One hundred and ninety-six people, one hundred and ninety-five male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1936, one hundred and thirty-four by electrocution, forty by hanging, twenty-one by gas chamber, and one by firing squad. [1]
The last fully public execution in the United States occurred this year with the execution of Rainey Bethea.
No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
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At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
1 | January 7, 1936 | Lonnie Green | 32 | 31 | 1 | Male | Black | Florida | Electrocution | [2] |
2 | January 9, 1936 | Newman Raymond Jr. | 21 | 20 | White | New York | [3] | |||
3 | Amerigo Angelini | |||||||||
4 | Thomas Gilbride Rooney | 23 | 22 | |||||||
5 | Ray Orley | 21 | 20 | |||||||
6 | January 10, 1936 | Neal Bowman | 33 | 31 | 2 | Kentucky | [4] | |||
7 | Fred Hill | 23 | 22 | 1 | Black | Texas | [1] | |||
8 | January 13, 1936 | Henry Carr | 43 | Unknown | Unknown | |||||
9 | January 14, 1936 | Miller Frank Clark | 44 | 42 | 2 | White | Massachusetts | [5] | ||
10 | January 16, 1936 | John Smith | 41 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | New York | [6] | ||
11 | Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish | 65 | 58 | 7 | White | |||||
12 | January 17, 1936 | Willard Preston Hall | 34 | 32 | 2 | Kentucky | [7] | |||
13 | Calvin Tate | 21 | 19 | |||||||
14 | Robert Dunlap | 26 | 25 | 1 | North Carolina | [1] | ||||
15 | January 21, 1936 | Walter Kennedy | 22 | 20 | 2 | Tennessee | [8] | |||
16 | Bill B. Lee | 24 | 23 | 1 | ||||||
17 | January 24, 1936 | Allen Foster | 20 | 20 | 0 | Black | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [9] | |
18 | January 28, 1936 | Louis Willis | 27 | 24 | 3 | Tennessee | Electrocution | [10] | ||
19 | January 31, 1936 | James Matthews | 19 | Unknown | Unknown | White | Kentucky | [1] | ||
20 | Edward Lee Jenkins | 49 | 48 | 1 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [11] | |||
21 | February 7, 1936 | William Long | 19 | 18 | Black | Electrocution | [12] | |||
22 | J.T. Sanford | 30 | 29 | Gas chamber | ||||||
23 | Thomas Watson | 32 | 31 | |||||||
24 | John Daugherty | 44 | 43 | White | Virginia | Electrocution | [13] | |||
25 | February 14, 1936 | Otis McDaniel | 31 | 30 | Colorado | Gas chamber | [14] | |||
26 | Floyd Watson | 21 | 19 | 2 | Black | Mississippi | Hanging | [1] | ||
27 | February 21, 1936 | Johnny Preston | 36 | Unknown | Unknown | Alabama | Electrocution | |||
28 | Benny Lee | 27 | 26 | 1 | Kentucky | [15] | ||||
29 | Joe Jackson | 23 | 22 | Virginia | [16] | |||||
30 | John Shell | 20 | 20 | 0 | ||||||
31 | February 27, 1936 | Francis A. Flynn | 40 | 39 | 1 | White | New York | [17] | ||
32 | March 6, 1936 | Eddie B. Bowen | 18 | 17 | Black | Georgia | [18] | |||
33 | March 11, 1936 | Norman Peacock | 23 | 21 | 2 | White | Ohio | [19] | ||
34 | March 19, 1936 | Robert Alsup | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Mississippi | Hanging | [20] | ||
35 | Jake Johnson | 36 | 35 | 1 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [1] | |||
36 | March 20, 1936 | Eddie Roper | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | Alabama | Electrocution | [21] | ||
37 | Robert Dudley | 27 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
38 | Albert Preston | 38 | 37 | 1 | District of Columbia | [22] | ||||
