List of people executed in the United States in 1918

Ninety people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1918, fifty-two by electrocution, thirty-seven by hanging, and one by firing squad. ^[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1918

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 11, 1918	Samuel Gangas	24	23	1	Male	White	Delaware	Hanging	[2]
2	January 14, 1918	Frank Fisher	31	30				Montana		[3]
3		John O'Neill	24	23
4		Sherman A. Powell	29	Unknown	Unknown		Black
5	January 15, 1918	Frederick Lincoln Small	51	50	1		White	New Hampshire		[4]
6	January 25, 1918	John Gardner	23	Unknown	Unknown		Black	South Carolina	Electrocution	[1]
7	February 1, 1918	Charles Burnetti	35	34	1		White	Ohio		[5]
8	February 9, 1918	Giovanni Iraca	34	Unknown	Unknown			New Jersey		[1]
9	February 15, 1918	Harry F. Lindrum	22	Unknown	Unknown			Illinois	Hanging	[6]
10		Edward T. Wheed	Unknown	Unknown	1
11	March 1, 1918	Henry Hamilton	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown			Louisiana		[1]
12	March 15, 1918	Walter Campbell	Unknown	Unknown	0		Black
13		James Rudolph Enterkin	34	33	1		White
14		Earl Neville	24	23			Black	North Carolina	Electrocution	[7]
15	April 8, 1918	Mike Uptic	36	35			White	Pennsylvania		[8]
16	April 9, 1918	Thomas Conway	32	Unknown	Unknown			New Jersey		[1]
17	April 11, 1918	Julian Romero	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Hispanic	New Mexico	Hanging	[9]
18	April 12, 1918	Juan Cuellae	30	29	1			Montana		[10]
19	April 15, 1918	Samuel Edwards					Black	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[1]
20	April 26, 1918	Willie Williams	Unknown	Unknown				North Carolina		[11]
21	May 3, 1918	John Henry Prather	26	25	1			Oklahoma		[12]
22	May 10, 1918	William Furgerson	18	Unknown	Unknown			South Carolina		[1]
23	May 20, 1918	William Karl Warren	20	19	1			Pennsylvania
24	May 23, 1918	John Kushmieruk		18	2		White	New York
25	May 24, 1918	Frank Moore	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	North Carolina
26		Leonard Alexander Dodd	31	30	1		White	Texas	Hanging	[13]
27		Walter Robert Stevenson	34	33
28		Howard Thomas Henry DeWeese	32	30	2			Utah	Firing squad	[14]
29	May 25, 1918	Herbert Perry	Unknown	Unknown	1		Black	North Carolina	Electrocution	[1]
30	May 27, 1918	Illio Obric	34	32	2		White	Pennsylvania		[15]
31		Giuseppi Polito	31	Unknown	Unknown
32	June 7, 1918	Lonnie Council	38	Unknown	Unknown		Black	North Carolina		[1]
33		Paul Langhorne	39	Unknown	Unknown			Virginia
34	June 10, 1918	John Offutt Christley	45	43	2		White	Pennsylvania		[16]
35	June 13, 1918	Alvah Briggs	25	24	1			New York		[17]
36		Stephen Lischuk	Unknown	Unknown	2
37		Hyman Ostransky	38	37	1
38	June 14, 1918	William Braxton	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Louisiana	Hanging	[1]
39		Willie Stewart	Unknown	Unknown	1
40	June 17, 1918	Frank Dusso	25	23	2		White	Connecticut		[18]
41		Carmine Lanzillo	24		1
42		Carmine Pisaniello	21	19	2
43	June 28, 1918	Jim Bell	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Louisiana		[1]
