List of people executed in the United States in 1922

One hundred and forty-eight people, one hundred and forty-seven male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1922, ninety-five by electrocution, fifty-one by hanging, and two by firing squad. ^[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1922

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 3, 1922	Chung Tao	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Male	Asian	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[2]
2	January 12, 1922	William J. Marweg	40	37	3		White	New York		[3]
3		Raymond F. Mulford	29	28	1
4		Edward Walter Persons	40	38	2
5	January 13, 1922	Ricardo Lauterio	23	21			Hispanic	Arizona	Hanging	[4]
6		Tomas Roman	32	31	1
7		Pattie Perdue	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Female	Black	Mississippi		[1]
8		Leon Viverett	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Male
9	January 17, 1922	George Washington Knight	23	22	1			New Jersey	Electrocution	[5]
10		Louis Lively	35	35	0
11	January 20, 1922	Eleuterio Corral	18	17	1		Hispanic	New Mexico	Hanging	[6]
12		Rumaldo Losano	19	18
13		Steve Maslich	36	34	2		White	Utah	Firing squad	[7]
14	January 23, 1922	Walter A. Lewis	21	19			Black	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[8]
15		John Mason	39	Unknown	Unknown
16		Harry Hart	23	22	1			Virginia		[9]
17	February 2, 1922	Harry Givner	27	Unknown	Unknown		White	New York		[10]
18		Floyd Slover	21	19	2
19	Februrary 3, 1922	Curtis Franklin	33	32	1		Black	South Carolina		[11]
20	February 7, 1922	George E. Gares	55	55	0		White	New Jersey		[12]
21		Edmond Thompson	23	21	2		Black	Virginia		[13]
22	February 17, 1922	Gjuro "Joe" Vuckovich	34	33	1		White	Montana	Hanging	[14]
23		John Green	28	27				Tennessee	Electrocution	[15]
24	February 18, 1922	Asbury Fields	47	46						[16]
25	February 23, 1922	Henry Lockett	34	33			Black	Virginia		[1]
26	February 24, 1922	Luis Guillen	21	20			Hispanic	California	Hanging	[17]
27		John Bowyer	23	22			Black	Florida		[18]
28		Samuel C. Smith	26	25				Maryland		[19]
29		Arthur Harding	38	37				Ohio	Electrocution	[20]
30		Thomas Sparks	26	25				Virginia		[1]
31	February 27, 1922	Michael Marano	31	29	2		White	Pennsylvania		[21]
32	March 1, 1922	Harry Lee Bland	27	27	0			Ohio		[22]
33		Walter Wallace Wright	28	28
34		Charles Petree	21	20	1			Tennessee		[23]
35		Thomas Peril Christmas	26	25
36		Otto Stevens	29	28
37		John B. McClure	26	26	0
38	March 2, 1922	Harvey William Church	23	22	1			Illinois	Hanging	[24]
39		George F. McCormick	22	21				New York	Electrocution	[25]
40	March 3, 1922	John A. McGuire	23	22				Ohio		[26]
41		Leroy Tyler	34	32	2		Black
42		Leroy Williams	25	24	1			West Virginia	Hanging	[27]
43	March 10, 1922	James Wells	18	17				Arkansas	Electrocution	[28]
44	March 15, 1922	Maurice Mays	31	29	2			Tennessee		[29]
45	March 17, 1922	John McHenry	24	21	3		White	District of Columbia	Hanging	[30]
46		Steve Sabo	49	49	0			Oklahoma	Electrocution	[31]
47	March 20, 1922	Albert Torrence White	56	54	2			Pennsylvania		[32]
48	March 23, 1922	Lawrence J. Kubal	37	36	1			New York		[33]
49	March 25, 1922	Roy Charles Chamblin	27	26				Ohio		[34]
50	March 27, 1922	Bernard Sherdon McAneny	38	37				Pennsylvania		[35]
51		John Shurilla	24	Unknown	Unknown
52	March 31, 1922	Will Elmore	29	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Virginia		[1]
53	April 3, 1922	Archie Adolph Patterson	34	33	1			Pennsylvania		[36]
54	April 4, 1922	Henry Barnes	32	Unknown	Unknown			Virginia		[1]
55	April 7, 1922	Will Hood	19	18	1			South Carolina		[37]
56	April 11, 1922	Granville Bunch	39	38			White	Tennessee		[38]
57	April 14, 1922	George F. Hornsby	30	29				Texas	Hanging	[39]
58	April 16, 1922	Marshall Tillman	25	23	2		Black	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[1]
59	April 20, 1922	Bill Byrd	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown			Louisiana	Hanging	[40]
60		Lawrence Torrence	29	28	1			New York	Electrocution	[41]
61	May 4, 1922	Monroe S. Payton	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown			West Virginia	Hanging	[1]
62	May 5, 1922	William Ravenal	51	50	1			Georgia
63		George Bush	38	Unknown	Unknown			Ohio	Electrocution	[42]
64		John Vaiden	26	25	1
65		Sam Watkins	39	39	0		White	Oklahoma		[43]
66	May 9, 1922	Samuel Purpera	19	17	2			Ohio		[44]
67	May 12, 1922	Henry Langston Jr.	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Georgia	Hanging	[1]
68	May 15, 1922	Earl Carter	22	20	2			Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[45]
69	May 22, 1922	George Steward	27	27	0					[46]
70	May 26, 1922	John Valcalda	40	39	1		Hispanic	California	Hanging	[47]
71		Ernest Fern Brown	20	19			Black	Virginia	Electrocution	[48]
72	May 31, 1922	William Morehouse	57	55	2	White	New Jersey	[1]
73	June 1, 1922	William P. Donovan	35	34	1		Indiana	[49]
74	June 8, 1922	Luigi Ebanisto	23	22			New York	[50]
75		Albert Librero	24	23
