List of people executed in the United States in 1927

One hundred and thirty-nine people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1927, ninety-eight by electrocution and forty-one by hanging. ^[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1927

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 6, 1927	Edward J. Heinlein	26	25	1	Male	White	Massachusetts	Electrocution	[2]
2		John Joseph Devereaux	25	24
3		John J. McLaughlin	31	30
4		Charles Goldson	23	22			Black	New York		[3]
5		Edgar Humes	26	25
6		George Williams	27	26
7	January 7, 1927	William J. Slater	24	23			White	California	Hanging	[4]
8	January 8, 1927	Robert Franklin Thompson	54	54	0			Ohio	Electrocution	[5]
9	January 11, 1927	Peter Doro	32	31	1			New Jersey		[6]
10	January 13, 1927	Benjamin Bradley	28	27			Black	New York		[7]
11	January 14, 1927	William Gee	21	Unknown	Unknown			Virginia		[1]
12	January 20, 1927	Michael Kosmowski	35	33	2		White	New York
13	January 21, 1927	Sydney Adams	40	39	1		Black	California	Hanging	[8]
14	January 28, 1927	Raymond H. Arnold	29	26	3		White			[9]
15	February 4, 1927	Edward K. Sayer	24	22	2					[10]
16	February 16, 1927	Joseph Smith	51	51	0			Illinois		[11]
17	February 17, 1927	Paul Emanuel Hilton	27	26	1			New York	Electrocution	[12]
18		Anthony Paretti	35	25	10
19	February 18, 1927	Oscar Quarles	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Illinois	Hanging	[13]
20		F.D. Baines	27	Unknown	Unknown			Texas	Electrocution	[1]
21		Pierce Jefferies	21	Unknown	Unknown			West Virginia	Hanging	[14]
22	February 28, 1927	Walter Francis Webb	28	27	1			Pennsylvania	Electrocution	[15]
23		Amos Hughes	25	24
24	March 1, 1927	Lloyd O'Dell Salter	28	27				Florida		[16]
25	March 7, 1927	Joseph Curry		28	0		White	Pennsylvania		[17]
26		Harry Bentley	23	22	1
27		William Juliano	27	26
28		Frank Doris	24	24	0
29	March 8, 1927	Raymond Stone	26	25	1		Black	Florida		[18]
30	March 11, 1927	Robert Lumpkin	27		2			North Carolina		[19]
31	March 17, 1927	Giuseppe W. Provenzano	24	22			White	New York		[20]
32		Giuseppe Friia	33	31
33		Bryant Satchell	25	24	1		Black	Texas		[1]
34	March 23, 1927	Rufus Linias Chesser	19	17	2		White	Florida		[21]
35	March 31, 1927	Scott Workman	42	42	0			Ohio		[22]
36	April 7, 1927	Earl London	Unknown	Unknown	1		Black	Florida		[23]
37	April 8, 1927	Horace D. DeVaughn	34	33				Alabama		[24]
38		James D. Lyon	27	26			White	Ohio		[25]
39		George William Thoma	23	23	0
40	April 15, 1927	John Walton Winn	47	45	2			Illinois	Hanging	[26]
41		Henry Porfey	21	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Virginia	Electrocution	[1]
42		William Thomas	23	Unknown	Unknown
43	April 22, 1927	Ernest Walker	39	38	1			North Carolina		[27]
44	April 23, 1927	William Virgil Murphy	37	36			White	Alabama		[28]
45	April 27, 1927	Fortune Ferguson Jr.	22	18	4		Black	Florida		[29]
46	April 29, 1927	Thomas Twine	35	35	0			Illinois	Hanging	[30]
47		Henry Evans Bartlett	37	34	3		White	Nebraska	Electrocution	[31]
48	May 17, 1927	Paul William Feursten	45	44	1			New Jersey		[32]
49		Albert Brownlee	28	28	0			Oregon	Hanging	[33]
50	May 20, 1927	Charles Jehu Blackburn	36	35	1			Arizona		[34]
