List of people executed in the United States in 1917

Ninety people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1917, forty-six by hanging , and forty-four by electrocution. ^[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1917

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 2, 1917	Wilson C. Ashbridge	23	22	1	Male	White	New Jersey	Electrocution	[2]
2	January 8, 1917	Jonas Joseph Brobst	22	21				Pennsylvania		[3]
3	January 12, 1917	Harris A. Sutton	16	16	0		Black	Georgia	Hanging	[4]
4	January 27, 1917	Yo-Keuk Yee	31	30	1		Asian	Hawaii Territory		[5]
5	January 29, 1917	Will Miles	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Georgia		[1]
6	February 6, 1917	Reuben Ellis	29	28	1			Ohio	Electrocution	[6]
7	February 9, 1917	Joseph Vance Wilt	37	36			White	California	Hanging	[7]
8	February 16, 1917	Clarence Dennis	Unknown	Unknown			Black	Georgia		[8]
9		Walter Charles Murphy	25	23	2			Illinois		[9]
10		Leslie Fahley		24	1			Montana		[10]
11		Harrison Gibson	30	29
12		Henry Hall	27	26
13	March 13, 1917	John Hawkins	24	24	0			Arkansas	Electrocution	[1]
14	March 23, 1917	John Johnson	23	22	1			South Carolina		[11]
15	March 27, 1917	Francesco Nicolisi		Unknown	Unknown		White	New Jersey		[1]
16		Calogero Pettito	34	Unknown	Unknown
17	March 31, 1917	Henry Smith	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Arkansas
18	April 13, 1917	Chester Taylor	44	43	1			Oklahoma		[12]
19		Willie Williams	32	30	2
20		Charles George Young	27	Unknown	Unknown
21	April 21, 1917	Petrius C. Von den Corput	25	Unknown	Unknown		White	New York		[13]
22	May 17, 1917	Antonio Impoluzzo	20	18	2					[14]
23	May 24, 1917	Arthur Warren Waite	30	29	1					[15]
24	May 25, 1917	Bunk Maske	23	23	0		Black	North Carolina		[1]
25	June 15, 1917	Hansom Warren		Unknown	Unknown			Virginia
26	June 20, 1917	Hamilton Cosby	25	25	0					[16]
27		Robert Jones	32	32
28	June 22, 1917	Tom Diggs	39	38	1			Arkansas		[17]
29		Aaron Johnson	45	44
30		Burtley Gerard "Albert Clark" Warren	30	29			White	Ohio		[18]
31	June 29, 1917	Charles Victoriano	60	57	3			Louisiana	Hanging	[1]
32	July 10, 1917	Patrick Henry Callery Jr.	37	36	1			Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[19]
33		John Nelson	Unknown	Unknown	2		Black
34	July 12, 1917	Arthur Waldenen	24	22			White	New York		[20]
35	July 20, 1917	Frank Hugle	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Georgia	Hanging	[21]
36	July 23, 1917	Cornelius Sheppard	29	29	0			Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[22]
37	August 3, 1917	Fisher Brooks	Unknown	Unknown				Alabama	Hanging	[23]
38		Charles Williams	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown			Georgia		[1]
39	August 10, 1917	John H. Blue	48	47	1			Kentucky	Electrocution
40	August 14, 1917	Paul Maywoon	32	32	0		White	New Jersey		[24]
41	August 30, 1917	Joseph A. Mulholland	30	28	2			New York		[25]
42		Alexander Shuster	26	25	1					[26]
