One hundred and ninety-eight people, one hundred and ninety-five male and three female, were executed in the United States in 1935, one hundred and fifty by electrocution, forty-five by hanging, and three 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 4, 1935 | Hampton Pannell | 37 | 25 | 12 | Male | Black | Ohio | Electrocution | [2] |
| 2 | Ernest Oglesby | 27 | 26 | 1 | White | Oklahoma | [3] | |||
| 3 | Clarence Floyd | 20 | 19 | Black | South Carolina | [4] | ||||
| 4 | January 7, 1935 | Greely Blankenship | 29 | 29 | 0 | White | West Virginia | Hanging | [5] | |
| 5 | January 10, 1935 | Harold Seaman | 21 | 20 | 1 | New York | Electrocution | [6] | ||
| 6 | Vincent Walsh | 19 | 2 | |||||||
| 7 | January 11, 1935 | Mike Lami | 39 | 38 | 1 | Arab | California | Hanging | [7] | |
| 8 | January 17, 1935 | Frank Mitchell | 26 | 25 | White | New York | Electrocution | [1] | ||
| 9 | January 21, 1935 | Charlie Dodson | 17 | 17 | 0 | Black | Georgia | [8] | ||
| 10 | January 22, 1935 | Fred Anderson | 24 | 23 | 1 | Florida | [9] | |||
| 11 | Thomas Jefferson | 23 | 0 | |||||||
| 12 | January 24, 1935 | Giuseppe Leonti | 43 | 41 | 2 | White | New York | [10] | ||
| 13 | January 25, 1935 | Eulogio B. Sisson | 30 | 28 | Asian | California | Hanging | [11] | ||
| 14 | LaRoy Lane | 24 | 24 | 0 | White | Texas | Electrocution | [12] | ||
| 15 | February 1, 1935 | Harold Peter Bieber | 41 | 41 | California | Hanging | [13] | |||
| 16 | Louis Kenneth Neu | 27 | 25 | 2 | Louisiana | [14] | ||||
| 17 | Carl Bill Dobbins | 33 | 32 | 1 | Texas | Electrocution | [15] | |||
| 18 | February 2, 1935 | Robert Howard Mais | 29 | 28 | Virginia | [16] | ||||
| 19 | Walter Legenza | 40 | 39 | |||||||
| 20 | February 7, 1935 | William Paskowitz | 24 | 22 | 2 | New York | [17] | |||
| 21 | Peter Crotty | 28 | 26 | |||||||
| 22 | Alfred Giallarenzi | 31 | 29 | |||||||
| 23 | February 8, 1935 | James Sydney Rogan | 36 | 33 | 3 | California | Hanging | [18] | ||
| 24 | Cleve Cooper | 38 | 37 | 1 | Black | Louisiana | [19] | |||
| 25 | Ed Dunn | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 26 | Julia Moore | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Female | |||||
| 27 | February 11, 1935 | John Thomas Hammett | 47 | 45 | 2 | Male | White | Georgia | Electrocution | [20] |
| 28 | February 15, 1935 | Edward Anderson | 25 | 24 | 1 | California | Hanging | [21] | ||
| 29 | Archie Barfield | 22 | 21 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | [22] | |||
| 30 | Leonard Burns | 41 | 39 | 2 | White | Texas | [23] | |||
| 31 | February 19, 1935 | Alexander Kaminski | 25 | 23 | Massachusetts | [24] | ||||
| 32 | February 21, 1935 | Vincent DeLeo | 29 | 28 | 1 | New York | [25] | |||
| 33 | February 22, 1935 | Wiley Graves | Black | Kentucky | [26] | |||||
| 34 | February 23, 1935 | Robert Rose | 24 | 24 | 0 | White | Arkansas | [27] | ||
| 35 | February 25, 1935 | George Robinson | 46 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Florida | [1] | ||
| 36 | March 1, 1935 | Ed Thomas | Unknown | Unknown | 2 | Alabama | [28] | |||
| 37 | Frank Barnes | 50 | 49 | 1 | White | Arkansas | [29] | |||
| 38 | Rack Reese | 55 | 54 | Black | Georgia | [30] | ||||
| 39 | John Henry Wright | 28 | 27 | |||||||
| 40 | Charlie Williams | 27 | 25 | 2 | Kentucky | [31] | ||||
| 41 | March 5, 1935 | Joseph Tucker | 29 | 28 | 1 | Georgia | [32] | |||
