List of people executed in the United States in 1941

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One hundred and twenty-three people, one hundred and twenty-two male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1941, eighty-five by electrocution, twenty-three by gas chamber, and fifteen by hanging.[1]

No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 3, 1941 Eddie Hayes 20 19 1 Male Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
2 Johnnie Watson 33 32
3 Columbus Richardson 28 26 2 Kentucky [2]
4 Wilburn Johnson 39 39 0 Missouri Gas chamber [3]
5 January 9, 1941 Major Greenfield 33 32 1 New York Electrocution [1]
6 January 10, 1941 Joe Coates 63 61 2 Colorado Gas chamber [4]
7 Wilson J. Knott 33 33 0 White Maryland Hanging [5]
8 January 14, 1941 Curnel T. Robinson 34 34 Black Delaware [6]
9 Anthony Cirasole 31 30 1 White Ohio Electrocution [7]
10 Joseph DiMarco 24 23
11 January 17, 1941 William Clark 18 16 2 Black Alabama [8]
12 January 24, 1941 John Mooney 27 27 0 Arkansas [1]
13 January 30, 1941 Arley Ovoyd Lewis 29 28 1 White Washington Hanging [9]
14 January 31, 1941 Dewitt Clinton Cook 22 20 2 California Gas chamber [10]
15 Josiah Woodward 21 21 0 Black South Carolina Electrocution [1]
16 February 6, 1941 Eugene Brown 26 24 2 New York [11]
17 Norman Williams 32 30
18 February 6, 1941 Hugh McClain Evans 22 22 0 White South Carolina [12]
19 Willis Evans 19 18 1
20 Hampton Lee 25 24
21 James Claude Hann 28 27
22 February 13, 1941 Arcangelo D'Agosto 27 26 New York [13]
23 Walter Dowling 21 20
24 George Dolny 23 22
25 February 20, 1941 David Adler 27 26 [14]
26 Hyman Balatnicov 28 27
27 Joseph Patrick Carosella 26 25
28 February 21, 1941 Ascension Martinez 37 30 7 Hispanic Texas [15]
29 Theodia Muldrow 19 18 1 Black [16]
30 February 25, 1941 William John Sevastis 55 54 White Ohio [17]
31 March 7, 1941 William Meharg 25 25 0 Louisiana Hanging [18]
32 Floyd Boyce 29 28 1
33 William Heard 43 42
34 William Landers 39 38
35 March 24, 1941 Denzel B. Davis 24 23 Washington [19]
36 March 31, 1941 Paul Petrillo 49 39 10 Pennsylvania Electrocution [20]
37 April 11, 1941 Will Hood 29 Unknown Unknown Black South Carolina [1]
38 April 15, 1941 Richard Smith 48 38 10 Florida [21]
39 April 18, 1941 Thomas Benjamin Smith 60 58 2 White California Gas chamber [22]
40 Dollie Lee Hudson 27 25 Black North Carolina [23]
41 Van Gilmore 31 30 1 Tennessee Electrocution [1]
42 April 20, 1941 George Griffin 26 25 Texas [24]
43 April 22, 1941 Leo Joseph Rousseau 30 29 White Massachusetts [25]
44 May 2, 1941 Sylvester Woodard 34 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [26]
45 May 12, 1941 William Bland 23 Unknown Unknown Georgia Electrocution [1]
46 May 15, 1941 A.C. Payton 41 Unknown Unknown Arkansas
47 James Grady White 38 37 1 White Mississippi [27]
48 May 16, 1941 Booker T. Childress Unknown Unknown Unknown Black [28]
49 May 23, 1941 Charlie Anderson 18 Unknown Unknown Georgia [1]
50 Willie Jenkins 23 19 4
51 Matthew Douglas 32 32 0 Mississippi [29]
52 James Shaw 21 20 1 North Carolina Gas chamber [30]
53 June 5, 1941 Peter Salemi 33 32 White New York Electrocution [31]
54 June 6, 1941 Percy Lee Lewis 30 29 Black Arkansas [32]
55 Fleet Jack Wall 33 32 North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
56 Tommie Harris 20 19 Texas Electrocution [33]
57 June 12, 1941 Martin Goldstein 36 34 2 White New York [34]
58 Harry Strauss 31 30 1
59 June 13, 1941 Noah Cureton 51 50 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [35]
60 June 20, 1941 John Henry Riney 25 25 0 Arkansas Electrocution [36]
61 James Stephens 76 74 2 White Colorado Gas chamber [37]
