List of people executed in the United States in 1942

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One hundred and forty-eight people, one hundred and forty-seven male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1942, one hundred and nineteen by electrocution, twenty by gas chamber, eight by hanging, and one by firing squad.[1]

Six Nazi saboteurs were executed by the federal government for their roles in Operation Pastorius. One of them, Herbert Hans Haupt, was an American citizen, making him the only American citizen to be executed by the United States for collaborating with the Axis powers. The military carried out its first wartime execution of World War II, that of Private James Rowe for the murder of a fellow soldier.[2]

No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 6, 1942 George L. Foulds Jr. 23 22 1 Male White New Jersey Electrocution [3]
2 January 8, 1942 Isaac Richardson 28 27 Black New York [4]
3 January 9, 1942 Albert Dyer 34 32 2 White Alabama [5]
4 Ralph W. Ernest 33 Unknown Unknown Delaware Hanging [6]
5 James Arthur Yount 60 59 1 Mississippi Electrocution [7]
6 Roland Paul Wescott 21 20 North Carolina Gas chamber [8]
7 January 15, 1942 Earl Parks 26 25 Black Illinois Electrocution [1]
8 Henry Ancrum 31 29 2 New York [9]
9 Ralph G. Jones 35 33
10 January 16, 1942 William Henry Diggs 24 24 0 Virginia [10]
11 Charles T. Johnson Jr. 19 19
12 January 17, 1942 Bernard Gudwik Sawicki 19 White Illinois [11]
13 January 21, 1942 Wayne R. Thompson 24 23 1 Ohio [12]
14 January 22, 1942 Arturo Renna 36 32 4 Hispanic New York [13]
15 January 23, 1942 Dock Powell 27 27 0 Black Alabama [14]
16 Jimmie Herron Unknown Unknown Unknown Arkansas [1]
17 January 28, 1942 Nehemiah Glover 28 26 2 Texas [15]
18 January 29, 1942 Thomas Conroy 39 38 1 White New York [16]
19 January 30, 1942 James Shivers 38 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia [1]
20 January 31, 1942 Charlie Strickland 25 24 1
21 February 6, 1942 Edward Leroy Morton 28 25 3
22 February 9, 1942 J.D. Tuggle 23 21 2 White Oklahoma [17]
23 February 10, 1942 Virginius Carter 33 32 1 Indiana [18]
24 February 13, 1942 Roy Sturdivant 29 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
25 Roy Alex Walden 38 37 1 White Tennessee Electrocution [19]
26 February 14, 1942 Ernest Tipton Dixon 24 22 2 [20]
27 John Dockery 20 18
28 February 15, 1942 Richard Robinson 38 Unknown Unknown Black Texas [1]
29 February 19, 1942 Frank Abbandando 31 26 5 White New York [21]
30 Harry Maione 33 28
31 February 20, 1942 James Satterfield 35 33 2 Black Kentucky [1]
32 George Thomas 30 29 1 South Carolina
33 February 22, 1942 Charlie Goldsby 37 37 0 Texas
34 February 26, 1942 George Joseph Cvek 24 23 1 White New York [22]
35 March 2, 1942 George Newsome 29 29 0 Black Florida [1]
36 March 5, 1942 Morris Mardavich 24 23 1 White New York [23]
37 March 6, 1942 John Miller 35 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia [1]
38 March 10, 1942 Robert Cox 31 30 1 New Jersey [24]
39 March 11, 1942 Howard P. Cone 24 23 White Georgia [25]
40 March 12, 1942 Anthony Esposito 37 35 2 New York [26]
41 William Esposito 29 27
42 March 13, 1942 Esker Washington Gibson 32 31 1 Alabama [27]
43 Bud Phelps Herring 69 67 2 Black
44 Monroe Bounds 30 23 7 South Carolina [28]
45 March 20, 1942 John Anthony Soto 17 16 1 Hispanic Oregon Gas chamber [29]
46 John Henry Goode Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Tennessee Electrocution [30]
47 Clarence May 33 32 1 White
48 March 22, 1942 Rogers Lee King 19 18 Black Texas [1]
49 March 23, 1942 Worth Roberson 27 22 5 White Florida [31]
50 Angelo Michael Ciangetti 49 47 2
51 Jecy Crawford 28 25 3 Black
52 Walter Roberson 42 41 1
53 March 27, 1942 Eugene Burnam 18 15 3 Kentucky [32]
54 April 10, 1942 Dewey Clark 30 28 2 California Gas chamber [33]
55 Henry E. Jones 52 50
56 April 24, 1942 Ernest Tyler Jr. 36 35 1 Missouri [34]
57 May 1, 1942 Clarence Hardy 42 Unknown Unknown Alabama Electrocution [35]
58 Ed Hayes Jr. 34 34 0
59 Major Raymond Lisenba 48 41 7 White California Hanging [36]
60 May 8, 1942 Wilbur Pritchett 37 Unknown Unknown Black Maryland [37]
61 James Benjamin Alford 26 25 1 White Texas Electrocution [1]
62 May 13, 1942 Leo Jordan 23 23 0 Illinois [38]
63 May 15, 1942 Norman Williams 28 24 4 Georgia [1]
64 May 16, 1942 McKinley Morris 23 22 1 Black Texas
65 May 18, 1942 John A. Stanton 44 Unknown Unknown White Florida
66 May 22, 1942 Martin Sukle 40 38 2 Colorado Gas chamber [39]
67 June 5, 1942 Benjamin Franklin Adams 46 45 1 Arkansas Electrocution [40]
68 Robert Williams 23 22 Black Kentucky [1]