51		Ferdinand Schlaps	19	18				Montana		[35]
52		John F. Webb	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Tennessee	Electrocution	[1]
53		Matthew Briscoe	37	34	3			Texas		[36]
54	May 25, 1927	John Henry Wallace	21	19	2			Tennessee		[37]
55	May 27, 1927	Carl Skinner	27	27	0			Delaware	Hanging	[38]
56		Narciso Reyes	34	Unknown	Unknown		Asian	Hawaii Territory		[1]
57		Marcelo Rivera	23	22	1					[39]
58		Alfred A. Winters	30	28	2		Black	Washington		[40]
59	June 3, 1927	Merrell Minor Gore	23	21			White	Georgia	Electrocution	[41]
60		Herbert Fennell	30	Unknown	Unknown		Black
61	June 6, 1927	James Oscar Mars	45	43	2		White			[42]
62	June 10, 1927	Pearl Mitchell	29	29	0		Black	North Carolina		[43]
63		John Hickman	30		1		White	Ohio		[44]
64		George Wargo	60	59
65		John Butchek	47	45	2	Oregon		Hanging	[45]
66	June 17, 1927	Joe Chesnas	22	21	1	Illinois			[46]
67		Leo Halterman	27	26		Ohio		Electrocution	[47]
68	June 24, 1927	Lonnie B. Dixon	18	17		Black	Arkansas		[48]
69		Elin Lyons	40	39		Hispanic	Illinois	Hanging	[49]
70		Frank Carter	46	45		White	Nebraska	Electrocution	[50]
71	July 7, 1927	Louis Frederick Boersig	44	44	0		Virginia		[51]
72	July 12, 1927	John Rounsaville	20	18	2	Black	Georgia		[52]
73	July 14, 1927	William Wagner	24	23	1	White	New York		[53]
74	July 15, 1927	Clyde Reese Bachelor	26	25			Alabama		[54]
75		Cellus Stewart	33	31	2	Black	Georgia		[1]
76		Charles Henry Duchowski	35	34	1	White	Illinois	Hanging	[55]
77		Walter Stalesky	38	37
78		Ricardo Torrez	27	26		Hispanic
79	July 18, 1927	Philip Orleck	20	19		White	Ohio	Electrocution	[56]
80	July 21, 1927	Peter J. Heslin	28	27			New York		[57]
81	July 22, 1927	Walter Burley	Unknown	Unknown	0	Black	Mississippi	Hanging	[58]
82	July 29, 1927	Roosevelt Hicks	25	23	2		Indiana	Electrocution	[59]
83	August 5, 1927	Salvatore Merra	49	48	1	White	New Jersey		[60]
84	August 12, 1927	Pilipi Austero	38	Unknown	Unknown	Asian	Hawaii Territory	Hanging	[1]
85		Santiago Lacambra	26	Unknown	Unknown
86		McKinley Thomason	18	Unknown	Unknown	Black	South Carolina	Electrocution	[61]
87		Francis Marion Snow	46	44	2	White	Texas		[62]
88	August 22, 1927	Ed Joshlin	19	Unknown	Unknown	Black			[1]
89	August 23, 1927	Celestino F. Medeiros	25	18	7	White	Massachusetts		[63]
90		Nicola Sacco	36	28	8
91		Bartolomeo Vanzetti	39	31
92	September 2, 1927	Horace Cathey	20	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Arkansas		[64]
93		Booker T. Martin	25	Unknown	Unknown
94	September 9, 1927	Sam Hall	Unknown	Unknown	1		Alabama		[65]
95		William Henry Ross	23	23	0		Maryland	Hanging	[66]
96		Ottie Simmons	19	19
97		Arthur Swann	20	20
98	September 16, 1927	Raymond C. Davis	28	26	2	White	Kentucky	Electrocution	[67]
99	September 23, 1927	Earl Jack Clark	37	35			California	Hanging	[68]
100		George Frank Bazemore	26	25	1	Black	North Carolina	Electrocution	[69]
101		Willie Robinson	23	Unknown	Unknown		Texas		[70]
102	September 26, 1927	Carl Nolly	30	28	2		Pennsylvania		[71]
103		Tillman Simmons	50	47	3		Texas		[72]
104	September 29, 1927	Charles P. Albrecht	33	32	1	White	New York		[73]
105	October 7, 1927	Milan Vukich	37	35	2		California	Hanging	[74]
