List of people executed in Connecticut
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This is a list of people executed in Connecticut, prior to the abolition of capital punishment in the state on April 25, 2012.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/connecticut-governor-signs-death-penalty-repeal/ |title=Connecticut governor signs death penalty repeal |date=April 25, 2012 |website=CBS News}}
List
{{ incomplete list | date = February 2014 }}
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Number | Name | Age | Race | Sex | Occupation | Crime | Date | Method | County | Notes |
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1 | Nepauduck
| — | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1639|01|30}} | | |||||||||
2
| — | White | Male | Servant | Sodomy | {{date table sorting|1642|04|01}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 5 | ||||||||||
|Plaine, William
|56 |White |Male | |Sodomy | {{date table sorting|1646| | }} |Hanging |New Haven |Note 4 | ||||||||||
3
| 31-32 | White | Female | — | {{dts|1647|5|26}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
4
| Johnson, Mary | — | White | Female | Servant | Witchcraft | {{dts|1649}} | Hanging | — | | ||||||||||
5
| Carrington, Sr, John | 37 | White | Male | Witchcraft | March 1651 | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
5
| Carrington, Joan | — | White | Female | Housewife | Witchcraft | March 1651 | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
5
| Bassett (Holland), Margery "Goody" | — | White | Female | Witchcraft | {{dts|1651}} | Hanging | | ||||||||||
6
| Knapp, Elizabeth | — | White | Female | Housewife | Witchcraft | {{dts|1653}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
7
| Walter Robinson | 15 | White | Male | — | Sodomy | {{dts|March 1655}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
8
| John Knight | — | White | Male | — | Sodomy | {{dts|June 1655}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
9
| Greensmith, Nathaniel | — | White | Male | — | Witchcraft | {{dts|1663|1}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
10
| Greensmith, Rebecca | — | White | Female | Housewife | Witchcraft | {{dts|1663|1}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
11
| Barnes, Mary | 36 | White | Female | Housewife | Witchcraft (exonerated 2023){{cite web | url=https://ctmirror.org/2023/03/02/ct-new-england-witch-trials-salem-witchcraft-convictions-connecticut-legislature | title=Connecticut confronted as originator of New England witch trials | date=2 March 2023 }} | {{date table sorting|1663|02|24}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
12
| Potter, William | — | White | Male | — | Sodomy | {{dts|1662|6|6}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
13
| — | — | Native American | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1700}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 2 | ||||||||||
14
| — | — | Native American | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1700}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 2 | ||||||||||
15
| — | — | Native American | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1700}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 2 | ||||||||||
16
| Garrett, Catherine | 27 | Native American | Female | Servant | Murder | {{dts|1738|5|3}} | Hanging | | ||||||||||
17
| Bramble, Sarah | — | White | Female | — | Murder | {{dts|1753|11|21}} | Hanging | New London | | ||||||||||
18
| Frazier, Isaac | — | — | Male | — | Burglary | {{dts|1768|9}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
19
| Jacobs, John | — | Native American | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1768|11|2}} | Hanging | | ||||||||||
20
| Paul, Moses | — | Native American | Male | Drifter | Murder | {{dts|1772|9|2}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
21
| Dunbar, Moses | 30 | White | Male | Farmer | Treason | {{dts|1777|3|19}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
22
| Griswold | — | White | Male | — | Treason | {{dts|1778}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
23
| Davenport, Barnet | 20 | White | Male | Servant | Murder | {{dts|1780|5|8}} | Hanging | Litchfield | | ||||||||||
24
| 12 | Native American | Female | — | Murder | {{dts|1786|12|20}} | Hanging | New London | | ||||||||||
25
| Mountain, Joseph | 33 | Black | Male | — | Rape | {{dts|1790|1|20}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
26
| Doane, Richard | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1797|6|10}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
27
| Starr, Thomas | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1797|6|14}} | Hanging | | ||||||||||
28
| Anthony | — | Black | Male | Freedman | Rape | {{dts|1798|11|8}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
29
| Adams, Caleb | 18 | White | Male | Laborer | Murder | {{dts|1803|11|29}} | Hanging | Windham | | ||||||||||
30
| Freeman, Samuel | 25 | Black | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1805|11|6}} | Hanging | Windham | | ||||||||||
31
