Wikiwand AI

List of people executed in the United States in 1922

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One hundred and forty-eight people, one hundred and forty-seven male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1922, ninety-five by electrocution, fifty-one by hanging, and two by firing squad.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1922

More information No., Date of execution ...
No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 3, 1922 Chung Tao Unknown Unknown Unknown Male Asian Pennsylvania Electrocution [2]
2 January 12, 1922 William J. Marweg 40 37 3 White New York [3]
3 Raymond F. Mulford 29 28 1
4 Edward Walter Persons 40 38 2
5 January 13, 1922 Ricardo Lauterio 23 21 Hispanic Arizona Hanging [4]
6 Tomas Roman 32 31 1
7 Pattie Perdue Unknown Unknown Unknown Female Black Mississippi [1]
8 Leon Viverett Unknown Unknown Unknown Male
9 January 17, 1922 George Washington Knight 23 22 1 New Jersey Electrocution [5]
10 Louis Lively 35 35 0
11 January 20, 1922 Eleuterio Corral 18 17 1 Hispanic New Mexico Hanging [6]
12 Rumaldo Losano 19 18
13 Steve Maslich 36 34 2 White Utah Firing squad [7]
14 January 23, 1922 Walter A. Lewis 21 19 Black Pennsylvania Electrocution [8]
15 John Mason 39 Unknown Unknown
16 Harry Hart 23 22 1 Virginia [9]
17 February 2, 1922 Harry Givner 27 Unknown Unknown White New York [10]
18 Floyd Slover 21 19 2
19 February 3, 1922 Curtis Franklin 33 32 1 Black South Carolina [11]
20 February 7, 1922 George E. Gares 55 55 0 White New Jersey [12]
21 Edmond Thompson 23 21 2 Black Virginia [13]
22 February 17, 1922 Gjuro "Joe" Vuckovich 34 33 1 White Montana Hanging [14]
23 John Green 28 27 Tennessee Electrocution [15]
24 February 18, 1922 Asbury Fields 47 46 [16]
25 February 23, 1922 Henry Lockett 34 33 Black Virginia [1]
26 February 24, 1922 Luis Guillen 21 20 Hispanic California Hanging [17]
27 John Bowyer 23 22 Black Florida [18]
28 Samuel C. Smith 26 25 Maryland [19]
29 Arthur Harding 38 37 Ohio Electrocution [20]
30 Thomas Sparks 26 25 Virginia [1]
31 February 27, 1922 Michael Marano 31 29 2 White Pennsylvania [21]
32 March 1, 1922 Harry Lee Bland 27 27 0 Ohio [22]
33 Walter Wallace Wright 28 28
34 Charles Petree 21 20 1 Tennessee [23]
35 Thomas Peril Christmas 26 25
36 Otto Stevens 29 28
37 John B. McClure 26 26 0
38 March 2, 1922 Harvey William Church 23 22 1 Illinois Hanging [24]
39 George F. McCormick 22 21 New York Electrocution [25]
40 March 3, 1922 John A. McGuire 23 22 Ohio [26]
41 Leroy Tyler 34 32 2 Black
42 Leroy Williams 25 24 1 West Virginia Hanging [27]
43 March 10, 1922 James Wells 18 17 Arkansas Electrocution [28]
44 March 15, 1922 Maurice Mays 31 29 2 Tennessee [29]
45 March 17, 1922 John McHenry 24 21 3 White District of Columbia Hanging [30]
46 Steve Sabo 49 49 0 Oklahoma Electrocution [31]
47 March 20, 1922 Albert Torrence White 56 54 2 Pennsylvania [32]
48 March 23, 1922 Lawrence J. Kubal 37 36 1 New York [33]
49 March 25, 1922 Roy Charles Chamblin 27 26 Ohio [34]
50 March 27, 1922 Bernard Sherdon McAneny 38 37 Pennsylvania [35]
51 John Shurilla 24 Unknown Unknown
52 March 31, 1922 Will Elmore 29 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia [1]
53 April 3, 1922 Archie Adolph Patterson 34 33 1 Pennsylvania [36]
54 April 4, 1922 Henry Barnes 32 Unknown Unknown Virginia [1]
55 April 7, 1922 Will Hood 19 18 1 South Carolina [37]
56 April 11, 1922 Granville Bunch 39 38 White Tennessee [38]
57 April 14, 1922 George F. Hornsby 30 29 Texas Hanging [39]
58 April 16, 1922 Marshall Tillman 25 23 2 Black Pennsylvania Electrocution [1]
59 April 20, 1922 Bill Byrd Unknown Unknown Unknown Louisiana Hanging [40]
60 Lawrence Torrence 29 28 1 New York Electrocution [41]
61 May 4, 1922 Monroe S. Payton Unknown Unknown Unknown West Virginia Hanging [1]
62 May 5, 1922 William Ravenal 51 50 1 Georgia
63 George Bush 38 Unknown Unknown Ohio Electrocution [42]
64 John Vaiden 26 25 1
65 Sam Watkins 39 39 0 White Oklahoma [43]
66 May 9, 1922 Samuel Purpera 18 16 2 Ohio [44]
67 May 12, 1922 Henry Langston Jr. Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Hanging [1]
68 May 15, 1922 Earl Carter 22 20 2 Pennsylvania Electrocution [45]
69 May 22, 1922 George Steward 27 27 0 [46]
70 May 26, 1922 John Valcalda 40 39 1 Hispanic California Hanging [47]
71 Ernest Fern Brown 20 19 Black Virginia Electrocution [48]
72 May 31, 1922 William Morehouse 57 55 2 White New Jersey [1]
73 June 1, 1922 William P. Donovan 35 34 1 Indiana [49]
