List of people executed in the United States in 1939

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One hundred and sixty-two people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1939, one hundred and eighteen by electrocution, thirty by gas chamber, and fourteen by hanging.[1]

The state of New Hampshire would conduct its most recent execution this year.

Joe Arridy, a severely intellectually disabled man, was controversially executed in Colorado despite strong doubt about his guilt. He was posthumously pardoned in 2011.

List of people executed in the United States in 1939

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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, 1939 Salvatore Gati 29 28 1 Male White New York Electrocution [2]
2 Charles Sberna
3 David Lucas Black
4 January 6, 1939 Joseph Arridy 23 21 2 Arab Colorado Gas chamber [3]
5 January 11, 1939 White Miller Tollett 30 29 1 White Tennessee Electrocution [4]
6 January 12, 1939 Vincent Forte 20 18 2 New York [5]
7 January 17, 1939 Dominico Nadal 46 45 1 Nevada Gas chamber [6]
8 January 19, 1939 Ernest Stanley Unknown Unknown Black Tennessee Electrocution [1]
9 January 20, 1939 King Solomon Stovall 24 23 North Carolina Gas chamber
10 LeRoy Hershel McCarthy 28 27 White Oregon [7]
11 Irving Brooks 23 22 Black Virginia Electrocution [8]
12 January 25, 1939 Wilson Wright 20 18 2 Georgia [9]
13 January 26, 1939 Arthur Friedman 21 20 1 White New York [10]
14 Dominick Guariglia 19 18
15 Joseph O'Laughlin 23 22
16 February 1, 1939 John William Cline 25 24 Ohio [11]
17 February 3, 1939 Will Kinard 38 36 2 Black District of Columbia [12]
18 February 9, 1939 Thomas Kirby Gilmore 42 41 1 White New York [1]
19 February 10, 1939 Loren Sylvester Warner 29 24 5 Kentucky [13]
20 Pearlie Houston Evans 37 36 1 Mississippi Hanging [14]
21 John Anderson 27 27 0 Black Virginia Electrocution [15]
22 February 15, 1939 John Flannery Williamson 62 59 3 White Missouri Gas chamber [16]
23 February 16, 1939 Thomas J. Bohan 33 24 9 New York Electrocution [17]
24 Michael Hermanowski 23 22 1
25 February 17, 1939 Fred Ware 24 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [1]
26 Elgie Stephens 22 2 Louisiana Hanging [18]
27 February 20, 1939 Paul Fried Bunge 53 52 1 White Florida Electrocution [19]
28 February 23, 1939 Michael Alex 27 26 New York [20]
29 February 24, 1939 Franklin Pierce McCall Jr. 22 22 0 Florida [21]
30 February 27, 1939 William McKinley Blackwell 41 39 2 Black Pennsylvania [22]
31 March 3, 1939 Bonnie Griffin 23 21 White Kentucky [23]
32 Arnold Powell 22 20
33 Frank Tracy 33 33 0 Ohio [24]
34 March 6, 1939 Winzell Williams 18 17 1 Black Texas [25]
35 March 10, 1939 Joseph B. Anderson 37 36 White Arkansas [26]
36 Fred L. Brown 47 Unknown Unknown Maryland Hanging [27]
37 March 17, 1939 Joe Lee Kennedy 33 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama Electrocution [28]
38 Edward Wimbush 22 21 1 [29]
39 March 24, 1939 Willie Waters 47 45 2 Kentucky [30]
40 George B. Wingard 20 18 White South Carolina [31]
41 William B. Gentry 24 23 1
42 Roy D. Suttles 30 28 2
43 Herbert H. Moorman 42 40
44 Clayton Crans 29 27
45 John Valentine Bair Jr. 28 1
46 March 27, 1939 Thomas Roy Lockard 26 23 3 Pennsylvania [32]
47 March 28, 1939 Hyman Johnson 22 21 1 Black Tennessee [33]
48 Frank Murray 19 18
49 March 31, 1939 Dave Johnson 33 33 0 Louisiana Hanging [34]
50 April 4, 1939 Hubert Harris 22 21 1 Tennessee Electrocution [1]
51 April 7, 1939 Clarence Bracy 24 23 North Carolina Gas chamber [35]
52 Batt DeJournette 38 37
53 Harry Price Williams 25 23 2 Virginia Electrocution [1]
54 April 10, 1939 James Otho Martin 43 42 1 White Tennessee [36]
55 Joseph McKay 39 38 Black
56 James Willis Smith 40 38 2
57 Harvey T. Nealy 19 18 1 Texas [37]
58 April 11, 1939 Edward Franklin Humphrey 52 50 2 White South Carolina [38]
59 April 14, 1939 Tom Williams 28 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama
60 Elvin Lyle Wood 36 36 0 White Illinois [39]
61 April 15, 1939 Willie Williams 33 31 2 Black Tennessee [1]
62 Jesus Herrera 48 47 1 Hispanic Texas [40]
63 April 19, 1939 Harry Chapman 37 35 2 White Ohio [41]
64 Henry Dingledine 29 27
65 Harry B. Dingledine 56 54
66 April 23, 1939 Genaro Lugo 23 22 1 Hispanic Texas [42]
67 James Clifford Miles 22 20 2 Black
68 April 24, 1939 Ernest Miles Hipple 21 1 White Pennsylvania [43]
69 April 26, 1939 Harvey Lafayette Roush 48 47 Ohio [44]
70 April 28, 1939 Archie Lee Short 27 26 Arizona Gas chamber [45]
71 Robert Kenyon 23 21 2 Missouri [46]
72 May 5, 1939 James Dixon 38 37 1 Black North Carolina [1]
73 May 7, 1939 Bennie Randall 20 19 Texas Electrocution [47]
74 May 9, 1939 Nick Babich 54 54 0 White Ohio [48]
75 May 12, 1939 Johnny Smith 30 27 3 Black Florida [49]
76 May 19, 1939 Fred Arnell 18 18 0 Arkansas [1]
77 Fred Dickerson 35 34 1 White
78 James Ervin 38 Unknown Unknown Black Texas
79 May 21, 1939 Johnny Caesar 30 27 3 [50]