| Niles, Henry | — | Native American | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1807|11|4}} | Hanging | New London | | ||||||||||
32
| Babcock, Miner | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1816|6|6}} | Hanging | New London | | ||||||||||
33
| Lung, Peter | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1816|6|20}} | Hanging | Middlesex | | ||||||||||
34
| Adams, Amos | 28 | Black | Male | — | Rape | {{dts|1817|11|30}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
**
| Bailey, Adonijah | 79 | — | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1824}} | Hanging | Windham | Note 3 | ||||||||||
35
| Washington, George | — | Native American | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1824|6|1}} | Hanging | Tolland | | ||||||||||
36
| Watkins, Oliver | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1831|8|2}} | Hanging | Windham | | ||||||||||
37
| Teller, William | 28 | White | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1833|9|6}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
38
| Reynolds, Caesar | 30 | White | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1833|9|6}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
39
| Sherman | — | — | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1834|6|13}} | Hanging | New London | | ||||||||||
40
| Potter, Andrew | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1846|7|20}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
41
| Foote, Henry | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1850|1|2}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 1 | ||||||||||
42
| McCaffrey, James | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1850|1|2}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 1 | ||||||||||
43
| Jennings, Michael | 18 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1854|7|11}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
44
| Toole, Gerald | — | — | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1862}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
45
| Starkweather, Albert | 25 | White | Male | Farmer | Murder | {{dts|1866|8|17}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
46
| Wilson, James | 47 | White | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1871|1|13}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
47
| Hamlin, Henry | — | White | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1880|5|28}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
48
| Smith, James "Chip" | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1882|9|1}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
49
| Palladoni, Phillip | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1888|1|5}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
50
| Swift, John | — | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1889|4|18}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
51
| Scheele, Jacob | — | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1891|6|18}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
52
| Borjensen, Andrew | — | White | Male | Laborer | Murder | {{dts|1892|1|29}} | Hanging | Litchfield | | ||||||||||
53
| Petrillo, Angelo | — | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1892|11|14}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
54
| Cronin, John | 38 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1894|12|18}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
55
| Hartlein, Kaspar | 40 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1896|12|13}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
56
| Kippie, Thomas F. | 42 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1897|7|14}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
57
| Fuda, Giuseppe | 31 | White | Male | Laborer | Murder | {{dts|1897|12|3}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
58
| Imposino, Nicodemo | 22 | White | Male | Laborer | Murder | {{dts|1897|12|17}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
59
| Boinay, Charles A. | 34 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1898|4|14}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
59
| Willis, Benjamin R. | 21 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1898|12|30}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
60
| Brockhaus, Frederick M. | 21 | White | Male | Criminal | Murder | {{dts|1899|9|6}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
61
| Cross, Charles B. | 18 | White | Male | Farmhand | Murder | {{dts|1900|7|20}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
62
| Misik, Paul | 34 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1904|2|11}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
63
| Watson, Joseph | 18 | Black | Male | Valet | Murder | {{dts|1904|11|17}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
64
| Marx, Gershon | 73 | White | Male | Farmer | Murder | {{dts|1905|5|18}} | Hanging | New London | | ||||||||||
65
| Sherouk, Ephriam | 24 | White | Male | Laborer | Murder | {{dts|1906|1|9}} | Hanging | Tolland | | ||||||||||
66
| Bailey, Henry G. | 40 | White | Male | Farmhand | Murder | {{dts|1907|4|16}} | Hanging | Middlesex | | ||||||||||
