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List of people executed in the United States in 1909

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One hundred and thirty-eight people, one hundred and thirty-seven male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1909, one hundred and one by hanging, and thirty-seven by electrocution.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1909

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No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 2, 1909 Lucius Truitt 27 27 0 Male Black Georgia Hanging [2]
2 January 4, 1909 Frank Davenport 23 23 Virginia Electrocution [3]
3 January 8, 1909 Thomas P. Fallon 40 36 4 White California Hanging [4]
4 John Boyd Unknown Unknown 3 Black Texas [1]
5 January 11, 1909 John Montessana 50 Unknown Unknown White New Jersey Electrocution
6 January 18, 1909 Sabino Millilio 32 Unknown Unknown
7 January 22, 1909 Joe Thompson Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Arkansas Hanging [5]
8 January 29, 1909 Charles Baldesar 36 35 1 White California [6]
9 February 1, 1909 Salvatore Governale 25 24 New York Electrocution [7]
10 February 5, 1909 Walter Montgomery Johnson 28 27 Oregon Hanging [8]
11 Will Foster Unknown Unknown 2 Black South Carolina [9]
12 February 12, 1909 Claude Golden 45 44 1 Texas [1]
13 February 16, 1909 Leslie J. Combs 20 19 White New York Electrocution [10]
14 February 17, 1909 Adolphus Walker 27 26 Black New Jersey [11]
15 February 18, 1909 Charles Gillespie 24 24 0 Virginia [12]
16 February 24, 1909 Giuseppe Campagnolo 28 27 1 White Connecticut Hanging [13]
17 Raffaele Carfaro 19 18
18 February 25, 1909 Irwin A. Lewis 28 26 2 Pennsylvania [14]
19 William Franklin "Frank" Palmer Sr. 37 35
20 Johnnie Green 20 19 1 Black Texas [15]
21 February 26, 1909 Cyrus Y. Timmons 37 36 White Oregon [16]
22 March 2, 1909 Frank Gilbreath Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Tennessee [1]
23 March 3, 1909 William Ward Unknown Unknown Unknown North Carolina
24 March 5, 1909 Charles Davis Unknown Unknown 1 Louisiana [17]
25 Ben Jones Unknown Unknown 0
26 Wallace Jones Unknown Unknown
27 Charles Madison Unknown Unknown 1
28 Jack Ratier Unknown Unknown
29 Andrew Washington Unknown Unknown
30 Willie Williams Unknown Unknown 2
31 Robert Meade Shumway 27 26 1 White Nebraska [18]
32 March 8, 1909 William Jones 25 2 Black New York Electrocution [19]
33 March 9, 1909 Charles Edward Quimby 25 24 1 White Pennsylvania Hanging [20]
34 March 16, 1909 Salvatore Randazzio 22 21 New York Electrocution [21]
35 March 19, 1909 Benjamin Franklin Gilbert Jr. 19 18 Virginia [22]
36 March 22, 1909 Aurelius Christian 17 17 0 Black [23]
37 March 23, 1909 Frederick Lang 26 23 3 White New Jersey Hanging [24]
38 March 25, 1909 John Karaffa 34 32 2 Pennsylvania [25]
39 March 29, 1909 Mary D. Farmer 29 28 1 Female New York Electrocution [26]
40 March 31, 1909 George Watson Unknown Unknown Unknown Male Black Alabama Hanging [1]
41 April 2, 1909 Frederick B. LeBeau 41 40 1 White Montana [27]
42 William A. Hayes 27 26
43 April 8, 1909 James Smith 24 24 0 Black Virginia Electrocution [28]
44 April 9, 1909 Joel T. Payne 32 30 2 Hanging [29]
45 April 12, 1909 Bernard Carlin 22 21 1 White New York Electrocution [30]
46 April 16, 1909 William Carter 29 Unknown Unknown Black Kentucky Hanging [31]
