List of people executed in the United States in 1924

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One hundred and twenty-seven people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1924, sixty-nine by electrocution, fifty-six by hanging, one by firing squad, and one by gas chamber.[1]

The execution of Gee Jon this year marked the first time a gas chamber was used as a method of execution in the United States.

List of people executed in the United States in 1924

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No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 4, 1924 Alexander A. Kels 39 38 1 Male White California Hanging [2]
2 Edward C. Long 24 23 Ohio Electrocution [3]
3 George Parker 32 31 Oregon Hanging [4]
4 Philip Connizzaro 26 Unknown Unknown West Virginia [5]
5 Richard Ferri Unknown Unknown
6 Nicholas Salamante 43 Unknown Unknown
7 January 13, 1924 Andrew Jackson "Jack" Pope 45 44 1 Oklahoma Electrocution [6]
8 Aaron Harvey 21 20
9 January 15, 1924 Frank Sage 32 32 0 New Jersey [7]
10 January 18, 1924 Roy Lee Maupin 26 24 2 Black Iowa Hanging [8]
11 Omer Rosencrans Woods 48 46 White Utah Firing squad [9]
12 January 28, 1924 Lawrence Roberts 26 25 1 Black Pennsylvania Electrocution [10]
13 January 29, 1924 Angelino Carlino 39 36 3 White New Jersey [11]
14 Antonio Turco 36 33
15 February 1, 1924 John H. Nelson 28 27 1 Black Ohio [12]
16 Thomas Jefferson Chandler 37 35 2 White South Carolina [13]
17 February 3, 1924 Ed Farrar Unknown Unknown Unknown Mississippi Hanging [14]
18 February 8, 1924 Gee Jon 29 26 3 Asian Nevada Gas chamber [15]
19 Milutin "Mike" Sipcich 56 55 1 White Ohio Electrocution [16]
20 Melvin Johnson 19 Unknown Unknown Black Texas [17]
21 Mack Matthews 39 Unknown Unknown
22 Ewell Morris 22 Unknown Unknown
23 Charles Reynolds 27 Unknown Unknown
24 George Washington 38 Unknown Unknown
25 February 15, 1924 Samuel Muratore 42 Unknown Unknown White West Virginia Hanging [18]
26 February 25, 1924 George Ware 24 21 3 Black Pennsylvania Electrocution [19]
27 March 7, 1924 George Robertson 54 53 1 Alabama Hanging [1]
28 Aurelio Pompa 23 21 2 Hispanic California [20]
29 William T. Chambers 20 20 0 Black Kentucky Electrocution [21]
30 March 10, 1924 Dominick Delfino 34 26 8 White Pennsylvania [22]
31 March 17, 1924 George H. Bland 32 31 1 Black [23]
32 March 21, 1924 Bennie Cantelou Unknown Unknown 2 Alabama Hanging [24]
33 March 22, 1924 Sylvester Garrett Unknown Unknown 1 Louisiana [25]
34 March 28, 1924 William Hollis 24 23 Ohio Electrocution [26]
35 Blaine Dyer 36 35 Texas [27]
36 Earnest Lawson 39 38
37 March 31, 1924 Lorenzo Johnny Savage 25 24 Pennsylvania [28]
38 April 4, 1924 Levy James Unknown Unknown Unknown Louisiana Hanging [1]
39 Booker T. Williams 19 19 0 Texas Electrocution [29]
40 April 10, 1924 Antonio Viandante 41 39 2 White New York [30]
41 April 11, 1924 John V. Hendrix 53 51 California Hanging [31]
42 George Barber Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Illinois [1]
43 James Marshall Alexander Unknown Unknown 2 White Louisiana [32]
44 April 15, 1924 Clem Head 31 Unknown Unknown Black Ohio Electrocution [33]
45 April 17, 1924 Reuben Norkin 32 30 2 White New York [34]
46 Tommie Curry 25 Unknown Unknown Black Texas [35]
47 April 18, 1924 Joe Sullivan 34 33 1 White Arkansas [36]
48 Lucius Dalton Unknown Unknown 0 Black Illinois Hanging [37]
49 Henry Wilson Unknown Unknown
50 April 21, 1924 William Albert Bringhurst 38 35 3 White California [38]
51 Willard Thompson 40 37
52 April 26, 1924 Joseph McGonigal Unknown Unknown 2 Colorado [39]
53 April 28, 1924 Charles Brooks 52 Unknown Unknown Black Ohio Electrocution [40]
54 Wylie N. Morgan 28 26 2 White Pennsylvania [41]
55 Albert Platt 56 56 0
56 April 29, 1924 Luigi Rossi 33 33 Ohio [42]
57 May 5, 1924 John F. Myma 27 25 2 Pennsylvania [43]
