One hundred and thirty-four people, one hundred and thirty-two male and two female, were executed in the United States in 1943, ninety-seven by electrocution, twenty-six by gas chamber, ten by hanging, and one by firing squad. [1]
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 1, 1943 | Daniel Phillips | 29 | 29 | 0 | Male | Black | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [2] |
2 | Rosanna Lightner Phillips | 25 | 25 | Female | ||||||
3 | January 7, 1943 | Sam Porter | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Male | Mississippi | Electrocution | [1] | |
4 | January 8, 1943 | Grady B. Cole | 28 | 27 | 1 | Arizona | Gas chamber | [3] | ||
5 | J.C. Levice | 22 | 21 | |||||||
6 | Charles Sanders | 20 | 19 | |||||||
7 | January 14, 1943 | Edmund Sileo | 28 | 26 | 2 | White | New York | Electrocution | [4] | |
8 | Joseph Sonsky | 33 | 24 | 9 | ||||||
9 | January 15, 1943 | Jarvis Theodore Roosevelt Catoe | 38 | 36 | 2 | Black | District of Columbia | [5] | ||
10 | Raymond Dowdell | 31 | 26 | 5 | Georgia | [6] | ||||
11 | McCoy Combs | 21 | 19 | 2 | White | Kentucky | [7] | |||
12 | Burnett Sexton | 17 | 16 | 1 | ||||||
13 | James Gilliam | 40 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Maryland | Hanging | [8] | ||
14 | Sue Belle Logue | 46 | 45 | 1 | Female | White | South Carolina | Electrocution | [9] | |
15 | George Reed Logue | 54 | 53 | Male | ||||||
16 | Clarence King Bagwell | 34 | 33 | |||||||
17 | January 18, 1943 | Forrest Saylor | 35 | 35 | 0 | Black | Florida | [10] | ||
18 | January 21, 1943 | Frank Castellano | 26 | 25 | 1 | White | New York | [11] | ||
19 | Angelo Mendez | 30 | 21 | 9 | Hispanic | |||||
20 | January 22, 1943 | Leslie Bela Gireth | 39 | 38 | 1 | White | California | Gas chamber | [12] | |
21 | January 29, 1943 | Sam Hairston | 22 | 21 | Black | North Carolina | [13] | |||
22 | January 30, 1943 | Hugh Pierre | 34 | 28 | 6 | Louisiana | Electrocution | [14] | ||
23 | February 4, 1943 | Richard Smith | 24 | 20 | 4 | Georgia | [1] | |||
24 | February 5, 1943 | Robert Walter Avery | 34 | 32 | 2 | White | Utah | Firing squad | [15] | |
25 | February 12, 1943 | Luther Lee Cooper | 23 | 21 | Mississippi | Electrocution | [16] | |||
26 | February 19, 1943 | Haywood Bossie | 24 | 24 | 0 | Black | Alabama | [17] | ||
27 | James Corbett Rawlins | 46 | 46 | White | Arizona | Gas chamber | [18] | |||
28 | Palmer Ray Meares | 34 | 34 | North Carolina | [19] | |||||
29 | Leo Lera | 33 | 29 | 4 | Texas | Electrocution | [20] | |||
30 | February 23, 1943 | Peter Gurski | 25 | 25 | 0 | Connecticut | [21] | |||
31 | February 26, 1943 | Robert H. Anderson | 37 | 36 | 1 | Kentucky | [22] | |||
32 | Raymond S. Baxter | 29 | 27 | 2 | ||||||
33 | Thomas Penney | 33 | 32 | 1 | ||||||
34 | Ernest Trent | 26 | 24 | 2 | ||||||
35 | William E. Wallace | 55 | 54 | 1 | Oregon | Gas chamber | [23] | |||
36 | March 1, 1943 | Vincent J. Christy | 38 | 37 | Florida | Electrocution | [24] | |||
37 | March 4, 1943 | Harold J. Elling | 21 | 19 | 2 | New York | [25] | |||