69 Frank Haywood 32 Unknown Unknown Maryland Hanging [41]
70 June 11, 1942 Charles McGale 45 44 1 White New York Electrocution [42]
71 Joseph Riordan 28 26 2
72 June 15, 1942 James Durrell Baker 32 26 6 Black Florida [43]
73 Clyde W. Hysler 26 20 White
74 Orrin J. Brown 55 54 1 Texas [44]
75 June 26, 1942 William M. Patterson 25 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [45]
76 William Nelms Snead 34 Unknown Unknown
77 June 30, 1942 James Nickerson 24 22 2 White Massachusetts [46]
78 Paul Giacomazza 19 17
79 July 2, 1942 Dock Moore 25 24 1 Black Georgia [1]
80 Odell Waller 23 2 Virginia [47]
81 July 5, 1942 Luther Hill 28 27 1 Texas [48]
82 July 10, 1942 Paul Mealer 41 39 2 White Alabama [49]
83 S.T. Mosley 23 20 3 Black Georgia [1]
84 Andrew Henry 54 Unknown Unknown Maryland Hanging [50]
85 Cyrus Pinckney 30 28 2 South Carolina Electrocution [51]
86 July 20, 1942 Byrd L. Hudgins 23 22 1 White Florida [52]
87 Willie Monroe Williams 27 26 Black
88 July 22, 1942 Buffert Ray Doney 48 47 White Ohio [53]
89 July 24, 1942 Charles Benjamin 23 Unknown Unknown Black Maryland Hanging [54]
90 Edward Wofford 27 Unknown Unknown
91 Walter Orville Merikle 22 21 1 White Mississippi Electrocution [55]
92 July 29, 1942 Edward Hart Jr. 25 24 Black Texas [55]
93 July 30, 1942 Donald Lawton Condit White Utah Firing squad [56]
94 July 31, 1942 A.T. Jones Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Arkansas Electrocution [1]
95 Percy Flemings 24 Unknown Unknown Mississippi [57]
96 Lawrence Wright 20 Unknown Unknown
97 August 1, 1942 Ben Walker 35 Unknown Unknown Texas [1]
98 August 7, 1942 Maurice Louis Briggs 26 25 1 White California Gas chamber [58]
99 James Lee Robertson 25 25 0 Black Kentucky Electrocution [1]
100 Arthur Gibson 32 31 1 North Carolina Gas chamber [59]
101 Richard Gaymon 22 22 0 South Carolina Electrocution [1]
102 August 8, 1942 Herbert Hans Haupt 22 White Federal government [60]
103 Heinrich Harm Heinck 35 34 1
104 Edward John Kerling 33 33 0
105 Hermann Otto Neubauer 32 32
106 Richard Quirin 34 34
107 Werner Thiel 35 35
108 Emiliano Benevidez 31 29 2 Hispanic Texas [61]
109 August 10, 1942 William Kennie Wilson 21 20 1 Black Pennsylvania [62]
110 August 17, 1942 Ernest James Robinson 20 18 2 Florida [63]
111 August 21, 1942 Steve Crimm 26 25 1 California Gas chamber [64]
112 Walter Kirby Smith Sr. 64 63 White North Carolina [1]
113 August 28, 1942 Jess Sanders 56 55 Black Kentucky Electrocution [65]
114 Otis Peter Smith 30 28 2
115 John A. Kramer 63 61 White Nevada Gas chamber [66]
116 September 2, 1942 C.L. Turner 36 35 1 Black Texas Electrocution [1]
117 September 9, 1942 Willie Larkin 31 Unknown Unknown Louisiana [67]
118 September 10, 1942 Carlo Barone 22 21 1 White New York [68]
119 Edward Hicks 21 19 2 Black
120 September 11, 1942 Alchrist Grant 31 29 South Carolina [69]
121 September 17, 1942 James Clark 22 21 1 New York [70]
122 Lawrence Edwards 19 18
123 Manuel Jacinto 48 47 Hispanic
124 September 18, 1942 John Pantano 20 19 White Illinois [71]
125 September 24, 1942 Clifton Guillory Black Louisiana [72]
126 October 9, 1942 William Isaac Robinson 34 33 District of Columbia [71]
127 October 16, 1942 Charles E. Martin Jr. 24 23 White Georgia [1]
128 Buster Shaw 20 20 0 Black [73]
129 October 23, 1942 Donald Harry Fearn 27 26 1 White Colorado Gas chamber [74]
130 October 29, 1942 Saul Nolan 31 31 0 Black Louisiana Electrocution [1]
131 October 30, 1942 David Herman Allen 36 36 White North Carolina Gas chamber [75]
132 Otis Harris 17 16 1 Black
133 November 6, 1942 James Rowe 36 36 0 U.S. military Hanging [2]
134 November 13, 1942 Delmar Arnold 26 24 2 White California Gas chamber [76]
135 Barzen Hoyt 24 22
136 William Long 31 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina [1]
137 November 20, 1942 Stoney Allison 19 18 1 Arkansas Electrocution
138 A.D. Luckyado 34 34 0
139 Arthur Wayne Frazier 24 22 2 White California Gas chamber [77]
140 November 26, 1942 W.Z. Lewis 26 26 0 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
141 November 28, 1942 Annie Beatrice Henry 24 2 Female White Louisiana [78]
142 December 1, 1942 George L. Iles 22 21 1 Male Black [1]
143 December 3, 1942 William Hamilton 17 17 0
144 December 4, 1942 Alfred Horace Wells 32 31 1 White California Gas chamber [79]
145 December 11, 1942 Zonnie Frasier 19 19 0 Black South Carolina Electrocution [80]
146 John K. Robinson 18 17 1 White
147 December 17, 1942 Sylvester Brown 35 34 Black Mississippi [81]
148 December 18, 1942 William Thomas Mumford 22 22 0 District of Columbia [82]

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