List of people executed in the United States in 1958

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Fifty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1958, thirty-five by electrocution, thirteen by gas chamber, and two by hanging.[1]

No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 3, 1958 Norman E. Walker 34 33 1 Male White Ohio Electrocution [1]
2 January 9, 1958 Elmer Francis Burke 40 35 5 New York [2]
3 January 10, 1958 Robert Victor Mohrhaus 23 22 1 Ohio [3]
4 January 17, 1958 Edward Samuel Smith Unknown Unknown Black Georgia [1]
5 William Alvin Wetzel 32 27 5 White Mississippi Gas chamber [4]
6 February 6, 1958 Charles White 44 41 3 Texas Electrocution [5]
7 February 14, 1958 James Reese 26 23 Black California Gas chamber [6]
8 February 28, 1958 Julius Bunton 21 20 1 North Carolina [7]
9 James Vaughan 31 29 2 Ohio Electrocution [1]
10 March 6, 1958 John Wayne Mack 25 24 1 Texas [8]
11 March 28, 1958 Jeremiah Reeves Jr. 22 16 6 Alabama [9]
12 April 11, 1958 Alfred Thomas Faciane 23 21 2 Louisiana [10]
13 Johnny McMiller 44 42
14 April 15, 1958 Eugene T. Burwell 34[11] 28 6 California Gas chamber [12]
15 James Alonzo Rogers 29[11] 22 7 White
16 April 18, 1958 William Golden 23 22 1 Black Georgia Electrocution [13]
17 Jeremiah McCray 23 0 Virginia [14]
18 May 26, 1958 Bozzie Nelson 45 44 1 Florida [15]
19 May 28, 1958 Jimmy C. Cameron 23 21 2 Mississippi Gas chamber [16]
20 June 5, 1958 Eugene Henry Linger 30 29 1 White West Virginia Electrocution [17]
21 June 6, 1958 E.J. Sherod 24 23 Black Virginia [1]
22 June 7, 1958 Barton Kay Kirkham 21 19 2 White Utah Hanging [18]
23 June 11, 1958 Alvin Charles Blankenship 27 26 1 Black Texas Electrocution [19]
24 June 13, 1958 George Lowell Everett 23 19 4 White Florida [20]
25 June 20, 1958 Theodore Thompson 22 1 Black Texas [21]
26 July 1, 1958 Larry Paul Fudge 26 25 White West Virginia [1]
27 July 3, 1958 Nicholas Dan Jr. 20 19 Black New York
28 July 7, 1958 Robert Lee Jackson 40 37 3 Ohio [22]
29 Lemuel Sam Trotter 31 28
30 July 23, 1958 Abraham Thomas 29 25 4 U.S. military Hanging [23]
31 July 25, 1958 Jimmy Nebron Shaver 33 29 White Texas Electrocution [24]
32 August 7, 1958 Angelo John LaMarca 31 2 New York [25]
33 August 15, 1958 Jasper Brazile 43 38 5 Black Louisiana [26]
34 September 19, 1958 Albert Curry 26 26 0 Georgia [1]
35 Marshall Lamkin 53 50 3 Texas [27]
36 September 26, 1958 John Calvin Tipton 23 20 White California Gas chamber [28]
37 September 29, 1958 Harry Frank Long 35 30 5 Florida Electrocution [29]
38 October 24, 1958 Bart Luis Caritativo 52 48 4 Asian California Gas chamber [30]
39 November 7, 1958 William Francis Rupp Jr. 24 18 6 White [31]
40 Leroy Dobbs 36 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Electrocution [32]
41 November 14, 1958 Otha A. Adams 54 53 1 White [33]
42 November 17, 1958 Arthur Thomas 33 27 6 Black Arizona Gas chamber [34]
43 November 20, 1958 Virgil Richardson 29 2 New York Electrocution [35]
44 November 21, 1958 Clarence Dabney 25 24 1 Virginia [36]
45 November 22, 1958 Richard Lewis Jordan 28 23 5 White Arizona Gas chamber [37]
46 December 5, 1958 Matthew Phillip Bass 43 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina [38]
47 December 19, 1958 Henry R. Woods 20 19 1 Georgia Electrocution [39]
48 Richard Carpenter 28 25 3 White Illinois [40]
49 Allen Dean Jr. 23 23 0 Black Mississippi Gas chamber [41]
50 Bennie Collins 55 54 1 Ohio Electrocution [1]

Demographics

Executions in recent years

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