44		Preston Miles	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
45	July 2, 1918	Tolson Bailey	17	16	1			Virginia	Electrocution	[19]
46		Guy Nixon	19	18
47	July 5, 1918	Fred Allen	Unknown	Unknown	0			U.S. military	Hanging	[20]
48		Stanley Grammell	Unknown	Unknown
49		Robert Johnson	Unknown	Unknown
50	July 8, 1918	Eddie James Alsup	17	16	1			Tennessee	Electrocution	[1]
51		J.D. Williams	Unknown	Unknown
52	July 12, 1918	Joseph Schoon	27	26			White	California	Hanging	[21]
53		Melvin Collins	21	21	0			Kentucky	Electrocution	[22]
54	July 19, 1918	Albert Sanders	Unknown	Unknown	1		Black	Alabama	Hanging	[23]
55		Dennis Anderson Jr.	21	Unknown	Unknown		White	Illinois		[24]
56		Sam Holliware	37	Unknown	Unknown		Black	South Carolina	Electrocution	[1]
57	July 26, 1918	Solomon Datron	36	Unknown	Unknown			Arkansas
58		John Marvin Thompson	23	21	2		White	Georgia	Hanging	[25]
59		Aaron Gibson Washington	21	20	1		Black	Ohio	Electrocution	[26]
60	August 9, 1918	Fred Miller	33	32				California	Hanging	[27]
61	August 16, 1918	James Franklin	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown			Texas		[1]
62	August 23, 1918	Benjamin Curl Caughron	28	28	0		White	Arkansas	Electrocution	[28]
63		Harvey Hubert	34	32	2		Black	Texas	Hanging	[1]
64	August 30, 1918	Johann Berg	45	Unknown	Unknown		White	New York	Electrocution
65		Giuseppe Roberto	23	Unknown	Unknown
66		Will Jones	30	30	0	Black	Texas	Hanging
67	September 11, 1918	Ernest Spruill	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Alabama
68	September 13, 1918	Baxter Cain	32	31	1		North Carolina	Electrocution	[29]
69	September 20, 1918	William J. Wright	37	36			Ohio		[1]
70	October 3, 1918	Carl Eduoard Joseph Van Poucke	49	48		White	New York		[30]
71	October 4, 1918	Pasquale Biondo	27	26			Ohio		[31]
72	October 14, 1918	Andrew Carey	29	29	0	Black	Pennsylvania		[32]
73		Charles Henry Kyler	24	24
74	October 21, 1918	Henry Martin Saladay		23	1	White			[1]
75		Jacob Franklin Saladay	20	19
76	October 25, 1918	Brazil Spillman	28	27		Black	Ohio		[33]
77	October 28, 1918	Havern Lee Cutlip	22	21		White	Pennsylvania		[34]
78		Albert William Patterson	28	27
79	November 8, 1918	Charles Mitchell	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Alabama	Hanging	[1]
80		James Brown	34	33	1		Oklahoma	Electrocution	[35]
81		Rufus Coates	20	18	2	White	Texas	Hanging	[36]
82	November 18, 1918	Frank Ressler	23	Unknown	Unknown		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[37]
83		John Baptist Dantine	29	27	2
84	November 29, 1918	Jose C. Negrete	61	60	1	Hispanic	California	Hanging	[38]
85	December 6, 1918	Lloyd Bopp	24	22	2	White	Illinois		[39]
86	December 9, 1918	Lazar Zec	Unknown	Unknown	1		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[40]
87	December 16, 1918	Samuel Garner	36	35					[41]
88		William McMiller	29	Unknown	Unknown	Black
89	December 19, 1918	Jacob Cohen	28	27	1	White	New York		[42]
90	December 20, 1918	Napoleon Spencer	17	17	0	Black	North Carolina		[43]

