List of people executed in Maine

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Maine, or within present-day Maine prior to statehood.^[1] Capital punishment was sparsely used in Maine. It was abolished in 1876, reinstated in 1883, then abolished again in 1887.^[2] The only method of execution used in Maine was hanging.


Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Crime	Victim(s)	Governor
Katherine Cornish	White		F	1644		Murder	Richard Cornish, white (husband)^[3]	N/A (Province of Massachusetts Bay)
Joseph Quasson	Native American		M	June 29, 1726		Murder	Jonathan Boler, Native American^[4]
Patience Sampson	Native American	23	F	July 31, 1735	York	Murder	Benjamin Trott, 8, white^[5]
Solomon Goodwin	White		M	November 12, 1772	Cumberland	Murder	David Wilson, white^[6]
Jeremiah Baum	White		M	1780	Knox (Military)	Treason	N/A^[6]^[a]	N/A (District of Maine)
Thomas Bird	White	40	M	June 25, 1790	Cumberland (Federal)^[7]^[b]	Murder	Capt. John Connor, white^[7]
Edmund Fortis	Black		M	September 25, 1794	Lincoln	Murder-Rape	Pamela Tilton, 14, white^[8]
Joseph Drew	White	24	M	July 21, 1808	Cumberland	Murder	Ebenezer Parker, 47, white (deputy sheriff)^[9]
Ebenezer Ball	White		M	October 31, 1811	Hancock	Murder	John Tileston Downes, white (sheriff's deputy)^[10]
Seth Elliott	White		M	February 3, 1825	Knox	Murder	John Wilson Elliott, 3, white (son)^[11]	Parris
Joseph Sager	White		M	January 2, 1835^[c]	Kennebec	Murder	Female, white (wife)^[12]	Smith
Abram Cox	Black		M	August 27, 1860	Androscoggin (Federal)	Murder	Four people, races unknown^[13]^[d]	Morrill
Peter Williams	White		M	August 27, 1860	Androscoggin (Federal)	Murder	Four people, races unknown^[13]^[d]	Morrill
Francis Spencer	White		M	June 24, 1864^[e]	Knox	Murder	Richard Tinker, 67, white (warden)^[14]	Cony
Clifton Harris	Black	20	M	March 12, 1869	Androscoggin	Murder-Rape-Robbery	Mrs. Justin Kingsley and Polly Caswell, white^[15]	Chamberlain
Louis Wagner	White		M	June 25, 1875	York	Murder-Rape-Robbery	Anetha and Karen Christiansen, 25 and 39, white^[16]	Dingley
John Gordon	White		M	June 25, 1875	Waldo	Murder	Three people, white^[17]^[f]	Dingley
Raffaele Capone	White	27	M	April 17, 1885	Penobscot	Murder-Robbery	Pasquale Coscia, white^[18]	Robie
Carmine Santore	White	44	M	April 17, 1885	Penobscot	Murder-Robbery	Pasquale Coscia, white^[18]
Daniel Wilkinson	White	38	M	November 20, 1885	Sagadahoc	Murder	William Lawrence, 63, white (policeman)^[19]

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v t e Capital punishment in the United States
Jurisdictions	Federal government Military Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming American Samoa Guam Puerto Rico Washington, D.C.
People executed by state	Federal government Military Alabama (pre-1972) Arizona (pre-1972) Arkansas (pre-1972) California Colorado Connecticut Delaware (pre-1972) Florida (pre-1972) Georgia (pre-1972) Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky (pre-1972) Louisiana (pre-1972) Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi (pre-1972) Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina (pre-1972) North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma (pre-1972) Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina (pre-1972) South Dakota Tennessee Texas 2020–present Utah Vermont Virginia (pre-1972) Washington (pre-1972) West Virginia Wyoming Washington, D.C.
People executed by year	1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965–1972 1976–1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Scheduled executions
Issues and ethics	Botched executions Death-qualified jury Debate Dual sovereignty doctrine Execution drug shortage Exonerations Juveniles Last meal Participation of medical professionals Race and capital punishment White defendants executed for killing a black victim Wrongful executions
Other	Death row inmates Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals Death Penalty Information Center Most recent executions by state National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment Women executed since 1976 Women on death row

List of people executed in Maine

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