67
| Herman, Alexander | 26 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1907|5|10}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
68
| Washelesky, John | 32 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1908|7|1}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
69
| Rossi, Lorenzo | 31 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1908|7|24}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
70
| Zett, John | 48 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1908|12|21}} | Hanging | Tolland | | ||||||||||
71
| Campagnolo, Giuseppe | 28 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1909|2|24}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 1 | ||||||||||
72
| Carfaro, Raffaele | 19 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1909|2|24}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 1 | ||||||||||
73
| Zawedzianczek, John | 28 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1910|2|9}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
74
| Tanganelli, Andrea | 26 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1912|3|29}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
75
| Redding, George, Jr. | 21 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1912|11|1}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
76
| Saxon, Louis | 29 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1913|7|27}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
77
| Plew, James | 48 | White | Male | Farmhand | Murder | {{dts|1914|3|4}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
78
| Rikteraitis, Matijins | 29 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1914|5|8}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
79
| Buonomo, Joseph | 24 | White | Male | Criminal | Murder | {{dts|1914|6|30}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
80
| Bergeron, Joseph | 40 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1914|8|11}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
81
| Montvid, Bernard | 23 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1915|8|6}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
82
| Grela, Frank | 41 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1915|8|13}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
83
| Roe, Harry | 22 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1916|3|3}} | Hanging | Note 1 | ||||||||||
84
| Williams, Isaac | 30 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1916|3|3}} | Hanging | Note 1 | ||||||||||
85
| Zuppa, Pasquale | 28 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1916|3|10}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
86
| Vetere, Francisco | 25 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1917|10|5}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 1 | ||||||||||
87
| Castelli, Joseph | 24 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1917|10|5}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 1 | ||||||||||
88
| Buglione, Stephen | 20 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1917|11|16}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
89
| Donvanso, Giovanni | 21 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1917|11|16}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
90
| Wise, William | 23 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1917|12|14}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
91
| Dusso, Frank | 25 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1918|6|17}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 2 | ||||||||||
92
| Pisaniello, Carmine | 21 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1918|6|17}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 2 | ||||||||||
93
| Lanzillo, Carmine | 24 | White | Male | Laborer | Murder | {{dts|1918|6|17}} | Hanging | New Haven | Note 2 | ||||||||||
94
| Perretta, Erasmo | 28 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1919|6|27}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
95
| Perretta, Joseph | 33 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1919|6|27}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
96
| Nechesnook, Nikifor | 28 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1919|12|3}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
97
| Cerrone, Daniel | 31 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1920|3|5}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
98
| Wade, Elwood | 24 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1921|5|20}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
99
| Kaurawskas, John | 36 | White | Male | Laborer | Murder | {{dts|1921|5|27}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
100
| Schutte, Emil | 55 | White | Male | Merchant | Murder | {{dts|1922|10|24}} | Hanging | Middlesex | | ||||||||||
101
| 35 | White | Male | Gangster | Murder | {{dts|1926|4|6}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
102
| Wing, Soo Hoo | 19 | Asian | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1927|11|8}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
103