80 May 26, 1939 Edward Lee Mattocks 21 Unknown Unknown North Carolina Gas chamber [51]
81 June 3, 1939 Orelle J. Easton 26 25 1 White Indiana Electrocution [52]
82 June 9, 1939 Ray Anderson 33 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [53]
83 Charles W. White 51 Unknown Unknown
84 Grady Tubbs 23 Unknown Unknown
85 Joseph Frazier 22 21 1
86 Dave Burney 47 46 North Carolina Gas chamber [54]
87 June 14, 1939 Willie Caldwell 23 21 2 Ohio Electrocution [55]
88 June 16, 1939 Robert Nixon 19 18 1 Illinois [56]
89 Ed Alston Unknown Unknown 2 North Carolina Gas chamber [57]
90 June 23, 1939 Harvey Lloyd Nelson 36 35 1 White Georgia Electrocution [58]
91 James Reed Swain 20 18 2 Black Indiana [59]
92 Joseph Broughton 40 39 1 South Carolina [60]
93 June 26, 1939 Ladell Rhodes 26 25 Texas [1]
94 June 30, 1939 James Caruthers 23 25 5 Arkansas [61]
95 Bubbles Clayton 25 20
96 Sylvester Williams 20 0
97 Rafe Lee Walker 32 32 Texas [62]
98 July 7, 1939 Robert Sanders 37 37 Alabama [1]
99 J.D. Vaughan 25 Unknown Unknown Georgia
100 Arvel P. Rice 20 19 1 White Kentucky [63]
101 Bricey Hammonds Sr. 24 24 0 Native American North Carolina Gas chamber [64]
102 James Henderson 20 19 1 Black
103 Alfred Caper 23 22
104 July 12, 1939 Pang Young 18 17 Asian Ohio Electrocution [65]
105 July 14, 1939 Charles H. Smith 41 40 White Kentucky [66]
106 Howard Long 33 31 2 New Hampshire Hanging [67]
107 July 21, 1939 Claud David 25 24 1 California Gas chamber [68]
108 Jack Davis 47 46 Kentucky Electrocution [69]
109 July 25, 1939 Edward Higgins 26 26 0 Black [70]
110 July 26, 1939 Arthur Barker 35 34 1 White Georgia [1]
111 July 28, 1939 Otis McGill 34 33 South Carolina [71]
112 August 2, 1939 Wallace W. Green 22 21 Massachusetts [72]
113 Walter St. Saveur 19 18
114 August 4, 1939 Marion Hunter 25 24 Black Georgia [73]
115 Bernhard R. Leuch 48 46 2 White Washington Hanging [74]
116 August 16, 1939 Adrian Hubert Miller 31 30 1 Indiana Electrocution [75]
117 August 18, 1939 Mack Jackson 23 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [1]
118 Milton Williams 27 27 0 Arkansas
119 August 24, 1939 Arthur Perry 24 22 2 New York [76]
120 August 28, 1939 Harley Evans 26 24 White Tennessee [77]
121 September 1, 1939 Arthur Morris 25 23 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [78]
122 September 4, 1939 Harvey A. McGraw 20 20 0 White Florida Electrocution [79]
123 September 8, 1939 William Gibson Smith 25 21 4 California Hanging [80]
124 September 15, 1939 Charles Augustine McLachlan 57 56 1 Gas chamber [81]
125 Paul Leslie Buttry 39 37 2 Washington Hanging [82]
126 September 18, 1939 Earl Clayton Talbott 19 18 1 [83]
127 September 22, 1939 Frank Conner 22 Unknown Unknown Black Arizona Gas chamber [84]
128 James Franklin Godwin 21 20 1 White North Carolina [1]
129 September 29, 1939 Angelo Agnes 33 31 2 Black Colorado [85]
130 Pete Catalina 41 Unknown Unknown White
131 Clarence Sheffield 36 35 1 Black Georgia Electrocution [86]
132 October 6, 1939 Charles Fain 26 35 North Carolina Gas chamber [87]
133 Roy Wright 19 18 White Washington Hanging [88]
134 October 13, 1939 Steven Cygan 35 24 11 Illinois Electrocution [89]
135 October 20, 1939 William Green 39 38 1 Black California Gas chamber [90]
136 October 23, 1939 Paul Ferry 42 39 3 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [91]
137 Willie Bailey 36 32 4 Black
138 Ira Bob Redmon 21 20 1
139 October 24, 1939 Grover Cleveland Odom 51 50 White South Carolina [92]
140 October 25, 1939 Lafayette Williams 47 45 2 Ohio [93]
141 October 27, 1939 Charles Price 28 25 3 Black Illinois [94]
142 Willie Richardson 19 19 0 North Carolina Gas chamber [95]
143 October 28, 1939 Claude Bowser Jr. 22 21 1 [1]
144 October 30, 1939 Charles Golden 19 18 Pennsylvania Electrocution [96]
145 Walter Tankard 31 30
146 November 10, 1939 Nelson Charles 38 37 Native American Federal government Hanging [97]
147 November 17, 1939 Sheppard Bruno 45 44 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
148 November 21, 1939 James Bivins 19 Unknown Unknown
149 Burton Franklin Williamson 43 42 1 White Nevada Gas chamber [98]
150 November 24, 1939 Raymond Williams 20 19 Black North Carolina [99]
151 December 8, 1939 Ralph Verdell Carson 54 52 2 White Washington Hanging [100]
152 December 9, 1939 Harry Leopold 28 27 1 Colorado Gas chamber [101]
153 December 15, 1939 Leamon Steele Unknown Unknown 3 Black Mississippi Hanging [1]
154 Sam Swanson 27 27 0 Virginia Electrocution [102]
155 December 16, 1939 Frank Salazar 24 23 1 Hispanic Texas [103]
156 December 18, 1939 James Fuller 25 25 0 Black Pennsylvania [104]
157 Fletcher LeGrand 22 22
158 December 19, 1939 Harry Lacy 42 38 4 Texas [105]
159 December 21, 1939 Theodore Maselkiewicz 53 52 1 White New York [106]
160 Everett McDonald 41 Unknown Unknown Black
161 Anton Myslivec 54 53 1 White
162 December 30, 1939 Warren Lee Simpson 52 2 Montana Hanging [107]
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Demographics

