List of people executed in the United States in 1943

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One hundred and thirty-eight people, one hundred and thirty-sixty male and two female, were executed in the United States in 1943, ninety-seven by electrocution, twenty-six by gas chamber, fourteen by hanging, and one by firing squad.[1]

No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 1, 1943 Daniel Phillips 29 29 0 Male Black North Carolina Gas chamber [2]
2 Rosanna Lightner Phillips 25 25 Female
3 January 7, 1943 Sam Porter Unknown Unknown Unknown Male Mississippi Electrocution [1]
4 January 8, 1943 Grady B. Cole 28 27 1 Arizona Gas chamber [3]
5 J.C. Levice 22 21
6 Charles Sanders 20 19
7 January 14, 1943 Edmund Sileo 28 26 2 White New York Electrocution [4]
8 Joseph Sonsky 33 24 9
9 January 15, 1943 Jarvis Theodore Roosevelt Catoe 38 36 2 Black District of Columbia [5]
10 Raymond Dowdell 31 26 5 Georgia [6]
11 McCoy Combs 21 19 2 White Kentucky [7]
12 Burnett Sexton 18 17 1
13 James Gilliam 40 38 2 Black Maryland Hanging [8]
14 Sue Belle Logue 46 45 1 Female White South Carolina Electrocution [9]
15 George Reed Logue 54 53 Male
16 Clarence King Bagwell 34 33
17 January 18, 1943 Forrest Saylor 35 35 0 Black Florida [10]
18 January 19, 1943 Jerry Sykes 26 25 1 U.S. military Hanging [11]
19 January 21, 1943 Frank Castellano 26 25 White New York Electrocution [12]
20 Angelo Mendez 30 21 9 Hispanic
21 January 22, 1943 Leslie Bela Gireth 39 38 1 White California Gas chamber [13]
22 January 29, 1943 Sam Hairston 22 21 Black North Carolina [14]
23 January 30, 1943 Hugh Pierre 34 28 6 Louisiana Electrocution [15]
24 February 4, 1943 Richard Smith 24 20 4 Georgia [1]
25 February 5, 1943 Robert Walter Avery 34 32 2 White Utah Firing squad [16]
26 February 12, 1943 Luther Lee Cooper 23 21 Mississippi Electrocution [17]
27 February 19, 1943 Haywood Bossie 24 24 0 Black Alabama [18]
28 James Corbett Rawlins 46 46 White Arizona Gas chamber [19]
29 Palmer Ray Meares 34 34 North Carolina [20]
30 Leo Lera 33 29 4 Texas Electrocution [21]
31 February 23, 1943 Peter Gurski 25 25 0 Connecticut [22]
32 February 26, 1943 Robert H. Anderson 37 36 1 Kentucky [23]
33 Raymond S. Baxter 29 27 2
34 Thomas Penney 33 32 1
35 Ernest Trent 26 24 2
36 William E. Wallace 55 54 1 Oregon Gas chamber [24]
37 March 1, 1943 Vincent J. Christy 38 37 Florida Electrocution [25]
38 March 4, 1943 Harold J. Elling 21 19 2 New York [26]
39 March 12, 1943 Charles Clinton Coates Jr. 29 29 0 Georgia [27]
40 James Ford 32 31 1 Black Maryland Hanging [28]
41 March 19, 1943 George Schubert Knapp 38 38 0 White U.S. military [29]
42 Adolph Thomas 35 Unknown Unknown Black Arkansas Electrocution [1]
43 James Branch Mooring Jr. 22 22 0 Virginia [30]
44 Chester Montgomery 29 26 3 Washington Hanging [31]
45 March 23, 1943 Harold Finnon Burks 26 23 Louisiana Electrocution [1]
46 March 26, 1943 Francis Albert Line 27 27 0 White U.S. military Hanging [32]
47 Lewis Wilcoxon 20 17 3 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
48 March 29, 1943 John Childers 33 32 1 Pennsylvania [33]
49 March 30, 1943 William Lonas Hedden 44 42 2 White Tennessee [34]
50 Robert George Cannon 26 25 1 Black
51 March 31, 1943 William Patrick Jennings 23 22 Ohio [35]
52 April 2, 1943 Jesse Jones 20 19 South Carolina [36]
53 April 6, 1943 Manuel Griffin 33 Unknown Unknown Louisiana [1]
54 Roy Willard Jacobs 41 33 8 White Washington Hanging [37]
55 April 16, 1943 John Henry Lee 20 19 1 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
56 Finley Porter 40 Unknown Unknown Oklahoma Electrocution [38]
57 April 20, 1943 Wilson H. Funderburk 38 Unknown Unknown Connecticut [39]
58 April 26, 1943 Henry Lock 43 42 1 Ohio [1]
59 Herbert Green 41 39 2 Pennsylvania [40]
60 April 27, 1943 Elisandro Lopez Macias 20 18 Hispanic Arizona Gas chamber [41]
61 April 29, 1943 John Cullen 45 44 1 White New York Electrocution [42]
62 Eli Edward Shonbrun 33 32
63 May 14, 1943 Warren S. Cramer 25 24 California Gas chamber [43]
64 May 21, 1943 Lewis Moody 29 28 Black North Carolina [1]
65 May 28, 1943 Bernice Franklin 17 17 0 Georgia Electrocution