39 | Thomas Nelson | 37 | 36 | Georgia | [23] | |||||
40 | John Henry Simmons | 50 | 49 | |||||||
41 | Erline Whitehead | 35 | 33 | 2 | White | Kentucky | [24] | |||
42 | Edwin Y. Hester | 19 | 19 | 0 | North Carolina | [25] | ||||
43 | Roy Guyton | 25 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Oklahoma | [1] | |||
44 | March 24, 1936 | George W. Barrett | 55 | 54 | 1 | White | Federal government | Hanging | [26] | |
45 | March 25, 1936 | Julius Lowman | 31 | 30 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | [1] | ||
46 | March 27, 1936 | Henry Peterson | 29 | Unknown | Unknown | Alabama | ||||
47 | George Hall | 26 | 3 | White | California | Hanging | [27] | |||
48 | Bright Lee Buffkin | 43 | 42 | 1 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [28] | |||
49 | April 3, 1936 | Clarence Paul DeMoss | 41 | 2 | California | Hanging | [29] | |||
50 | Bruno Richard Hauptmann | 35 | 31 | 4 | New Jersey | Electrocution | [30] | |||
51 | Barney Fleming | 29 | 29 | 0 | Black | Washington | Hanging | [31] | ||
52 | April 7, 1936 | John Simborski | 30 | 1 | White | Connecticut | [32] | |||
53 | April 10, 1936 | Hamp McLemore | 21 | 19 | 2 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | [33] | |
54 | Ernest Womack | 18 | 17 | 1 | Tennessee | [1] | ||||
55 | April 16, 1936 | Howard Eichler | 22 | 21 | White | New York | [34] | |||
56 | Peter Mohlsick | 21 | 20 | |||||||
57 | April 17, 1936 | Willie E. Bynum | 26 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Alabama | [1] | ||
58 | Gaston Slaughter | 36 | 34 | 2 | Indiana | [35] | ||||
59 | April 23, 1936 | Nick Buckvich | 42 | 41 | 1 | White | New York | [36] | ||
60 | April 24, 1936 | James Richard Hargus | 26 | 24 | 2 | Oklahoma | [37] | |||
61 | April 25, 1936 | James Thompson | 27 | 23 | 4 | Ohio | [38] | |||
62 | May 1, 1936 | Thomas Edward Dugger | 31 | 30 | 1 | California | Hanging | [39] | ||
63 | May 4, 1936 | Virgil H. Stalkup | 28 | 26 | 2 | Texas | Electrocution | [40] | ||
64 | May 8, 1936 | Lawrence Dingle | 32 | 31 | 1 | Black | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [41] | |
65 | Germie Williams | 23 | 22 | |||||||
66 | May 15, 1936 | Waddell Cosey | 30 | 29 | Alabama | Electrocution | [1] | |||
67 | Jimmie Stewart | 33 | 31 | 2 | ||||||
68 | Jack Sullivan | 23 | 21 | White | Arizona | Gas chamber | [42] | |||
69 | Roy Simmons | 22 | 1 | Black | Kentucky | Electrocution | [43] | |||
70 | Alfred Drake | 30 | 29 | |||||||
71 | May 22, 1936 | Earl Bud Kimball | 22 | 21 | White | California | Hanging | [44] | ||
72 | Joseph Kristy | 27 | 25 | 2 | ||||||
73 | Alexander MacKay | 29 | 27 | |||||||
74 | Arthur Berry | Unknown | Unknown | 0 | Black | Mississippi | [1] | |||
75 | Ernest K. Harris | 19 | 17 | 2 | Tennessee | Electrocution | ||||
76 | May 25, 1936 | Clarence Thompson | 35 | 34 | 1 | Pennsylvania | [45] | |||
77 | May 29, 1936 | James Russell Woodford | 22 | 19 | 3 | Kentucky | [46] | |||
78 | Marvin Elmer Batten | 29 | 29 | 0 | White | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [47] | ||
79 | Charles Kropowitz | 22 | 20 | 2 | New York | Electrocution | [48] | |||
80 | George Rosenberg | |||||||||
81 | Frank Russo | 23 | 21 | |||||||
82 | Vincent DeMartino | 27 | 25 | |||||||
83 | Willie Dickerson | 19 | 19 | 0 | Black | Texas | [49] | |||