74 June 8, 1922 Luigi Ebanisto 23 22 New York [50]
75 Albert Librero 24 23
76 Julius Rosenwasser 26 Unknown Unknown
77 June 9, 1922 James B. King 33 32 1 Black Nebraska [51]
78 Nick John Oblizalo 23 19 4 White Utah Firing squad
79 June 14, 1922 Dominic Benigno 24 23 1 Ohio Electrocution [52]
80 June 15, 1922 William Bell 27 26 Black New York [53]
81 June 16, 1922 Teague Cunningham Alabama Hanging [54]
82 Jim Denson 20 17 3 Georgia [55]
83 Samuel Jones Kirby 36 35 1 White South Carolina Electrocution [56]
84 Jesse James Gappins 23 22
85 Casy Otis Fox 32 31
86 June 19, 1922 Henry K. Lisowski Unknown Unknown Unknown Pennsylvania [57]
87 June 20, 1922 John Henry Gackenbach 21 20 1 Ohio [58]
88 June 23, 1922 George Howze 23 23 0 Black Alabama Hanging [59]
89 Steve Myeskie 22 21 1 White Ohio Electrocution [60]
90 June 26, 1922 James Di Stefano Unknown Unknown Unknown Pennsylvania [1]
91 June 29, 1922 Michael Rossi 65 62 3 New York [61]
92 July 7, 1922 Elvie Daniel Kirby 25 23 2 Oregon Hanging [62]
93 John L. Rathie 24 22
94 July 14, 1922 Walter Delaney Unknown Unknown 3 Black Alabama [1]
95 Forrest Scott Unknown Unknown Unknown
96 July 17, 1922 Jonas Ebersole 34 33 1 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [63]
97 Joseph Dreher 30 Unknown Unknown Black
98 July 20, 1922 Peter Nunziato 19 18 1 White New York [64]
99 Saito Taizo 21 20 Asian
100 July 24, 1922 John Gilbert McCloskey 23 22 White Pennsylvania [65]
101 July 25, 1922 William Dwight 18 17 Black Tennessee [66]
102 July 28, 1922 Luis Medrano 27 27 0 Hispanic New Mexico Hanging [67]
103 Ysidoro Miranda 33 32 1
104 Carlos Renteria 24 23
105 July 31, 1922 Perley Johnson Emery 29 28 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [68]
106 August 11, 1922 Shelby McLaurin Unknown Unknown Unknown Mississippi Hanging [1]
107 August 15, 1922 Austin Harris Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Tennessee Electrocution [69]
108 James Garfield McElroy 38 37 1 White
109 August 18, 1922 Daniel Borich 51 51 0 Colorado Hanging [1]
110 August 31, 1922 Luther Boddy 22 22 Black New York Electrocution [70]
111 Herbert Wents Smith 32 31 1 White
112 September 1, 1922 Ephraim High Unknown Unknown Black Alabama Hanging [1]
113 Luke McDonald Unknown Unknown Unknown Georgia [71]
114 Francis Brooks DuPre 19 18 1 White
115 September 5, 1922 Guilford C. Young 28 Unknown Unknown New Jersey Electrocution [1]
116 September 8, 1922 Ira Vernon Pavey 30 27 3 Iowa Hanging [72]
117 George Howard 25 23 2 Oregon [73]
118 September 15, 1922 Eugene Claude Weeks 27 26 1 Iowa [74]
119 Angus Murphy 36 36 0 Black North Carolina Electrocution [75]
120 Joseph Thomas 20 20 0
121 September 22, 1922 Marsis Sisneres 50 Unknown Unknown Hispanic California Hanging [1]
122 Abraham H. Johnson 55 Unknown Unknown White Texas [76]
123 September 25, 1922 Peter Erico 29 27 2 Pennsylvania Electrocution [77]
124 Antonio Puntario 35 33
125 September 29, 1922 Theodore West 34 1 Arizona Hanging [78]
126 October 2, 1922 Henry Andrew Blakeley 47 45 2 Pennsylvania Electrocution [1]
127 October 6, 1922 Miguel Manriquez 27 26 1 Hispanic California Hanging [79]
128 October 12, 1922 McIver Burnett 17 17 0 Black North Carolina Electrocution [1]
129 October 13, 1922 Robert Sewall Unknown Unknown Unknown Louisiana Hanging [80]
130 Bosie Sims Unknown Unknown Unknown
131 October 20, 1922 Stephen F. Katonka 34 33 1 White California [81]
132 October 24, 1922 Emil Schutte 54 48 6 Connecticut Hanging [82]
133 October 30, 1922 James DiSalvo 41 Unknown Unknown Pennsylvania Electrocution [1]
134 Thomas Verne Ryhal 43 42 1 [83]
135 Curtis Caleb Sipple 21 18 3
136 November 3, 1922 Aaron Howard 19 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama Hanging [1]
137 November 6, 1922 Frederick I. Kerr 27 24 3 White Pennsylvania Electrocution
138 November 10, 1922 William Alexander Stultz 46 43 Maryland Hanging [84]
139 November 16, 1922 Dave Brown 27 26 1 Kentucky Electrocution [85]
140 November 24, 1922 Lew Fat 28 28 0 Asian California Hanging [86]
141 Orrie Loren Cross 26 24 2 White Iowa [87]
142 December 1, 1922 Ben Brooks 34 33 1 Indiana Electrocution [88]
143 James Edward Mahoney 37 36 Washington Hanging [89]
144 December 4, 1922 Walter Charles Troy 31 29 2 Pennsylvania Electrocution [90]
145 Harry Way 24 23 1 Black
146 December 11, 1922 Joseph H. Thomas 41 39 2 [1]
147 December 15, 1922 Myron Corbridge 21 21 0 White Illinois Hanging [91]
148 December 22, 1922 Frank Marselone Jeffords 30 29 1 South Carolina Electrocution [92]
Close

