List of people executed in the United States in 1919

Sixty-four people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1919, forty by electrocution, twenty-three by hanging, and one by firing squad.^[1]

John Snowden, a black man, was controversially executed in Maryland for the murder of a pregnant white woman. He was pardoned in 2001, based on allegations of racial bias and flimsy evidence against him.^[2]

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No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
No.	Date of execution	Name	At execution	At offense	Age difference	Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
1	January 9, 1919	Alton Cleveland	39	38	1	Male	White	New York	Electrocution	^[3]
2	January 10, 1919	Samuel Johnson	18	Unknown	Unknown		Black	South Carolina		^[1]
3	January 13, 1919	Samuel Barcons	26	24	2		White	Pennsylvania		^[4]
4	February 21, 1919	Patrick Kearney	32	31	1			Kentucky		^[5]
5		James Lawler	32	31				Kentucky		^[5]
6		Frank Mazzano	19	18				Ohio		^[6]
7		Rosario Borgio	25	24				Ohio		^[6]
8	February 28, 1919	Damasco Quiroz	31	30			Hispanic	California	Hanging	^[1]
9		Albert Johnson	30	28	2		White	Illinois		^[7]
10		John Snowden	28	27	1		Black	Maryland		^[8]
11	March 18, 1919	Aaron Walker	25	Unknown	Unknown		Black	South Carolina	Electrocution	^[1]
12	March 21, 1919	Giovanni Ferraro	36	34	2		White	New York		^[9]
13	March 26, 1919	Harvey Stuart	36	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Virginia		^[1]
14	March 26, 1919	Horace Williams	21	Unknown	Unknown			Virginia
15	April 26, 1919	James Henry Warren	19	Unknown	Unknown			North Carolina
16	April 28, 1919	Hardy Dickerson	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		White	Pennsylvania
17	May 2, 1919	William Shortridge	34	33	1		Black	California	Hanging	^[10]
18	May 19, 1919	Patsy Medio	43	42			White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	^[11]
19	May 21, 1919	Frank Ewing	21	20			Black	Tennessee	Electrocution	^[12]
20	May 23, 1919	James Tyren	59	58			White	California	Hanging	^[13]
21		Paul Bates	Unknown	Unknown			Black	Georgia	Hanging	^[1]
22		Tibbets Roy Braught	28	26	2		White	Oklahoma	Electrocution	^[14]
23	June 2, 1919	Bertie Franklin Moon	34	33	1		White	Pennsylvania		^[15]
24	June 6, 1919	Lewis Harris	25	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Kentucky		^[1]
25	June 6, 1919	James Howard	20	18	2			Kentucky
26	June 16, 1919	William Brown	26	Unknown	Unknown			Pennsylvania
27	June 16, 1919	Peter Smallock	45	Unknown	Unknown		White	Pennsylvania
28	June 20, 1919	Joseph Rogers	26	25	1		White	California	Hanging	^[16]
29	June 20, 1919	Clarence Rollins	20	19			Native American	California		^[16]
30	June 27, 1919	George Dock Bigham	50	49			White	Alabama		^[17]
31		Erasmo Perretta	28	27				Connecticut		^[18]
32		Joseph Perretta	33	32				Connecticut		^[18]
33		Earl C. Dear	26	25				Illinois		^[19]
34		Tom Gwynn	23	Unknown	Unknown		Black	North Carolina	Electrocution	^[20]
35		Jerry Warren	29	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Virginia	Electrocution	^[1]
36	July 11, 1919	M. Furuya	37	36	1		Asian	California	Hanging	^[21]
37	July 11, 1919	George Johnson	19	Unknown	Unknown		Black	South Carolina	Electrocution	^[1]
38	July 12, 1919	George Edward Warner	51	46	5		White	Vermont	Electrocution	^[22]
39	July 18, 1919	R. Morisawa	42	Unknown	Unknown		Asian	California	Hanging	^[23]
40	July 24, 1919	Paul Chiavaro	30	29	1		White	Ohio	Electrocution	^[24]
41	July 25, 1919	Lube Martin	34	31	3		Black	Kentucky	Electrocution	^[25]
42	August 6, 1919	Hugh Alexander Ferguson	26	26	0			West Virginia	Hanging	^[26]
43	August 8, 1919	Lucius Brown	Unknown	Unknown	0			Louisiana	Hanging	^[1]
44	August 19, 1919	Frank Laviere	27	25	2		White	New Jersey	Electrocution
45		Michael DePalma	33	31
46		Gerino Palmieri	24	22
47	September 19, 1919	Pedro Rico	36	35	1		Hispanic	California	Hanging	^[27]
48	September 19, 1919	Ernest Hamlin	32	32	0		Black	Louisiana	Hanging	^[1]
49	September 26, 1919	James Morgan	51	50	1		Black	Ohio	Electrocution	^[28]
50	October 17, 1919	Tom Bellon	42	Unknown	Unknown		White	California	Hanging	^[29]
51		Thomas Richard Fitzgerald	39	39	0			Illinois	Hanging	^[30]
52		Frank Seinich	30	30	0			Ohio	Electrocution	^[31]
53	October 20, 1919	Tony Mulferno	33	32	1			Pennsylvania		^[1]
54	October 27, 1919	William Evans	27	25	2		Black			^[32]
55		John Pierce Sandoe	26	26	0		White
56		Gregory Psaros	26	Unknown	Unknown		White
57	October 30, 1919	Emper Jacobs	29	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Virginia		^[1]
58	November 14, 1919	Aaron Dupree	34	28	6			North Carolina		^[33]
59	November 14, 1919	Moses Witherspoon	27	27	0			South Carolina		^[34]
60	November 28, 1919	Grover Cleveland Johnson	23	Unknown	Unknown		White	Louisiana	Hanging	^[1]
61	November 28, 1919	Louis Werner	33	32	1			Louisiana		^[1]
62	December 3, 1919	Nikifor Nechesnook	28	28	0			Connecticut		^[35]
63	December 19, 1919	John Borich	33	33	0			Utah	Firing squad	^[36]
64	December 22, 1919	Bronoslaw Bednoricki	29	26	3			Pennsylvania	Electrocution	^[1]

Gender
Male	64	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	35	55%
Black	24	38%
Asian	2	3%
Hispanic	2	3%
Native American	1	2%
State
Pennsylvania	11	17%
California	9	14%
Kentucky	5	8%
Ohio	5	8%
Louisiana	4	6%
South Carolina	4	6%
Virginia	4	6%
Connecticut	3	5%
Illinois	3	5%
New Jersey	3	5%
North Carolina	3	5%
New York	2	3%
Alabama	1	2%
Georgia	1	2%
Maryland	1	2%
Oklahoma	1	2%
Tennessee	1	2%
Utah	1	2%
Vermont	1	2%
West Virginia	1	2%
Method
Electrocution	41	63%
Hanging	23	36%
Firing squad	1	2%
Month
January	3	5%
February	7	11%
March	4	6%
April	2	3%
May	6	9%
June	13	20%
July	6	9%
August	5	8%
September	3	5%
October	8	13%
November	4	6%
December	3	5%
Age
Unknown	3	5%
10–19	4	6%
20–29	27	42%
30–39	22	34%
40–49	4	6%
50–59	4	6%
Total	64	100%

Number of executions
1920	103
1919	64
1918	99
Total	266

List of people executed in the United States in 1919

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