List of people executed in the United States in 1948

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One hundred and seventeen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1948, eighty-nine by electrocution, twenty by gas chamber, and eight by hanging.[1]

Irvin Mattio became the last person to be executed in the United States for a crime committed at the age of 16. Going forward, nobody else would be executed in the United States for a crime committed while under the age of sixteen. Mattio was also the last juvenile offender to be executed in Louisiana until Dalton Prejean in 1990.

No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 2, 1948 Joe Porter 27 27 0 Male Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
2 Leroy Scrutchens 37 37
3 Frank Black 20 Unknown Unknown North Carolina Gas chamber
4 Earnest Howard 25 25 0 South Carolina Electrocution [2]
5 Lonnie Harvey Cline 28 26 2 White Texas [3]
6 Paul William Burton 33 33 0 West Virginia Hanging [4]
7 January 5, 1948 Reuben Harper 30 29 1 Black Florida Electrocution [5]
8 January 8, 1948 Jauvhan Jackson 19 18 New York [1]
9 January 9, 1948 Irvin Mattio 18 15 3 Louisiana
10 Willie Edward Gidron 19 18 1 South Carolina [6]
11 January 16, 1948 John Henry Breeze Unknown Unknown 2 North Carolina Gas chamber [7]
12 January 23, 1948 Jesse Lee Dickerson 22 Unknown Mississippi Electrocution [1]
13 Wardell Heath Henderson 27 25 2 Oregon Gas chamber [8]
14 Sam Baldwin 35 35 0 Virginia Electrocution [1]
15 January 26, 1948 Jose Sanchez Sanchez 28 26 2 Hispanic California Gas chamber [9]
16 January 30, 1948 George McKinley Sexton 21 20 1 Black Ohio Electrocution [10]
17 Mark R. McCauley 36 35 White West Virginia Hanging [11]
18 February 4, 1948 Nolan Edwin West 25 Unknown Unknown Texas Electrocution [1]
19 February 13, 1948 James Harold Hyde 27 26 1 Arkansas [12]
20 Eddie Brown Jr. 23 23 0 Black Georgia [13]
21 February 16, 1948 J. W. Torbert 37 36 1 [14]
22 February 20, 1948 Thomas Henry McMonigle 33 31 2 White California Gas chamber [15]
23 February 27, 1948 Luther Williams 27 27 0 Black Kentucky Electrocution [16]
24 March 1, 1948 Austin Archibald Nelson 29 28 1 Federal government Hanging [17]
25 March 5, 1948 James Mangum 18 16 2 Georgia Electrocution [1]
26 March 12, 1948 Floyd Dace 22 21 1 Ohio [18]
27 March 19, 1948 Noel Jackson Grant Sr. 40 39 White Alabama [19]
28 John Henry Munson Jr. 28 26 2 Black [20]
29 March 26, 1948 L. P. Campbell 25 24 1 Georgia [1]
30 William Stewart 40 39 Mississippi [21]
31 March 28, 1948 Bennie Louis Johnson 25 23 2 Texas [1]
32 Clayton Homer Rushing 26 25 1 White [22]
33 April 9, 1948 John J. Peterson 41 37 4 California Gas chamber [23]
34 April 12, 1948 Robert Bradley 37 35 2 Black Connecticut Electrocution [24]
35 April 16, 1948 George Isby 26 24 California Gas chamber [25]
36 April 22, 1948 Buster Hooks 28 27 1 North Carolina [26]
37 John T. Kelley 21 20 White Tennessee Electrocution [27]
38 James Daniel Sandusky Jr. 20 19
39 April 23, 1948 Joseph Bessar Jr. 22 19 3 Black Louisiana [28]
40 Wilbert Powell 21 18
41 Booker Anderson 29 28 1 North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
42 James J. Brooks 24 22 2 New Jersey Electrocution [29]
43 Kenneth Robert Salter 34 32 White Ohio [30]
44 John Major Brooks 27 26 1 Black Virginia [31]
45 April 25, 1948 Willie Sims 36 33 3 Texas [1]
46 April 30, 1948 Herbert Hopkins Unknown Unknown 0 Louisiana [32]
47 Henry Tilghman Jackson 32 28 4 Maryland Hanging [1]
48 Roy Lee Lathco 39 Unknown Unknown White [33]
49 Ollie Smith Jr. 22 21 1 Black [34]
50 May 7, 1948 James Leroy Jackson 42 42 0 North Carolina Gas chamber [35]
51 May 25, 1948 Lewis Grayson 31 28 3 Oklahoma Electrocution [1]
52 May 28, 1948 Paul Charles Winton 51 51 0 Native American California Gas chamber [36]