Demographics

More information Gender, Ethnicity ...
Gender
Male 147 99%
Female 1 1%
Ethnicity
White 80 54%
Black 54 36%
Hispanic 11 7%
Asian 3 2%
State
Pennsylvania 27 18%
New York 17 11%
Ohio 12 8%
Tennessee 11 7%
Virginia 7 5%
Alabama 6 4%
New Mexico 6 4%
South Carolina 6 4%
California 5 3%
Georgia 5 3%
New Jersey 5 3%
Arizona 3 2%
Iowa 3 2%
Louisiana 3 2%
Mississippi 3 2%
North Carolina 3 2%
Oregon 3 2%
Illinois 2 1%
Indiana 2 1%
Maryland 2 1%
Oklahoma 2 1%
Texas 2 1%
Utah 2 1%
West Virginia 2 1%
Arkansas 1 1%
Colorado 1 1%
Connecticut 1 1%
District of Columbia 1 1%
Florida 1 1%
Kentucky 1 1%
Montana 1 1%
Nebraska 1 1%
Washington 1 1%
Method
Electrocution 95 64%
Hanging 51 34%
Firing squad 2 1%
Month
January 16 11%
February 15 10%
March 21 14%
April 8 5%
May 12 8%
June 19 13%
July 14 9%
August 6 4%
September 14 9%
October 10 7%
November 6 4%
December 7 5%
Age
Unknown 16 11%
10–19 10 7%
20–29 66 45%
30–39 37 25%
40–49 10 7%
50–59 8 5%
60–69 1 1%
Total 148 100%
Close

Executions in recent years

More information Number of executions, Total ...
Number of executions
1923 114
1922 148
1921 143
Total 405
Close

References

Related Articles

Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks