List of people executed in the United States in 1949

One hundred and twenty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1949, eighty-four by electrocution, twenty-eight by gas chamber, and eight by hanging.^[1]

[1]

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
No.	Date of execution	Name	At execution	At offense	Age difference	Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
1	January 3, 1949	Robert Murl Daniels	24	24	0	Male	White	Ohio	Electrocution	^[2]
2	January 6, 1949	Harris Gray	19	18	1		Black	New York	Electrocution	^[3]
3	January 7, 1949	Robert Shorts	21	19	2		Black	California	Gas chamber	^[4]
4	January 7, 1949	Robert S. Battalino	37	36	1		White	Colorado	Gas chamber	^[5]
5	January 13, 1949	Louis Smiley	20	19			Black	New York	Electrocution	^[6]
6	January 14, 1949	Shirley M. Harris	24	23				District of Columbia		^[7]
7	January 20, 1949	William Grant	25	23	2			New York		^[8]
8		George Monge	25	23
9		Eugene Pannell	27	25
10	January 24, 1949	Felix Combs	24	24	0			Florida		^[9]
11	January 28, 1949	Marvin James Tuthill	45	43	2		White	California	Gas chamber	^[10]
12		Charlie Pool	44	40	4		Black	Kentucky	Electrocution	^[11]
13		James Rufus Creech Jr.	37	36	1		White	North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[12]
14	February 1, 1949	Wilson Moore	29	27	2		Black	Texas	Electrocution	^[1]
15	February 2, 1949	Harold Alfred Beach Jr.	23	22	1		White	Ohio		^[13]
16	February 4, 1949	John Thomas	35	34			Black	Ohio		^[14]
17	February 4, 1949	Willie Lincoln	25	24				South Carolina		^[15]
18	February 7, 1949	Aaron Quince	20	18	2			Florida		^[16]
19	February 13, 1949	Thurman Williams	23	22	1			Texas		^[17]
20	February 17, 1949	Barney Thompson	32	31	1			Tennessee		^[18]
21	February 18, 1949	Maxwell Bowie	23	21	2			California	Gas chamber	^[19]
22	February 18, 1949	Henry Williams	25	23	2			California	Gas chamber	^[19]
23	February 21, 1949	Thomas Larkin	27	Unknown	Unknown			Texas	Electrocution	^[1]
24	February 23, 1949	Frank Badgley	51	48	3		White	Indiana		^[20]
25	February 23, 1949	Robert Oscar Brown	37	35	2		White	Indiana		^[20]
26	February 25, 1949	John Henry Hall	35	33	2		Black	District of Columbia		^[21]
27	February 25, 1949	Bud Peterson	53	51	2			West Virginia	Hanging	^[22]
28	February 28, 1949	Howard Elwood Payton	30	29	1			Ohio	Electrocution	^[23]
29	March 3, 1949	Santo Bretagna	27	28			White	New York		^[24]
30	March 3, 1949	William Rosenberg	42	41				New York		^[24]
31	March 4, 1949	Herbert H. Workman	20	18	2			Kentucky		^[25]
32	March 4, 1949	Lester Nichols	44	43	1			Ohio		^[26]
33	March 11, 1949	Phillip Cobb	26	23	3		Black	Alabama		^[27]
34	March 11, 1949	L. C. Lloyd	32	Unknown	Unknown			Louisiana		^[1]
35	March 15, 1949	Theodore Holmes	20	19	1			District of Columbia		^[28]
36	March 18, 1949	Perry Lee Haygood Jr.	26	25	1			Alabama		^[29]
37	March 18, 1949	Emmett Garner	37	35	2		White	North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[30]
38	March 25, 1949	Buster Snead	42	39	3		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	^[31]
39		Clarence Joseph Jr.	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown		Black	Louisiana	Electrocution	^[1]
40		Roy Thomas Cockrell	42	42	0		White	North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[32]
41	March 29, 1949	Thomas Kallas	58	56	2		White	Indiana	Electrocution	^[33]
42	April 1, 1949	Clayburne Campbell	33	31			Black	California	Gas chamber	^[34]
43	April 1, 1949	Joel Harrison	23	21			Black	California	Gas chamber	^[34]
44	April 4, 1949	Arthur Edward Berry	23	22	1		White	Florida	Electrocution	^[35]
45	April 8, 1949	Jesse Thurman Carroll	47	46				Georgia		^[36]
46	April 8, 1949	Asbell Glenn Adams	20	19				Ohio		^[37]
47	April 11, 1949	Roger Alton Williams	35	33	2			Ohio		^[38]
48	April 16, 1949	Buster Northern	20	17	3			Texas		^[39]
49	April 20, 1949	Junior Moore	24	23	1		Black	Georgia		^[1]
50	April 22, 1949	David Leonard Blackwell	19	18			White	Nevada	Gas chamber	^[40]
51	April 29, 1949	Andrew Martin Berry Jr.	44	43				Ohio	Electrocution	^[41]
52	May 4, 1949	Ralph Reed	27	26				Ohio		^[42]
53	May 20, 1949	Morgan Persons	39	38			Black	Georgia		^[1]
54		Joseph Cook	24	23				Louisiana		^[43]
55		Matthew Cook	23	22				Louisiana		^[43]
56	May 25, 1949	Frank Millhouse	23	21	2			Ohio		^[1]
57	May 27, 1949	John Ross Burson	33	32	1		White	Ohio		^[44]