38 | March 12, 1943 | Charles Clinton Coates Jr. | 29 | 29 | 0 | Georgia | [26] | |||
39 | James Ford | 32 | 31 | 1 | Black | Maryland | Hanging | [27] | ||
40 | March 19, 1943 | Adolph Thomas | 35 | Unknown | Unknown | Arkansas | Electrocution | [1] | ||
41 | James Branch Mooring Jr. | 22 | 22 | 0 | Virginia | [28] | ||||
42 | Chester Montgomery | 29 | 26 | 3 | Washington | Hanging | [29] | |||
43 | March 23, 1943 | Harold Finnon Burks | 26 | 23 | White | Louisiana | Electrocution | [1] | ||
44 | March 26, 1943 | Lewis Wilcoxon | 20 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Georgia | |||
45 | March 29, 1943 | John Childers | 33 | 32 | 1 | Pennsylvania | [30] | |||
46 | March 30, 1943 | William Lonas Hedden | 44 | 42 | 2 | White | Tennessee | [31] | ||
47 | Robert George Cannon | 26 | 25 | 1 | Black | |||||
48 | March 31, 1943 | William Patrick Jennings | 23 | 22 | Ohio | [32] | ||||
49 | April 2, 1943 | Jesse Jones | 20 | 19 | South Carolina | [33] | ||||
50 | April 6, 1943 | Manuel Griffin | 33 | Unknown | Unknown | Louisiana | [1] | |||
51 | Roy Willard Jacobs | 41 | 33 | 8 | White | Washington | Hanging | [34] | ||
52 | April 16, 1943 | John Henry Lee | 19 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [1] | |
53 | Finley Porter | 40 | Unknown | Unknown | Oklahoma | Electrocution | [35] | |||
54 | April 20, 1943 | Wilson H. Funderburk | 38 | Unknown | Unknown | Connecticut | [36] | |||
55 | April 26, 1943 | Henry Lock | 43 | 42 | 1 | Ohio | [1] | |||
56 | Herbert Green | 41 | 39 | 2 | Pennsylvania | [37] | ||||
57 | April 27, 1943 | Elisandro Lopez Macias | 20 | 18 | Hispanic | Arizona | Gas chamber | [38] | ||
58 | April 29, 1943 | John Cullen | 45 | 44 | 1 | White | New York | Electrocution | [39] | |
59 | Eli Edward Shonbrun | 33 | 32 | |||||||
60 | May 14, 1943 | Warren S. Cramer | 25 | 24 | California | Gas chamber | [40] | |||
61 | May 21, 1943 | Lewis Moody | 26 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | North Carolina | [1] | ||
62 | May 28, 1943 | Bernice Franklin | 17 | 17 | 0 | Georgia | Electrocution | |||
63 | Joel Luther Palmer | 30 | 30 | White | [41] | |||||
64 | June 4, 1943 | Frank Johnson | 24 | 21 | 3 | Black | Alabama | [1] | ||
65 | Freeman Holton | 22 | 20 | 2 | Maryland | Hanging | [42] | |||
66 | Frank Williams | 25 | 23 | |||||||
67 | Wilbur Jackson | 22 | 20 | |||||||
68 | Bill Bryant | 39 | 38 | 1 | White | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [43] | ||
69 | Harvey Hunt | 21 | 20 | Native American | ||||||
70 | Purcell Smith | 22 | 21 | |||||||
71 | June 10, 1943 | Mose Sims | 23 | 22 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | [1] | ||
72 | June 18, 1943 | James Utley | 24 | 23 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | ||||
73 | June 25, 1943 | William Carson Gray | 17 | 16 | Kentucky | Electrocution | ||||
74 | Archie Simpson | 20 | 19 | |||||||
75 | Robert Hayward Gray | 35 | 34 | Massachusetts | [44] | |||||
76 | Donald Millard | 19 | 17 | 2 | White | |||||
77 | Joseph E. Sheppard | 25 | 23 | |||||||
