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List of people executed by the United States federal government

List of people executed by the United States federal government

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The following is a list of people executed by the United States federal government.

Post-Gregg executions

Sixteen executions (none of them military) have occurred in the modern post-Gregg era.[1] Since 1963, sixteen people have been executed under federal jurisdiction by the United States federal government. All were executed by lethal injection at USP Terre Haute.[2]

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Earlier non-military executions

From 1790 to 1963, there were 332 Federal, 271 Territorial and 40 Indian Tribunal executions according to the most complete records.[3] The youngest person executed was James Arcene on June 18, 1885, at the age of 23 for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was 10 years old.

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Military executions

Main article: Capital punishment by the United States military
Main article: List of people executed by the United States military

The United States military has executed 135 people since 1916. The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of desertion.[26][27][28]

See also

References

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    "BOP: Federal Executions". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
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    "Executions Under the Federal Death Penalty". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
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    340 Federal, 271 Territorial and 40 Indian Tribunal Executions 1790 to 1963 Archived 2003-04-13 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 20 October 2008.
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    "Died with Joke on His Lips". Dayton (Ohio) Herald. 24 October 1902. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "George Bear Meets Death with Stoicism". The Black Hills (South Dakota) Union. 12 December 1902. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Sailor to Hang - Convicted of Mutiny on the High Seas". Topeka (Kansas) Daily Herald. 6 July 1906. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Hanged by the U.S. Government". The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal. 16 May 1913. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Slayer of Buffalo Nurse Pays Penalty". The Buffalo News. 1 September 1921. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Negro Slayer of Shoals Guard Hanged by Federal Government". Nashville Tennessean. 10 October 1925. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Indian Slayer Jokes as He Goes to His Death". Sioux City (Iowa) Journal. 11 October 1925. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Alderman Dies Upon Gallows, Prayer on Lips". Miami (Florida) Daily News. 17 August 1929. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    O'Brien, Pat (13 July 1936). "Armed Deputies on Guard at Coolidge Dam for Execution". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Seadlund Executed for Ross Killing". Richmond (Indiana) Item. 14 July 1938. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "U.S. Government Hangs Two New York Gunmen in Kansas for Murder of an Officer". Muncie Evening Press. 12 August 1938. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Wimberly W. Baker". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
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    "Dalhover Dies for Slaying - 21 Witnesses See Gangster Walk to Chair". South Bend (Indiana) Tribune. 18 November 1938. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Trooper Paul Vincent Minneman". Officer Down Memorial Page. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
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    "Alaska to Hang Man, First Killer Since 1901". Camden (New Jersey) Courier-Post. 8 November 1939. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Goes to Death in Gas Chamber". The Billings Gazette. 28 April 1945. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Nelson Hangs This Morning". Daily Sitka Sentinel. 1 March 1948. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Negro Slayer Was Executed at Raiford". Miami (Florida) Herald. 16 September 1948. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Lamoore Hanged". Daily Sitka (Alaska) Sentinel. 14 April 1950. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    "Dies in the Gas Chamber - Arthur Ross Brown, Kidnap-Slayer of Mrs. Wilma Allen Is Pronounced Dead Eleven Minutes After Midnight". Kansas City Times. 24 February 1956. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
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    Simmons, Zena (August 25, 1999). "The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik". The Detroit News. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
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    The Execution of Private Slovik. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific. 1993. ISBN 978-0-89941-845-2. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
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    Glass, Charles (2013). Deserter : the last untold story of the Second World War. London: HarperPress. ISBN 978-0-00-734592-2. OCLC 818449638.
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