List of people executed in the United States in 1946

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One hundred and twenty-nine people, one hundred and twenty-eight male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1946, ninety-five by electrocution, twenty-three by gas chamber, and eleven by hanging.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1946

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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 4, 1946 James Waybern Hall 24 23 1 Male White Arkansas Electrocution [2]
2 January 7, 1946 Shellie McKeithen 52 50 2 Black Pennsylvania [3]
3 January 11, 1946 Andrew Holloman 31 Unknown Unknown Virginia [1]
4 January 14, 1946 Charlie Holloway 30 29 1 Florida [4]
5 James Reed 28 27
6 George Lafayette Sullivan 37 34 3 White
7 January 17, 1946 Oliver Little 22 21 1 Black New York [5]
8 January 18, 1946 Peter Paul Hall 23 Unknown Unknown Alabama [1]
9 William Tasker 21 Unknown Unknown Maryland Hanging [6]
10 Jarvin Raymond Elliott 23 Unknown Unknown Texas Electrocution [1]
11 Joseph Bernard Wessel 44 43 1 White Washington Hanging [7]
12 January 25, 1946 Ernest Johnson 17 16 Black Alabama Electrocution [8]
13 Wash Pringle 32 Unknown Unknown South Carolina [9]
14 February 1, 1946 Richard Brown 19 18 1 Alabama [8]
15 February 2, 1946 Andrew W. Dennis 45 43 2 White Oregon Gas chamber [10]
16 February 5, 1946 Woodrow Wilson Clark 29 27 Washington Hanging [11]
17 February 8, 1946 Eddie Daniels 34 31 3 Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
18 February 9, 1946 Ralph Dayton Brown 33 32 1 White Ohio [12]
19 Frank J. Naiberg 46 38 8
20 February 15, 1946 Walter Lorenzo Hightower 39 38 1 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [13]
21 Ernest Edward Fagan 31 31 0 Virginia Electrocution [14]
22 March 1, 1946 Johnnie Outlaw 27 26 1 Tennessee [1]
23 Thomas Walker 33 32
24 March 7, 1946 George W. Donaldson 48 46 2 White New York [15]
25 March 15, 1946 Elbert Jeremiah Burns 65 62 3 Alabama [16]
26 Anderson Adkins 34 33 1 Kentucky [17]
27 Roosevelt Morgan 37 37 0 Black Mississippi [18]
28 March 22, 1946 Arthur Jones 17 15 2 Kentucky [19]
29 Thomas Earl Warner 20 18
30 March 24, 1946 Edward Charles Calhoun 22 21 1 White [20]
31 March 25, 1946 Robert William Pepperman 29 29 0 Pennsylvania [21]
32 John Darius West 27 27
33 March 29, 1946 Isaac Bonner 19 19 Black Georgia [1]
34 Leon Lewis 26 25 1
35 Phillip Henry Heincy 73 72 White Iowa Hanging [22]
36 William Henry Heincy 45 43 2
37 April 2, 1946 Frank James Quarles 44 1 Black Indiana Electrocution [23]
38 April 4, 1946 Charlie Holloway Unknown Unknown Unknown Mississippi [18]
39 April 12, 1946 Willie Riley Unknown Unknown Unknown Arkansas [1]
40 Robert Lee Ming 26 25 1 White California Gas chamber [24]
41 April 15, 1946 Nelson Cross 32 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia Electrocution [25]
42 April 19, 1946 Robert Stephen Pilley 26 24 2 White Alabama [26]
43 Willie Jones 30 30 0 Black Georgia [27]
44 April 22, 1946 Eddie Lewis 52 51 1 Florida [28]
45 April 25, 1946 Abraham Gold 45 44 White New York [29]
46 April 26, 1946 Sam Williams 38 36 2 Black California Gas chamber [30]
47 Alligood King 32 31 1 North Carolina [31]
48 May 4, 1946 Thomas B. Hart Unknown Unknown Unknown [32]
49 May 8, 1946 Clyde Moore 21 Unknown Unknown Texas Electrocution [1]
50 May 9, 1946 Willie Carter 24 22 2 Mississippi [33]
51 May 10, 1946 Forrest Sturdivant 34 Unknown Unknown Delaware Hanging [1]
52 Pedro Talamante 54 52 2 Hispanic New Mexico Electrocution [34]
53 May 20, 1946 Thomas Edward Harrison 19 19 0 White Virginia [1]
54 May 24, 1946 Lester Wingard Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [35]
55 Fred Hicks 33 31 2
56 George Edwards Jr. 18 17 1 Louisiana [36]
57 Gurney Herring 26 25 North Carolina Gas chamber [37]
58 May 31, 1946 Early Bryant 30 Unknown Unknown Georgia Electrocution [1]
59 Alfred Clarence Bingham 40 37 3 White Oklahoma [38]
60 June 14, 1946 Lodies Joe Mincey 30 29 1 Black Alabama [39]
61 June 21, 1946 James Leo Williams 25 24 Mississippi [1]
62 George Walker 23 22 North Carolina Gas chamber
63 George Grissett 33 32 Virginia Electrocution [40]
64 James Hough 29 28
65 Arthur Johnson 22 21
66 June 28, 1946 William Ayers 32 Unknown Unknown Louisiana [41]
67 Fred I. Deaton 39 38 1 White North Carolina Gas chamber [42]
68 Fab Stewart 45 44 Black [43]
69 Richard Gamble 32 31 Texas Electrocution [1]
70 July 5, 1946 Anderson Burke 28 Unknown Unknown Georgia
71 George Douglass 20 18 2 Tennessee
72 July 12, 1946 Junius A. Judge 25 24 1 South Carolina [44]
73 July 19, 1946 Earl McFarland 23 2 White District of Columbia [45]
74 Aaron Napper 41 40 1 Black Georgia [1]
75 Sherman Street 31 Unknown Unknown Mississippi
76 Louis C. Gatlin 21 19 2 South Carolina [46]
77 L. C. Newman 26 Unknown Unknown Texas [47]
78 August 2, 1946 Jesse R. McKethan 22 21 1 White Georgia [48]
79 August 9, 1946 Lloyd Walker Black Maryland Hanging [49]
80 August 16, 1946 William Edgar Alston 41 40 White Alabama Electrocution [50]
81 Raphael Skopp 33 31 2 Massachusetts [51]
82 Fred Ellis 23 20 3 Black Missouri Gas chamber [52]
83 Jesse Sanford 37 34
84 August 23, 1946 Albert Everette Sala 38 37 1 White Nevada [53]
85 August 30, 1946 Alvin Hicks 24 21 3 Tennessee Electrocution [54]
86 John H. Luffman 46 43
87 September 1, 1946 Joe G. Leza 30 30 0 Hispanic Texas [55]
88 Harold Lee Palm 34 34 Black
89 September 12, 1946 Louis Dwight Brookins 22 20 2 White New York [56]
90 September 13, 1946 Kenneth William Bailey 27 26 1 Oregon Gas chamber [57]
91 James Lee Fletcher Jr. 21 21 0 Black Virginia Electrocution [58]
92 Robert S. Holland
93 September 20, 1946 Otto Stephen Wilson 35 33 2 White California Gas chamber [59]
94 September 27, 1946 Charlie Bernard 41 40 1 Black [60]
95 September 30, 1946 Jacob Sugg Webb 26 26 0 Florida Electrocution [61]
96 October 1, 1946 Raymond Lewie 19 17 2 White Connecticut [62]
97 James J. McCarthy 21 20 1
98 Arthur Tommaselli 25 24
99 October 4, 1946 William Daniel Demby 23 22 Black Maryland Hanging [63]
100 Roy N. Peters 22 21
101 October 11, 1946 Richard Lee Collins 22 0 White West Virginia [64]
102 October 14, 1946 Corrine Sykes 20 2 Female Black Pennsylvania Electrocution [65]
103 October 22, 1946 Walter Hillman Yearwood 23 22 1 Male White Georgia [66]
104 October 25, 1946 Wilson Melvin De La Roi 28 24 4 California Gas chamber [67]
105 October 28, 1946 Frederick Morris 25 1 Pennsylvania Electrocution [68]
106 November 1, 1946 Robert Lee Nash 43 42 North Carolina Gas chamber [69]
107 Mose Paul Johnson 34 31 3 Native American Oklahoma Electrocution [70]
108 November 8, 1946 Alton Murray 29 28 1 White Georgia [71]
109 November 15, 1946 Lee James Allen 16 15 Black [1]
110 November 22, 1946 Elton Chitwood 25 24 White Arkansas
111 Johnnie Burns 22 21 Black Georgia [72]
112 Willie Stevenson 17 16
113 Wilbert Johnson 24 22 2 North Carolina Gas chamber [73]
114 Charles Primus Jr. 26 24
115 November 29, 1946 Andrew Thomas 23 22 1 Arkansas Electrocution [1]
116 William Crain 40 38 2 White California Gas chamber [74]
117 James Rufus Williams 22 21 1 Black Georgia Electrocution [75]
118 Harry Huff Unknown Unknown Unknown Mississippi [76]
119 Charles T. Smith 66 Unknown Unknown South Carolina
120 December 13, 1946 Johnnie B. Smith 24 Unknown Unknown Alabama
121 Albert Parker 29 29 0 Georgia [77]
122 Jack Lester Barnes 25 24 1 Maryland Hanging [78]
123 Herman Matthews 19 18 North Carolina Gas chamber [79]
124 Calvin Coolidge Williams 18 17
125 December 20, 1946 William Copeland 38 36 2 District of Columbia Electrocution [80]
126 Julius Fisher 32 30
127 Joseph Dunbar Medley 45 43 White
128 J. C. Hill 19 18 1 Black Georgia [81]
129 Lewis Scott 26 25 South Carolina [1]
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Demographics

