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List of people executed by electrocution

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Electric chair at the Florida State Prison

This is the list of people executed by electrocution through the electric chair. The electric chair was mainly used in the United States from the 1890s till today, and the Philippines from 1926 to 1976.

United States

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Alabama

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  • Lynda Lyon Block, who was convicted of killing a police officer. Block was the last woman to be executed by electrocution.[1][2]
  • John Louis Evans and Wayne Eugene Ritter, both convicted of killing a pawn shop owner.[3]
  • Larry Gene Heath, who kidnapped and killed his pregnant wife.[4]
  • Edward Dean Horsley Jr., accomplice of executed killer Brian Keith Baldwin.[5]
  • Walter Hill, convicted serial killer.[6]
  • Henry Francis Hays, a member of Ku Klux Klan who was executed for the lynching of Michael Donald.
  • Brian Keith Baldwin, who was executed for killing a woman but allegedly innocent. Accomplice of Edward Dean Horsley Jr. (also executed).
  • Billy Wayne Waldrop, along with William Eugene Singleton and Henry Leslie Mays, shot, beat, and killed Thurman Macon Donahoo during a robbery. The three then set Donahoo's home on fire, leaving him for dead. His charred body was later found in the ruins of the house.[7][8]
  • Jeremiah Reeves, an African-American man who was controversially executed for the rape of a white woman in 1958.[9]
  • Rhonda Belle Martin, American serial killer.
  • Horace DeVaughn, the first person executed in Alabama by the electric chair.

Arkansas

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Connecticut

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  • Frank Wojculewicz, a paraplegic convicted murderer executed for murdering a police officer and bystander despite his disability.[15]
  • Joseph Louis Taborsky, one of the two culprits behind the Mad Dog killings, and the last person executed by the electric chair in the state of Connecticut.[16]

District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)

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Federal government of the United States

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Florida

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Georgia

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Illinois

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Indiana

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Kentucky

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Louisiana

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Massachusetts

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Mississippi

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  • Willie McGee, an African-American man controversially executed for raping a white woman.[55]
  • Houston Roberts, who was executed in 1951 for the murders of his two granddaughters.[56]

Nebraska

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New York

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North Carolina

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Oklahoma

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  • Monroe Betterton, a serial killer executed in 1920.[65]
  • Richard Henry Dare, convicted mass murderer.[66]
  • James French, convicted murderer who was the last person executed by the electric chair in Oklahoma.[67]

South Carolina

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South Dakota

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  • George Sitts – convicted serial killer who was executed for the 1946 murder of state Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Tom Matthews.[76]

Tennessee

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Virginia

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Vermont

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  • Donald Edward DeMag, the last person executed in Vermont before abolition of capital punishment.
  • Francis Blair, accomplice of Donald Edward DeMag, executed on February 8, 1954.[101]

West Virginia

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  • Elmer Bruner, the last person executed in West Virginia before the abolition of capital punishment.[102]

United States military

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  • George John Dasch, Edward John Kerling, Richard Quirin, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Hermann Otto Neubauer and Werner Thiel, six of the eight defendants found guilty of sabotage and spying activities conducted under Operation Pastorius. The six were sentenced to death by a specially-appointed military commission and executed on August 8, 1942. The remaining two defendants had their death sentences commuted to life and 30 years respectively.[103]

The Philippines

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  • Julio Guillen, who was executed in 1950 for the attempted assassination of Filipino president Manuel Roxas, which that resulted in the deaths of two bystanders.[104]
  • Marcial "Baby Ama" Perez, who was executed in 1961 at the age of 16 for murder.[105]
  • Jaime Jose, Basilio Pineda, and Edgardo Aquino, three of the convicted rapists of the Maggie de la Riva rape case, executed on May 17, 1972.[106]
  • Marcelo San Jose, the last person executed by the electric chair in the Philippines, executed on October 21, 1976.[106]

See also

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References

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