76		Julius Rosenwasser	26	Unknown	Unknown
77	June 9, 1922	James B. King	33	32	1	Black	Nebraska	[51]
78		Nick John Oblizalo	23	19	4	White	Utah		Firing squad
79	June 14, 1922	Dominic Benigno	24	23	1		Ohio	Electrocution	[52]
80	June 15, 1922	William Bell	27	26		Black	New York		[53]
81	June 16, 1922	Teague Cunningham					Alabama	Hanging	[54]
82		Jim Denson	20	17	3		Georgia		[55]
83		Samuel Jones Kirby	36	35	1	White	South Carolina	Electrocution	[56]
84		Jesse James Gappins	23	22
85		Casy Otis Fox	32	31
86	June 19, 1922	Henry K. Lisowski	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Pennsylvania		[57]
87	June 20, 1922	John Henry Gackenbach	21	20	1		Ohio		[58]
88	June 23, 1922	George Howze	23	23	0	Black	Alabama	Hanging	[59]
89		Steve Myeskie	22	21	1	White	Ohio	Electrocution	[60]
90	June 26, 1922	James Di Stefano	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Pennsylvania		[1]
91	June 29, 1922	Michael Rossi	65	62	3		New York		[61]
92	July 7, 1922	Elvie Daniel Kirby	25	23	2		Oregon	Hanging	[62]
93		John L. Rathie	24	22
94	July 14, 1922	Walter Delaney	Unknown	Unknown	3	Black	Alabama		[1]
95		Forrest Scott	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
96	July 17, 1922	Jonas Ebersole	34	33	1	White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[63]
97		Joseph Dreher	30	Unknown	Unknown	Black
98	July 20, 1922	Peter Nunziato	19	18	1	White	New York		[64]
99		Saito Taizo	21	20		Asian
100	July 24, 1922	John Gilbert McCloskey	23	22		White	Pennsylvania		[65]
101	July 25, 1922	William Dwight	18	17		Black	Tennessee		[66]
102	July 28, 1922	Luis Medrano	27	27	0	Hispanic	New Mexico	Hanging	[67]
103		Ysidoro Miranda	33	32	1
104		Carlos Renteria	24	23
105	July 31, 1922	Perley Johnson Emery	29	28		White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[68]
106	August 11, 1922	Shelby McLaurin	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Mississippi	Hanging	[1]
107	August 15, 1922	Austin Harris	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Tennessee	Electrocution	[69]
108		James Garfield McElroy	38	37	1	White
109	August 18, 1922	Daniel Borich	51	51	0		Colorado	Hanging	[1]
110	August 31, 1922	Luther Boddy	22	22		Black	New York	Electrocution	[70]
111		Herbert Wents Smith	32	31	1	White
112	September 1, 1922	Ephraim High	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Alabama	Hanging	[1]
113		Luke McDonald	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Georgia		[71]
114		Francis Brooks DuPre	19	18	1	White
115	September 5, 1922	Guilford C. Young	28	Unknown	Unknown		New Jersey	Electrocution	[1]
116	September 8, 1922	Ira Vernon Pavey	30	27	3		Iowa	Hanging	[72]
117		George Howard	25	23	2		Oregon		[73]
118	September 15, 1922	Eugene Claude Weeks	27	26	1		Iowa		[74]
119		Angus Murphy	36	36	0	Black	North Carolina	Electrocution	[75]
120		Joseph Thomas	20	20	0
121	September 22, 1922	Marsis Sisneres	50	Unknown	Unknown	Hispanic	California	Hanging	[1]
122		Abraham H. Johnson	55	Unknown	Unknown	White	Texas		[76]
123	September 25, 1922	Peter Erico	29	27	2		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[77]
124		Antonio Puntario	35	33
125	September 29, 1922	Theodore West		34	1		Arizona	Hanging	[78]
126	October 2, 1922	Henry Andrew Blakeley	47	45	2		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[1]
127	October 6, 1922	Miguel Manriquez	27	26	1	Hispanic	California	Hanging	[79]
128	October 12, 1922	McIver Burnett	16	Unknown	Unknown	Black	North Carolina	Electrocution	[1]
129	October 13, 1922	Robert Sewall	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Louisiana	Hanging	[80]
130		Bosie Sims	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
131	October 20, 1922	Stephen F. Katonka	34	33	1	White	California		[81]
132	October 24, 1922	Emil Schutte	54	48	6		Connecticut	Hanging	[82]
133	October 30, 1922	James DiSalvo	41	Unknown	Unknown		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[1]
134		Thomas Verne Ryhal	43	42	1				[83]
135		Curtis Caleb Sipple	21	18	3
136	November 3, 1922	Aaron Howard	19	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Alabama	Hanging	[1]
137	November 6, 1922	Frederick I. Kerr	27	24	3	White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution
138	November 10, 1922	William Alexander Stultz	46	43			Maryland	Hanging	[84]
139	November 16, 1922	Dave Brown	27	26	1		Kentucky	Electrocution	[85]
140	November 24, 1922	Lew Fat	28	28	0	Asian	California	Hanging	[86]
141		Orrie Loren Cross	26	24	2	White	Iowa		[87]
142	December 1, 1922	Ben Brooks	34	33	1		Indiana	Electrocution	[88]
143		James Edward Mahoney	37	36			Washington	Hanging	[89]
144	December 4, 1922	Walter Charles Troy	31	29	2		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[90]
145		Harry Way	24	23	1	Black
146	December 11, 1922	Joseph H. Thomas	41	39	2				[1]
147	December 15, 1922	Myron Corbridge	21	21	0	White	Illinois	Hanging	[91]
148	December 22, 1922	Frank Marselone Jeffords	30	29	1		South Carolina	Electrocution	[92]