58	June 1, 1949	A. C. Williams	33	32			Black	Georgia		^[45]
59	June 7, 1949	Laszlo Varga	23	22			White	Nevada	Gas chamber	^[46]
60	June 10, 1949	Bruce Edward Watson	24	22	2		Black	Tennessee	Electrocution	^[47]
61	June 17, 1949	James Edward Lewis	26	Unknown	Unknown			North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[1]
62	June 23, 1949	Barney Kenneth Davis Jr.	23	22	1			Ohio	Electrocution	^[48]
63	June 24, 1949	Lawrence Benjamin Lightfoot	28	26	2		White	Kentucky		^[49]
64	June 27, 1949	Ralph Cordasco	51	50	1		White	New Jersey		^[50]
65	June 30, 1949	Harold Dupree	27	25	2	Black	New York	^[51]
66	June 30, 1949	Herman Dupree	33	31		Black	New York	^[51]
67	July 1, 1949	Daniel Jerome Zatzke	23	21		White	California	Gas chamber	^[52]
68	July 6, 1949	Corliss Robert Bruntlett	52	50			Iowa	Hanging	^[53]
69	July 7, 1949	John Michael Dunn	38	36			New York	Electrocution	^[54]
70	July 7, 1949	Andrew Sheridan	49	46	3		New York	Electrocution	^[54]
71	July 8, 1949	Howard Andrew Fram	31	29	2		Maryland	Hanging	^[55]
72	July 11, 1949	Rufus E. Keller	29	28	1		Pennsylvania	Electrocution	^[56]
73	July 15, 1949	William Paul Sanford	21	20	1		California	Gas chamber	^[57]
74	July 15, 1949	Jake Bird	47	45	2	Black	Washington	Hanging	^[58]
75	July 17, 1949	Mizell Palmer	25	23	2	Black	Arkansas	Electrocution	^[59]
76	July 22, 1949	Harvie Lee Rorie	46	45	1	White	Arkansas		^[60]
77	July 22, 1949	James Erich Osinski	40	39			Ohio		^[61]
78	July 25, 1949	Mahlon Wisecup	49	48			Ohio		^[1]
79	July 29, 1949	George A. Garner	27	26		Black	District of Columbia		^[62]
80	July 29, 1949	Lawrence J. Garner	25	24		Black	District of Columbia		^[62]
81	August 8, 1949	Flem Monroe Griffis	30	28	2	White	Florida		^[63]
82	August 10, 1949	Fred W. Jones	40	37	3	White	Texas		^[64]
83	August 10, 1949	General Kerzee	53	52	1	Black	Texas		^[64]
84	August 12, 1949	Nehemiah Green	26	24	2		Alabama		^[65]
85		J. C. Winters	20	20	0		Alabama		^[65]
86		Eugene H. James	31	30	1		Maryland	Hanging	^[66]
87		John Thomas Knowles	27	26	1		Maryland	Hanging	^[67]
88	August 14, 1949	F. M. McClendon	23	21	2		Texas	Electrocution	^[68]
89	August 16, 1949	Alfred Collins	37	36	1		New Jersey		^[69]
90	August 19, 1949	Andrew Dorsey Jr.	23	21	2		Georgia		^[1]
91	September 1, 1949	Floyd Arrington	22	21	1		New York		^[70]
92	September 1, 1949	William McKinley Jackson	23	22					^[70]
93	September 8, 1949	Walter Davis	21	20					^[71]
94	September 11, 1949	Cleveland Stovall Jr.	22	21			Texas		^[72]
95	September 12, 1949	John Albert Jones Jr.	17	16			Georgia		^[1]
96	September 12, 1949	Wilbur Gene Jones	18	17			Georgia		^[1]
97	September 16, 1949	Herman Frederick Weber Jr.	25	23	2	White	Illinois		^[73]
98	September 26, 1949	George A. Neill	24	21	3		Pennsylvania		^[74]
99	October 18, 1949	Eugene Leo Gambetta	46	44	2		Nevada	Gas chamber	^[75]
100	October 26, 1949	James W. Buchanan	26	24	2	Black	Ohio	Electrocution	^[76]
101	October 28, 1949	Willie James Tolbert Jr.	24	24	0	Black	South Carolina	Electrocution	^[1]
102	November 4, 1949	Ernest Afton Scott	49	48	1	White	Missouri	Gas chamber	^[77]
103	November 4, 1949	Arthur Bruce Perkins	24	22	2	White	Washington	Hanging	^[78]
104	November 15, 1949	Steve Paul Lacy	28	28	0	Black	Tennessee	Electrocution	^[1]
105	November 18, 1949	Wayne Leroy Williams	33	31	2	White	Washington	Hanging	^[79]
106	November 26, 1949	James Michael Morelli	22	20	2	White	Illinois	Electrocution	^[80]
107	December 2, 1949	George U. Bell	37	36	1	Black	Missouri	Gas chamber	^[81]
108	December 9, 1949	Walter Pierce	21	Unknown	Unknown		Arkansas	Electrocution	^[1]
109		Admiral Dewey Adamson	49	44	5		California	Gas chamber	^[82]
110		Audie Lee Brown	27	26	1		North Carolina		^[83]
111		Allen T. Reid	29	28	1
112		Monroe Medlin	23	23	0
113	December 16, 1949	Jesse Albert Murphy	34	33	1	White	California		^[84]
114		Albert Eugene Nixon	25	24	1		California		^[84]
115		Paul Joseph Schneider Jr.	24	22	2		Colorado		^[85]
116		Lindsey Brown	26	Unknown	Unknown	Black	Georgia	Electrocution	^[1]
117		Uzelle Jones	35	Unknown	Unknown		North Carolina	Gas chamber
118	December 23, 1949	Wesley Hildreth	26	25	1		Arkansas	Electrocution
119	December 30, 1949	Hector Chavis	29	29	0	Native American	North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[86]
120	December 30, 1949	Leander Jacobs	29	29	0	Native American	North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[86]