106	October 14, 1927	Lee Chamblee	40	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Georgia	Electrocution	[75]
107		Wilbur Galloway	28	Unknown	Unknown
108		Mose Parker	49	48	1
109	October 21, 1927	Charles Sieber	38	37		White	California	Hanging	[76]
110		Rado Millich	42	41			Illinois		[77]
111	October 26, 1927	Roy Pryor	24	24	0	Black	Georgia	Electrocution	[1]
112	November 5, 1927	Avery V. Millikin	37	36	1	White	Texas		[78]
113	November 8, 1927	Chin Lung	33	33	0	Asian	Connecticut	Hanging	[79]
114		Soo Hoo Wing	19	19
115	November 10, 1927	Herman E. Coggins	28	27	1	White	Tennessee	Electrocution	[80]
116	November 11, 1927	George Clark	26	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Georgia		[1]
117		Alfred Simms	19	19	0		Maryland	Hanging	[81]
118	November 18, 1927	John Sanders	41	Unknown	Unknown		Georgia	Electrocution	[1]
119		Christopher Barone	22	21	1	White	New Jersey		[82]
120		Louis Capozzi	27	26
121		Joseph Juliano	37	36
122		Giuseppe Juliano	31	30
123	November 21, 1927	Jerry Weeks		31	0	Black	Pennsylvania		[83]
124	November 22, 1927	Benjamin Franklin Levins	38	37	1	White	Florida		[84]
125	November 25, 1927	Nathan Bard	42	40	2	Black	Kentucky	Hanging	[85]
126		Bunyan Fleming	32	31	1
127		William Nelson	25	Unknown	Unknown		Virginia	Electrocution	[86]
128	November 29, 1927	Louis Curtis Thomas	Unknown	Unknown	1	White	Florida		[87]
129	December 9, 1927	Hector Graham	41	41	0	Black	North Carolina		[88]
130	December 13, 1927	Thomas Costello	31	30	1	White	Florida		[89]
131	December 16, 1927	Jeff Coleman	Unknown	Unknown	0	Black	Alabama		[90]
132		William Brown	44	43	1		Illinois	Hanging	[91]
133		James Hayes	29	29	0	White
134		George A. Ricci	33	33			New York	Electrocution	[92]
135		Peter A. Seiler	22	21	1
136	December 21, 1927	William B. Henderson	30	29			Florida		[93]
137	December 23, 1927	Herschel Andrews	35	34			Illinois	Hanging	[94]
138	December 30, 1927	Bob Eatmon	21	21	0	Black	Alabama	Electrocution	[1]
139		Hugh Phillips	55	54	1	White	Louisiana	Hanging	[95]

Demographics

Gender
Male	139	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	70	50%
Black	61	44%
Asian	6	4%
Hispanic	2	1%
State
New York	14	10%
Illinois	13	9%
Georgia	11	8%
Florida	9	6%
Ohio	8	6%
Pennsylvania	8	6%
Texas	8	6%
California	7	5%
New Jersey	7	5%
Alabama	6	4%
Massachusetts	6	4%
North Carolina	5	4%
Virginia	5	4%
Hawaii Territory	4	3%
Maryland	4	3%
Arkansas	3	2%
Kentucky	3	2%
Tennessee	3	2%
Connecticut	2	1%
Nebraska	2	1%
Oregon	2	1%
Arizona	1	1%
Delaware	1	1%
Indiana	1	1%
Louisiana	1	1%
Mississippi	1	1%
Montana	1	1%
South Carolina	1	1%
Washington	1	1%
West Virginia	1	1%
Method
Electrocution	98	71%
Hanging	41	29%
Month
January	14	10%
February	9	6%
March	12	9%
April	12	9%
May	11	8%
June	12	9%
July	12	9%
August	9	6%
September	13	9%
October	7	5%
November	17	12%
December	11	8%
Age
Unknown	7	5%
10–19	8	6%
20–29	63	45%
30–39	38	27%
40–49	18	13%
50–59	4	3%
60–69	1	1%
Total	139	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
1928	145
1927	139
1926	139
Total	423

References

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2. "Three Massachusetts Bandits Die in Chair For Killing of Watchman in Car Barn Hold-Up". The New York Times. January 6, 1927.