58 May 9, 1924 Mariano Cazares 69 66 3 Hispanic California Hanging [44]
59 Frank Thomas 71 68 White Kentucky Electrocution [45]
60 George Washington Weick 50 49 1
61 Charles Miller 25 23 2 Black
62 Natale Deamore 41 38 3 White Louisiana Hanging [46]
63 Roy Leona 36 33
64 Joseph Bocchio 24 21
65 Andrew Lemantia 35 32
66 Joseph Giglio 33 30
67 Joseph Rini 28 25
68 May 22, 1924 Harle Humphreys 19 18 1 Black Texas Electrocution [47]
69 May 23, 1924 Francisco Cadena 34 32 2 Hispanic
70 May 24, 1924 James Brown Satterfield 45 42 3 White Georgia Hanging [48]
71 June 9, 1924 Edward Henderson 40 Unknown Unknown Black Texas Electrocution [1]
72 June 12, 1924 Alberigo Mastrota 32 31 1 White New York [49]
73 June 13, 1924 George Edward Whitfield 22 20 2 Washington Hanging [50]
74 June 20, 1924 William B. Ward 38 37 1 Black Arizona [51]
75 Charlie Simuel 25 37 South Carolina Electrocution [52]
76 June 23, 1924 Walter Grymkowski 35 37 White Pennsylvania [53]
77 Martin Matlovski 32 31
78 June 24, 1924 Vincenzo Caparra 33 32 Ohio [54]
79 June 27, 1924 Will Bettis 35 35 0 Black Arkansas [55]
80 Spurgeon Rucks 30 30
81 Ralph Michael Waller 34 34 White Washington Hanging [56]
82 June 30, 1924 Joseph Trinkle 22 20 2 Pennsylvania Electrocution [57]
83 July 7, 1924 John A. Dailey 35 Unknown Unknown [1]
84 July 11, 1924 Gordon Frank Fincher 30 29 1 Alabama Hanging [58]
85 July 15, 1924 Edward M. Allen 26 Unknown Unknown New Jersey Electrocution [59]
86 Anthony Bagdonowitz 24 23 1
87 Tony Briglia 25 Unknown Unknown
88 Frank W. Taylor 39 Unknown Unknown
89 July 18, 1924 Charles Merrill 21 19 2 Missouri Hanging [60]
90 Hugh Pinkley 35 32 3
91 Seth Orrin Danner 42 38 4 Montana [61]
92 July 22, 1924 Anthony Staub 59 Unknown Unknown New Jersey Electrocution [1]
93 July 24, 1924 Eulogia Lozado 26 25 1 Asian New York [62]
94 July 25, 1924 Frank Taylor Atkinson 36 35 White Mississippi Hanging [63]
95 Clyde Lee Greer 37 36
96 July 30, 1924 Cyrille J. Vandenhecke 51 45 6 Massachusetts Electrocution [64]
97 August 1, 1924 Alto Hamilton Unknown Unknown 1 Black Louisiana Hanging [65]
98 August 8, 1924 Alonzo Myhand 29 Unknown Unknown Alabama [66]
99 Porter William Myhand 26 Unknown Unknown
100 Euzebe Vidrine 25 1 White Louisiana [67]
101 August 15, 1924 Alseyo Franklin Champion 29 26 3 California [68]
102 Harrison Brown 15 15 0 Black Georgia [1]
103 August 22, 1924 Martin "Mike" Sliskovich 30 28 2 White California
104 September 5, 1924 Richard Adolphus Birkes 27 26 1 Oklahoma Electrocution [69]
105 September 12, 1924 Otto Clear 18 18 0 Black Virginia [70]
106 Fritz Lewis 17 17
107 Tiny McCoy 23 23 White West Virginia Hanging [71]
108 September 13, 1924 Howard Hinton 20 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Electrocution [1]
109 September 19, 1924 Warren Waters 56 55 1 White Hanging [72]
110 October 3, 1924 Booker T. Boone 23 23 0 Black Louisiana [73]
111 Freeman Coleman Unknown Unknown
112 Willie Washington Unknown Unknown
113 October 7, 1924 Frank Johnson 19 18 1 Florida Electrocution [1]
114 October 10, 1924 Ed Kirby 57 55 2 Texas
115 November 7, 1924 Rubin Robinson Unknown Unknown Unknown South Carolina
116 November 14, 1924 Harry Diamond 26 25 1 White Indiana [74]
117 November 28, 1924 Vance Morgan 22 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina [75]
118 December 5, 1924 James Avant 41 41 0 Ohio [76]
119 Frank Harrell 24 24 White South Carolina [77]
120 Mortimer Nelson King Sr. 23 23
121 December 12, 1924 Robert Matthew 24 1 Black California Hanging [78]
122 Alfred Sharpe 23 0 Louisiana [79]
123 Alexander Kuszik 19 Unknown Unknown White Ohio Electrocution [80]
124 Thomas M. Walton 39 38 1 Washington Hanging [81]
125 December 19, 1924 Joseph Sinuel 23 22 Black California [82]
126 Noah Arnold 32 31 Idaho [83]
127 December 22, 1924 Lester Ferdinand Kahl 24 24 0 White Illinois [84]