43	August 31, 1917	Albert Barrett	35	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Virginia		[27]
44	September 11, 1917	Francis J. Ducharme	27	26	1		White	Massachusetts		[28]
45	September 12, 1917	James F. Allen	36	34	2		Black	District of Columbia	Hanging	[1]
46	September 17, 1917	John Robinson	21	20	1			Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[29]
47		Elwood Wilson	26	24	2
48	September 25, 1917	Charles Williams	60	Unknown	Unknown			North Carolina		[1]
49	September 28, 1917	Adam Hargus	34	33	1			Delaware	Hanging	[30]
50		William Prettyman	29	28
51		Webster Purnell	36	35
52	October 1, 1917	Nikolo Kotur	25	24			White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[31]
53	October 5, 1917	Lon Hadley	22	21			Black	California	Hanging	[32]
54		Joseph Castelli	24	23			White	Connecticut		[33]
55		Francesco Vetere	25	24
56	October 10, 1917	Lee Perkins	Unknown	Unknown	0		Black	North Carolina	Electrocution	[34]
57	October 12, 1917	Mackey Palmer	20	20				South Carolina		[35]
58	October 19, 1917	Helaire Carriere	31	30	1		White	Louisiana	Hanging	[36]
59		Leonard Hill	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black			[1]
60	October 26, 1917	Lige Skipper	35	34	1			Alabama
61		Florencio Bonella	24	Unknown	Unknown		Asian	Hawaii Territory
62		Gabriel Verver	35	Unknown	Unknown
63		William Burgess	29	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Virginia	Electrocution
64	November 2, 1917	John Bonney	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		White	Louisiana	Hanging
65		Summa Levine	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Black
66	November 5, 1917	John Lacie	40	39	1		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[37]
67	November 9, 1917	Jeremiah Alexander Terry	60	58	2	White	North Carolina		[38]
68	November 12, 1917	James Washington Anthony	19	18	1	Black	Pennsylvania		[39]
69		Archibald Julian Miller	24	23
70	November 16, 1917	Stephen Buglione	20	20	0	White	Connecticut	Hanging	[40]
71		Giovanni Donvanso	21	21
72		C. Dojoylongsol	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Asian	Hawaii Territory		[1]
73	November 30, 1917	Antonio Garcia	33	Unknown	Unknown
74	December 3, 1917	Frank Alfred Wendt	19	17	2	White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[41]
75	December 11, 1917	Charles W. Baltimore	25	25	0	Black	U.S. military	Hanging	[42]
76		William Breckenridge	Unknown	Unknown
77		Larsen J. Brown	26	26
78		Ira B. Davis	28	28
79		James Divins	Unknown	Unknown
80		Thomas Coleman Hawkins	24	24
81		Frank Johnson	Unknown	Unknown
82		Pat McWhorter	24	24
83		Jesse Ball Moore	27	27
84		William C. Nesbit	30	30
85		Carlos Snodgrass	24	23	1
86		James Wheatley	26	25
87		Risley W. Young	Unknown	Unknown	0
88	December 12, 1917	Ocher Blaine Snouffer	27	26	1	White	Ohio	Electrocution	[43]
89	December 14, 1917	William J. Wise	23	23	0		Connecticut	Hanging	[44]
90	December 21, 1917	Victor Jones	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Louisiana		[45]

