List of people executed by electrocution


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

Alabama

Arkansas

  • Lester Brockelhurst, spree killer and serial killer who held up and murdered at least three men in multiple states.
  • James Waybern Hall, American serial killer executed for his wife's murder.
  • Arthur Hodges, convicted cop killer and the first white person to be executed by electrocution in Arkansas.
  • John Edward Swindler, convicted of the murder of a police officer.

Connecticut

  • Frank Wojculewicz, a paraplegic convicted murderer executed for murdering a police officer and bystander despite his disability.
  • 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.

District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)

Federal government of the United States

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Kentucky

Louisiana

Massachusetts

Mississippi

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

Nebraska

New York

North Carolina

  • Asbury Respus, a serial killer executed in 1932 for eight murders.

Oklahoma

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

South Carolina

South Dakota

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

Tennessee

Virginia

Vermont

West Virginia

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

United States military

  • 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.

The Philippines

  • 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.
  • Marcial "Baby Ama" Perez, who was executed in 1961 at the age of 16 for murder.
  • 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.
  • Marcelo San Jose, the last person executed by the electric chair in the Philippines, executed on October 21, 1976.