Demographics

Gender
Male	147	99%
Female	1	1%
Ethnicity
White	80	54%
Black	54	36%
Hispanic	11	7%
Asian	3	2%
State
Pennsylvania	27	18%
New York	17	11%
Ohio	12	8%
Tennessee	11	7%
Virginia	7	5%
Alabama	6	4%
New Mexico	6	4%
South Carolina	6	4%
California	5	3%
Georgia	5	3%
New Jersey	5	3%
Arizona	3	2%
Iowa	3	2%
Louisiana	3	2%
Mississippi	3	2%
North Carolina	3	2%
Oregon	3	2%
Illinois	2	1%
Indiana	2	1%
Maryland	2	1%
Oklahoma	2	1%
Texas	2	1%
Utah	2	1%
West Virginia	2	1%
Arkansas	1	1%
Colorado	1	1%
Connecticut	1	1%
District of Columbia	1	1%
Florida	1	1%
Kentucky	1	1%
Montana	1	1%
Nebraska	1	1%
Washington	1	1%
Method
Electrocution	95	64%
Hanging	51	34%
Firing squad	2	1%
Month
January	16	11%
February	15	10%
March	21	14%
April	8	5%
May	12	8%
June	19	13%
July	14	9%
August	6	4%
September	14	9%
October	10	7%
November	6	4%
December	7	5%
Age
Unknown	16	11%
10–19	10	7%
20–29	66	45%
30–39	37	25%
40–49	10	7%
50–59	8	5%
60–69	1	1%
Total	148	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
1923	114
1922	148
1921	140
Total	402