62 Orville C. Watson 31 29 Illinois Electrocution [38]
63 Edward Riley 27 25
64 June 27, 1941 French Lee White 23 Unknown Unknown Black Maryland Hanging [39]
65 July 4, 1941 Grover Chism 48 47 1 White Kentucky Electrocution [40]
66 July 10, 1941 Stanley Cole 35 33 2 New York [41]
67 Dewey Garrett 21 20 1 Black
68 July 11, 1941 Julius Jackson 29 28 Alabama [42]
69 Wong Don Kay 57 56 Asian California Gas chamber [43]
70 Heyward Daniels 28 56 Unknown Black South Carolina Electrocution [1]
71 July 18, 1941 Walter Reed 55 55 0 Tennessee
72 July 24, 1941 Willie Lee Porter 21 20 1 [44]
73 Carl Leonard Cole 19 18
74 July 30, 1941 Lawrence West Unknown Unknown Unknown [1]
75 August 8, 1941 Frank Bass 22 Unknown Unknown Alabama [45]
76 Robert Jones 24 Unknown Unknown
77 August 15, 1941 Benjamin Heyward Unknown Unknown 16 South Carolina [46]
78 August 22, 1941 Hubert Yober Cash 40 39 1 White North Carolina Gas chamber [47]
79 August 24, 1941 Arlin Fairfax Reese 46 45 Texas Electrocution [48]
80 August 29, 1941 Eldon Richard Hawk 26 25 California Gas chamber [49]
81 John William Lininger 40 39
82 William Smiddy 37 36 Kentucky Electrocution [50]
83 Warren Lorenzo Abby 57 55 2 Oklahoma [51]
84 September 5, 1941 William L. Johansen 36 30 6 California Gas chamber [52]
85 Tom Melvin 42 40 2 Black North Carolina [53]
86 September 11, 1941 Eugene Johnson 22 Unknown Unknown Louisiana Electrocution [1]
87 September 18, 1941 George Zeitz 26 24 2 White New York [54]
88 September 19, 1941 Mariano Flores 54 Unknown Unknown Asian Hawaii Territory Hanging [1]
89 September 26, 1941 John E. Reed 42 41 1 White California Gas chamber [55]
90 Earl F. Loveless 22 21 Maryland Hanging [56]
91 James Lee Miller 30 29
92 Charlie Brown 26 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia Electrocution [1]
93 October 6, 1941 Wilburn R. Crews 37 33 4 White Florida [57]
94 Dan Jordan Ormond 51 47
95 Charles Henderson 34 30 Black
96 Frizell McLaren 31 3
97 October 10, 1941 Albert Alford 32 Unknown Unknown Georgia [1]
98 George Peele 21 20 1 North Carolina Gas chamber
99 October 11, 1941 John Washington 32 Unknown Unknown Arkansas Electrocution
100 October 20, 1941 Herman Petrillo 47 37 10 White Pennsylvania [58]
101 October 23, 1941 Austin Williams 30 Unknown Unknown Black Louisiana [59]
102 October 24, 1941 Anaclito Gagarin 37 35 2 Asian Hawaii Territory Hanging [60]
103 October 27, 1941 Paul H. Mardorff 50 48 White Florida Electrocution [61]
104 Mack Ranson 38 36 Black
105 William Joseph Earnest 36 35 1 White Pennsylvania [62]
106 October 30, 1941 James Harvey Thomas 19 19 0 Oregon Gas chamber [63]
107 November 12, 1941 Ivan Leon Sullivan 30 28 2 Iowa Hanging [64]
108 November 14, 1941 Milton L. Hawkins 25 23 Indiana Electrocution [65]
109 John Bruce Anderson 52 51 1 Washington Hanging [66]
110 November 21, 1941 Evelita Juanita Spinelli 50 2 Female California Gas chamber [67]
111 Roy Long 27 Unknown Unknown Male Black South Carolina Electrocution [1]
112 November 24, 1941 Harold B. Frisbie 34 33 1 White Pennsylvania [68]
113 Willie Jones Unknown Unknown Black
114 November 28, 1941 Gordon Hawkins 23 21 2 White California Gas chamber [69]
115 Mike Simeone 32 31 1
116 December 2, 1941 William Zupkosky New Jersey Electrocution [70]
117 December 12, 1941 Luther Morrow 26 26 0 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [71]
118 December 19, 1941 James Baker 38 38 Maryland Hanging [72]
119 Thomas Williams 37 37 Ohio Electrocution [73]
120 December 28, 1941 Albert Wesley Jr. 19 18 1 Texas [74]
121 December 29, 1941 Willie B. Clay 15 4 Florida [75]
122 Edward Powell 18 3
123 Nathaniel Walker 14 4

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