List of people executed in the United States in 1940

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One hundred and twenty-four people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1940, eighty-four by electrocution, twenty-two by gas chamber, and eighteen by hanging.[1]

No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 4, 1940 Anselmo Abreu 41 Unknown Unknown Male Hispanic New York Electrocution [2]
2 January 5, 1940 James Clifton Abdell 42 41 1 White Virginia [3]
3 January 10, 1940 Clyde Wills 27 26 Tennessee [4]
4 January 11, 1940 Demetrius Gula 28 2 New York [5]
5 Joseph S. Sacoda
6 January 18, 1940 Sidney Markman 22 20 [6]
7 January 19, 1940 James Charles Jr. 24 23 1 Black Arkansas [1]
8 J. Glenn Maxwell 49 48 North Carolina Gas chamber [7]
9 Clarence Rogers 26 25
10 Frank Dash Jr. 21 20 South Carolina Electrocution [1]
11 January 26, 1940 John Henry McCann 63 62 Virginia [8]
12 January 29, 1940 Cleveland Holloway 36 Unknown Unknown Mississippi Hanging [9]
13 Benjamin Ginyard 27 27 0 Pennsylvania Electrocution [10]
14 February 9, 1940 James Fisher Georgia [1]
15 Joe Mathis
16 February 15, 1940 Franklin Wilbert Jenner 22 21 1 White New York [11]
17 John Kulka 24 22 2
18 Bertal Jerome Thingstead 29 27
19 February 16, 1940 Calvin Tucker 24 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [12]
20 James Charles Williams 33 32 1 White California Gas chamber [13]
21 Nathaniel Bryant 18 17 Black North Carolina [14]
22 William Young 23 22
23 February 26, 1940 William Kelly 33 31 2 Pennsylvania Electrocution [15]
24 Andrew Schurtz 47 47 0 White
25 March 1, 1940 Roy Mannon 35 34 1 Oklahoma [16]
26 March 15, 1940 Lonnie Avery 32 26 6 Black Alabama [17]
27 Neil Anderson 23 21 2 White California Gas chamber [18]
28 Alvin Kenton 22 1 Maryland Hanging [19]
29 Thomas Sanchez 40 39 Hispanic
30 Robert Williams 19 17 2 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
31 A.C. Mobley 35 33 Tennessee Electrocution
32 March 18, 1940 James Warner Rickman 22 20 White Texas [20]
33 March 22, 1940 William L. Mims 38 36 Black Georgia [1]
34 March 28, 1940 Walter Dworecki 43 42 1 White New Jersey [21]
35 March 29, 1940 Mack Jackson 28 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [22]
36 David Williams 22 Unknown Unknown
37 Herman Bell 23 22 1
38 Press Bibbs 20 18 2 South Carolina [23]
39 March 31, 1940 Bluitt Hampton 28 27 1 Texas [1]
40 April 5, 1940 Zeb Page 29 29 0 North Carolina Gas chamber
41 April 12, 1940 Otis Manning 27 Unknown Unknown Arkansas Electrocution
42 Willie Bradshaw 65 63 2 Virginia [24]
43 April 19, 1940 Howard Poe 25 23 Illinois [25]
44 Robert Ballard Walker 24 1 White Texas [26]
45 Stanley Simon Lantzer 38 36 2 Wyoming Gas chamber [27]
46 April 25, 1940 Gus Schweinberger 33 32 1 New York Electrocution [28]
47 April 26, 1940 Wilmer Davis 25 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia [29]
48 April 28, 1940 Webster Lyons 29 27 2 Texas [30]
49 Robert Manning 20 18
50 April 29, 1940 Vincent Cots Jr. 32 31 1 White Connecticut [31]
51 Ira Allen Weaver 36 35
52 May 3, 1940 Judge Ragland 34 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [32]
53 May 7, 1940 Walter H. Rhodes 32 28 4 White Iowa Hanging [33]
54 May 10, 1940 Otis Harrell 23 23 0 Black Maryland [34]
55 William T. Sorrell 28 28
56 May 17, 1940 Virgilio Spinelli 60 58 2 White California Gas chamber [35]
57 Robert Brown 26 25 1 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
58 Victor Nukowski 24 23 White Illinois [36]
59 Frank Michalowski 25 24
60 May 24, 1940 David McGuire 23 2 Black Alabama [1]
61 Simon Gibson 23 Unknown Unknown North Carolina Gas chamber [37]
62 May 27, 1940 Mateo Quinones 44 Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory Hanging [1]
