One hundred and fifty-five people, one hundred and fifty-three male and two female, were executed in the United States in 1930, one hundred and six by electrocution, forty-eight by hanging, and one by gas chamber. [1]
| No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
| 1 | January 2, 1930 | Frank Kowalski | 25 | 24 | 1 | Male | White | New York | Electrocution | [2] |
| 2 | Arthur Brown | 34 | 23 | |||||||
| 3 | January 3, 1930 | Anthony Brown | 31 | 29 | 2 | California | Hanging | [3] | ||
| 4 | Louis Lazarus | 38 | 37 | 1 | ||||||
| 5 | Roy E. Stokes | 24 | 22 | 2 | ||||||
| 6 | Henry Wilson | 21 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Louisiana | [1] | |||
| 7 | January 9, 1930 | John E. Schlager | 32 | 31 | 1 | White | New York | Electrocution | [4] | |
| 8 | January 10, 1930 | Walter E. Burke | 33 | 2 | California | Hanging | [5] | |||
| 9 | James Henry Gregg | 34 | 32 | |||||||
| 10 | Edward Ives | 50 | 49 | 1 | Colorado | [6] | ||||
| 11 | Joseph Marrazzo | 27 | Unknown | Unknown | New Jersey | Electrocution | [7] | |||
| 12 | Frank Joseph Pannatiere | 26 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 13 | January 17, 1930 | James Gleason | 30 | 28 | 2 | California | Hanging | [8] | ||
| 14 | January 24, 1930 | Silena Gilmore | 34 | 34 | 0 | Female | Black | Alabama | Electrocution | [9] |
| 15 | Ben Evers | 22 | 21 | 1 | Male | Arkansas | [10] | |||
| 16 | January 27, 1930 | John Ellen | 41 | 39 | 2 | Georgia | [1] | |||
| 17 | January 30, 1930 | Michael Sclafonia | 20 | 19 | 1 | White | New York | [11] | ||
| 18 | Frank Plaia | |||||||||
| 19 | January 31, 1930 | John Jackson | 55 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Maryland | Hanging | [1] | |
| 20 | Lawrence Mabry | 19 | 17 | 2 | White | Missouri | [12] | |||
| 21 | February 3, 1930 | Giuseppe Guida | 37 | 36 | 1 | Pennsylvania | Electrocution | [13] | ||
| 22 | February 10, 1930 | James Chandler | 48 | 46 | 2 | Black | California | Hanging | [14] | |
| 23 | February 14, 1930 | James Barker | 22 | Unknown | Unknown | Georgia | Electrocution | [15] | ||
| 24 | Ray Evans | 21 | 20 | 1 | North Carolina | [16] | ||||
| 25 | John Jones | 20 | 18 | 2 | Tennessee | [17] | ||||
| 26 | February 20, 1930 | John Fields | 23 | Unknown | Unknown | Virginia | [1] | |||
| 27 | February 21, 1930 | Eva Dugan | 51 | 48 | 3 | Female | White | Arizona | Hanging | [18] |
| 28 | Frank A. DiBattista | 26 | 25 | 1 | Male | Connecticut | [19] | |||
| 29 | Edmond Kelly | 27 | 26 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | [1] | |||
| 30 | John Washington | 31 | 30 | Louisiana | Hanging | [20] | ||||
| 31 | Robert V. Lewis Sr. | 35 | 33 | 2 | White | Mississippi | ||||
| 32 | February 28, 1930 | James Howard Snook | 50 | 49 | 1 | Ohio | Electrocution | [21] | ||
| 33 | March 7, 1930 | Refugio Macias | 43 | 42 | Hispanic | Arizona | Hanging | [22] | ||
| 34 | Irkson Webb | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Louisiana | [1] | |||
| 35 | Joe Wynn | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 36 | March 10, 1930 | George Austin Brownfield | 54 | 54 | 0 | White | Wyoming | [23] | ||
| 37 | March 13, 1930 | Bishop Adams | 41 | 40 | 1 | Black | Texas | Electrocution | [24] | |
| 38 | March 14, 1930 | Alphonse Dan Reilly | 22 | 21 | White | California | Hanging | [25] | ||
| 39 | Carey Gunn | 20 | 20 | 0 | Black | Tennessee | Electrocution | [26] | ||
| 40 | March 19, 1930 | Boss Funderburk | 43 | Unknown | Unknown | Florida | [1] | |||
| 41 | March 21, 1930 | Mack Brown | 27 | 26 | 1 | Arkansas | [27] | |||
| 42 | John Green | 28 | 27 | |||||||
| 43 | Renty Screven | 50 | Unknown | Unknown | Georgia | [28] | ||||
| 44 | James Britt | 42 | 41 | 1 | Indiana | [29] | ||||
| 45 | March 28, 1930 | Louis Galvano | 20 | 19 | White | Delaware | Hanging | [30] | ||
| 46 | March 31, 1930 | Ralph Russell Sloat | 29 | 28 | Pennsylvania | Electrocution | [31] | |||
| 47 | April 4, 1930 | John Macon | 34 | 33 | Black | North Carolina | [32] | |||
| 48 | April 11, 1930 | Jack Jarvis | 28 | 26 | 2 | White | Alabama | [33] | ||
| 49 | Aaron Woodward | 35 | 33 | Black | Illinois | [34] | ||||
| 50 | April 17, 1930 | Robert Mangum | 22 | Unknown | Unknown | North Carolina | [35] | |||
| 51 | Henry Colin Campbell Close | 61 | 60 | 1 | White | New Jersey | [36] | |||
| 52 | April 29, 1930 | Eli Truesdale | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | South Carolina | [1] | ||
| 53 | May 9, 1930 | August Vogel | 25 | 25 | 0 | White | Illinois | [37] | ||
| 54 | James Ernest Brumfield | 23 | 22 | 1 | Black | North Carolina | [38] | |||
| 55 | Walter E. Crabtree | 35 | 35 | 0 | White | West Virginia | Hanging | [39] | ||
| 56 | May 14, 1930 | Charles Aragon | 25 | 23 | 2 | Native American | Wyoming | [40] | ||
| 57 | May 16, 1930 | Armando Boltares | 24 | 1 | Hispanic | California | [41] | |||
| 58 | Ossie Moore | 24 | 0 | Black | South Carolina | Electrocution | [42] | |||
| 59 | George Washington | 22 | 22 | |||||||
| 60 | May 22, 1930 | Jordan Scott | 32 | 31 | 1 | Texas | [1] | |||
| 61 | May 23, 1930 | James Spivey | 26 | 25 | White | North Carolina | [43] | |||
| 62 | May 26, 1930 | John Richardson | 22 | 22 | 0 | Ohio | [44] | |||
| 63 | May 28, 1930 | Harold I. Weiss | 32 | 31 | 1 | Colorado | Hanging | [45] | ||
| 64 | May 29, 1930 | Stephen Ziolkowski | 24 | Unknown | Unknown | New York | Electrocution | [46] | ||
| 65 | June 2, 1930 | Robert H. White | 41 | 39 | 2 | Nevada | Gas chamber | [47] | ||
| 66 | June 5, 1930 | Andrew Jackson Hawkins | 33 | 31 | Black | District of Columbia | Electrocution | [48] | ||
| 67 | June 6, 1930 | William Pruitt Jr. | 24 | 22 | White | Texas | [49] | |||
| 68 | June 13, 1930 | Richard Edmonds | 36 | 34 | Black | Kentucky | [50] | |||
| 69 | Ballard E. Ratcliffe | 41 | 39 | White | ||||||
| 70 | Lee Akers | 17 | 16 | 1 | Black | Ohio | [51] | |||
| 71 | June 20, 1930 | Jack Bowen | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | Alabama | [52] | |||
| 72 | Edgar Harris | 28 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 73 | Roy Lee Miles | 29 | 27 | 2 | ||||||
| 74 | Ambrosia Alford | 30 | 29 | 1 | Arkansas | [53] | ||||
| 75 | Lucius Jolley | 23 | Unknown | Unknown | Georgia | [1] | ||||
| 76 | Leonard Jones | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | Louisiana | Hanging | ||||
| 77 | James E. Litteral | 43 | 42 | 1 | White | Ohio | Electrocution | [54] | ||
| 78 | June 23, 1930 | John L. Pierce | 31 | 30 | Black | Pennsylvania | [55] | |||
| 79 | June 24, 1930 | Ray Coleman | 29 | 27 | 2 | White | South Carolina | [56] | ||
| 80 | Paul B. Johnson | 31 | 30 | 1 | ||||||
| 81 | June 27, 1930 | Emory Van Dusen | 24 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Georgia | [1] | ||
| 82 | June 28, 1930 | George Williams | 68 | 67 | 1 | White | Ohio | [57] | ||
| 83 | June 30, 1930 | Martin Avery | 19 | 18 | Black | Pennsylvania | [58] | |||
| 84 | William Henry Sled | 31 | 30 | |||||||
| 85 | Frank Tauza | 44 | 44 | 0 | White | |||||
| 86 | July 7, 1930 | James Flori | 25 | 24 | 1 | [59] | ||||
| 87 | July 10, 1930 | Ralph Emmerson Fleagle | 49 | 47 | 2 | Colorado | Hanging | [60] | ||
| 88 | July 11, 1930 | Lawrence L. Dull | 25 | 24 | 1 | Ohio | Electrocution | [61] | ||
| 89 | Preston Rae Clark | 39 | 36 | 3 | Washington | Hanging | [62] | |||
| 90 | July 17, 1930 | Alexander Bogdanoff | 32 | 31 | 1 | New York | Electrocution | [63] | ||
| 91 | Stephen Grzechowiak | 29 | 28 | |||||||
| 92 | Max Rybarczyk | 31 | 30 | |||||||
| 93 | James Edward Forrest | 23 | 21 | 2 | Black | Oklahoma | [64] | |||
| 94 | Tom Guest | 48 | 45 | 3 | White | |||||
| 95 | July 18, 1930 | George Johnson Abshier | 33 | 31 | 2 | Colorado | Hanging | [65] | ||
| 96 | Howard Lester Royston | 34 | 32 | |||||||
| 97 | July 22, 1930 | Victor Giampietro | 24 | 22 | New Jersey | Electrocution | [66] | |||
| 98 | Louis Malanga | 23 | 21 | |||||||
| 99 | John Murray | 31 | 30 | 1 | ||||||
| 100 | Joseph Rado | 27 | 25 | 2 | ||||||
| 101 | July 25, 1930 | Bud Nolan | 42 | 41 | 1 | Black | Arkansas | [67] | ||
| 102 | Antonio Mangiaracina Jr. | 30 | 28 | 2 | White | Missouri | Hanging | [68] | ||
| 103 | John Messino | 29 | 27 | |||||||
| 104 | Carl Nasello | 22 | 20 | |||||||
| 105 | August 1, 1930 | Thomas Laffette Lehew | 35 | 34 | 1 | California | [69] | |||
| 106 | August 8, 1930 | Rainey Williams | 38 | 38 | 0 | Black | Texas | Electrocution | [70] | |
| 107 | August 12, 1930 | Henry O. Lorenz | 26 | 26 | White | Connecticut | Hanging | [71] | ||
| 108 | August 15, 1930 | William Henry Howell | 62 | 60 | 2 | Arkansas | Electrocution | [72] | ||
| 109 | John Gomez | 22 | 21 | 1 | Hispanic | California | Hanging | [73] | ||
| 110 | Robert Lee Wilkins | 44 | 42 | 2 | White | Washington | [74] | |||
| 111 | August 20, 1930 | Amelio Herrera | 25 | 24 | 1 | Hispanic | Colorado | [75] | ||
| 112 | August 22, 1930 | Theodore Ross | 24 | 0 | Black | Delaware | [1] | |||
| 113 | Lee Davis | 21 | 20 | 1 | Texas | Electrocution | [76] | |||
| 114 | August 28, 1930 | Jesse Thomas | 20 | 19 | White | New York | [77] | |||
| 115 | William Force | 28 | 27 | |||||||
| 116 | Claude Udwine | 29 | 28 | |||||||
| 117 | August 29, 1930 | Arthur Schaffer | 27 | 2 | Washington | Hanging | [78] | |||
| 118 | September 5, 1930 | Carl Panzram | 39 | 37 | Federal government | [79] | ||||
| 119 | September 12, 1930 | Jesse Lee Washington | 21 | 21 | 0 | Black | Texas | Electrocution | [80] | |
| 120 | Archie Frank Moock | 33 | 31 | 2 | White | Washington | Hanging | [81] | ||
| 121 | September 19, 1930 | Elwood Payne | 33 | 0 | Black | Virginia | Electrocution | [82] | ||
| 122 | September 22, 1930 | Arthur Winder | 27 | 26 | 1 | Pennsylvania | [83] | |||
| 123 | September 26, 1930 | Berry Richardson | 20 | 20 | 0 | North Carolina | [84] | |||
| 124 | Aaron Sharp | |||||||||
| 125 | October 2, 1930 | Gordon Stewart Northcott | 23 | 21 | 2 | White | California | Hanging | [85] | |
| 126 | October 3, 1930 | Leonard Shadlow | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | Black | Illinois | Electrocution | [86] | |
| 127 | Lafon Fisher | Unknown | Unknown | |||||||
| 128 | October 10, 1930 | Harvey Lawrence | 17 | 17 | 0 | North Carolina | [87] | |||
| 129 | October 17, 1930 | Joyce Joseph "Bill Smith" Shepard | 27 | 24 | 3 | White | Texas | [88] | ||
| 130 | October 31, 1930 | Alphonso Bellamy | 18 | 18 | 0 | Black | Virginia | [1] | ||
| 131 | November 7, 1930 | Willie Massey | 25 | Unknown | Unknown | North Carolina | [89] | |||
| 132 | Will Sloan | 28 | 28 | 0 | ||||||
| 133 | Luz Gonzales Arcos | 29 | 1 | Hispanic | Texas | [90] | ||||
| 134 | November 10, 1930 | Charles Cramer | 32 | Unknown | Unknown | White | Ohio | [91] | ||
| 135 | Bert Walker | 41 | 41 | 0 | ||||||
| 136 | November 14, 1930 | Willie Joe Davis | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | Black | Arkansas | [92] | ||
| 137 | Eddie Long | 30 | 29 | |||||||
| 138 | James Turnage | 29 | 28 | |||||||
| 139 | George Washington | 30 | 29 | |||||||
| 140 | Roosevelt Darnell | 25 | 25 | 0 | White | West Virginia | Hanging | [93] | ||
| 141 | November 17, 1930 | Harry Coon | 23 | 23 | Pennsylvania | Electrocution | [94] | |||
| 142 | November 22, 1930 | Wash Smith | 19 | 17 | 2 | Georgia | [95] | |||
| 143 | November 28, 1930 | Leon Brown | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | Black | Illinois | [96] | ||
| 144 | Jess J. Maple | 36 | 36 | 0 | White | Texas | ||||
| 145 | December 5, 1930 | Alfred Edwin Boss | 35 | 33 | 2 | California | Hanging | [97] | ||
| 146 | George Davis | 30 | 29 | 1 | ||||||
| 147 | George Ryley | 21 | 20 | |||||||
| 148 | December 12, 1930 | William Moya | 30 | 29 | Colorado | [98] | ||||
| 149 | William Lenhardt | 35 | 33 | 2 | Illinois | Electrocution | [99] | |||
| 150 | James Robert Butler | 21 | 20 | 1 | New York | [100] | ||||
| 151 | Italo Ferdinandi | 23 | 22 | |||||||
| 152 | James C. Bolger | 19 | 18 | |||||||
| 153 | December 29, 1930 | William Gimbel | 21 | 20 | New Jersey | [101] | ||||
| 154 | Joseph Calabrese | 22 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 155 | Arthur Cort | 23 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Gender | ||
|---|---|---|
| Male | 153 | 99% |
| Female | 2 | 1% |
| Ethnicity | ||
| White | 86 | 55% |
| Black | 63 | 41% |
| Hispanic | 5 | 3% |
| Native American | 1 | 1% |
| State | ||
| California | 15 | 10% |
| New York | 15 | 10% |
| Arkansas | 10 | 6% |
| New Jersey | 10 | 6% |
| North Carolina | 10 | 6% |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | 6% |
| Texas | 9 | 6% |
| Ohio | 8 | 5% |
| Colorado | 7 | 5% |
| Georgia | 7 | 5% |
| Illinois | 6 | 4% |
| Alabama | 5 | 3% |
| Louisiana | 5 | 3% |
| South Carolina | 5 | 3% |
| Missouri | 4 | 3% |
| Washington | 4 | 3% |
| Virginia | 3 | 2% |
| Arizona | 2 | 1% |
| Connecticut | 2 | 1% |
| Delaware | 2 | 1% |
| Kentucky | 2 | 1% |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 1% |
| Tennessee | 2 | 1% |
| West Virginia | 2 | 1% |
| Wyoming | 2 | 1% |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 1% |
| Federal government | 1 | 1% |
| Florida | 1 | 1% |
| Indiana | 1 | 1% |
| Maryland | 1 | 1% |
| Mississippi | 1 | 1% |
| Nevada | 1 | 1% |
| Method | ||
| Electrocution | 106 | 68% |
| Hanging | 48 | 31% |
| Gas chamber | 1 | 1% |
| Month | ||
| January | 20 | 13% |
| February | 12 | 8% |
| March | 14 | 9% |
| April | 6 | 4% |
| May | 12 | 8% |
| June | 21 | 14% |
| July | 19 | 12% |
| August | 13 | 8% |
| September | 7 | 5% |
| October | 6 | 4% |
| November | 14 | 9% |
| December | 11 | 7% |
| Age | ||
| Unknown | 6 | 4% |
| 10–19 | 7 | 5% |
| 20–29 | 73 | 47% |
| 30–39 | 45 | 29% |
| 40–49 | 15 | 10% |
| 50–59 | 6 | 4% |
| 60–69 | 3 | 2% |
| Total | 155 | 100% |
| Number of executions | |
|---|---|
| 1931 | 155 |
| 1930 | 155 |
| 1929 | 102 |
| Total | 412 |
| Preceded by 1929 | List of people executed in the United States in 1930 | Succeeded by 1931 |