84 | Glenn R. Stringer | 24 | 22 | 2 | White | Washington | Hanging | [50] | ||
85 | May 30, 1936 | Aria Tance | 29 | 27 | Black | Texas | Electrocution | [51] | ||
86 | June 2, 1936 | Charles Zied | 37 | 35 | White | New Jersey | [52] | |||
87 | June 4, 1936 | Damiano Consentino | 39 | 38 | 1 | New York | [53] | |||
88 | June 5, 1936 | Joseph Wheeler Gast | 38 | 37 | Alabama | [54] | ||||
89 | Jesse C. Boulton | 49 | 47 | 2 | California | Hanging | [55] | |||
90 | Homer Young | 39 | 38 | 1 | Black | Kentucky | Electrocution | [56] | ||
91 | James D. McAllister | 37 | 36 | White | Texas | [57] | ||||
92 | William Richard Davis | 20 | 19 | Black | ||||||
93 | June 10, 1936 | Fedro Pearson | 25 | 24 | Mississippi | Hanging | [58] | |||
94 | June 12, 1936 | Tyrie Harrell | 44 | 43 | Alabama | Electrocution | [59] | |||
95 | Wesley Vincent | 20 | 19 | White | ||||||
96 | Gabriel Waters | 19 | 18 | Black | ||||||
97 | Elton M. Stone | 30 | 29 | White | California | Hanging | [60] | |||
98 | Augusto Perez | 22 | Unknown | Unknown | Hispanic | Maryland | [61] | |||
99 | Willie Williams | 25 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | [1] | ||||
100 | June 19, 1936 | Elmer Newton Arant | 34 | 33 | 1 | White | Alabama | Electrocution | [62] | |
101 | Walter Miller | 38 | 38 | 0 | Black | |||||
102 | Louis N. Gosden | 32 | 31 | 1 | White | California | Hanging | [63] | ||
103 | Robert Wilson Pullen | 38 | 37 | Mississippi | [64] | |||||
104 | John Horne | 37 | 36 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [65] | ||||
105 | Arthur James Gooch | 27 | 25 | 2 | Federal government | Hanging | [66] | |||
106 | June 23, 1936 | Donald Eberle Sr. | 31 | 30 | 1 | Ohio | Electrocution | [67] | ||
107 | Juan Rivera | 24 | 23 | Hispanic | Texas | [68] | ||||
108 | June 26, 1936 | Robert Ashley | 18 | 18 | 0 | Black | South Carolina | [69] | ||
109 | June 29, 1936 | Ed Bradley | 56 | 56 | White | Florida | [70] | |||
110 | July 1, 1936 | Richard Keller | 30 | 27 | 3 | Ohio | [71] | |||
111 | July 3, 1936 | Tom Perkins | 29 | 29 | 0 | Black | Alabama | [72] | ||
112 | Isaac Frank Watson | 54 | 54 | Virginia | [73] | |||||
113 | July 9, 1936 | John Collins | 27 | 26 | 1 | White | New York | [74] | ||
114 | July 10, 1936 | A.B. Smiley | 30 | 29 | Black | Alabama | [75] | |||
115 | Frank Rascon | 27 | 26 | Hispanic | Arizona | Gas chamber | [76] | |||
116 | Irwin B. Ottey | 35 | 33 | 2 | White | California | Hanging | [77] | ||
117 | Alexander A. Morrison | 37 | 36 | 1 | Black | Louisiana | [78] | |||
118 | James J. Morrison | 30 | 28 | 2 | ||||||
119 | Richard Valentine | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | ||||||
120 | Roosevelt Moon | Unknown | Unknown | Mississippi | [79] | |||||
121 | Henry Grier | 43 | 42 | North Carolina | Electrocution | [80] | ||||
122 | Grady Lee Warren | 25 | 23 | 2 | White | Texas | [81] | |||
123 | Mack Coupie Brown | 34 | 33 | 1 | Black | |||||
124 | Oscar Brown | 26 | 25 | |||||||
125 | Delbert Emery Green | 28 | 21 | 7 | White | Utah | Firing squad | [82] | ||
126 | July 12, 1936 | Earl Gardner | 29 | 29 | 0 | Native American | Federal government | Hanging | [83] | |
127 | July 16, 1936 | Mary Frances Creighton | 36 | 36 | Female | White | New York | Electrocution | [84] | |
128 | Everett Clifford Appelgate | 35 | 1 | Male | ||||||