Gender
Male	120	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
Black	70	58%
White	48	40%
Native American	2	2%
State
Ohio	15	13%
New York	14	12%
California	11	9%
North Carolina	10	8%
Georgia	8	7%
Texas	8	7%
Alabama	5	4%
District of Columbia	5	4%
Arkansas	4	3%
Florida	4	3%
Louisiana	4	3%
Indiana	3	3%
Kentucky	3	3%
Maryland	3	3%
Nevada	3	3%
Tennessee	3	3%
Washington	3	3%
Colorado	2	2%
Illinois	2	2%
Missouri	2	2%
New Jersey	2	2%
Pennsylvania	2	2%
South Carolina	2	2%
Iowa	1	1%
West Virginia	1	1%
Method
Electrocution	84	70%
Gas chamber	28	23%
Hanging	8	7%
Month
January	13	11%
February	15	13%
March	13	11%
April	10	8%
May	6	5%
June	9	8%
July	14	12%
August	10	8%
September	8	7%
October	3	3%
November	5	4%
December	14	12%
Age
Unknown	2	2%
10–19	4	3%
20–29	67	56%
30–39	24	20%
40–49	17	14%
50–59	6	5%
Total	120	100%

Number of executions
1950	83
1949	120
1948	117
Total	320

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People executed by state	Federal government Military Alabama (pre-1972) Arizona (pre-1972) Arkansas (pre-1972) California Colorado Connecticut Delaware (pre-1972) Florida (pre-1972) Georgia (pre-1972) Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky (pre-1972) Louisiana (pre-1972) Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi (pre-1972) Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina (pre-1972) North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma (pre-1972) Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina (pre-1972) South Dakota Tennessee Texas 2020–present Utah Vermont Virginia (pre-1972) Washington (pre-1972) West Virginia Wyoming Washington, D.C.
People executed by year	1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965–1972 1976–1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Scheduled executions
Issues and ethics	Botched executions Death-qualified jury Debate Dual sovereignty doctrine Execution drug shortage Exonerations Juveniles Last meal Participation of medical professionals Race and capital punishment White defendants executed for killing a black victim Wrongful executions
Other	Death row inmates Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals Death Penalty Information Center Most recent executions by state National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment Women executed since 1976 Women on death row

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