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List of people executed in New Hampshire

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The following is a list of people executed in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Between 1739 and 1939, during which New Hampshire was first the Province of New Hampshire and then became a U.S. state, 24 people were so punished. The sole method used was hanging.[1][2]

Howard Long, the most recent person executed in New Hampshire (1939, 87 years ago)

Capital punishment in New Hampshire was abolished on May 30, 2019; however, the abolition was not retroactive and one inmate, Michael K. Addison, remains on the state's death row. Should the state carry out his execution, it would be by lethal injection, with hanging as an alternative should lethal injection be ruled unconstitutional or found inefficient, or if the inmate so requested.

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New Hampshire had public executions through 1868, which were held (after becoming a U.S. state) at county seats.[1] Executions then moved to the state capital, Concord, held at the state prison.

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Name Race Age Sex Date of execution County Crime Victim(s) Governor
Sarah Simpson White27 FDecember 27, 1739RockinghamMurderHer illegitimate daughter, newborn, white Jonathan Belcher
Penelope Kenny White20 FHer illegitimate child, newborn, white
Eliphaz Dow White50 MMay 8, 1755RockinghamMurderPeter Clough, white Benning Wentworth
Ruth Blay White31 FDecember 30, 1768RockinghamConcealing childbirth Her illegitimate child, newborn, white[3] John Wentworth
Elisha Thomas White MJune 3, 1788StraffordMurderCapt. Peter Downe, white[4][5] John Sullivan
Thomas Powers Mixed[a]19 MJuly 28, 1796GraftonRape[6][7] John Taylor Gilman
Josiah Burnham White63 MAugust 12, 1806GraftonMurderCapt. Joseph Starkweather and Russell Freeman, white[8] John Langdon
Daniel Farmer White28 MJanuary 3, 1822HillsboroughMurderAnna Ayers, white[9][10] Samuel Bell
Abraham Prescott White18 MJanuary 6, 1836MerrimackMurder-RapeSally Cochrane, white[11] William Badger
Andrew Howard White MJuly 8, 1846StraffordMurder-BurglaryPhoebe Hanson, white[12] Anthony Colby
Rev. Enos Dudley White MMay 23, 1849GraftonMurderFemale, white (wife)[13] Jared W. Williams
Samuel Mills White28 MMay 6, 1868GraftonMurder-RobberyGeorge Maxwell, 65, white[14][15] Walter Harriman
Josiah Pike White31 MNovember 9, 1869[b]RockinghamMurder-BurglaryMr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown, elderly, white[16] Onslow Stearns
Franklin B. Evans White67 MFebruary 17, 1874RockinghamMurder-RapeGeorgianna Lovering, 14, white (niece)[17][c] Ezekiel A. Straw
Elwin Major White29 MJanuary 5, 1877HillsboroughMurderIda Lovejoy Major, 17, white (wife)[18] Person Colby Cheney
Joseph LaPage White38 MMarch 15, 1878MerrimackMurder-RapeJosie Langmaid, 17, white[19][d] Benjamin F. Prescott
John Pinkham White50 MMarch 14, 1879StraffordMurderMrs. Berry, white[20]
Joseph Buzzell White42 MJuly 10, 1879CarrollMurderSusan Hanson, white (ex-fiancée)[21] Nathaniel Head
Thomas Samon White36 MApril 17, 1885BelknapMurderThree people, white[22][e] Samuel W. Hale
James Palmer White21 MMay 1, 1890RockinghamMurderHenry T. Whitehouse, white[23] David H. Goodell
Frank Almy White35 MMay 16, 1893GraftonMurder-RapeChristie Warden, 25, white[24] John Butler Smith
Oscar Comery White34 MFebruary 18, 1916HillsboroughMurderFemale, white (wife)[25] Rolland H. Spaulding
Frederick L. Small White51 MJanuary 15, 1918CarrollMurderFlorence Arlene Small, 37, white (wife)[26] Henry W. Keyes
Howard Long White33 MJuly 14, 1939MerrimackMurderMark Neville Jensen, 10, white[27][f] Francis P. Murphy
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  1. [a]
    Mulatto.
  2. [b]
    First execution at the state prison.
  3. [c]
    Suspected serial killer, confessed to another similar crime and suspected in three more for which he denied involvement.
  4. [d]
    Serial killer, murdered four women in Canada and the United States and attempted to murder two others, including his sister-in-law.
  5. [e]
    His girlfriend Jane Ford, James Ruddy, and Ruddy's one-year-old son.
  6. [f]
    Serial rapist, assaulted Jensen before murdering him and assaulted a boy and a girl in two separate crimes in Massachusetts.

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