3. "Executioner Gets $900 For 6 Deaths In 2 States In Day". The Meriden Daily Journal. January 7, 1927. p. 1.
4. "Hanged at San Quentin". Berkeley Daily Gazette. January 7, 1927. p. 3.
5. "Carry Slayer to His Death". Youngstown Vindicator. January 9, 1927. p. 1.
6. "New Jersey Slayer Executed". The New York Times. January 12, 1927.
7. "Last Minute Reprieve For Condemned Man". Evening Tribune. January 14, 1927. p. 6.
8. "Hanged at San Quentin". Berkeley Daily Gazette. January 21, 1927. p. 6.
9. "Goes to Death With Innocent Claim on Lips". Prescott Evening Courier. January 28, 1927. p. 1.
10. "Edward K. Sayer, 24, Pays Death Penalty". The Border Cities Star. February 4, 1927. p. 14.
11. "Illinois Man Is Hanged for Wife's Murder". The Southeast Missourian. February 17, 1927. p. 5.
12. "' RADIO BURGLAR' DIES IN CHAIR AT SING SING; Paul Hilton, Who Murdered a Policeman, and Anthony Paretti Pay Death Penalty". The New York Times. February 18, 1927.
13. "Negro Slayer in Chicago is Hanged". St. Petersburg Times. February 19, 1927. p. 8.
14. "Negro Facing Hanging Says He's "Ready To Go."". The Pittsburgh Press. February 18, 1927. p. 2.
15. "2 Pay Penalty For Murder in Electric Chair". The Washington Reporter. February 28, 1927. p. 1.
16. "Negro Murder Suspects Get Death Verdict". The Evening Independent. August 21, 1926. p. 1.
17. "Four Executed For One Murder". The Evening Independent. March 7, 1927. p. 1.
18. "Killer of Turk To Be Executed Early in March". The Evening Independent. February 15, 1927. p. 11.
19. "Williams Saved By Last-Minute Reprieve, Lumpkin Pays Death Penalty". The Robesonian. March 14, 1927. p. 1.
20. "Friia Follows Provenzano To Electric Chair". Rochester Evening Journal and the Post Express. March 18, 1927. p. 19.
21. "Youth Dies for Crime". The Evening Independent. March 23, 1927. p. 19.
22. "Wife Slayer Dies In Electric Chair". Painesville Telegraph. April 1, 1927. p. 1.
23. "Negro Electrocuted". St. Petersburg Times. April 8, 1927. p. 1.
24. "Latest News In Brief". The Pittsburgh Press. April 8, 1927. p. 1.
25. "Fatalist, Stoic to Die Tonight". Youngstown Vindicator. April 8, 1927. p. 37.
26. "John Walton Winn Executed Today". The Nevada Daily Mail. April 15, 1927. p. 7.
27. "Ernest Walker Goes to Death in Chair". The Mount Airy News. April 28, 1927. p. 9.