66 Joel Luther Palmer 30 30 White [44]
67 June 4, 1943 Frank Johnson 24 21 3 Black Alabama [1]
68 Freeman Holton 22 20 2 Maryland Hanging [45]
69 Frank Williams 25 23
70 Wilbur Jackson 22 20
71 Bill Bryant 39 38 1 White North Carolina Gas chamber [46]
72 Harvey Hunt 21 20 Native American
73 Purcell Smith 22 21
74 June 10, 1943 Mose Sims 23 22 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
75 June 18, 1943 James Utley 24 23 North Carolina Gas chamber
76 June 25, 1943 William Carson Gray 18 17 Kentucky Electrocution
77 Archie Simpson 21 20
78 Robert Hayward Gray 35 34 Massachusetts [47]
79 Donald Millard 21 19 2 White
80 Joseph E. Sheppard 25 23
81 O'Neal Williams 18 18 0 Black Mississippi [1]
82 June 30, 1943 Anthony Treat 58 57 1 White Ohio [48]
83 July 6, 1943 Herman Carter Unknown Unknown 0 Black Louisiana [49]
84 George Washington Unknown Unknown 1
85 July 8, 1943 Benitez DeJesus 19 18 1 Hispanic New York [50]
86 Edward Haight 17 16 White
87 William Diaz 18 18 0 Hispanic
88 July 14, 1943 Hiram Prather 35 33 2 White Oklahoma [51]
89 July 15, 1943 Alfred Haynes 26 25 1 Black New York [52]
90 James Felix Tucker 31 29 2 White Tennessee [53]
91 Marshall Spigner 45 44 1
92 July 16, 1943 Sylvester McKinney 21 20 Black South Carolina [54]
93 Johnnie Sims 17 16
94 July 19, 1943 Edmund Reed 26 25 Georgia [55]
95 July 21, 1943 Arthur Lee Wilson 24 23 Texas [1]
96 July 26, 1943 Levi Brandon 23 22 U.S. military Hanging [56]
97 August 6, 1943 Walter J. Bohn 26 26 0 White [57]
98 Leroy Goldsmith 38 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama Electrocution [58]
99 Harry Thompson 44 43 1 Arkansas [1]
100 August 10, 1943 Adel Johnson 21 20 Georgia
101 August 13, 1943 Henry Daniels Jr. 20 18 2 Alabama [59]
102 Curtis Robinson 20 18
103 John Lawrence Coleman 50 48 White California Gas chamber [60]
104 John Lampkin 19 0 0 Black Maryland Hanging [1]
105 August 14, 1943 James Clyde Arwood 41 40 1 White Federal government Electrocution [61]
106 August 20, 1943 Marlin Hancock 43 42 Georgia [62]
107 Eugene Pittman 28 27 Black
108 John Thomas Russell 27 26
109 Charlie Sexton 16 16 0
110 August 31, 1943 John Richard 60 Unknown Unknown Louisiana [1]
111 September 3, 1943 Rex Beard Jr. 20 19 1 White Texas [63]
112 September 10, 1943 Phillip J. Coleman Jr. 24 24 0 Black Montana Hanging [64]
113 September 15, 1943 Ervin Griffin 19 18 1 Ohio Electrocution [1]
114 September 16, 1943 Anibal Almodovar 21 20 Hispanic New York [65]
115 September 20, 1943 John Sullivan 54 52 2 White Colorado Gas chamber [66]
116 September 24, 1943 Serina Hodo 23 23 0 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
117 October 1, 1943 Joseph C. Williams 22 Unknown Unknown Mississippi
118 October 4, 1943 Cornelius Earnest Parker 24 24 0 Florida [67]
119 Edward James Ralph 32 32 White Ohio [68]
120 October 8, 1943 George Masayoshi Honda 38 36 2 Asian Colorado Gas chamber [69]
121 William Henry Poole 30 29 1 Black North Carolina [1]
122 October 15, 1943 Harry Edward Farris 28 26 2 White Virginia Electrocution [70]
123 October 22, 1943 Tommie Lee Mathis 23 22 1 Black Georgia [71]
124 October 23, 1943 Robert Williams 20 Unknown Unknown [72]
125 October 25, 1943 Ruffie Lundon 44 Unknown Unknown Florida [73]
126 James Allen Young 32 31 1
127 October 29, 1943 George Washington James 54 53
128 Willie Smith 47 46 North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
129 Delores Quiroz 31 Unknown Unknown Hispanic Texas Electrocution
130 November 19, 1943 Sam Osborne 19 17 2 Black South Carolina [74]
131 November 22, 1943 James Perry Acree 32 30 White Florida [75]
132 November 26, 1943 Ernest Emory Wishon 35 34 1 Illinois [76]
133 John Willie Redfern 40 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [77]
134 November 27, 1943 Floyd L. McKinney 34 33 1 White Nevada [78]
135 December 10, 1943 Clyde Morris Grass 32 31 North Carolina [1]
136 December 11, 1943 S.A. Ellison 17 17 0 Black Georgia Electrocution
137 December 15, 1943 Robert Hall 50 49 1 Tennessee
138 December 31, 1943 H.T. Johnson 22 21 Georgia

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