Demographics

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Gender
Male 127 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
White 70 55%
Black 52 41%
Hispanic 3 2%
Asian 2 2%
State
Louisiana 15 12%
Texas 13 10%
Pennsylvania 12 9%
California 10 8%
Ohio 10 8%
New Jersey 8 6%
Alabama 5 4%
South Carolina 5 4%
West Virginia 5 4%
Georgia 4 3%
Illinois 4 3%
Kentucky 4 3%
New York 4 3%
Arkansas 3 2%
Mississippi 3 2%
Oklahoma 3 2%
Washington 3 2%
Missouri 2 2%
Virginia 2 2%
Arizona 1 1%
Colorado 1 1%
Florida 1 1%
Idaho 1 1%
Indiana 1 1%
Iowa 1 1%
Massachusetts 1 1%
Montana 1 1%
Nevada 1 1%
North Carolina 1 1%
Oregon 1 1%
Utah 1 1%
Method
Electrocution 69 54%
Hanging 56 44%
Firing squad 1 1%
Gas chamber 1 1%
Month
January 14 11%
February 12 9%
March 11 9%
April 19 15%
May 14 11%
June 12 9%
July 14 11%
August 7 6%
September 6 5%
October 5 4%
November 3 2%
December 10 8%
Age
Unknown 13 10%
10–19 8 6%
20–29 45 35%
30–39 38 30%
40–49 11 9%
50–59 10 8%
60–69 1 1%
70–79 1 1%
Total 127 100%

Executions in recent years

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Number of executions
1925 144
1924 127
1923 114
Total 385