| 42 | Alonzo Robinson | 40 | 39 | Mississippi | Hanging | [33] | ||||
| 43 | March 7, 1935 | Daniel W. Brown | Unknown | Unknown | 0 | Georgia | Electrocution | [34] | ||
| 44 | Arthur Bell | Unknown | Unknown | |||||||
| 45 | March 8, 1935 | Mark Harry Shank | 43 | 41 | 2 | White | Arkansas | [35] | ||
| 46 | March 11, 1935 | Phillip Jones | 26 | 26 | 0 | Black | Virginia | [36] | ||
| 47 | March 15, 1935 | Robert Franklin Hargroves | 27 | 25 | 2 | White | Georgia | [37] | ||
| 48 | Sidney Etheridge | 44 | 43 | 1 | North Carolina | [38] | ||||
| 49 | Connie Scarpone | 26 | 24 | 2 | New Jersey | [39] | ||||
| 50 | Michael Mule | 25 | 23 | |||||||
| 51 | George DeStefano Jr. | |||||||||
| 52 | March 19, 1935 | Gabe Smith Jr. | 24 | 23 | 1 | Black | Texas | [40] | ||
| 53 | March 21, 1935 | Chester Novak | 30 | 29 | White | Illinois | [41] | |||
| 54 | March 22, 1935 | Blake Ruff | 23 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Alabama | [42] | ||
| 55 | Kurt Barth | 22 | 1 | White | New Jersey | [43] | ||||
| 56 | March 29, 1935 | Victor Pierce | 35 | 34 | Georgia | [44] | ||||
| 57 | April 2, 1935 | Ira Rector | 21 | 20 | Black | Texas | [1] | |||
| 58 | April 5, 1935 | Rush Griffin | 19 | 18 | California | Hanging | [45] | |||
| 59 | Herman Smith | 35 | 34 | White | Florida | Electrocution | [46] | |||
| 60 | Isiah Ashley | 17 | 16 | Black | Georgia | [1] | ||||
| 61 | Albert Rivers | 41 | Unknown | Unknown | [47] | |||||
| 62 | April 8, 1935 | William Talarico | 23 | 22 | 1 | White | Pennsylvania | [48] | ||
| 63 | Walter Mika | |||||||||
| 64 | April 9, 1935 | William Wright | 39 | 38 | Black | Ohio | [1] | |||
| 65 | April 11, 1935 | Martin F. Jarvis | 36 | 34 | 2 | White | Florida | [49] | ||
| 66 | April 12, 1935 | John C. Morgan | 44 | Unknown | Unknown | Delaware | Hanging | [50] | ||
| 67 | Frank Sonny McDaniel | 30 | 28 | 2 | Black | Missouri | [51] | |||
| 68 | William A. Roland | 45 | 44 | 1 | [52] | |||||
| 69 | April 19, 1935 | William Thomas DeBoe Jr. | 22 | 21 | White | Kentucky | [53] | |||
| 70 | James A. Gross | 25 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Maryland | [54] | |||
| 71 | Gordon Dent | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 72 | Doye L. Arnold | 27 | 25 | 2 | White | Texas | Electrocution | [55] | ||
| 73 | April 23, 1935 | Thomas J. Lehne | 42 | 41 | 1 | Illinois | [56] | |||
| 74 | Frederikus Blink | 43 | 43 | 0 | ||||||
| 75 | April 24, 1935 | Henry John Zorn | 26 | 25 | 1 | Montana | Hanging | [57] | ||
| 76 | April 25, 1935 | Stanley Pluzdrak | 18 | 17 | New York | Electrocution | [58] | |||
| 77 | Bruno Salek | 20 | 20 | 0 | ||||||
| 78 | May 6, 1935 | Robert Allen Edwards | 22 | 21 | 1 | Pennsylvania | [59] | |||
| 79 | May 10, 1935 | Henry Harden | 24 | 23 | Black | Georgia | [60] | |||
| 80 | Charlie Stone | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 81 | Fred Gerner | 27 | 27 | 0 | White | Illinois | [61] | |||
| 82 | John Hauff | 32 | 32 | |||||||
| 83 | Arthur John Thielen | 41 | 41 | |||||||
| 84 | Raymond Elzie Hamilton | 20 | 19 | 1 | Texas | |||||
| 85 | Joseph Conger Palmer | 32 | 31 | |||||||
| 86 | May 24, 1935 | Tellie McQuate | 44 | 43 | California | Hanging | [62] | |||
| 87 | James Smith | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Kentucky | Electrocution | [1] | ||