Demographics

Gender
Male	90	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	45	50%
Black	42	47%
Hispanic	3	3%
State
Pennsylvania	17	19%
New York	8	9%
Louisiana	7	8%
North Carolina	7	8%
Texas	6	7%
Ohio	5	6%
Illinois	4	4%
Montana	4	4%
Alabama	3	3%
California	3	3%
Connecticut	3	3%
South Carolina	3	3%
U.S. military	3	3%
Virginia	3	3%
Arkansas	2	2%
New Jersey	2	2%
Oklahoma	2	2%
Tennessee	2	2%
Delaware	1	1%
Georgia	1	1%
Kentucky	1	1%
New Hampshire	1	1%
New Mexico	1	1%
Utah	1	1%
Method
Electrocution	52	58%
Hanging	37	41%
Firing squad	1	1%
Month
January	6	7%
February	4	4%
March	4	4%
April	6	7%
May	11	12%
June	13	14%
July	15	17%
August	7	8%
September	3	3%
October	9	10%
November	6	7%
December	6	7%
Age
Unknown	21	23%
10–19	5	6%
20–29	34	38%
30–39	25	28%
40–49	3	3%
50–59	1	1%
60–69	1	1%
Total	90	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
1919	64
1918	90
1917	77
Total	231

References

1. "Executions in the U.S. 1608-2002: The ESPY File" (PDF). Death Penalty Information Center . Retrieved December 17, 2025.
2. "Private Funeral for Gangas". The Sunday Morning Star. January 13, 1918. p. 6.
3. "Death Penalty Paid on Gallows at Butte". Miles City Independent. January 18, 1918. p. 2.
4. "Frederick L. Small Hanged". Flushing Daily Times. January 16, 1918. p. 4.
5. "Pays For Killing in Electric Chair". The Toledo News-Bee. February 1, 1918. p. 17.
6. "Two Men Hanged From Same Scaffold". Ellensburg Daily Record. February 16, 1918. p. 2.
7. "Negro is Electrocuted; Once in Hands of Mob". The Evening Independent. March 15, 1918. p. 5.
8. "Westmoreland Man Dies in Electric Chair for Crime". Greensburg Daily Tribune. April 8, 1918. p. 1.
9. "State v. Romero". Google Books.
10. "The State". Madison County Monitor. March 7, 1918. p. 4.
11. "Execute Negro For Bad Crime". The Evening Independent. April 26, 1918. p. 1.
12. "Negro Electrocuted for Second Murder". The Nevada Daily Mail. May 3, 1918. p. 1.
13. "Two Hanged For Assault". The Rochester Sentinel. May 25, 1918. p. 4.
14. "His Grim Legacy". Lewiston Morning Tribune. May 25, 1918. p. 1.
15. "New Kensington Slayer Pays Death Penalty". The Pittsburgh Press. May 27, 1918. p. 19.
16. "John O. Christley Pays Penalty For Murder". The Pittsburgh Press. June 10, 1918. p. 1.
17. "Will Put Three Men to Death Thursday". The Newburgh Daily News. June 12, 1918. p. 39.
18. "Triple Hanging in Connecticut". Evening Tribune. June 17, 1918. p. 4.
19. "Murderers Executed". Fredericksburg Daily Star. July 2, 1918. p. 1.
20. "Division Sees Three Hangings". The Telegraph. July 5, 1918. p. 1.
21. "Hangs for Killing Stockton Policeman". Berkeley Daily Gazette. July 12, 1918. p. 1.
22. "Today's News Briefly Told". Middletown News-Signal. July 13, 1918. p. 6.
23. "Pays Penalty Killing Woman". The Evening Independent. July 19, 1918. p. 3.
24. "Anderson Hanged for Lavin Murder". The Telegraph-Herald. July 19, 1918. p. 8.
25. "Respites Granted to Two Men Sentenced to Hang". The Evening Independent. June 26, 1918. p. 8.
26. "Meets Death Calmly". The Mansfield Shield. July 26, 1918. p. 1.
27. "People v. Miller". Google Books.
28. "Draft Evader Electrocuted For Murder". The Southeast Missourian. August 23, 1918. p. 3.
29. "Brief Items State News". The Robesonian. September 16, 1918. p. 6.
30. "State v. Van Poucke". Google News.
31. "Perishes in Death Chair". Middletown News-Signal. October 4, 1918. p. 1.
32. "Two Go to Death Chair". Reading Eagle. October 14, 1918. p. 19.
33. "Life Taken To Pay For Crime". Middletown News-Signal. October 25, 1918. p. 1.
34. "Cutlip and Patterson Executions Tomorrow". The Pittsburgh Press. October 27, 1918. p. 41.
35. "Brown v. State". Justia Law.
36. "Coates v. State". Google Books.
37. "Two Electrocuted at Rockview Penitentiary". The Clinton County Times. November 22, 1918. p. 1.
38. "People v. Negrete". Google Books.
39. "Noted Crook Is At Last Victim of Gallows". Prescott Journal Miner. December 7, 1918. p. 1.
40. "News Notes of Beaver Valley". The Pittsburgh Press. December 7, 1918. p. 2.
41. "Murderer is Electrocuted". Reading Eagle. December 16, 1918. p. 1.
42. "J. Cohen Put to Death in Sing Sing". The New York Times. December 20, 1918.
43. "Protesting his innocence..." The Robesonian. December 23, 1918. p. 21.

Preceded by 1917

List of people executed       in the United States in    1918

Succeeded by 1919