More information Gender, Ethnicity ...
Gender
Male 162 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
Black 80 49%
White 75 46%
Hispanic 3 2%
Native American 2 1%
Arab 1 1%
Asian 1 1%
State
North Carolina 16 10%
New York 15 9%
Texas 12 7%
Alabama 10 6%
Ohio 10 6%
Pennsylvania 10 6%
South Carolina 10 6%
Tennessee 10 6%
Georgia 8 5%
Kentucky 8 5%
Arkansas 7 4%
Washington 5 3%
California 4 2%
Colorado 4 2%
Florida 4 2%
Illinois 4 2%
Virginia 4 2%
Indiana 3 2%
Arizona 2 1%
Louisiana 2 1%
Massachusetts 2 1%
Mississippi 2 1%
Missouri 2 1%
Nevada 2 1%
District of Columbia 1 1%
Federal government 1 1%
Maryland 1 1%
Montana 1 1%
New Hampshire 1 1%
Oregon 1 1%
Method
Electrocution 118 73%
Gas chamber 30 19%
Hanging 14 9%
Month
January 15 9%
February 15 9%
March 19 12%
April 22 14%
May 9 6%
June 17 10%
July 14 9%
August 9 6%
September 11 7%
October 14 9%
November 5 3%
December 12 7%
Age
Unknown 3 2%
10–19 13 8%
20–29 77 48%
30–39 35 22%
40–49 22 14%
50–59 11 7%
60–69 1 1%
Total 162 100%
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Executions in recent years

More information Number of executions, Total ...
Number of executions
1940 124
1939 162
1938 188
Total 474
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