| 88 | Robert Cargo | 21 | 20 | 1 | White | Oklahoma | [63] | |||
| 89 | Curtis Williams | 23 | 23 | 0 | Black | South Carolina | [64] | |||
| 90 | May 31, 1935 | Anastacio Bermijo | 38 | 36 | 2 | Asian | California | Hanging | [65] | |
| 91 | John D. Pacheco | 26 | 24 | Hispanic | Colorado | Gas chamber | [66] | |||
| 92 | Louis Pacheco | 38 | 37 | 1 | ||||||
| 93 | June 1, 1935 | Peter D. Treadway | 39 | 36 | 3 | White | Ohio | Electrocution | [67] | |
| 94 | June 5, 1935 | Patrick William Griffin | 37 | 34 | Iowa | Hanging | [68] | |||
| 95 | Elmer Floyd Brewer | 40 | 38 | 2 | ||||||
| 96 | June 7, 1935 | Edward L. Lang | 26 | 25 | 1 | California | [69] | |||
| 97 | May Howard Carey | 55 | 48 | 7 | Female | Delaware | [70] | |||
| 98 | Howard Jacob Carey Sr. | 27 | 20 | Male | ||||||
| 99 | Feltus Matthews | 21 | 21 | 0 | Black | Louisiana | [71] | |||
| 100 | Abraham Morris Faber | 25 | 24 | 1 | White | Massachusetts | Electrocution | [72] | ||
| 101 | Irving Edwin Millen | 22 | 20 | 2 | ||||||
| 102 | Murton Myer Millen | 25 | 24 | 1 | ||||||
| 103 | Thurmond Harris | 24 | 0 | Black | South Carolina | [73] | ||||
| 104 | Albert Carr | 27 | 26 | 1 | Texas | [74] | ||||
| 105 | June 12, 1935 | Elijah H. Stewart | 28 | 27 | White | [75] | ||||
| 106 | John B. Willis | 42 | 41 | |||||||
| 107 | June 14, 1935 | Charlie Beasley | 50 | 50 | 0 | Black | Georgia | [1] | ||
| 108 | Robert C. Mullinax | 34 | 33 | 1 | White | |||||
| 109 | Olivett Griggs | 32 | 31 | Black | Indiana | [76] | ||||
| 110 | June 21, 1935 | Aldrich Welsford Lutz | 19 | 19 | 0 | White | California | Hanging | [77] | |
| 111 | Leonard Belongia | 24 | 23 | 1 | Colorado | Gas chamber | [78] | |||
| 112 | June 27, 1935 | Eva Coo | 46 | 44 | 2 | Female | New York | Electrocution | [79] | |
| 113 | Leonard Scarnici | 27 | 25 | Male | ||||||
| 114 | June 28, 1935 | Bill Young | 23 | 22 | 1 | Kentucky | [80] | |||
| 115 | Carl Lee Dotson | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Louisiana | Hanging | [1] | ||
| 116 | William Harold | 43 | 42 | 1 | Maryland | [81] | ||||
| 117 | James Poindexter | 27 | 26 | |||||||
| 118 | July 3, 1935 | William Deni | 34 | 33 | White | Pennsylvania | Electrocution | [82] | ||
| 119 | July 9, 1935 | John Krul | 23 | 23 | 0 | Illinois | [83] | |||
| 120 | Edward Balling | 19 | 19 | |||||||
| 121 | Van Buren Dedmon | 25 | 25 | |||||||
| 122 | July 10, 1935 | Harry Garcia | 33 | 31 | 2 | Hispanic | California | Hanging | [84] | |
| 123 | July 11, 1935 | Patrick N. Downey | 31 | 30 | 1 | White | New York | Electrocution | [85] | |
| 124 | July 12, 1935 | Cleveland Hicks | 30 | 0 | Black | Georgia | [1] | |||
| 125 | Lewis C. Sentell | 39 | Unknown | Unknown | White | North Carolina | [86] | |||
| 126 | George Whitfield | 23 | 21 | 2 | Black | |||||
| 127 | Lewis Cernoch | 41 | 39 | White | Texas | [87] | ||||
| 128 | July 19, 1935 | J.B. Reece | 19 | 19 | 0 | Black | Georgia | [88] | ||
| 129 | Hong Yick | 39 | 38 | 1 | Asian | Washington | Hanging | [89] | ||
| 130 | Robert Branch | Unknown | Unknown | Black | West Virginia | [90] | ||||
| 131 | July 22, 1935 | Russell C. Swiger | 22 | 21 | 1 | White | Ohio | Electrocution | [91] | |
| 132 | Sherman Leroy Strawser | 29 | 29 | 0 | Pennsylvania | [92] | ||||
| 133 | July 26, 1935 | Ransome Emanuel | 65 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | South Carolina | [93] | ||
