List of people executed in the United States in 1937

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One hundred and fifty people, one hundred and forty-nine male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1937, ninety-nine by electrocution, thirty-three by hanging, and eighteen by gas chamber.[1]

Tommie Howard became the last person to be executed in the United States for attempted murder. Howard shot a man in the head during a robbery. The victim was permanently incapacitated and died from his injuries nine months after Howard's execution.[2] Howard had previously served 10 years of a life sentence for a prior murder conviction.

The last semipublic execution in the United States occurred this year, that being the execution of Roscoe Jackson.

List of people executed in the United States in 1937

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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 3, 1937 Isaiah Opher Jr. 36 36 0 Male Black Delaware Hanging [3]
2 January 4, 1937 Jacob M. Gable 21 19 2 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [4]
3 January 7, 1937 Theodore DiDonne 31 30 1 New York [5]
4 Joseph Bolognia 24 23
5 January 8, 1937 Frank Duarte 22 2 Hispanic Arizona Gas chamber [6]
6 Joe Joven 32 31 1 Asian California Hanging [7]
7 January 14, 1937 Louis Lazar 29 26 3 White New York Electrocution [8]
8 January 15, 1937 Louis R. Shaver 53 51 2 California Hanging [9]
9 Tommie Howard 38 38 0 Black Louisiana [10]
10 Johnnie Sanders 20 19 1 [1]
11 January 20, 1937 George Owens 17 16 Mississippi [11]
12 Joe Phillips 16 15
13 January 21, 1937 Chester White 33 Unknown Unknown New York Electrocution [12]
14 John Fiorenza 25 24 1 White
15 Charles Ham 20 19 Black
16 Frederick Fowler 19 18
17 January 22, 1937 Natividad Valenzuela 24 23 1 Hispanic California Hanging [13]
18 January 26, 1937 Luther Jones 32 32 0 White Nevada Gas chamber [14]
19 January 29, 1937 Edgar Prude Skelton 36 Unknown Unknown Alabama Electrocution [15]
20 February 1, 1937 Robert Dreamer 40 30 10 Pennsylvania [16]
21 February 10, 1937 James Joseph McElroy 45 45 0 Connecticut [17]
22 February 11, 1937 Alfred E. Volckmann Jr. 21 19 2 New York [18]
23 February 19, 1937 George B. Underwood 23 22 1 Kentucky [19]
24 February 24, 1937 Arthur Burden 28 25 3 Black Georgia [1]
25 February 26, 1937 James Victor Franklin 32 Unknown Unknown White Alabama [20]
26 Allen Mitchell Unknown Unknown Black Illinois [21]
27 Rufo Swain 27 Unknown Unknown
28 Hurt Hardy Jr. 32 30 2 White Missouri Hanging [22]
29 March 2, 1937 Joseph Rappaport 35 33 Illinois Electrocution [23]
30 March 5, 1937 James Turner 24 23 1 Black Tennessee [1]
31 March 12, 1937 Chester Arkuszewski White Indiana [24]
32 March 15, 1937 James Taylor Black Tennessee [1]
33 March 17, 1937 Anderson Berry 26 24 2
34 March 18, 1937 Samuel Williams 23 22 1 Mississippi Hanging
35 Tom Franklin 20 19 Tennessee Electrocution [25]
36 March 19, 1937 Sam Franklin 24 22 2 Kentucky [26]
37 March 31, 1937 Petronilo Pacren 40 39 1 Asian California Hanging [27]
38 April 2, 1937 Fred Adams 21 18 3 White Missouri [28]
39 April 8, 1937 Gus McCoig 25 23 2 Tennessee Electrocution [29]
40 April 9, 1937 Ralph Eisenhardt 21 19 Louisiana Hanging [30]
41 Gladstone James 24 22
42 George McDuffie 22 21 1 Black South Carolina Electrocution [31]
43 April 13, 1937 Frank Pramera 23 Unknown Unknown White West Virginia Hanging [1]
44 April 16, 1937 Fred Hart 44 43 1 California [32]
45 Joseph Schuster 30 29 Illinois Electrocution [33]
46 Stanley Murawski 37 36
47 Frank Matthew Whyte 42 41
48 Roy Wilburn Eatmon 24 22 2 Tennessee [34]
49 April 19, 1937 James Burke Black Georgia [35]
50 April 23, 1937 Clinton Medlock 29 26 3 Arkansas [36]
51 John Homer Cummings District of Columbia [37]
52 Willett Marcus 23 20
53 Willie Walker 34 34 0 Florida [38]
54 April 29, 1937 Mary Holmes 35 1 Female Mississippi Hanging [39]
55 Selmon Brooks 32 31 Male
56 April 30, 1937 Howard Lee Dunn 24 23 White Tennessee Electrocution [40]
57 William Farmer 19 18
58 Elmer Pruitt 24 21 3 Black Texas [41]
59 May 3, 1937 Andy Yacas 52 51 1 White Pennsylvania [42]
60 May 10, 1937 Simee Lee Fields 21 19 2 Black Florida [43]
61 Marcus England 36 35 1 Pennsylvania [44]
62 Edward Shawell 38 38 0
63 May 14, 1937 James Austin Jr. 22 21 1 Arkansas [45]
64 John P. Goodman 21 Unknown Unknown Georgia [1]
65 May 19, 1937 Stephen Kotowicz 22 22 0 White Ohio [46]
66 May 21, 1937 Will Lacy 41 39 2 Black Georgia [47]
67 Eli C. Melton 30 28 White
68 Dudley Barr 39 35 4 Black Missouri Hanging
69 Roscoe Jackson 36 33 3 White
70 May 24, 1937 Leonard Brown 18 17 1 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