53 June 4, 1948 George Hammond 30 29 1 Black North Carolina [37]
54 Henderson Wilson 27 26
55 June 14, 1948 Alexander Harley Wiles 41 39 2 White Florida Electrocution [38]
56 June 18, 1948 Wallis Hamburg 22 21 1 Mississippi [39]
57 June 25, 1948 Edward Spriggs Jr. 21 Unknown Unknown Black Louisiana [1]
58 Monroe Gipson 19 18 1 Mississippi [40]
59 June 29, 1948 Marvin Murray 24 22 2 [41]
60 July 1, 1948 Anthony R. Papa 27 26 1 White New York [42]
61 July 2, 1948 Edward Pugh 20 19 Black Arkansas [1]
62 Rufus Willis Unknown Unknown Mississippi
63 Clifford William Gayles 34 34 0 Ohio [43]
64 July 9, 1948 Joseph Lee Saulter 33 32 1 White Texas [1]
65 July 12, 1948 Grant Holley 48 46 2 Black Pennsylvania [44]
66 July 16, 1948 Elmer Curnutt 21 21 0 White Ohio [45]
67 July 18, 1948 John Amos Coleman 57 Unknown Unknown Black Texas [1]
68 July 22, 1948 Lester Haughton 24 22 2 New York [46]
69 George Cornelius Moore 34 32
70 July 30, 1948 Jasper Nease 24 23 1 White Kentucky [47]
71 August 1, 1948 Henry Brown 23 Unknown Unknown Black Texas [1]
72 August 13, 1948 Red Lamar Nunn 43 42 1 Georgia
73 August 16, 1948 Sam Whitt Jr. 22 Unknown Unknown [48]
74 August 20, 1948 Donald E. Frohner 18 16 2 White Ohio [49]
75 Riley Brown McCaine 43 40 3 Texas [1]
76 August 23, 1948 Alonzo Washington Jr. 26 26 0 Black Florida
77 August 24, 1948 Cleo Smith 29 Unknown Unknown Texas
78 August 31, 1948 Thomas Howard Taylor 33 32 1 Tennessee [50]
79 James Monroe Scribner 23 22
80 William J. C. Turner 21 20
81 September 6, 1948 Elbert Eugene Harper 30 29 Florida [51]
82 Alfonso Enmond 35 35 0
83 September 15, 1948 David Joseph Watson 24 22 2 Federal government [52]
84 September 16, 1948 John Henry Reilly 33 31 White New York [53]
85 Milton Shaket 34 32
86 September 17, 1948 Lawrence Davis 29 28 1 Black South Carolina [1]
87 September 23, 1948 Matthew Perison 31 31 0 West Virginia Hanging [54]
88 September 27, 1948 Ben Gould 40 40 Oklahoma Electrocution [1]
89 September 28, 1948 George Cole 25 23 2 New Jersey [55]
90 George Hicks 23 21
91 October 1, 1948 Joseph A. Trujillo 30 28 Hispanic California Gas chamber [56]
92 October 3, 1948 Andrew Hill 23 Unknown Unknown Black Texas Electrocution [1]
93 October 5, 1948 Lonnie Lee Talley 25 24 1 Florida
94 October 11, 1948 William Rumage 30 22 8 White Pennsylvania
95 October 15, 1948 Arthur Robert Eggers 54 51 3 California Gas chamber [57]
96 J. B. Beetles 32 31 1 Black Georgia Electrocution [58]
97 William Cular Davis 55 54
98 Lemuel Thomas Steed 28 28 0 West Virginia Hanging [1]
99 October 25, 1948 Lacy Stewart 19 17 2 Florida Electrocution [59]
100 Nathaniel Henry Strain 26 17 9 Ohio [60]
101 October 29, 1948 Johnnie James 30 Unknown Unknown Virginia [1]
102 November 5, 1948 Jewell Jay Eller 21 19 2 White Georgia [61]
103 Charlie Corn Garrett 26 25 1
104 Daniel Troy McPeak 22 21 Kentucky [62]
105 November 8, 1948 Daniel Peter Taranow 24 23 Pennsylvania [63]
106 November 19, 1948 James Pete West 21 20 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
107 November 26, 1948 L. C. Brown 25 25 0 Georgia Electrocution
108 December 1, 1948 Timothy Iron Bear 24 22 2 Native American Nebraska [64]
109 December 3, 1948 Samuel Richard Shockley 39 37 White Federal government Gas chamber [65]
110 Miran Edgar Thompson 30 28
111 Matthew Jaminson Jr. 17 17 0 Black South Carolina Electrocution [66]
112 December 10, 1948 Carlos Romero Ochoa 29 27 2 Hispanic Federal government Gas chamber [67]
113 Jesse James Patton 23 21 Black District of Columbia Electrocution [68]
114 Reginald Joseph Wheeler 28 26
115 Eugene Raist Cooper 21 20 1 Mississippi [1]
116 December 31, 1948 Robert F. Mehaffey 38 37 White California Gas chamber [69]
117 Leroy Grant Troy 22 22 0 Black South Carolina Electrocution [1]

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