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List of people executed in the United States in 1915

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One hundred and thirty-two people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1915, sixty-eight by hanging, sixty-three by electrocution, and one by firing squad.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1915

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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 5, 1915 George Green 24 24 0 Male Black New Jersey Electrocution [2]
2 Griffin J. Johnson 46 46
3 Richard P. Sparks 16 16
4 January 8, 1915 Arthur Neale 19 Unknown Unknown Virginia [1]
5 January 22, 1915 Louis Andrew Larson 44 43 1 White California Hanging
6 Lonnie Rowland 26 25 Black Florida [3]
7 January 26, 1915 Adolph Kubaszewski 30 Unknown Unknown White New Jersey Electrocution [4]
8 January 29, 1915 Burrett Hickman Unknown Unknown 1 Black Georgia Hanging [5]
9 February 1, 1915 Ysidro Gonzalez Unknown Unknown 0 Hispanic Texas [1]
10 February 2, 1915 August Martin 40 40 White New Jersey Electrocution [6]
11 February 5, 1915 Eng Hing 20 17 3 Asian New York [7]
12 Yee Dock 30 27
13 February 6, 1915 Floyd McCullum 24 Unknown Unknown Black South Carolina [8]
14 February 13, 1915 Roswell C. F. Smith Unknown Unknown 1 White Illinois Hanging [9]
15 February 19, 1915 Henry Ballard 21 20 Black Texas [1]
16 February 23, 1915 John Talap 32 30 2 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [10]
17 February 26, 1915 Robert Kane 28 27 1 New York [11]
18 Oscar Vogt 37 35 2
19 Vincenzo Campanelli 36 Unknown Unknown
20 Will Hemphill 21 19 2 Black Texas Hanging [12]
21 March 3, 1915 Federico Sanchez 15 15 0 Hispanic [1]
22 March 8, 1915 Rocco Tassone 25 23 2 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [13]
23 March 12, 1915 Lewis Johnson 50 48 Black Alabama Hanging [1]
24 March 15, 1915 John Bostic 24 22 White California [14]
25 Samuel J. Raber 26 24
26 March 17, 1915 Durant Haile 26 25 1 Black South Carolina Electrocution [15]
27 March 19, 1915 Clay Simms 48 Unknown Unknown Arkansas [16]
28 March 22, 1915 Giuseppe Cino 23 22 1 White New York [17]
29 March 26, 1915 Charles Miller 29 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia [1]
30 April 2, 1915 John Hall Unknown Unknown Unknown Arkansas [18]
31 Walter Owens Unknown Unknown 1
32 April 5, 1915 Nicholas Mondolo Unknown Unknown Unknown White Pennsylvania [1]
33 April 9, 1915 Will Bird Unknown Unknown 1 Black Georgia Hanging
34 April 15, 1915 Benigno Guerrero Unknown Unknown Hispanic Texas [19]
35 April 17, 1915 Joe J. Larkins Unknown Unknown Unknown Black [1]
36 April 30, 1915 Herbert Caple 22 Unknown Unknown Virginia Electrocution [20]
37 May 11, 1915 Biagio Falzone 23 22 1 White Massachusetts [21]
38 May 14, 1915 Peter Krakus 25 25 0 Delaware Hanging [22]
39 May 21, 1915 Skipwith Sydner Unknown Unknown Black Virginia Electrocution [1]
40 May 31, 1915 Vincenzo Buoninsegno 36 35 1 White New York
41 June 4, 1915 Thomas Cole 22 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia
42 June 9, 1915 Alf Goolsby 47 Unknown Unknown Georgia Hanging
43 June 10, 1915 Lemuel Jones 24 23 1 Virginia Electrocution [23]
44 June 11, 1915 Clyde Stover 27 27 0 Florida Hanging [24]
45 John Turner Unknown Unknown 1 Louisiana [25]
46 Luther Canter 23 23 0 White Virginia Electrocution [26]
47 June 18, 1915 Henry Wilson Unknown Unknown Unknown Louisiana Hanging [1]
48 June 24, 1915 Harry Edgar Hillen 25 24 1 Colorado [27]
49 June 25, 1915 Lon Carter Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [28]
50 Syd Jones Unknown Unknown 4
51 Tim Sharp Unknown Unknown 1 White
52 Pak Sur Chi 38 Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory [1]
53 June 30, 1915 Joseph Ferri 26 25 1 White New York Electrocution [29]
54 July 2, 1915 Early Morris Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Alabama Hanging [30]
55 David Dunn 20 19 1 White New York Electrocution [31]
56 Cornelius Jackson Unknown Unknown 0 Black Texas Hanging [32]
57 Will Stuart Unknown Unknown West Virginia [33]
58 Will Thomas Unknown Unknown Unknown [1]
59 July 8, 1915 Willie Bell Unknown Unknown 0 North Carolina Electrocution [34]
60 July 9, 1915 Matthew Jarrell 24 23 1 White West Virginia Hanging [35]
61 July 12, 1915 Andreas Plewka 30 28 2 Pennsylvania Electrocution [36]
62 July 16, 1915 Frank Repetto 27 26 1 Illinois Hanging [37]
63 William Henry Sprouse 41 40 Missouri [38]
64 July 28, 1915 Sam Derrick 30 29 Arkansas Electrocution [39]
65 July 30, 1915 Turner G. Graham Jr. 24 24 0 Kentucky [40]
66 Will Lane 25 Unknown Unknown Black
67 Charles Becker 45 41 4 White New York [41]
68 Samuel Haynes 52 51 1 Black
69 August 4, 1915 Tommie Grice 17 Unknown Unknown South Carolina [1]
70 August 6, 1915 Millard Carpenter 24 22 2 Alabama Hanging [42]
71 George Wesley James 20 18 White
72 John Salter 23 23 0 Black
73 Robert Watkins Unknown Unknown
74 Bernard Montvid 23 23 White Connecticut [43]
75 Henry Floyd Unknown Unknown 1 Black Georgia [44]
76 Peter Bolen Unknown Unknown Unknown Mississippi [42]
77 Jim Seales Unknown Unknown Unknown
78 Bunyan Walters Unknown Unknown Unknown
79 August 13, 1915 Frank Grela 41 41 0 White Connecticut [45]
80 John Wade 30 Unknown Unknown Black Florida [1]
81 August 19, 1915 Will McGriff Unknown Unknown 4 Georgia
82 August 20, 1915 Ed Maddox Unknown Unknown Unknown Florida [46]
83 Emmett Thomas 30 Unknown Unknown
84 George Matthews 32 Unknown Unknown Virginia Electrocution
85 John Lewis Rollins 30 Unknown Unknown
86 August 27, 1915 Franklyn Edward Creeks 33 32 1 White California Hanging [47]
87 Wish Sheppard 18 18 0 Black Maryland [48]
88 Karol Draniewicz 22 20 2 White New York Electrocution [49]
89 September 2, 1915 Jesse McNeil 26 Unknown Unknown Black South Carolina [50]
90 September 3, 1915 Wallace Smothers 41 41 0 Kentucky [51]
91 James Eli "Charles" Trull 23 21 2 White North Carolina [52]
92 Antonio Salemne 26 25 1 New York [53]
93 Pasquale Vendetti 47 46
94 Lewis M. Roach 40 38 2
95 Thomas Tarpey 42 Unknown Unknown
96 William Perry 27 26 1 Black
97 September 6, 1915 S.L. Johnson Unknown Unknown 2 White Mississippi Hanging [54]
98 September 10, 1915 David A. Fountain 48 47 1 California [55]
99 Edward Pryor 31 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia Electrocution [1]
100 Charles Forest Unknown Unknown Unknown West Virginia Hanging
101 September 17, 1915 Sherman Stanfield 18 18 0 Virginia Electrocution [56]
102 September 24, 1915 Joe Persons 14 14 Georgia Hanging [57]
103 September 25, 1915 Frank Northfoot Unknown Unknown 2 [58]
104 September 29, 1915 Nelson Brice 20 18 South Carolina Electrocution [59]
105 John Crosby 33 31
106 Meeks Griffin 25 23
107 Thomas Griffin 27 25
108 Joe Malloy 45 40 5
109 October 8, 1915 Burr L. Harris 28 26 2 California Hanging [60]
110 October 15, 1915 Ponciano Colaste 26 Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory [1]
111 Juan Coronel 22 Unknown Unknown
112 Feliciano Hirano 21 Unknown Unknown
113 Charley Logan 17 17 0 Black South Carolina Electrocution [61]
114 October 16, 1915 Joe DeBerry 21 21 Illinois Hanging [62]
115 October 22, 1915 Ebenezer B. Tobin 44 43 1 Florida [63]
116 November 5, 1915 Louis Bundy 21 19 2 White California [64]
117 Earl Marvin Loomis 20 1
118 November 8, 1915 Sam Hardin Unknown Unknown 0 Black Georgia [1]
119 Jake Turner 18 18
120 Guy Young Unknown Unknown
121 November 19, 1915 John Henry 29 29 Kentucky Electrocution [65]
122 Joe Emmanuel Hill 36 34 2 White Utah Firing squad [66]
123 November 26, 1915 Frank Grano Unknown Unknown 0 Maryland Hanging [67]
124 November 30, 1915 Anthony Haronovich 26 26 New Jersey Electrocution [68]
125 December 7, 1915 Edgar C. Murphy 28 27 1 [69]
126 December 10, 1915 Ramon Villalobo 29 28 Hispanic Arizona Hanging [70]
127 Henry Bookman 28 0 Black Oklahoma Electrocution [71]
128 December 17, 1915 Will Johnson Unknown Unknown Unknown Georgia Hanging [1]
129 Peter Bouy Unknown Unknown Unknown Louisiana
130 Worthy Tolley 50 48 2 White New York Electrocution [72]
131 Ludwig Marquardt 58 Unknown Unknown
132 December 22, 1915 Lee Ingram Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Hanging [1]
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Demographics