78 | O'Neal Williams | 18 | 18 | 0 | Black | Mississippi | [1] | |||
79 | June 30, 1943 | Anthony Treat | 58 | 57 | 1 | White | Ohio | [45] | ||
80 | July 6, 1943 | Herman Carter | Unknown | Unknown | 0 | Black | Louisiana | [46] | ||
81 | George Washington | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | ||||||
82 | July 8, 1943 | Benitez DeJesus | 19 | 18 | 1 | Hispanic | New York | [47] | ||
83 | Edward Haight | 17 | 16 | White | ||||||
84 | William Diaz | 18 | 17 | Hispanic | ||||||
85 | July 14, 1943 | Hiram Prather | 35 | 33 | 2 | White | Oklahoma | [48] | ||
86 | July 15, 1943 | Alfred Haynes | 26 | 25 | 1 | Black | New York | [49] | ||
87 | James Felix Tucker | 31 | 29 | 2 | White | Tennessee | [50] | |||
88 | Marshall Spigner | 45 | 44 | 1 | ||||||
89 | July 16, 1943 | Sylvester McKinney | 21 | 20 | Black | South Carolina | [51] | |||
90 | Johnnie Sims | 17 | 16 | |||||||
91 | July 19, 1943 | Edmund Reed | 26 | 25 | Georgia | [52] | ||||
92 | July 21, 1943 | Arthur Lee Wilson | 24 | 23 | Texas | [1] | ||||
93 | July 26, 1943 | Levi Brandon | 23 | 22 | U.S. military | Hanging | [53] | |||
94 | August 6, 1943 | Leroy Goldsmith | 38 | Unknown | Unknown | Alabama | Electrocution | [54] | ||
95 | Harry Thompson | 44 | 43 | 1 | Arkansas | [1] | ||||
96 | August 10, 1943 | Adel Johnson | 21 | 20 | Georgia | |||||
97 | August 13, 1943 | Henry Daniels Jr. | 19 | 17 | 2 | Alabama | [55] | |||
98 | Curtis Robinson | 20 | 18 | |||||||
99 | John Lawrence Coleman | 50 | 48 | White | California | Gas chamber | [56] | |||
100 | John Lampkin | 19 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | Maryland | Hanging | [1] | ||
101 | August 14, 1943 | James Clyde Arwood | 41 | 40 | 1 | White | Federal government | Electrocution | [57] | |
102 | August 20, 1943 | Marlin Hancock | 43 | 42 | Georgia | [58] | ||||
103 | Eugene Pittman | 28 | 27 | Black | ||||||
104 | John Thomas Russell | 27 | 26 | |||||||
105 | Charlie Sexton | 16 | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
106 | August 31, 1943 | John Richard | 60 | Unknown | Unknown | Louisiana | [1] | |||
107 | September 3, 1943 | Rex Beard Jr. | 20 | 19 | 1 | White | Texas | [59] | ||
108 | September 10, 1943 | Phillip J. Coleman Jr. | 24 | 24 | 0 | Black | Montana | Hanging | [60] | |
109 | September 15, 1943 | Ervin Griffin | 19 | 18 | 1 | Ohio | Electrocution | [1] | ||
110 | September 16, 1943 | Anibal Almodovar | 21 | 20 | Hispanic | New York | [61] | |||
111 | September 20, 1943 | John Sullivan | 54 | 52 | 2 | White | Colorado | Gas chamber | [62] | |
112 | September 24, 1943 | Serina Hodo | 23 | 23 | 0 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | [1] | |
113 | October 1, 1943 | Joseph C. Williams | 22 | Unknown | Unknown | Mississippi | ||||
114 | October 4, 1943 | Cornelius Earnest Parker | 24 | 24 | 0 | Florida | [63] | |||
115 | Edward James Ralph | 32 | 32 | White | Ohio | [64] | ||||
116 | October 8, 1943 | George Masayoshi Honda | 38 | 36 | 2 | Asian | Colorado | Gas chamber | [65] | |
117 | William Henry Poole | 30 | 29 | 1 | Black | North Carolina | [1] | |||
