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List of people executed in the United States in 1927

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One hundred and thirty-nine people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1927, ninety-eight by electrocution and forty-one by hanging.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1927

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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 6, 1927 Edward J. Heinlein 26 25 1 Male White Massachusetts Electrocution [2]
2 John Joseph Devereaux 25 24
3 John J. McLaughlin 31 30
4 Charles Goldson 23 22 Black New York [3]
5 Edgar Humes 26 25
6 George Williams 27 26
7 January 7, 1927 William J. Slater 24 23 White California Hanging [4]
8 January 8, 1927 Robert Franklin Thompson 54 54 0 Ohio Electrocution [5]
9 January 11, 1927 Peter Doro 32 31 1 New Jersey [6]
10 January 13, 1927 Benjamin Bradley 28 27 Black New York [7]
11 January 14, 1927 William Gee 21 Unknown Unknown Virginia [1]
12 January 20, 1927 Michael Kosmowski 35 33 2 White New York
13 January 21, 1927 Sydney Adams 40 39 1 Black California Hanging [8]
14 January 28, 1927 Raymond H. Arnold 29 26 3 White [9]
15 February 4, 1927 Edward K. Sayer 24 22 2 [10]
16 February 16, 1927 Joseph Smith 51 51 0 Illinois [11]
17 February 17, 1927 Paul Emanuel Hilton 27 26 1 New York Electrocution [12]
18 Anthony Paretti 35 25 10
19 February 18, 1927 Oscar Quarles Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Illinois Hanging [13]
20 F.D. Baines 27 Unknown Unknown Texas Electrocution [1]
21 Pierce Jefferies 21 Unknown Unknown West Virginia Hanging [14]
22 February 28, 1927 Walter Francis Webb 28 27 1 Pennsylvania Electrocution [15]
23 Amos Hughes 25 24
24 March 1, 1927 Lloyd O'Dell Salter 28 27 Florida [16]
25 March 7, 1927 Joseph Curry 28 0 White Pennsylvania [17]
26 Harry Bentley 23 22 1
27 William Juliano 27 26
28 Frank Doris 24 24 0
29 March 8, 1927 Raymond Stone 26 25 1 Black Florida [18]
30 March 11, 1927 Robert Lumpkin 27 2 North Carolina [19]
31 March 17, 1927 Giuseppe W. Provenzano 24 22 White New York [20]
32 Giuseppe Friia 33 31
33 Bryant Satchell 25 24 1 Black Texas [1]
34 March 23, 1927 Rufus Linias Chesser 19 17 2 White Florida [21]
35 March 31, 1927 Scott Workman 42 42 0 Ohio [22]
36 April 7, 1927 Earl London Unknown Unknown 1 Black Florida [23]
37 April 8, 1927 Horace D. DeVaughn 34 33 Alabama [24]
38 James D. Lyon 27 26 White Ohio [25]
39 George William Thoma 23 23 0
40 April 15, 1927 John Walton Winn 47 45 2 Illinois Hanging [26]
41 Henry Porfey 21 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia Electrocution [1]
42 William Thomas 23 Unknown Unknown
43 April 22, 1927 Ernest Walker 39 38 1 North Carolina [27]
44 April 23, 1927 William Virgil Murphy 37 36 White Alabama [28]
45 April 27, 1927 Fortune Ferguson Jr. 22 17 5 Black Florida [29]
46 April 29, 1927 Thomas Twine 35 35 0 Illinois Hanging [30]
47 Henry Evans Bartlett 37 34 3 White Nebraska Electrocution [31]
48 May 17, 1927 Paul William Feursten 45 44 1 New Jersey [32]
49 Albert Brownlee 28 28 0 Oregon Hanging [33]