129 | July 17, 1936 | William Abraham Hodgin | Black | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [85] | ||||
130 | July 23, 1936 | Raymond Flores | 26 | 25 | Hispanic | New York | Electrocution | [86] | ||
131 | July 24, 1936 | Antonio Cabrera | 22 | 21 | California | Hanging | [87] | |||
132 | Wash Desseseau | 25 | 25 | 0 | Black | South Carolina | Electrocution | [88] | ||
133 | James Mixon | 20 | 20 | |||||||
134 | Thomas Cole Hart | 29 | 25 | 4 | White | Virginia | [89] | |||
135 | July 31, 1936 | Oscar Patterson | 24 | 24 | 0 | Black | Alabama | [90] | ||
136 | Glenn Melvin Warren | 33 | 31 | 2 | White | Texas | [91] | |||
137 | August 4, 1936 | Newell Paige Sherman | 27 | 26 | 1 | Massachusetts | [92] | |||
138 | Edward Metelski | New Jersey | [93] | |||||||
139 | August 5, 1936 | John Pleyer | 31 | 29 | 2 | Ohio | [94] | |||
140 | August 6, 1936 | John Henry Thomas | 21 | 21 | 0 | Black | Georgia | [95] | ||
141 | August 7, 1936 | Ed Lee Summerville | 35 | 25 | 10 | Alabama | [96] | |||
142 | August 14, 1936 | John B. Berryman | 43 | 42 | 1 | White | California | Hanging | [97] | |
143 | Charles James | 33 | 32 | Black | ||||||
144 | Rainey Bethea | 26 | 26 | 0 | Kentucky | [98] | ||||
145 | Curley H. Ballard | 56 | 56 | Tennessee | Electrocution | [99] | ||||
146 | James Smith | 27 | 26 | 1 | ||||||
147 | James Clark | 23 | 22 | |||||||
148 | August 20, 1936 | Thomas McFarland | 38 | 37 | White | New York | [100] | |||
149 | August 21, 1936 | Demps Charles | 28 | 27 | Black | Georgia | [101] | |||
150 | John Daniel | 24 | 23 | |||||||
151 | Willie Lee Gallman | 21 | 20 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [102] | ||||
152 | John Kinyon | 75 | 74 | |||||||
153 | August 24, 1936 | George Dixon | 27 | 27 | 0 | Florida | Electrocution | [1] | ||
154 | August 27, 1936 | Charles Rogas | 35 | 34 | 1 | White | New York | [103] | ||
155 | September 4, 1936 | George Alston | 24 | 23 | Black | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [104] | ||
156 | James Buchanan Carden Sr. | 42 | 39 | 3 | White | Electrocution | ||||
157 | September 11, 1936 | Bill Sam | 33 | Unknown | Unknown | Asian | California | Hanging | [105] | |
158 | Leo Rodrick Bernard Hall | 34 | 31 | 3 | White | Washington | [106] | |||
159 | September 18, 1936 | John V. Kellogg | 21 | 20 | 1 | Black | California | [107] | ||
160 | October 2, 1936 | Roland H. Cochrane | 28 | 26 | 2 | White | Arizona | Gas chamber | [108] | |
161 | October 16, 1936 | Lloyd A. Dale | 36 | 35 | 1 | Black | California | Hanging | [109] | |
162 | October 19, 1936 | Clarence D. Casey | 27 | 23 | 4 | White | Florida | Electrocution | [110] | |
163 | James R. Milligan | 25 | 21 | |||||||
164 | Luther D. Padgett | 28 | 26 | 2 | ||||||
165 | Lee Clark | 31 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | |||||
166 | Clarence E. Thomas | 31 | 0 | White | Indiana | [1] | ||||
167 | October 21, 1936 | Frank Korczykowski | 26 | 25 | 1 | Illinois | [111] | |||
168 | Andrzej Bogacki | 25 | 24 | |||||||
169 | October 23, 1936 | Roy House | 21 | 20 | Arkansas | [112] | ||||
170 | Elmo Banks | 43 | 43 | 0 | Black | Texas | [113] | |||
171 | Antonio Carrasco | 35 | 33 | 2 | Hispanic | |||||
172 | October 26, 1936 | Rufus Johnson | 20 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Florida | [1] | ||
173 | George W. Scroggins | 41 | Unknown | Unknown | [114] | |||||
