List of people executed in the United States in 1953

Sixty-three people, sixty male and three female, were executed in the United States in 1953, thirty-nine by electrocution, twenty-one by gas chamber, and three by hanging.^[1] Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed by the federal government in New York, became the only people to be executed for espionage committed in peacetime in the United States.

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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, 1953	Turman Galilee Wilson	26	23	3	Male	White	Washington	Hanging	^[2]
2	January 3, 1953	Utah Eugene Wilson	22	20	2			Washington	Hanging	^[2]
3	January 9, 1953	Morris Leland	26	22	4			Oregon	Gas chamber	^[3]
4	January 9, 1953	Frank Oliver Payne	50	48	2			Oregon	Gas chamber	^[1]
5	January 15, 1953	Joseph L. Paonessa	42	39	3			New York	Electrocution
6	January 16, 1953	George F. Ross	28	27	1			Ohio
7	January 22, 1953	Stephen DeFoe Lewis	43	42				New York
8	January 23, 1953	Louis Allen Angel	19	18				Ohio
9	January 30, 1953	Albert William Karnes	24	24	0			Oregon	Gas chamber
10	February 2, 1953	Robert Gene Dessauer	30	28	2			California	Gas chamber	^[4]
11	February 4, 1953	Darious Daniel Goleman	31	27	4			Texas	Electrocution	^[5]
12	February 6, 1953	Roy Jack Hulen	43	41	2			Texas	Electrocution	^[1]
13	February 20, 1953	Leandress Riley	32	29	3		Black	California	Gas chamber	^[6]
14	February 20, 1953	Marvin Lucear	38	36	2			Ohio	Electrocution	^[1]
15	February 27, 1953	Abraham Pinkney	67	66	1			Georgia
16	February 27, 1953	Roosevelt Spears	48	44	4			Kentucky
17	March 19, 1953	Emanuel Scott Jr.	28	25	3			Illinois
18	March 20, 1953	Albert C. Allen	25	22	3			District of Columbia		^[7]
19	March 21, 1953	Samuel James Gasway	35	33	2		White	Texas		^[8]
20	March 30, 1953	Dominick Daverse	40	34	6		White	Pennsylvania		^[9]
21	March 30, 1953	Joseph Stephenson Phillips	23	22	1		Black	Pennsylvania		^[9]
22	April 10, 1953	John Solomon	47	45	2		Black	Louisiana		^[10]
23	April 13, 1953	Clayton Octave Fouquette	39	34	5		White	Nevada	Gas chamber	^[1]
24	April 16, 1953	Jesse Starr	26	24	2		Black	Georgia	Electrocution	^[11]
25	April 16, 1953	Frank Wojcik	56	54			White	New York	Electrocution	^[1]
26	April 17, 1953	Diamond Reed	34	32			Black	California	Gas chamber	^[12]
27	April 17, 1953	Oshel Gardner Jr.	23	22	1		White	West Virginia	Electrocution	^[13]
28	May 1, 1953	Lafayette Miller	22	20	2		Black	North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[14]
29	May 8, 1953	Amos Patrick	34	33	1			Georgia	Electrocution	^[1]
30	May 15, 1953	Lovell Barclay	37	36	1			California	Gas chamber	^[15]
31	May 18, 1953	Ollie Melvern Carey	44	40	4		White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	^[16]
32	May 18, 1953	Charles Edward Homeyer	55	52	3		White	Pennsylvania	Electrocution	^[17]
33	May 22, 1953	Dario E. Amaya	21	20	1		Hispanic	California	Gas chamber	^[18]
34	May 29, 1953	Ulas Quilling	52	50	2		Black	Missouri		^[19]
35		Raleigh Speller	52	46	6			North Carolina		^[20]
36		Clyde Brown	22	19	3			North Carolina		^[20]
37	June 10, 1953	Jack Farmer	53	51	2		White	Texas	Electrocution	^[21]
38	June 19, 1953	Julius Rosenberg	35	32	3			Federal government		^[22]
39	June 19, 1953	Ethel Rosenberg	37	34	3	Female		Federal government		^[22]
40	July 6, 1953	Jimmie Lee Brown	30	28	2	Male	Black	Florida		^[1]
41	July 10, 1953	Kenneth Boyd	23	20	3		Black	Missouri	Gas chamber	^[1]
42	July 10, 1953	Robert Gemmell	29	28	1		White	Ohio	Electrocution	^[23]
43	July 16, 1953	Donald Hugh Snyder	25	24	1			New York		^[1]
44	July 23, 1953	William H. Draper	34	30	4			New York		^[24]
45	August 14, 1953	Eddie Jackson	48	46	2		Black	Louisiana		^[1]
46	August 24, 1953	Robert Remer Strickland	22	20	2		White	Georgia		^[25]
47	August 25, 1953	Lott Glover	31	30	1		Black	Maryland	Hanging	^[26]
48	August 28, 1953	Reuben Myhand	20	19	1			Alabama	Electrocution	^[27]
49	August 28, 1953	Samuel Bowens	23	Unknown	Unknown			Georgia		^[28]
50	September 4, 1953	Earle Dennison	56	55	1	Female	White	Alabama		^[29]
51	September 7, 1953	Ed Brooks	61	60	1	Male	Black	Florida		^[30]
52	October 7, 1953	Louis Allison	23	20	3		Black	Texas		^[1]
53	October 16, 1953	Lloyd Gomez	29	26	3		Hispanic	California	Gas chamber	^[31]
54	October 23, 1953	Johnnie D. Harrison	51	50	1		Black			^[32]
55	October 30, 1953	John Chauncey Lawrence	38	37	1		White			^[1]
56	November 6, 1953	Lloyd Ray Daniels	22	17	5		Black	North Carolina		^[33]
57	November 6, 1953	Bennie Daniels	22	17	5			North Carolina		^[33]
58	November 14, 1953	Willie Burgess	56	Unknown	Unknown			Georgia	Electrocution	^[1]
59	November 17, 1953	Carl Austin DeWolf	37	30	7		White	Oklahoma		^[34]
60	December 18, 1953	Robert Calhoun	30	29	1		Black	Georgia		^[35]
61		Carl Austin Hall	34	34	0		White	Federal government	Gas chamber	^[36]
62		Bonnie Emily Heady	41	41		Female	White	Federal government	Gas chamber	^[36]
63	December 23, 1953	Isaiah Harris	33	33		Male	Black	Georgia	Electrocution	^[37]