118 | October 15, 1943 | Harry Edward Farris | 28 | 26 | 2 | White | Virginia | Electrocution | [66] | |
119 | October 22, 1943 | Tommie Lee Mathis | 23 | 22 | 1 | Black | Georgia | [67] | ||
120 | October 23, 1943 | Robert Williams | 20 | Unknown | Unknown | [68] | ||||
121 | October 25, 1943 | Ruffie Lundon | 44 | Unknown | Unknown | Florida | [69] | |||
122 | James Allen Young | 32 | 31 | 1 | ||||||
123 | October 29, 1943 | George Washington James | 54 | 53 | ||||||
124 | Willie Smith | 47 | 46 | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [1] | ||||
125 | Delores Quiroz | 31 | Unknown | Unknown | Hispanic | Texas | Electrocution | |||
126 | November 19, 1943 | Sammie Osborne | 20 | 18 | 2 | Black | South Carolina | [70] | ||
127 | November 22, 1943 | James Perry Acree | 32 | 30 | White | Florida | [71] | |||
128 | November 26, 1943 | Ernest Emory Wishon | 35 | 34 | 1 | Illinois | [72] | |||
129 | John Willie Redfern | 40 | Unknown | Unknown | Black | North Carolina | Gas chamber | [73] | ||
130 | November 27, 1943 | Floyd L. McKinney | 34 | 33 | 1 | White | Nevada | [74] | ||
131 | December 10, 1943 | Clyde Morris Grass | 32 | 31 | North Carolina | [1] | ||||
132 | December 11, 1943 | S.A. Ellison | 17 | 17 | 0 | Black | Georgia | Electrocution | ||
133 | December 15, 1943 | Robert Hall | 50 | 49 | 1 | Tennessee | ||||
134 | December 31, 1943 | H.T. Johnson | 22 | 21 | Georgia |
Gender | ||
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Male | 132 | 98% |
Female | 2 | 1% |
Ethnicity | ||
Black | 77 | 58% |
White | 49 | 37% |
Hispanic | 6 | 4% |
Native American | 2 | 1% |
Asian | 1 | 1% |
State | ||
Georgia | 18 | 13% |
North Carolina | 14 | 10% |
New York | 12 | 9% |
Kentucky | 8 | 6% |
Florida | 7 | 5% |
South Carolina | 7 | 5% |
Louisiana | 6 | 4% |
Maryland | 6 | 4% |
Alabama | 5 | 4% |
Arizona | 5 | 4% |
Ohio | 5 | 4% |
Tennessee | 5 | 4% |
Mississippi | 4 | 3% |
Texas | 4 | 3% |
California | 3 | 2% |
Massachusetts | 3 | 2% |
Arkansas | 2 | 1% |
Colorado | 2 | 1% |
Connecticut | 2 | 1% |
Oklahoma | 2 | 1% |
Pennsylvania | 2 | 1% |
Virginia | 2 | 1% |
Washington | 2 | 1% |
District of Columbia | 1 | 1% |
Federal government | 1 | 1% |
Illinois | 1 | 1% |
Montana | 1 | 1% |
Nevada | 1 | 1% |
Oregon | 1 | 1% |
U.S. military | 1 | 1% |
Utah | 1 | 1% |
Method | ||
Electrocution | 97 | 72% |
Gas chamber | 26 | 19% |
Hanging | 10 | 7% |
Firing squad | 1 | 1% |
Month | ||
January | 22 | 16% |
February | 13 | 10% |
March | 13 | 10% |
April | 11 | 8% |
May | 4 | 3% |
June | 16 | 12% |
July | 14 | 10% |
August | 13 | 10% |
September | 6 | 4% |
October | 13 | 10% |
November | 5 | 4% |
December | 4 | 3% |
Age | ||
Unknown | 3 | 2% |
10–19 | 15 | 11% |
20–29 | 57 | 43% |
30–39 | 35 | 26% |
40–49 | 16 | 12% |
50–59 | 7 | 5% |
60–69 | 1 | 1% |
Total | 134 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
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1944 | 120 |
1943 | 134 |
1942 | 147 |
Total | 401 |
Preceded by 1942 | List of people executed in the United States in 1943 | Succeeded by 1944 |