, 1914 Chittenden MurderMae Labelle, 19, white [13] Allen M. Fletcher
George Edward WarnerWhite51MJuly 12, 1919 Windsor Electrocution MurderHenry Filmore Wiggins and Georgia Ann Wiggins, 66 and 61, white (father-in-law and mother-in-law) Percival W. Clement
Bert A. StaceyWhite54MJuly 7, 1932 Washington MurderRuth May Stacey, 31, white (wife) Stanley C. Wilson
Ronald WatsonWhite21MJanuary 2, 1947 Rutland MurderHenry Charles Teelon, 45, white Mortimer R. Proctor
Francis Herbert BlairWhite32MFebruary 8, 1954 Windsor Murder-RobberyElizabeth Chase Weatherup, 54, white [c] Lee E. Emerson
Donald Edward DeMag White31MDecember 8, 1954

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Notes

  1. ↑ Also suspected of the murders of his first wife and two French Canadians.
  2. ↑ Previously convicted of manslaughter for the rape and murder of Mary E. Loomis, a white woman, and served 10 years in prison. He had avoided a first degree murder conviction in that case on account of his intellectual disabilities.
  3. ↑ Both men were escaped convicts from the Vermont State Prison, where DeMag was already serving a life sentence for the murder of 83-year-old Francis Racicot, white, in 1948.

References

  1. ↑ "Abolition of capital punishment in Vermont". statelaws.findlaw.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Executions in Vermont, from 1778-1954". deathpenaltyusa.org. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Samuel Godfrey, 1818 February 13". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "William Barnett, 1864 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "Sandy Kavanaugh, 1864 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "John Ward, 1868 March 21". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  7. ↑ "Hiram Miller, 1869 June 25". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  8. ↑ "Henry Welcome, 1871 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  9. ↑ "Henery Gravelin, 1879 March 14". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  10. ↑ "John Phair, 1879 April 10". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  11. ↑ "Asa Magoon, VT, 1879 November 28". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  12. ↑ "Royal Carr Murder Trial (William Wallace Murcommock); Austin Loomis Reference". News and Citizen. 1 January 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  13. ↑ "Arthur Bosworth, VT, 1914 January 2". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
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