References

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  2. ^ "Brutal Slayer is Hanged". The Toledo News-Bee. January 5, 1924. p. 2.
  3. ^ "Driver's Slayer Electricuted". The Toledo News-Bee. January 4, 1924. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Declares His Trial Unfair". The Spokesman-Review. January 8, 1924. p. 5.
  5. ^ "Three Hanged in W. Virginia". Painesville Telegraph. January 5, 1924. p. 1.
  6. ^ "Two Die in Death Chair". St. Joseph News-Press. January 14, 1924. p. 11.
  7. ^ "Slayer of Two Policemen Prays in Electric Chair". Providence News. January 16, 1924. p. 31.
  8. ^ "Rope Breaks, But Execution is Not Delayed". The Telegraph-Herald. January 18, 1924. p. 1.
  9. ^ "FORMER JUDGE EXECUTED.; Faces Firing Squad in Salt Lake for Wife Murder". The New York Times. January 19, 1924.
  10. ^ "Condemned Murderer on Way to Electric Chair Attacks Deputy Sheriff". The Washington Reporter. January 29, 1924. p. 8.
  11. ^ "Turko and Carlina Expiate Their Crimes in the Electric Chair at Trenton Prison". Easton Free Press. January 30, 1924. p. 1.
  12. ^ "Negro Wife Murderer is Executed Today". Warsaw Union. February 1, 1924. p. 9.
  13. ^ "T. Jeff Chandler To Die In Chair Today". Herald-Jorunal. February 1, 1924. p. 2.
  14. ^ "Ed Farrar, MS, 1924". M. E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives.
  15. ^ "Lethal Gas Ends Slayer's Life". The Toledo News-Bee. February 9, 1924. p. 1.
  16. ^ "Slayer Goes to Death in Chair". Painesville Telegraph. February 8, 1924. p. 1.
  17. ^ "Texas Puts Five Negroes to Death". The New York Times. February 9, 1924.
  18. ^ "Triple Slayer to Be Hanged in W. Virginia". The Pittsburgh Press. January 11, 1924. p. 35.
  19. ^ "Negro Electrocuted". Gettysburg Times. February 25, 1924. p. 8.
  20. ^ "Murderer Pays For Crime on Gallows". Berkeley Daily Gazette. March 7, 1924. p. 9.
  21. ^ "Seven Men in Death's Shadow". Kentucky New Era. February 15, 1924. p. 7.
  22. ^ "Law Writes End of Criminal's Fight for Life". Reading Eagle. March 10, 1924. p. 4.
  23. ^ "Two Deaths Follow Murder, One in Chair, One in Jail". Reading Eagle. March 17, 1924. p. 12.
  24. ^ "Cantelou v. State". Google Books.
  25. ^ "Louisiana, F-G, 1879-1988, Undated". M. E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives. p. 111.
  26. ^ "Negro Slayer Pays Penalty In Death Chair". Portsmouth Daily Times. March 28, 1924. p. 7.
  27. ^ "Electrocute Negress For Texas Murders". The Telegraph-Herald. March 28, 1924. p. 1.
  28. ^ "Negro Voodoo Doctor Slayer of Nurse Goes to Death in Chair". The Telegraph. March 31, 1924. p. 1.
  29. ^ "Eighth Negro in 1924 Executed in Texas". Lewiston Evening Journal. April 4, 1924. p. 1.
  30. ^ "Fight for Life Made by Mrs. Buzzi and Two Men". Rochester Evening Journal and the Post Express. April 3, 1924. p. 1.
  31. ^ "Brief State Items Of General Interest". Lyon County Reporter. February 16, 1924. p. 1.
  32. ^ "Hang Slayer Who Tortured Murdered Man". St. Petersburg Times. April 12, 1924. p. 1.
  33. ^ "Clem Head is Electrocuted". Youngstown Vindicator. April 15, 1924. p. 1.
  34. ^ "Dies in Electric Chair as Accessory to Murder". Reading Eagle. April 18, 1924. p. 16.
  35. ^ "Huntsville". The Bulletin. April 18, 1924. p. 1.
  36. ^ "Slayer of Detective Dies in Electric Chair Today". The Evening Independent. April 18, 1924. p. 1.
  37. ^ "Two Are Hanged In Illinois Bastile". Eugene Register-Guard. April 18, 1924. p. 5.
  38. ^ "Two Murderers Are Put To Death". Ellensburg Daily Record. April 21, 1924. p. 1.
  39. ^ "Reprieve Granted". The Border Cities Star. April 15, 1924. p. 48.
  40. ^ "Negro Slayer Must Die; Court Denies New Trial". Youngstown Vindicator. April 23, 1924. p. 5.
  41. ^ "Child Slayer Goes to Electric Chair". Reading Eagle. April 28, 1924. p. 1.
  42. ^ "Opposes Mercy For Murder". Youngstown Vindicator. April 25, 1924. p. 9.