More information Gender, Ethnicity ...
Gender
Male 132 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
Black 73 55%
White 49 37%
Asian 6 5%
Hispanic 4 3%
State
New York 19 14%
Georgia 12 9%
Virginia 11 8%
South Carolina 10 8%
Alabama 9 7%
California 8 6%
New Jersey 7 5%
Texas 7 5%
Florida 6 5%
Arkansas 4 3%
Hawaii Territory 4 3%
Kentucky 4 3%
Mississippi 4 3%
Pennsylvania 4 3%
West Virginia 4 3%
Illinois 3 2%
Louisiana 3 2%
Connecticut 2 2%
Maryland 2 2%
North Carolina 2 2%
Arizona 1 1%
Colorado 1 1%
Delaware 1 1%
Massachusetts 1 1%
Missouri 1 1%
Oklahoma 1 1%
Utah 1 1%
Method
Hanging 68 52%
Electrocution 63 48%
Firing squad 1 1%
Month
January 8 6%
February 12 9%
March 9 7%
April 7 5%
May 4 3%
June 13 10%
July 15 11%
August 20 15%
September 20 15%
October 7 5%
November 9 7%
December 8 6%
Age
Unknown 35 27%
10–19 9 7%
20–29 52 39%
30–39 17 13%
40–49 15 11%
50–59 4 3%
Total 132 100%
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Executions in recent years

More information Number of executions, Total ...
Number of executions
1916 107
1915 132
1914 99
Total 338
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