More information Gender, Ethnicity ...
Gender
Male 128 99%
Female 1 1%
Ethnicity
Black 83 64%
White 43 33%
Hispanic 2 2%
Native American 1 1%
State
Georgia 16 12%
North Carolina 12 9%
Alabama 10 8%
Virginia 9 7%
California 6 5%
Mississippi 6 5%
Texas 6 5%
Florida 5 4%
Maryland 5 4%
Pennsylvania 5 4%
South Carolina 5 4%
Tennessee 5 4%
Arkansas 4 3%
District of Columbia 4 3%
Kentucky 4 3%
New York 4 3%
Connecticut 3 2%
Iowa 2 2%
Louisiana 2 2%
Missouri 2 2%
Ohio 2 2%
Oklahoma 2 2%
Oregon 2 2%
Washington 2 2%
Delaware 1 1%
Indiana 1 1%
Massachusetts 1 1%
Nevada 1 1%
New Mexico 1 1%
West Virginia 1 1%
Method
Electrocution 95 74%
Gas chamber 23 18%
Hanging 11 9%
Month
January 13 10%
February 8 6%
March 15 12%
April 11 9%
May 12 9%
June 10 8%
July 8 6%
August 9 7%
September 9 7%
October 10 8%
November 14 11%
December 10 8%
Age
Unknown 5 4%
10–19 13 10%
20–29 56 43%
30–39 33 26%
40–49 16 12%
50–59 3 2%
60–69 2 2%
70–79 1 1%
Total 129 100%
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Executions in recent years

More information Number of executions, Total ...
Number of executions
1947 158
1946 129
1945 142
Total 429
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