47 Harry Seaborne 22 Unknown Unknown Virginia Electrocution [1]
48 Jose Niculas 21 1 Asian Washington Hanging
49 April 26, 1909 Pacy Hill 46 45 White New York Electrocution [32]
50 April 30, 1909 Antonio Cipolla 26 25 California Hanging [33]
51 Willie Carter Unknown Unknown Black South Carolina [34]
52 John Brown 57 57 0 Virginia Electrocution [35]
53 William Brown 33 33
54 May 5, 1909 Isham Taylor 32 32 [36]
55 Joe Taylor 34 34
56 May 7, 1909 Fred M. Seward 28 27 1 White Idaho Hanging [37]
57 Lewis M. Jenkins 40 40 0 Black Virginia Electrocution [38]
58 May 14, 1909 Love Robinson Unknown Unknown 1 South Carolina Hanging [39]
59 Edmund Shelton Unknown Unknown 2 Texas [40]
60 May 21, 1909 Will McFadden Unknown Unknown Unknown Florida [1]
61 Charles Kaiser Unknown Unknown 0 Native American Nevada
62 June 4, 1909 Walter Ledbetter Unknown Unknown 1 Black Florida
63 June 11, 1909 Otis D. Smith 32 31 White
64 Jim Jones Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Georgia
65 Refugio Juareque Unknown Unknown 1 Hispanic Texas [41]
66 June 14, 1909 William Scott 22 20 2 White New York Electrocution [42]
67 June 18, 1909 Henry Blankford Unknown Unknown 0 Black Louisiana Hanging [43]
68 Monroe Smith Unknown Unknown
69 Adolph N. Nordstrom 28 28 White Oregon [44]
70 June 21, 1909 Yi Hi Dam Unknown Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory [1]
71 June 29, 1909 Jacob Edward Kobler 25 24 1 White Pennsylvania [45]
72 Joseph Pagano 27 26 [46]
73 July 1, 1909 Steve Veazey 49 48 Black Mississippi [47]
74 July 2, 1909 George Hawkins Unknown Unknown 0 Florida [48]
75 Joseph Quantrell Anderson 36 34 2 White Oregon [49]
76 July 6, 1909 Giuseppe Sanducci 23 21 New York Electrocution [50]
77 July 8, 1909 Jim Wiggins Unknown Unknown 4 Black Georgia Hanging [51]
78 Bruno Carbone 18 17 1 White Pennsylvania [52]
79 Joseph Veltre 21 20
80 July 9, 1909 Marshall Lewis Unknown Unknown 0 Black Georgia [53]
81 July 16, 1909 Isaac Stephens Unknown Unknown Unknown Arkansas [1]
82 Leonardo Gebbia 22 20 2 White Louisiana [54]
83 July 23, 1909 Will Mack Unknown Unknown 1 Black Mississippi [55]
84 July 29, 1909 Nicholas DeMarzo 25 24 White Pennsylvania [56]
85 Stephen Sabo 40 39
86 July 30, 1909 Claude Brooks 21 20 Black Missouri [57]
87 John Flemming 27 Unknown Unknown Virginia Electrocution [1]
88 August 5, 1909 Fontaine F. Lewis 32 31 1 Pennsylvania Hanging [58]
89 August 10, 1909 Albert Smith Unknown Unknown Unknown Florida [59]
90 Adolph Bertchey 49 49 0 White New Jersey Electrocution [60]
91 August 27, 1909 William H. Wise 29 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia [1]
92 Joseph M. Gauvette 44 43 1 White Washington Hanging [61]
93 Arthur Brown Unknown Unknown Unknown Black West Virginia [62]
94 September 3, 1909 Marcellus Thomas Unknown Unknown Unknown Texas [63]
95 September 7, 1909 Richard Donegan 27 27 0 White New Jersey Electrocution [64]
96 September 10, 1909 John McDaniel Unknown Unknown Black Mississippi Hanging [65]
97 September 24, 1909 George Williams Unknown Unknown 2 Native American Nevada [66]
98 Howard H. Bragg 24 23 1 White Virginia Electrocution [67]
99 October 1, 1909 William Hawkins Unknown Unknown 0 Black Georgia Hanging [1]
100 William Mitchell 42 41 1 White Tennessee [68]
101 Cecil Palmer Unknown Unknown Black
102 Will McIntosh Unknown Unknown 0 Texas [1]
103 Lee Russell Unknown Unknown