Demographics

Gender
Male	90	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
Black	58	64%
White	27	30%
Asian	5	6%
State
U.S. military	13	14%
Pennsylvania	11	12%
Louisiana	6	7%
New York	6	7%
Connecticut	5	6%
Georgia	5	6%
Hawaii Territory	5	6%
Virginia	5	6%
Arkansas	4	4%
New Jersey	4	4%
North Carolina	4	4%
Delaware	3	3%
Montana	3	3%
Ohio	3	3%
Oklahoma	3	3%
Alabama	2	2%
California	2	2%
South Carolina	2	2%
District of Columbia	1	1%
Illinois	1	1%
Kentucky	1	1%
Massachusetts	1	1%
Method
Hanging	46	51%
Electrocution	44	49%
Month
January	5	6%
February	7	8%
March	5	6%
April	4	4%
May	3	3%
June	7	8%
July	5	6%
August	7	8%
September	8	9%
October	12	13%
November	10	11%
December	17	19%
Age
Unknown	17	19%
10–19	3	3%
20–29	42	47%
30–39	21	23%
40–49	4	4%
50–59	0	0%
60–69	3	3%
Total	90	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
1918	99
1917	90
1916	107
Total	296

References

1. "Executions in the U.S. 1608-2002: The ESPY File" (PDF). Death Penalty Information Center . Retrieved January 18, 2026.
2. "Ashbridge, Who Slew Two, Put to Death". Gettysburg Times. January 3, 1917. p. 2.
3. "Jonas Brobst Electrocuted". The Clinton County Times. January 12, 1917. p. 2.
4. "16-Year-Old Boy Hanged". The Deseret News. January 13, 1917. p. 8.
5. Okamura, Jonathan Y. (2019). "Application and Abolition: Race and Capital Punishment in Territorial Hawai'i". p. 26.
6. "Negro, Who Was Chosen By Card Game To Kill Matron, Executed". Urbana Daily Democrat. February 6, 1917. p. 1.
7. "Joseph Wilt Hanged, Declares Innocence". Berkeley Daily Gazette. February 9, 1917. p. 3.
8. "Dennis v. State". Google Books.
9. ""Big John" Murphy..." Clinton Mirror. February 24, 1917. p. 2.
10. "Three Negroes Hanged". St. Joseph News-Press. February 16, 1917. p. 2.
11. "Johnson to Die For Crime". The Robesonian. February 26, 1917. p. 2.
12. "3 Negroes Electrocuted". St. Joseph News-Press. April 13, 1917. p. 19.
13. "Petrius Von den Corput Is Executed at Sing Sing". Eugene Register-Guard. April 21, 1917. p. 3.
14. "Slayer Executed at Night". Easton Free Press. May 18, 1917. p. 12.
15. "Arthur Waite Electrocuted". Urbana Daily Democrat. May 25, 1917. p. 7.
16. "Policeman's Slayers Die". The Daily Star. June 21, 1917. p. 2.
17. "Two Negro Slayers Executed". The Daily Republican. June 23, 1917. p. 6.
18. "Clark Executed In Ohio Prison". Urbana Daily Democrat. June 22, 1917. p. 1.
19. "Two Executed in Pennsylvania Prison". The Daily Republican. July 11, 1917. p. 1.
20. "Waldenen is Put to Death in Sing Sing". The Newburgh Daily News. July 13, 1917. p. 13.
21. "Hugle v. State". Google Books.
22. "Negro is Electrocuted for Unprovoked Murder". The Pittsburgh Press. July 23, 1917. p. 1.
23. "Victim's Husband Hangs Negro". Flushing Daily Times. August 4, 1917. p. 4.
24. "Slayer Is Electrocuted". The Pittsburgh Press. August 15, 1917. p. 22.
25. "Moved to Tears By Mother's Appeal". The Montreal Express. September 1, 1917. p. 22.
26. "Convicted of Murdering Woman". The New York Times. February 22, 1917.
27. "Barrett Boy Refused Appeal". Farmville Herald. September 21, 1917. p. 1.
28. "Ducharme Electrocuted". The Lewiston Daily Sun. September 11, 1917. p. 1.
29. "Double Electrocution of Dauphin County Prisoners". The Clinton County Times. September 21, 1917. p. 8.
30. "Triple Hanging in Delaware". Greensburg Daily Tribune. September 29, 1917. p. 5.
31. "Pays Death Penalty". The Clinton County Times. October 5, 1917. p. 1.
32. "People v. Hadley". Google Books.
33. "Telegraph Briefs". The Day. October 5, 1917. p. 1.
34. "Wednesday morning in the death cell..." The Wilmington Morning Star via newspapers.com. October 13, 1917. p. 4.
35. "Orangeburg Man Must Pay Extreme Penalty". Herald-Journal. October 10, 1917. p. 5.
36. "Helaire Carriere, Louisiana Bad Man, Hanged for Murder". Lewiston Saturday Journal. October 19, 1917. p. 4.
37. "Five Contacts to Kill". Reading Eagle. November 5, 1917. p. 3.
38. "State v. Terry". Google Books.
39. "Slayers Electrocuted". Gettysburg Times. November 13, 1917. p. 1.
40. "Two Murderers Lost Their Nerve in Death House at Wethersfield". Meriden Morning Record. November 16, 1917. p. 1.
41. "Youth is Electrocuted for Killing Constable". The Pittsburgh Press. December 3, 1917. p. 6.
42. "Dec. 11, 1917: Black Soldiers Executed for Houston Riot". Zinn Education Project.
43. "Snouffer to Die". Urbana Daily Democrat. June 20, 1917. p. 3.
44. "Triple Hanging Due Next Month". The Day. November 7, 1917. p. 8.
45. "Negro Is Hanged". The Birmingham Age-Herald. December 22, 1917. p. 3.

Preceded by 1916

List of people executed       in the United States in    1917

Succeeded by 1918