50 May 20, 1927 Charles Jehu Blackburn 36 35 1 Arizona [34]
51 Ferdinand Schlaps 19 18 Montana [35]
52 John F. Webb Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Tennessee Electrocution [1]
53 Matthew Briscoe 37 34 3 Texas [36]
54 May 25, 1927 John Henry Wallace 21 19 2 Tennessee [37]
55 May 27, 1927 Carl Skinner 27 27 0 Delaware Hanging [38]
56 Narciso Reyes 34 Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory [1]
57 Marcelo Rivera 23 22 1 [39]
58 Alfred A. Winters 30 28 2 Black Washington [40]
59 June 3, 1927 Merrell Minor Gore 23 21 White Georgia Electrocution [41]
60 Herbert Fennell 30 Unknown Unknown Black
61 June 6, 1927 James Oscar Mars 45 43 2 White [42]
62 June 10, 1927 Pearl Mitchell 29 29 0 Black North Carolina [43]
63 John Hickman 30 1 White Ohio [44]
64 George Wargo 60 59
65 John Butchek 47 45 2 Oregon Hanging [45]
66 June 17, 1927 Joe Chesnas 22 21 1 Illinois [46]
67 Leo Halterman 27 26 Ohio Electrocution [47]
68 June 24, 1927 Lonnie B. Dixon 18 17 Black Arkansas [48]
69 Elin Lyons 40 39 Hispanic Illinois Hanging [49]
70 Frank Carter 46 45 White Nebraska Electrocution [50]
71 July 7, 1927 Louis Frederick Boersig 44 44 0 Virginia [51]
72 July 12, 1927 John Rounsaville 20 18 2 Black Georgia [52]
73 July 14, 1927 William Wagner 24 23 1 White New York [53]
74 July 15, 1927 Clyde Reese Bachelor 26 25 Alabama [54]
75 Cellus Stewart 33 31 2 Black Georgia [1]
76 Charles Henry Duchowski 35 34 1 White Illinois Hanging [55]
77 Walter Stalesky 38 37
78 Ricardo Torrez 27 26 Hispanic
79 July 18, 1927 Philip Orleck 20 19 White Ohio Electrocution [56]
80 July 21, 1927 Peter J. Heslin 28 27 New York [57]
81 July 22, 1927 Walter Burley Unknown Unknown 0 Black Mississippi Hanging [58]
82 July 29, 1927 Roosevelt Hicks 25 23 2 Indiana Electrocution [59]
83 August 5, 1927 Salvatore Merra 49 48 1 White New Jersey [60]
84 August 12, 1927 Pilipi Austero 38 Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory Hanging [1]
85 Santiago Lacambra 26 Unknown Unknown
86 McKinley Thomason 18 Unknown Unknown Black South Carolina Electrocution [61]
87 Francis Marion Snow 46 44 2 White Texas [62]
88 August 22, 1927 Ed Joshlin 19 Unknown Unknown Black [1]
89 August 23, 1927 Celestino F. Medeiros 25 18 7 White Massachusetts [63]
90 Nicola Sacco 36 28 8
91 Bartolomeo Vanzetti 39 31
92 September 2, 1927 Horace Cathey 20 Unknown Unknown Black Arkansas [64]
93 Booker T. Martin 25 Unknown Unknown
94 September 9, 1927 Sam Hall Unknown Unknown 1 Alabama [65]
95 William Henry Ross 23 23 0 Maryland Hanging [66]
96 Ottie Simmons 19 19
97 Arthur Swann 20 20
98 September 16, 1927 Raymond C. Davis 28 26 2 White Kentucky Electrocution [67]
99 September 23, 1927 Earl Jack Clark 37 35 California Hanging [68]
100 George Frank Bazemore 26 25 1 Black North Carolina Electrocution [69]
101 Willie Robinson 23 Unknown Unknown Texas [70]
102 September 26, 1927 Carl Nolly 30 28 2 Pennsylvania [71]
103 Tillman Simmons 50 47 3 Texas [72]
104 September 29, 1927 Charles P. Albrecht 33 32 1 White New York [73]
105 October 7, 1927 Milan Vukich 37 35 2 California Hanging [74]
106 October 14, 1927 Lee Chamblee 40 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Electrocution [75]