71 May 28, 1937 John Woods 49 48 California Hanging [48]
72 Mose Trammell 36 35 Georgia Electrocution [49]
73 Lonnie Lee Joiner 38 37 White Texas [1]
74 June 4, 1937 Joseph Nelson 36 36 0 Black Delaware Hanging [50]
75 Augustus Dwight Beard 27 26 1 White Texas Electrocution [51]
76 Wisie Ellison 36 35 Black
77 June 10, 1937 William A. Kuhlman 28 27 White Indiana [52]
78 John Joseph Poholsky 35 34
79 Frank Gore Williams 39 38
80 Chew Wing 32 31 Asian New York [53]
81 June 11, 1937 Roosevelt Collins 31 30 Black Alabama [54]
82 William Gill 28 27 Louisiana Hanging [55]
83 Robert Lucas 27 Unknown Unknown [1]
84 Charles A. Sands 22 20 2 Native American Oklahoma Electrocution [56]
85 Leon Siler White
86 June 14, 1937 Willie Hopkins 21 21 0 Black Georgia [1]
87 June 18, 1937 Edgar Rose 27 26 1 White
88 James Worthy 24 24 0 Black
89 June 25, 1937 Charlie Young 33 Unknown Unknown
90 William V. Beckner 30 29 1 White West Virginia Hanging [57][58]
91 June 28, 1937 Roy Crittenton 36 34 2 Black Pennsylvania Electrocution [59]
92 July 1, 1937 Robert Jones Unknown Unknown Unknown Mississippi Hanging [1]
93 Harry Eisenberg 43 42 1 White New York Electrocution [60]
94 Watson Edwards 25 24
95 Anthony Garlaus 33 32
96 July 2, 1937 Clemens Konstantin Matura 66 65 Texas [61]
97 July 9, 1937 John D. McNeill 54 53 California Hanging [62]
98 Mitchell Jackson 27 27 0 Black Georgia Electrocution [63]
99 James Irvin Howard 21 20 1 Maryland Hanging [64]
100 Robert Glenn Brown 19 18 North Carolina Gas chamber [65]
101 Earnest McCarty 18 Texas Electrocution [1]
102 July 12, 1937 Marcus C. Powell 51 50 White Florida [66]
103 Alexander Thweatt Meyer 19 19 0 Pennsylvania [67]
104 July 16, 1937 Arnold Clift 24 23 1 Kentucky [68]
105 Fred Steele 22 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [69]
106 Sam Jones 21 Unknown Unknown
107 July 19, 1937 Preston McDonald 28 26 2 Florida Electrocution [70]
108 Walter Williams 38 36
109 July 23, 1937 Robert Hinds 17 17 0 [71]
110 Fred Grey 26 Unknown Unknown North Carolina Gas chamber [72]
111 Hunter Winchester 24 Unknown Unknown
112 July 26, 1937 John Becker 38 37 1 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [73]
113 July 30, 1937 Willie E. Douberly 25 24 Georgia [74]
114 Thomas Perry 23 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [75]
115 A.W. Watson 21 20 1 White
116 George Washington Patton 56 51 5 Texas Electrocution [76]
117 August 5, 1937 Solomon Mahoe 32 30 2 Pacific Islander Hawaii Territory Hanging [77]
118 August 6, 1937 Milford George Exum 23 22 1 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [78]
119 August 9, 1937 Jimmie Lee Parrish 35 Unknown Unknown Tennessee Electrocution [79]
120 August 10, 1937 Fred Ritchie 32 Unknown Unknown White [1]
121 August 13, 1937 Burt Anderson 53 52 1 Arizona Gas chamber [80]
122 Ernest Patten 37 36 Black
123 Francisco A. Aguilar 34 33 Hispanic Colorado [81]
124 Lawrence R. Ward 51 50 White Georgia Electrocution [82]
125 James McNeill 21 19 2 Black North Carolina [83]
126 Leroy McNeill 18 17 1 Gas chamber
127 Perry Hampton Carroll 37 35 2 White Wyoming [84]
128 August 19, 1937 Major Green 34 33 1 Black New York Electrocution [85]
129 August 20, 1937 Furman McDonald 44 42 2 White South Carolina [86]
130 Luke Trammell Jr. 28 27 1 Texas [87]
131 Willie Leake 30 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia [88]
132 Lawrence Wyche Unknown Unknown
133 August 26, 1937 Louis Apicello 40 39 1 White New York [89]
134 September 3, 1937 Thomas Jefferson Hutto 51 50 Arkansas [90]
135 David Benjamin Knight 33 31 2 Arizona Gas chamber [91]
136 September 10, 1937 Arthur Oliver 46 43 3 Alabama Electrocution [92]
137 Mervin Brown 33 Unknown Unknown Black West Virginia Hanging [1]
138 September 17, 1937 Raymond A. Fortune 26 25 1 White Indiana Electrocution [93]
139 September 24, 1937 Marion Sandy Edwards 63 Unknown Unknown Black Arkansas [1]
140 September 29, 1937 Clinton Pinson 40 36 4 Georgia [94]
141 October 15, 1937 Jessie Amos 35 Unknown Unknown Arkansas [1]
142 Peter Chrisoulas 40 39 1 White Illinois [95]
143 November 5, 1937 William Brown Read 25 24 West Virginia Hanging [96]
144 November 12, 1937 Perry Marion 28 27 Kentucky Electrocution [97]
145 December 3, 1937 Charles McGuire 30 29 California Hanging [98]
146 December 10, 1937 Walter Caldwell 37 36 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
147 William Clifton Perry 17 17 0
148 December 17, 1937 John L. Montjoy Jr. 23 21 2 Kentucky Hanging [99]
149 December 27, 1937 Willie Frank Daniels 25 24 1 Georgia Electrocution [1]
150 December 31, 1937 John Winsor Unknown Unknown Virginia
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Demographics