| 134 | Monroe Stewart | 22 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| 135 | August 2, 1935 | Oliver Buckler | 35 | Unknown | Unknown | Mississippi | Hanging | [94] | ||
| 136 | Dortch Waller | 43 | 42 | 1 | North Carolina | Electrocution | [95] | |||
| 137 | William Taft Williams | Unknown | Unknown | |||||||
| 138 | August 9, 1935 | Houston McMillen | 25 | 24 | [96] | |||||
| 139 | Vander Glover | 30 | 29 | |||||||
| 140 | Roy Smith | 34 | 33 | White | Ohio | [97] | ||||
| 141 | August 14, 1935 | John Trapper | 50 | 50 | 0 | Black | Texas | [98] | ||
| 142 | August 16, 1935 | Augustin Ramos | 32 | 31 | 1 | Asian | California | Hanging | [99] | |
| 143 | D.M. Blanden | 19 | 18 | Black | South Carolina | Electrocution | [100] | |||
| 144 | Johnnie Dade | 22 | 21 | Texas | [1] | |||||
| 145 | August 23, 1935 | Tom Freeman | 28 | Unknown | Unknown | Arkansas | [101] | |||
| 146 | Bernard Edmund LaCoume | 24 | 22 | 2 | White | Texas | [1] | |||
| 147 | August 29, 1935 | Alfred J. Lindsay | 29 | 29 | 0 | New York | [102] | |||
| 148 | August 30, 1935 | Edwin David Gayman | 44 | 42 | 2 | Missouri | Hanging | [103] | ||
| 149 | Roy E. Hamilton | 26 | 24 | |||||||
| 150 | Ben Boyd | 24 | 23 | 1 | Black | Texas | Electrocution | [104] | ||
| 151 | September 6, 1935 | William Bagley | 43 | 42 | White | California | Hanging | [105] | ||
| 152 | Ethan Allen McNabb | 37 | 36 | |||||||
| 153 | Caesar Miller | 18 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | North Carolina | Electrocution | [106] | ||
| 154 | William David May Sr. | 38 | 36 | 2 | White | Texas | [107] | |||
| 155 | September 9, 1935 | Dominick Iacobino | 50 | 49 | 1 | Pennsylvania | [108] | |||
| 156 | September 16, 1935 | Monroe Hasty | 18 | 17 | Black | Florida | [109] | |||
| 157 | September 20, 1935 | Chester L. Barrett | 37 | 36 | White | Oklahoma | [110] | |||
| 158 | Bun Riley | 29 | 28 | |||||||
| 159 | Alfred Rowan | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | |||||
| 160 | September 27, 1935 | Willard Walters | 23 | 23 | 0 | Ohio | [111] | |||
| 161 | September 28, 1935 | Bill Barnes | 21 | 20 | 1 | White | Arkansas | [112] | ||
| 162 | Paul Nelson | 23 | 22 | |||||||
| 163 | September 30, 1935 | John William Koziar | 33 | 32 | Pennsylvania | [113] | ||||
| 164 | October 4, 1935 | Robert Thomas | 23 | 22 | North Carolina | [114] | ||||
| 165 | Ories Gunter | 20 | 20 | 0 | ||||||
| 166 | Arthur Gosnell | 21 | 21 | |||||||
| 167 | October 10, 1935 | Simmie Gaines | 35 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Georgia | [1] | ||
| 168 | October 15, 1935 | Gerald T. Thompson | 25 | 25 | 0 | White | Illinois | [115] | ||
| 169 | John Favorito | 26 | Unknown | Unknown | New Jersey | [116] | ||||
| 170 | October 16, 1935 | George Griner | 38 | 38 | 0 | Black | Montana | Hanging | [1] | |
| 171 | October 17, 1935 | George Davis | 24 | 23 | 1 | Ohio | Electrocution | [117] | ||
| 172 | October 18, 1935 | George P. McRae | White | Georgia | [118] | |||||
| 173 | October 19, 1935 | Richard Chapman | 21 | 20 | Indiana | [119] | ||||
| 174 | October 23, 1935 | Theodore Blackman | 20 | 19 | Black | Ohio | [120] | |||
| 175 | October 24, 1935 | John Hawkins | 25 | 24 | White | California | Hanging | [121] | ||
| 176 | November 1, 1935 | Frank Napoleon Dobbs | 36 | 35 | Arkansas | Electrocution | [122] | |||
| 177 | Ethol B. Lamphier | 45 | 45 | 0 | Ohio | [123] | ||||
| 178 | November 22, 1935 | Jack Mattox | 26 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Georgia | [1] | ||
| 179 | November 25, 1935 | William Robert Hildreth | 49 | 48 | 1 | White | Texas | [124] | ||
| 180 | November 29, 1935 | Reginald Seymour Tracy | 54 | 53 | Iowa | Hanging | [125] | |||
| 181 | December 2, 1935 | Martin Edmund Farrell | 28 | 27 | Pennsylvania | Electrocution | [126] | |||
| 182 | Francis Royal Wiley | 27 | 26 | |||||||
| 183 | December 5, 1935 | Percy Morris | 29 | 28 | Black | New York | [127] | |||
| 184 | Jeff Brown | 22 | 21 | |||||||
| 185 | December 6, 1935 | Ellis J. Latona | 43 | 41 | 2 | White | California | Hanging | [128] | |
| 186 | Eulie Lotheridge | 26 | 22 | 4 | Kentucky | Electrocution | [129] | |||
| 187 | Pierson Cantrell | 39 | 37 | 2 | Texas | [130] | ||||
| 188 | December 9, 1935 | John Davis Jordan | 34 | 33 | 1 | Pennsylvania | [131] | |||
| 189 | December 13, 1935 | Ben Hawkins | 37 | 37 | 0 | Black | Arkansas | [132] | ||
| 190 | Mack Nelson | 23 | 23 | |||||||
| 191 | Arthur D. West | 33 | 32 | 1 | White | California | Hanging | [133] | ||
| 192 | December 17, 1935 | Jesse H. Thompson | 67 | 67 | 0 | Black | Ohio | Electrocution | [134] | |
| 193 | December 20, 1935 | Marvin A. Honea | 29 | 28 | 1 | White | Georgia | [135] | ||
| 194 | John Will White | 24 | 24 | 0 | Black | |||||
| 195 | Harry Hill | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | South Carolina | |||||
| 196 | Cornell Luster | 30 | 29 | |||||||
| 197 | December 30, 1935 | Romaine Johnson | 33 | 32 | New Jersey | [136] | ||||
| 198 | December 31, 1935 | C.B. James | 32 | Unknown | Unknown | White | Texas | [137] | ||
| Gender | ||
|---|---|---|
| Male | 195 | 98% |
| Female | 3 | 2% |
| Ethnicity | ||
| White | 113 | 57% |
| Black | 77 | 39% |
| Asian | 4 | 2% |
| Hispanic | 3 | 2% |
| Arab | 1 | 1% |
| State | ||
| Georgia | 23 | 12% |
| Texas | 20 | 10% |
| California | 17 | 9% |
| New York | 16 | 8% |
| North Carolina | 11 | 6% |
| Illinois | 10 | 5% |
| Ohio | 10 | 5% |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | 5% |
| Arkansas | 9 | 5% |
| South Carolina | 8 | 4% |
| Florida | 6 | 3% |
| Kentucky | 6 | 3% |
| Louisiana | 6 | 3% |
| New Jersey | 6 | 3% |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 3% |
| Maryland | 4 | 2% |
| Massachusetts | 4 | 2% |
| Missouri | 4 | 2% |
| Colorado | 3 | 2% |
| Delaware | 3 | 2% |
| Iowa | 3 | 2% |
| Virginia | 3 | 2% |
| Alabama | 2 | 1% |
| Indiana | 2 | 1% |
| Mississippi | 2 | 1% |
| Montana | 2 | 1% |
| West Virginia | 2 | 1% |
| Washington | 1 | 1% |
| Method | ||
| Electrocution | 150 | 76% |
| Hanging | 45 | 23% |
| Gas chamber | 3 | 2% |
| Month | ||
| January | 14 | 7% |
| February | 21 | 11% |
| March | 21 | 11% |
| April | 21 | 11% |
| May | 15 | 8% |
| June | 25 | 13% |
| July | 17 | 9% |
| August | 16 | 8% |
| September | 13 | 7% |
| October | 12 | 6% |
| November | 5 | 3% |
| December | 18 | 9% |
| Age | ||
| Unknown | 8 | 4% |
| 10–19 | 10 | 5% |
| 20–29 | 94 | 47% |
| 30–39 | 50 | 25% |
| 40–49 | 27 | 14% |
| 50–59 | 7 | 4% |
| 60–69 | 2 | 1% |
| Total | 198 | 100% |
| Number of executions | |
|---|---|
| 1936 | 196 |
| 1935 | 198 |
| 1934 | 166 |
| Total | 560 |
| Preceded by 1934 | List of people executed in the United States in 1935 | Succeeded by 1936 |