107 Wilbur Galloway 28 Unknown Unknown
108 Mose Parker 49 48 1
109 October 21, 1927 Charles Sieber 38 37 White California Hanging [76]
110 Rado Millich 42 41 Illinois [77]
111 October 26, 1927 Roy Pryor 24 24 0 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
112 November 5, 1927 Avery V. Millikin 37 36 1 White Texas [78]
113 November 8, 1927 Chin Lung 33 33 0 Asian Connecticut Hanging [79]
114 Soo Hoo Wing 19 19
115 November 10, 1927 Herman E. Coggin 28 27 1 White Tennessee Electrocution [80]
116 November 11, 1927 George Clark 26 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia [1]
117 Alfred Simms 19 19 0 Maryland Hanging [81]
118 November 18, 1927 John Sanders 41 Unknown Unknown Georgia Electrocution [1]
119 Christopher Barone 22 21 1 White New Jersey [82]
120 Louis Capozzi 27 26
121 Joseph Juliano 37 36
122 Giuseppe Juliano 31 30
123 November 21, 1927 Jerry Weeks 31 0 Black Pennsylvania [83]
124 November 22, 1927 Benjamin Franklin Levins 38 37 1 White Florida [84]
125 November 25, 1927 Nathan Bard 42 40 2 Black Kentucky Hanging [85]
126 Bunyan Fleming 32 31 1
127 William Nelson 25 Unknown Unknown Virginia Electrocution [86]
128 November 29, 1927 Louis Curtis Thomas Unknown Unknown 1 White Florida [87]
129 December 9, 1927 Hector Graham 41 41 0 Black North Carolina [88]
130 December 13, 1927 Thomas Costello 31 30 1 White Florida [89]
131 December 16, 1927 Jeff Coleman Unknown Unknown 0 Black Alabama [90]
132 William Brown 44 43 1 Illinois Hanging [91]
133 James Hayes 29 29 0 White
134 George A. Ricci 33 33 New York Electrocution [92]
135 Peter A. Seiler 22 21 1
136 December 21, 1927 William B. Henderson 30 29 Florida [93]
137 December 23, 1927 Herschel Andrews 35 34 Illinois Hanging [94]
138 December 30, 1927 Bob Eatmon 21 21 0 Black Alabama Electrocution [1]
139 Hugh Phillips 55 54 1 White Louisiana Hanging [95]
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Demographics

More information Gender, Ethnicity ...
Gender
Male 139 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
White 70 50%
Black 61 44%
Asian 6 4%
Hispanic 2 1%
State
New York 14 10%
Illinois 13 9%
Georgia 11 8%
Florida 9 6%
Ohio 8 6%
Pennsylvania 8 6%
Texas 8 6%
California 7 5%
New Jersey 7 5%
Alabama 6 4%
Massachusetts 6 4%
North Carolina 5 4%
Virginia 5 4%
Hawaii Territory 4 3%
Maryland 4 3%
Arkansas 3 2%
Kentucky 3 2%
Tennessee 3 2%
Connecticut 2 1%
Nebraska 2 1%
Oregon 2 1%
Arizona 1 1%
Delaware 1 1%
Indiana 1 1%
Louisiana 1 1%
Mississippi 1 1%
Montana 1 1%
South Carolina 1 1%
Washington 1 1%
West Virginia 1 1%
Method
Electrocution 98 71%
Hanging 41 29%
Month
January 14 10%
February 9 6%
March 12 9%
April 12 9%
May 11 8%
June 12 9%
July 12 9%
August 9 6%
September 13 9%
October 7 5%
November 17 12%
December 11 8%
Age
Unknown 7 5%
10–19 8 6%
20–29 63 45%
30–39 38 27%
40–49 18 13%
50–59 4 3%
60–69 1 1%
Total 139 100%
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Executions in recent years

More information Number of executions, Total ...
Number of executions
1928 145
1927 139
1926 141
Total 425
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