63 May 28, 1940 Wilson Henry Boyd 44 0 Black Nevada Gas chamber [38]
64 June 5, 1940 Clarence Parker 29 27 2 Florida Electrocution [39]
65 June 7, 1940 Burton Franks 22 21 1 White Texas [40]
66 June 9, 1940 Placido Handy 36 30 6 Hispanic [41]
67 June 14, 1940 William C. Williams 31 1 White Alabama [42]
68 Charlie Hopkins 63 62 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [43]
69 Will Lowry 18 18 0 South Carolina Electrocution [1]
70 June 28, 1940 Antwine McClain 38 36 2 Louisiana Hanging [44]
71 Alexander Williams 33 33 0 Maryland [45]
72 Lee Flynn 44 43 1 White North Carolina Gas chamber [46]
73 Byzantine Hartman 29 29 0 West Virginia Hanging [47]
74 July 10, 1940 Monroe Bohannon 32 31 1 Black Ohio Electrocution [48]
75 July 11, 1940 Oliver R. Alridge 47 46 New York [49]
76 James Pryor 23 22
77 July 15, 1940 George Howell 22 21 Pennsylvania [50]
78 July 19, 1940 Robert Claude Perry 71 70 White California Gas chamber [51]
79 Honore Migues 31 28 3 Louisiana Hanging [52]
80 July 26, 1940 Henry Phillips 43 41 2 Black Kentucky Electrocution [53]
81 Claude Edward Cline 46 46 0 White Oregon Gas chamber [54]
82 July 27, 1940 Frank Lansing 26 26 Black South Carolina Electrocution [1]
83 July 29, 1940 Herbert Willard Goddard Jr. 30 29 1 White Florida [55]
84 August 1, 1940 Norman James Wheelock 27 26 New York [56]
85 August 9, 1940 Willie James Brandon 23 22 Black Alabama [57]
86 Robert Grey Burgunder Jr. White Arizona Gas chamber [58]
87 August 16, 1940 Everett Gilbert Parman 29 27 2 California [59]
88 Curtis Barkley 34 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
89 Oscar Fields 24 Unknown Unknown
90 Charles Peyton Unknown Unknown 2 Louisiana Hanging
91 August 23, 1940 Rodney J. Greig 23 21 White California Gas chamber [60]
92 Eddie Brown 29 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Electrocution [61]
93 Charles Josey 20 20 0
94 August 30, 1940 Ernest Huston Houston 21 20 1 Kentucky [62]
95 Florence L. Murphy 26 25 Texas [63]
96 September 4, 1940 William Henry Nelson 46 45 White Tennessee [64]
97 James Goodin 21 20 Black
98 September 6, 1940 George Abney 38 38 0 South Carolina [65]
99 Edward L. Bouchard 46 45 1 White Washington Hanging [66]
100 September 12, 1940 Frank Blazek 30 29 New York Electrocution [67]
101 Benjamin Ertel 25 22 3
102 September 13, 1940 Arthur Collick 28 28 0 Black Maryland Hanging [68]
103 September 20, 1940 Robert Leslie West 25 23 2 White Missouri Gas chamber [69]
104 Chester Jackson 30 28 Black
105 October 4, 1940 Fred Anderson 19 16 3 Georgia Electrocution [1]
106 Jack C. Marable 40 39 1 White Washington Hanging [70]
107 October 11, 1940 Hilton Fortenberry 30 29 Black Mississippi [71]
108 Willie May Bragg 28 28 0 Electrocution
109 October 18, 1940 Henry William Hicks 18 18 Georgia [1]
110 Charles Clemons 40 Unknown Unknown Mississippi [72]
111 William Gordon 31 Unknown Unknown
112 October 23, 1940 Eugene Harris 24 23 1 Ohio [73]
113 October 25, 1940 R.L. Jones 27 25 2 Louisiana Hanging [74]
114 November 8, 1940 John William Sutton 22 22 0 Georgia Electrocution [1]
115 November 11, 1940 Ivory Lee Williams 19 18 1 Florida [75]
116 November 15, 1940 Jack Gulley 26 25 Arkansas [1]
117 Roger William Cunningham 35 33 2 White Oklahoma [76]
118 December 6, 1940 Zedekiel Smith 29 28 1 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
119 Paul Tross 41 41 0 West Virginia Hanging [77]
120 December 13, 1940 James Dillard 30 30 Arkansas Electrocution [1]
121 Robert Lee Brannon 39 29 10 Georgia
122 Buddie Lawrence 28 28 0
123 Robert Schroeder 26 26 White Illinois [78]
124 December 27, 1940 Jennings Waddell 34 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia [1]

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