28. "Veteran Faces Death Bravely". Times Daily. April 24, 1927. p. 5.
29. "Negro Youth Walks Coolly to His Death". The Evening Independent. April 28, 1927. p. 7.
30. "Negro Slayer Pays Penalty On Gallows". The Telegraph-Herald. April 29, 1927. p. 18.
31. "BARTLETT, DEFIANT, GOES TO DEATH CHAIR; Nebraska Desperado Meets His End Mumbling -- His Victim's Father Sees Execution". The New York Times. April 30, 1927.
32. "'Mad Musician' Dies For Vickers Murder". The Border Cities Star. May 18, 1927. p. 27.
33. "Protests His Innocence Of Hooker Death". The Border Cities Star. May 18, 1927. p. 27.
34. "Prison Warden Hangs Rancher". Prescott Evening Courier. May 20, 1927. p. 3.
35. "Young Murderer Pays For Crime". Spokane Daily Chronicle. May 20, 1927. p. 30.
36. "Executioners Kill Three for Alleged Misdeeds of 3 Men". The Bonham Daily Favorite. May 21, 1927. p. 1.
37. "Executed After Suicide Failed". The Spokesman-Review. May 26, 1927. p. 2.
38. "Negro is Hanged". St. Petersburg Times. May 28, 1927. p. 1.
39. "Laborer Under Death Sentence to Oahu Prison". Honolulu Star-Bulletin via newspapers.com. February 23, 1927. p. 1.
40. "Dies on Gallows at Walla Walla". Spokane Daily Chronicle. May 27, 1927. p. 8.
41. "Georgia Barber Failed to Cheat Death This Time". The Evening Independent. June 4, 1927. p. 5.
42. "Dies in Chair". St. Petersburg Times. June 6, 1927. p. 9.
43. "Negro is Killed". St. Petersburg Times. June 11, 1927. p. 2.
44. "Wargo is Calm as He Goes to Death in Chair". Painesville Telegraph. June 11, 1927. p. 1.
45. "Portlander Hanged". Berkeley Daily Gazette. June 10, 1927. p. 10.
46. "Goes To Gallows With Smile Youth Winks At Death Watch". The Southeast Missourian. June 17, 1927. p. 1.
47. "Altered Chair to Kill Midget". The Spokesman-Review. June 18, 1927. p. 3.
48. "Negro, Smiling, Dies In Electric Chair, Says "I Am Guilty"". Meriden Record. June 25, 1927. p. 3.
49. "Elin Lyons Was Hanged Today in Cook County". Warsaw Union. June 24, 1927. p. 7.
50. "Omaha "Sniper" Pays Last Penalty Today". The Washington Reporter. June 24, 1927. p. 4.
51. "Electrocuted for Killing Small Girls". The Telegraph-Herald. July 7, 1927. p. 18.
52. "Rounsaville v. State". Google Books.
53. "DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR, HIDES HIS REAL NAME; Brooklyn Slayer Sought to Keep Crime From Relatives in Germany -- Gray Consoles Him". The New York Times. July 15, 1927.
54. "Alabama Killer Dies in Chair; Offered Prayer". St. Petersburg Times. July 16, 1927. p. 2.
55. "Three Executed for Killing of Deputy Warden". The Morning Leader. July 16, 1927. p. 3.
56. "Orlech Calmly Goes To Death". Youngstown Vindicator. July 19, 1927. p. 3.
57. "POLICEMAN'S SLAYER PAYS DEATH PENALTY; Peter Heslin Dies in Electric Chair at Sing Sing -- Declares He Was Framed". The New York Times. July 22, 1927.
58. "Negro Hanged for Murdering White Women". The Meriden Daily Journal. July 22, 1927. p. 5.
59. "Negro Electrocuted For Wife's Murder". The Telegraph-Herald. July 29, 1927. p. 1.