  43. ^ "Scranton Murderer in Chair". Reading Eagle. May 5, 1924. p. 1.
  44. ^ "Judge to Set New Date for Execution". Calexico Chronicle. January 25, 1924. p. 1.
  45. ^ "3 EXECUTED IN KENTUCKY.; Pay Penalty in the Electric Chair for Three Murders". The New York Times. May 10, 1924.
  46. ^ "SIX ITALIANS HANG FOR SINGLE MURDER; Die in Pairs on the Gallows in Louisiana Jail -- Two Have to Be Helped". The New York Times. May 10, 1924.
  47. ^ "Electrocute Slayer At Prison In Texas". The Telegraph-Herald. May 23, 1924. p. 2.
  48. ^ "Murderer Meets Fate on Gallows Hopeful To Last". The Nevada Daily Mail. May 24, 1924. p. 4.
  49. ^ "State v. Mastrota". Google Books.
  50. ^ "Whitfield Will Die at Walla Walla". Spokane Daily Chronicle. May 2, 1924. p. 27.
  51. ^ "Negro Hanged in Arizona". St. Joseph News-Press. June 20, 1924. p. 10.
  52. ^ "An Impressive Scene In Spartanburg Court". The Observer. January 25, 1924. p. 7.
  53. ^ "Two Pennsylvania Slayers Executed". Eugene Register-Guard. June 23, 1924. p. 3.
  54. ^ "Caparra Electrocuted For Killing Policeman". Portsmouth Daily Times. June 24, 1924. p. 4.
  55. ^ "Two Negroes Pay Extreme Penalty". The Evening Independent. June 27, 1924. p. 5.
  56. ^ "From Gallows, Hits Divorce". The Spokesman-Review. July 1, 1924. p. 12.
  57. ^ "Commonwealth v. Trinkle". vLex.
  58. ^ "Alabaman Hanged For Murder of Girl of 16". The Lewiston Daily Sun. July 12, 1924. p. 1.
  59. ^ "Alabaman Hanged For Murder of Girl of 16". The New York Times. July 16, 1924.
  60. ^ "Two Slayers Hanged". St. Joseph News-Press. July 19, 1924. p. 2.
  61. ^ "Seth O. Danner Hanged". Evening Tribune. July 18, 1924. p. 11.
  62. ^ "Clemency Not Warranted". The Troy Sunday Budget. July 20, 1924. p. 4.
  63. ^ "Woman Unlucky With Husbands Sees Two Hang". Times Daily. July 25, 1924. p. 1.
  64. ^ "Belgian Executed at Charlestown Jail Early Today". The Lewiston Daily Sun. July 30, 1924. p. 1.
  65. ^ "Belgian Executed at Charlestown Jail Early Today". Herald-Journal. August 1, 1924. p. 11.
  66. ^ "Confess on Gallows". Reading Eagle. August 8, 1924. p. 23.
  67. ^ "MAKES HIS HANGING LESSON TO COMMUNITY; Louisiana Murderer Is Photographed, Makes a Speech and Has His Coffin Put on View". The New York Times. August 9, 1924.
  68. ^ "Death Penalty Is Paid By Slayer". The Toledo News-Bee. August 16, 1924. p. 2.
  69. ^ "Murderer Goes To Death Calmly". The Telegraph-Herald. September 5, 1924. p. 1.
  70. ^ "2 Caroline Negroes Electrocuted". The Daily Star. September 12, 1924. p. 1.
  71. ^ "Slayer Is Hanged". Painesville Telegraph. September 13, 1924. p. 1.
  72. ^ "Strange Case of Warren and W. Cantwell Walters". The Robesonian. September 29, 1924. p. 13.
  73. ^ "3 Men Die on Same Scaffold". Reading Eagle. October 3, 1924. p. 2.
  74. ^ "Goes Unflinchingly To Death In Electric Chair". Middlesboro Daily News. November 14, 1924. p. 1.
  75. ^ "3 Shocks Required to Kill Murderer". The Afro-American. December 6, 1924. p. 1.
  76. ^ "Execute Avant, Stitle Slayer". Youngstown Vindicator. December 5, 1924. p. 2.
  77. ^ "Mortimer King, Frank Harrell Sent to Death". Herald-Journal. December 6, 1924. p. 1.
  78. ^ "Negro is Hanged". Eugene Register-Guard. December 12, 1924. p. 1.
  79. ^ "Hangs for Murder". Warsaw Daily Times and the Northern Indianian. December 13, 1924. p. 8.
  80. ^ "Youth Dies in Electric Chair". Painesville Telegraph. December 12, 1924. p. 1.
  81. ^ "Walton is Hanged for Slaying Pals". Spokane Daily Chronicle. December 12, 1924. p. 25.
  82. ^ "Negro Hanged". The Oxnard Daily Courier. December 19, 1924. p. 3.
  83. ^ "Hang Negro for Murder of Grocer". Ellensburg Daily Record. December 19, 1924. p. 1.
  84. ^ "Lester Kahl Paid the Death Penalty". The Nevada Daily Mail. December 22, 1924. p. 1.
Preceded by
1923 		   List of people executed   
   in the United States in   
1924 		Succeeded by
1925