More information Gender, Ethnicity ...
Gender
Male 149 99%
Female 1 1%
Ethnicity
Black 75 50%
White 67 45%
Asian 3 2%
Hispanic 3 2%
Native American 1 1%
Pacific Islander 1 1%
State
Georgia 16 11%
New York 14 9%
North Carolina 12 8%
Tennessee 10 7%
California 8 5%
Pennsylvania 8 5%
Texas 8 5%
Illinois 7 5%
Florida 6 4%
Louisiana 6 4%
Mississippi 6 4%
Arkansas 5 3%
Indiana 5 3%
Kentucky 5 3%
Alabama 4 3%
Arizona 4 3%
Missouri 4 3%
West Virginia 4 3%
Virginia 3 2%
Delaware 2 1%
District of Columbia 2 1%
Oklahoma 2 1%
South Carolina 2 1%
Colorado 1 1%
Connecticut 1 1%
Hawaii Territory 1 1%
Maryland 1 1%
Nevada 1 1%
Ohio 1 1%
Wyoming 1 1%
Method
Electrocution 99 66%
Hanging 33 22%
Gas chamber 18 12%
Month
January 19 13%
February 9 6%
March 9 6%
April 21 14%
May 15 10%
June 18 12%
July 25 17%
August 17 11%
September 7 5%
October 2 1%
November 2 1%
December 6 4%
Age
Unknown 1 1%
10–19 11 7%
20–29 66 44%
30–39 49 33%
40–49 13 9%
50–59 8 5%
60–69 3 2%
Total 150 100%
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Executions in recent years

More information Number of executions, Total ...
Number of executions
1938 188
1937 150
1936 196
Total 534
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