104 October 8, 1909 Emanuel Johnson Unknown Unknown Unknown Louisiana
105 October 11, 1909 Hom Woon 37 35 2 Asian Massachusetts Electrocution [69]
106 Min Sing 31 29
107 Leong Gong 19 17
108 October 14, 1909 Stanley Nazarko Unknown Unknown 1 White Pennsylvania Hanging [70]
109 Thomas Willis 29 27 2 Black
110 October 15, 1909 Avery Asa Blount 34 33 1 White Louisiana [71]
111 October 19, 1909 Thomas Wesley Johns 42 41 Pennsylvania [72]
112 October 22, 1909 Lewis Balaam 21 21 0 Black Alabama [1]
113 William H. Stevenson 27 27 White
114 William Johnson Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Illinois
115 Matthias Jancigaj 28 27 1 White Oregon
116 Tom Willison 23 23 0 Black Texas
117 October 26, 1909 Rocco Racco 42 39 3 White Pennsylvania [73]
118 October 28, 1909 Syl Bynum Unknown Unknown 0 Black Georgia [74]
119 Jozo Higashi 25 Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory [1]
120 October 29, 1909 Harry Edward Crooks 49 47 2 White Ohio Electrocution [75]
121 November 12, 1909 James Anderson Finch 38 37 1 Oregon Hanging [76]
122 Jack Traynham 24 24 0 Black Virginia Electrocution [77]
123 Hezekiah W. Barnes 26 25 1 White Washington Hanging [78]
124 November 16, 1909 Emil W. Victor 21 21 0 South Dakota [79]
125 November 18, 1909 Stanley Marcavich 17 15 2 Pennsylvania [1]
126 November 19, 1909 J.B. Kellogg Unknown Unknown 0 Black Georgia [80]
127 George Gilford Unknown Unknown Louisiana
128 Alex Hill Unknown Unknown
129 Tom Hill Unknown Unknown
130 Henry T. Armstrong Unknown Unknown 1 Native American Oklahoma [81]
131 November 22, 1909 Teodoro Rizzo 35 35 0 White New York Electrocution [82]
132 December 2, 1909 Ferdinand Rosena 51 50 1 Pennsylvania Hanging [83]
133 December 6, 1909 Bedros Hampartjoomian 24 22 2 New York Electrocution [84]
134 December 9, 1909 Harry Robinson 23 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia [1]
135 December 17, 1909 Tom Roberson Unknown Unknown 0 White Alabama Hanging [85]
136 Bud Davis 37 37 Black Louisiana [1]
137 Robert Wright 28 27 1 White Texas
138 Clifton Breckenridge 19 19 0 Black Virginia Electrocution [86]
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Demographics

More information Gender, Ethnicity ...
Gender
Male 137 99%
Female 1 1%
Ethnicity
Black 70 51%
White 58 42%
Asian 6 4%
Native American 3 2%
Hispanic 1 1%
State
Virginia 18 13%
Pennsylvania 17 12%
Louisiana 16 12%
New York 11 8%
Texas 10 7%
Georgia 7 5%
New Jersey 6 4%
Oregon 6 4%
Florida 5 4%
Alabama 4 3%
California 3 2%
Massachusetts 3 2%
Mississippi 3 2%
South Carolina 3 2%
Tennessee 3 2%
Washington 3 2%
Arkansas 2 1%
Connecticut 2 1%
Hawaii Territory 2 1%
Montana 2 1%
Nevada 2 1%
Idaho 1 1%
Illinois 1 1%
Kentucky 1 1%
Missouri 1 1%
Nebraska 1 1%
North Carolina 1 1%
Ohio 1 1%
Oklahoma 1 1%
South Dakota 1 1%
West Virginia 1 1%
Method
Hanging 101 73%
Electrocution 37 27%
Month
January 8 6%
February 13 9%
March 19 14%
April 13 9%
May 8 6%
June 11 8%
July 15 11%
August 6 4%
September 5 4%
October 22 16%
November 11 8%
December 7 5%
Age
Unknown 48 35%
10–19 7 5%
20–29 49 36%
30–39 18 13%
40–49 13 9%
50–59 3 2%
Total 138 100%
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Executions in recent years

More information Number of executions, Total ...
Number of executions
1910 127
1909 138
1908 116
Total 381
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