174 | November 6, 1936 | Dennis Turner | 45 | 44 | 1 | White | Arkansas | [115] | ||
175 | Andrew Hemphill | 45 | 0 | Black | Mississippi | Hanging | [116] | |||
176 | Thomas Jones | 43 | 43 | |||||||
177 | November 12, 1936 | Arthur Coombs | 30 | Unknown | Unknown | Georgia | Electrocution | [1] | ||
178 | November 13, 1936 | John Pressley | 43 | 42 | 1 | North Carolina | [117] | |||
179 | November 18, 1936 | Elmer Barrett | 23 | Unknown | Unknown | Tennessee | [118] | |||
180 | November 20, 1936 | George Scott | 26 | 26 | 0 | Delaware | Hanging | [119] | ||
181 | Evans Macklin | 20 | 20 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [120] | ||||
182 | Willie Tate | 28 | 28 | |||||||
183 | December 4, 1936 | Albert Walter Jr. | White | California | Hanging | [121] | ||||
184 | Winton Boyer | 27 | 25 | 2 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | [1] | ||
185 | James Brown | 26 | 1 | Ohio | [122] | |||||
186 | December 11, 1936 | Farlander McCormick | 35 | 34 | Arkansas | [123] | ||||
187 | Willie Smith | 25 | 24 | |||||||
188 | Beverly White | |||||||||
189 | Martin Moore | 22 | 22 | 0 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [124] | |||
190 | Samuel W. Anderson | 25 | 24 | 1 | White | South Carolina | Electrocution | [125] | ||
191 | Samuel H. Powell | 26 | 25 | |||||||
192 | December 14, 1936 | James W. Walker | 30 | 30 | 0 | Black | Florida | [126] | ||
193 | Richard Williams | 32 | 32 | |||||||
194 | December 18, 1936 | George Linus McKeever | 35 | 32 | 3 | White | Missouri | Hanging | [127] | |
195 | December 26, 1936 | Harry Singer | 25 | 25 | 0 | Indiana | Electrocution | [128] | ||
196 | December 31, 1936 | John Henry Sloan | 24 | 1 | Black | Georgia | [1] |
Gender | ||
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Male | 195 | 99% |
Female | 1 | 1% |
Ethnicity | ||
Black | 100 | 51% |
White | 88 | 45% |
Hispanic | 6 | 3% |
Asian | 1 | 1% |
Native American | 1 | 1% |
State | ||
North Carolina | 23 | 12% |
New York | 21 | 11% |
Alabama | 17 | 9% |
California | 17 | 9% |
Texas | 14 | 7% |
Florida | 11 | 6% |
Georgia | 11 | 6% |
Kentucky | 11 | 6% |
Tennessee | 9 | 5% |
Mississippi | 8 | 4% |
Ohio | 6 | 3% |
Arkansas | 5 | 3% |
South Carolina | 5 | 3% |
Virginia | 5 | 3% |
Arizona | 3 | 2% |
Federal government | 3 | 2% |
Indiana | 3 | 2% |
Louisiana | 3 | 2% |
New Jersey | 3 | 2% |
Washington | 3 | 2% |
Illinois | 2 | 1% |
Maryland | 2 | 1% |
Massachusetts | 2 | 1% |
Oklahoma | 2 | 1% |
Colorado | 1 | 1% |
Connecticut | 1 | 1% |
Delaware | 1 | 1% |
District of Columbia | 1 | 1% |
Missouri | 1 | 1% |
Pennsylvania | 1 | 1% |
Utah | 1 | 1% |
Method | ||
Electrocution | 134 | 68% |
Hanging | 40 | 20% |
Gas chamber | 21 | 11% |
Firing squad | 1 | 1% |
Month | ||
January | 20 | 10% |
February | 11 | 6% |
March | 17 | 9% |
April | 13 | 7% |
May | 24 | 12% |
June | 24 | 12% |
July | 27 | 14% |
August | 18 | 9% |
September | 5 | 3% |
October | 14 | 7% |
November | 9 | 5% |
December | 14 | 7% |
Age | ||
Unknown | 4 | 2% |
10–19 | 9 | 5% |
20–29 | 96 | 49% |
30–39 | 60 | 31% |
40–49 | 20 | 10% |
50–59 | 5 | 3% |
60–69 | 1 | 1% |
70–79 | 1 | 1% |
Total | 196 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
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1937 | 151 |
1936 | 196 |
1935 | 197 |
Total | 544 |
Preceded by 1935 | List of people executed in the United States in 1936 | Succeeded by 1937 |