References

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4. "Hang Two at Florence Tomorrow". Prescott Evening Courier. January 12, 1922. p. 1.
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9. "Negro Pays Penalty". St. Petersburg Times. January 24, 1922. p. 4.
10. "Two Electrocuted". The Border Cities Star. February 3, 1922. p. 16.
11. "Negro Convicted in Few Minutes Sent to 'Chair.'". The Evening Independent. January 12, 1922. p. 1.
12. "Goes to Chair For Murder of Child". Prescott Daily Courier. February 8, 1922. p. 1.
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14. "State v. Vuckovich". Google Books.
15. "Murderer Electrocuted". The Evening Independent. February 17, 1922. p. 18.
16. "Asbury Fields, On Eve of Execution, Asserts Innocence". The Tennessean via newspapers.com. February 18, 1922. p. 1.
17. "Mexican Hanged". Berkeley Daily Gazette. February 24, 1922. p. 6.
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20. "Harding Pays". The Toledo News-Bee. February 24, 1922. p. 1.
21. "New Record in Murder Trials". Beaver Falls Tribune. January 2, 1922. p. 19.
22. "Four Shocks Required To Kill Bland". Painesville Telegraph. March 1, 1922. p. 1.
23. "Four Slayers Electrocuted". The Evening Independent. March 1, 1922. p. 1.
24. "Church Pays Death Penalty". Gettysburg Times. March 3, 1922. p. 6.
25. "Convict in Death House Declared Sane". Providence News. February 23, 1922. p. 21.
26. "Two More Slayers Are Executed In Ohio Penitentiary". Urbana Daily Democrat. March 3, 1922. p. 9.
27. "Negro to Hang This Afternoon". The Fairmont West Virginian via newspapers.com. March 3, 1922. p. 2.
28. "20 Minutes in Death Chair". Gettysburg Times. March 11, 1922. p. 2.
29. "Negro Executed at Nashville, Tenn". The Nevada Daily Mail. March 15, 1922. p. 1.
30. "Lessons Drawn From Rice's Life". The Day. March 20, 1922. p. 6.
31. "Slayer is Electricuted". The Toledo News-Bee. March 17, 1922. p. 2.
32. "White Keeps Nerve As He Faces Death". Youngstown Vindicator. March 20, 1922. p. 5.
33. "Polish Veteran of World War Dies in Electric Chair". Providence News. March 24, 1922. p. 39.
34. "Chamblin Makes Confession Before Dying In Chair; Forced Couple To Enter Cottage". Portsmouth Daily Times. March 24, 1922. p. 3.
35. "Two Murderers Die in Rockview Chair". The Pittsburgh Press. March 27, 1922. p. 6.
36. "Commonwealth v. Patterson". Google Books.
37. "More Whites Electrocuted Than Negroes This Year". The Observer. December 29, 1922. p. 4.
38. "Wife Slayer Executed". St. Petersburg Times. April 11, 1922. p. 55.
39. "Death on Scaffold Murderer's Penalty". St. Joseph Gazette. April 15, 1922. p. 1.
40. "Louisiana, B-C, 1837-1995, Undated". M. E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives. p. 66.
41. "State v. Torrence". Google Books.
42. "Condemned Murderers Turn to Religion on Eve of Electricution". The Toledo News-Bee. May 4, 1922. p. 2.
43. "Mob Tries to Lynch Alleged Murderer". The Pittsburgh Press. February 11, 1922. p. 2.
44. "Young Purpera is Put to Death at Penitentiary". Urbana Daily Democrat. May 9, 1922. p. 1.
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46. "Fayette Murderer Pays Death Penalty". The Pittsburgh Press. May 22, 1922. p. 5.
47. "Valcalda Is Hanged for Slaying of Fox". The Bakersfield Californian. May 27, 1922. p. 4.
48. "Brown v. Commonwealth". Google Books.
49. "Murderer Electrocuted". Kentucky New Era. June 2, 1922. p. 3.
50. "Three Die in Electric Chair". Aurora Daily Star. June 10, 1922. p. 10.
51. "Two Slayers Are Executed". Aurora Daily Star. June 10, 1922. p. 10.
52. "Benigno Pays With Life for Fanner Murder". Youngstown Vindicator. June 14, 1922. p. 1.
