List of people executed in the United States in 1961

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Forty-three people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1961, twenty-four by electrocution, eighteen by gas chamber, and one by hanging.[1]

Billy Monk became the last person to be executed in the United States for a kidnapping that did not result in the victim's death. Monk raped and stabbed his victim, but did not kill her. While Victor Feguer is listed as being executed for kidnapping, he also murdered his victim.

The United States military would conduct its most recent execution this year, that of John A. Bennett. Bennett was also the last person to be executed by the military for rape, and the only person to be executed by the military for the crime of rape in peacetime.

No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 5, 1961 Ralph Downs 28 26 2 Male Black New York Electrocution [1]
2 January 20, 1961 Roy Lee Mullins 24 23 1 White Georgia [2]
3 February 17, 1961 Linwood Bunch 22 20 2 Black Virginia [1]
4 March 10, 1961 Grover Earl Lucas 51 48 3 White [3]
5 March 17, 1961 H.B. Penelton 30 28 2 Black Ohio [1]
6 March 24, 1961 Thurmond Johnson 26 25 1 Georgia [1]
7 April 13, 1961 John Arthur Bennett 25 18 7 U.S. military Hanging [4]
8 April 21, 1961 William Stokes 27 26 1 Mississippi Gas chamber [5]
9 April 26, 1961 Alexander P. Robillard XIV 20 19 White California [6]
10 April 28, 1961 Quincy Bullock 48 45 3 Black South Carolina Electrocution [7]
11 May 26, 1961 Charlie Robinson 28 26 2 [8]
12 May 31, 1961 Robert Lee Goldsby 35 28 7 Mississippi Gas chamber [9]
13 June 3, 1961 Charles Elbert Williams 20 19 1 Texas Electrocution [10]
14 June 8, 1961 Woodrow Miller 33 29 4 New York [1]
15 June 9, 1961 Jessie James Ferguson 39 37 2 Louisiana [11]
16 Nathaniel Lipscomb 32 29 3 Maryland Gas chamber [12]
17 June 15, 1961 Richard Edward Kiefer 40 35 5 White Indiana Electrocution [13]
18 June 19, 1961 William Otis Britt 27 24 3 South Carolina [14]
19 Douglas Westbury 31 28 [14]
20 June 23, 1961 James Edwards 30 28 2 Black Texas [15]
21 June 29, 1961 Ronald Rittger 25 23 White California Gas chamber [16]
22 July 12, 1961 Marion James Linden 47 43 4 [17]
23 July 14, 1961 J.W. Simmons 27 26 1 Black Mississippi [18]
24 Walter James Outen 31 29 2 South Carolina Electrocution [19]
25 August 7, 1961 Norman J. Mackiewicz 35 32 3 White Florida [20]
26 Robert Wesley Davis 28 26 2 [20]
27 August 11, 1961 David Francis Early 32 29 3 Colorado Gas chamber [1]
28 George Watt 21 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
29 August 23, 1961 Thayne H. Archibald 22 20 2 White Nevada Gas chamber [21]
30 October 18, 1961 David Allan Combes 32 31 1 California [22]
31 October 23, 1961 Arthur Grover Schuck 45 41 4 Pennsylvania Electrocution [23]
32 October 27, 1961 Theodore Harson Boykin 32 31 1 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [24]
33 October 31, 1961 Honor Robinson 44 42 2 Arizona [25]
34 November 3, 1961 James Kendrick 31 29 White California [26]
35 November 9, 1961 Fred Thomas Leath 40 38 Texas Electrocution [27]
36 November 17, 1961 Claude Leon Hart Jr. 31 31 0 Virginia [1]
37 November 21, 1961 Richard Arlen Lindsey 30 1 California Gas chamber [28]
38 Billy Wesley Monk 26 24 2 [29]
39 November 24, 1961 Joe Henry Johnson 19 17 Black Alabama Electrocution [30]
40 November 29, 1961 Jose Angel Gonzalez 27 26 1 Hispanic California Gas chamber [31]
41 December 8, 1961 Jim Cobbs 46 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia Electrocution [1]
42 December 19, 1961 Howard Cook 33 32 1 Mississippi Gas chamber [32]
43 December 20, 1961 Ellic Lee 31 30 [32]

Demographics

Executions in recent years

References

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