Gender
Male	60	95%
Female	3	5%
Ethnicity
White	31	49%
Black	30	48%
Hispanic	2	3%
State
California	8	13%
Georgia	8	13%
New York	5	8%
North Carolina	5	8%
Texas	5	8%
Federal government	4	6%
Ohio	4	6%
Pennsylvania	4	6%
Oregon	3	5%
Alabama	2	3%
Florida	2	3%
Louisiana	2	3%
Missouri	2	3%
Washington	2	3%
District of Columbia	1	2%
Illinois	1	2%
Kentucky	1	2%
Maryland	1	2%
Nevada	1	2%
Oklahoma	1	2%
West Virginia	1	2%
Method
Electrocution	39	62%
Gas chamber	21	33%
Hanging	3	5%
Month
January	9	14%
February	7	11%
March	5	8%
April	6	10%
May	9	14%
June	3	5%
July	5	8%
August	5	8%
September	2	3%
October	4	6%
November	4	6%
December	4	6%
Age
10–19	1	2%
20–29	23	37%
30–39	19	30%
40–49	9	14%
50–59	9	14%
60–69	2	3%
Total	63	100%

Number of executions
1954	83
1953	63
1952	81
Total	227

v t e Capital punishment in the United States
Jurisdictions	Federal government Military Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming American Samoa Guam Puerto Rico Washington, D.C.
People executed by state	Federal government Military Alabama (pre-1972) Arizona (pre-1972) Arkansas (pre-1972) California Colorado Connecticut Delaware 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	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 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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