53. "Convict Tries Suicide Going to Death House". The Post Express. June 19, 1922. p. 12.
54. "Negro Hanged". The Daily Star. June 16, 1922. p. 2.
55. "Guard Shot When Mob Storms Georgia Jail". The Lewiston Daily Sun. May 24, 1922. p. 5.
56. "Three Men Go to Electric Chair Singing and Praying". The Evening Indpendent. June 16, 1922. p. 12.
57. "Commonwealth v. Lisowski". Google Books.
58. "Executed Protesting Innocence of Murder". The Border Cities Star. June 20, 1922. p. 6.
59. "George Howze Pays Extreme Penalty". Southern Star via newspapers.com. June 28, 1922. p. 7.
60. "Myeskie Dies, Confesses and Blames Pal". Youngstown Vindicator. June 23, 1922. p. 7.
61. "Aged Poet Goes to His Death in Electric Chair". Providence News. June 30, 1922. p. 47.
62. "Two Men Paid the Death Penalty". The Nevada Daily Mail. July 7, 1922. p. 1.
63. "Two Men Electrocuted". Gettysburg Times. July 18, 1922. p. 3.
64. "Youths Aged 19 and 21 Die in Prison Chair". The Newburgh Daily News. July 21, 1922. p. 1.
65. "McCloskey Electrocuted At Rockview Early Today". The Washington Reporter. July 24, 1922. p. 10.
66. "William Dwight". The Daily Advertiser via newspapers.com. July 26, 1922. p. 7.
67. "Hundred Witness Triple Hanging". Spokane Daily Chronicle. July 28, 1922. p. 25.
68. "Il Meurt Sur La Chaise Electrique". La Tribune. August 2, 1922. p. 1.(in French)
69. "Upholds Three Death Verdicts". The Woodville Republican. July 1, 1922. p. 1.
70. "United States". The Vancouver Sun. September 2, 1922. p. 5.
71. "DuPre Maintains Stoicism to Last Hour Upon Earth". Herald-Journal. September 2, 1922. p. 2.
72. "Win in Death Race". The Nevada Daily Mail. September 9, 1922. p. 5.
73. "Howard Executed at Salem". Lewiston Morning Tribune. September 9, 1922. p. 3.
74. "Weeks Asserts His Innocence Before Hanging". The Telegraph-Herald. September 15, 1922. p. 1.
75. "Negroes Pay Penalty for Attacking Couple". The Evening Independent. September 15, 1922. p. 1.
76. "Abe Johnson's Funeral Sermon". The Liberty Vindicator via newspapers.com. September 29, 1922. p. 2.
77. "Sensational Confession Expected in Trial". The Washington Observer. September 20, 1922. p. 7.
78. "Murderer Pays the Penalty For Crime". Ellensburg Daily Record. September 29, 1922. p. 6.
79. "Miguel Manriquez..." Lyon County Reporter. October 14, 1922. p. 4.
80. "Louisiana, S, 1905-1993, Undated". M. E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives. p. 108.
81. "Hanged Man Makes Murder Confessions". The Bakersfield Californian. October 20, 1922. p. 9.
82. "Schutte in Spell of Terror Hanged Holding Flowers". The Norwalk Hour. October 24, 1922. p. 1.
83. "Two Murderers Die in Prison Chair". Warsaw Union. October 30, 1922. p. 6.
84. "Mob Beats at Door as Cool Slayer Hangs". Prescott Evening Courier. November 10, 1922. p. 4.
85. "Dave Brown Dies Today Unless Intervention Again". Prescott Evening Courier. November 10, 1922. p. 4.
86. "Lew Fat Hanged for Lum Bing Death". The Bakersfield Californian. November 24, 1922. p. 2.
87. "Is Hanged for Murder". Lawrence Journal-World. November 24, 1922. p. 1.
88. "Ben Brooks Pays Death Penalty". Ludington Daily News. December 1, 1922. p. 1.
89. "Mahoney Goes to Death at Daylight". Ellensburg Daily Record. December 1, 1922. p. 1.
90. "New Oxford Item". New Oxford Item. December 7, 1922. p. 8.
91. "Pontiac Boy Slayer Hangs in Dingy Tent". The Rochester Sentinel. December 16, 1922. p. 1.
92. "Frank Jeffords Pays State Debt in Electric Chair". Herald-Journal. December 23, 1922. p. 1.

Preceded by 1921

List of people executed       in the United States in    1922

Succeeded by 1923