60. "MERRA IS EXECUTED; SAYS 'I DIE INNOCENT'; Adds as He Goes to Chair Nephew Also Is Guiltless of Slaying in Newark". The New York Times. August 6, 1927.
61. "Troops Guard Two Sections of S. Carolina". The Afro-American. July 2, 1927. p. 1.
62. "Texas Slayer Executed". The Southeast Missourian. August 12, 1927. p. 1.
63. "Widespread Rioting Follows Execution of Two Radicals; Many Hurt in Demonstrations". The Southeast Missourian. August 23, 1927. p. 1.
64. "Electrocute Negroes for Slaying of Man". St. Petersburg Times. September 3, 1927. p. 8.
65. "Hall v. State". CaseMine.
66. "Triple Hanging in Baltimore". The Montreal Gazette. September 10, 1927. p. 4.
67. "Rochesterian Pays For Kentucky Death". The Newburgh News. September 16, 1927. p. 1.
68. "Earl J. Clark Executed". The Border Cities Star. September 23, 1927. p. 23.
69. "State v. Bazemore". CaseMine.
70. "Late Bulletins". Prescott Evening Courier. September 23, 1927. p. 1.
71. "Slayer of Officer is Put to Death". The Border Cities Star. September 26, 1927. p. 1.
72. "Simmons v. State". Google Books.
73. "Slayer Pays Penalty". The Morning Leader. September 30, 1927. p. 11.
74. "Clemency Appeal Denied By Young". Berkeley Daily Gazette. October 6, 1927. p. 1.
75. "Three Negroes March to the Electric Chair". The Saskatoon Phoenix. October 15, 1927. p. 1.
76. "For Murder of Wife". Lawrence Journal-World. October 21, 1927. p. 1.
77. "Gangster Dies on Gallows". The Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal. October 21, 1927. p. 1.
78. "Slayer Who Fought Death Chair Dies". The Pittsburgh Press. November 5, 1927. p. 3.
79. "TWO CHINESE ARE HANGED.; Pay Penalty at Wethersfield for Manchester (Conn.) Killing". The New York Times. November 8, 1927.
80. "Coggins Executed". The Border Cities Star. November 11, 1927. p. 40.
81. ""Satisfied," Says Youth About To Be Hanged Friday". The Afro-American. November 19, 1927. p. 10.
82. "FOUR PUT TO DEATH FOR NEWARK MURDER; Die for Slaying of Paymaster in Reid Hold-Up as Moore Denies Last Day Plea". The New York Times. November 19, 1927.
83. "Negro Dies For Killing of Four". Greensburg Daily Tribune. November 21, 1927. p. 1.
84. "Tampa Hammer-Killer Executed". The Evening Independent. November 22, 1927. p. 1.
85. "Hang Girl's Assailants". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 26, 1927. p. 2.
86. "Negro Executed Electric Chair". The Free Lance-Star. November 25, 1927. p. 1.
87. "Thomas Meets Death Calmly". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. November 30, 1927. p. 1.
88. "Condemned Negro "Will Eat" Above". The Dispatch. December 8, 1927. p. 4.
89. "Slayer Unassisted In Walk to Chair". St. Petersburg Times. December 14, 1927. p. 1.
90. "Negro is Executed". Times Daily. December 16, 1927. p. 4.
91. "Illinois Axe Slayers Hang". The New York Times. December 17, 1927.
92. "TWO MEN DIE IN CHAIR AT SING SING PRISON; Execution of Seiler and Ricci Delayed by Musical Comedy Given by Prisoners". The New York Times. December 16, 1927.
93. "Ybor City Slayer Dies in the Chair". The Evening Independent. December 21, 1927. p. 1.
94. "'Merry Christmas,' Slayer's Last Words". The Evening Independent. December 23, 1927. p. 1.
95. "Nachitoches Gallows Take A Life Today". The News-Star. December 30, 1927. p. 1.

Preceded by 1926

List of people executed       in the United States in    1927

Succeeded by 1928