| Lung, Chin | 33 | Asian | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1927|11|8}} | Hanging | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
104
| Feltovic, John | 19 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1929|12|10}} | Hanging | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
105
| Dibattista, Frank | 26 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1930|2|21}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
106
| Lorenzo, Henry | 26 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1930|8|12}} | Hanging | Hartford | | ||||||||||
107
| Simborski, John | 30 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1936|4|7}} | Hanging | New Haven | | ||||||||||
108
| McElroy, James | 45 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1937|2|10}} | New Haven | | ||||||||||
109
| Palka, Frank | 26 | White | Male | [mechanic] | Murder | {{dts|1938|4|12}} | Electrocution | Fairfield | | ||||||||||
110
| Weaver, Ira | 36 | White | Male | Handyman | Murder | {{dts|1940|4|29}} | Electrocution | Middlesex | Note 1 | ||||||||||
111
| Cots, Vincent | 32 | White | Male | Mechanic | Murder | {{dts|1940|4|29}} | Electrocution | Middlesex | Note 1 | ||||||||||
112
| Gurski, Peter | 28 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1943|2|23}} | Electrocution | Litchfield | | ||||||||||
113
| Funderburk, Wilson | 38 | Black | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1943|4|20}} | Electrocution | Hartford | | ||||||||||
114
| Decaro, Carlo | 20 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1944|5|3}} | Electrocution | Hartford | | ||||||||||
115
| Rossi, Nicholas | 33 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1945|6|18}} | Electrocution | Hartford | | ||||||||||
116
| Lewie, Raymond | 19 | White | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1946|10|1}} | Electrocution | Hartford | Note 2 | ||||||||||
117
| Tommaselli, Arthur | 25 | White | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1946|10|1}} | Electrocution | Hartford | Note 2 | ||||||||||
118
| McCarthy, James | 21 | White | Male | Convict | Murder | {{dts|1946|10|1}} | Electrocution | Hartford | Note 2 | ||||||||||
119
| Bradley, Robert | 38 | Black | Male | Murder | {{dts|1948|4|12}} | Electrocution | New Haven | | ||||||||||
120
| Lorain, William | 34 | White | Male | — | Murder | {{dts|1955|7|11}} | Electrocution | Hartford | | ||||||||||
121
| Malm, Robert | 32 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1955|7|18}} | Electrocution | Hartford | Note 1 | ||||||||||
122
| Donahue, John | 22 | White | Male | Parolee | Murder | {{dts|1955|7|18}} | Electrocution | Fairfield | Note 1 | ||||||||||
123
| Davies, George | 41 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|1959|9|20}} | Electrocution | New Haven | | ||||||||||
124
| Wojculewicz, Frank | 42 | White | Male | Gangster | Murder | {{dts|1959|10|26}} | Electrocution | Hartford | | ||||||||||
125
| 36 | White | Male | Gangster | Murder | {{dts|1960|5|17}} | Electrocution | Hartford | | ||||||||||
126
| 45 | White | Male | Murder | {{dts|2005|5|13}} | Tolland | | ||||||||||
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! ! Average Age: ! 30.44 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! |
Notes:
- On this occasion, two executions took place.
- On this occasion, three executions took place.
- This is what the chart claimed in 2005, but contrary to popular belief, Adonijah Bailey was not the oldest person executed at age 79 in 1824; instead, he was tried and sentenced to death at age 80 in January 1825 for the murder of Jeremiah W. Pollock, and hanged himself on May 24, over 2 weeks before he was to be executed.{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/RIGENWEB/2006-03/1142469753 |title=RootsWeb: RIGENWEB-L Re: [RIGENWEB] Pollock Murder -- the Scoop |access-date=2010-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014062138/http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/RIGENWEB/2006-03/1142469753 |archive-date=2012-10-14 }}{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGZGAAAAYAAJ&q=adonijah+bailey&pg=RA1-PA4 |title = The Telescope|year = 1824}} The title of the oldest person executed goes instead to Gershon Marx, hanged on May 18, 1905, for murder at age 73.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/msg01797.html|title=[Deathpenalty]death penalty news----CONN., ALA., MISS., KY., USA}}
- James Savage, ed., John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Vol. 2, (Boston:Little, Brown, 1853), page 324. See also Goodheart, where there are 158 death penalty victims identified for Connecticut.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEIush39IB8C|title=The Solemn Sentence of Death: Capital Punishment in Connecticut|last=Goodheart|first=Lawrence B.|date=2011-01-01|publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press|isbn=978-1558498471|language=en}}
- Posthumously pardoned.
Summary
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Age
! Frequency ! Percent |
---|
19 and below
| 9 | 7% |
20 to 29
| 39 | 31% |
30 to 39
| 25 | 20% |
40 to 49
| 12 | 10% |
50 and above
| 2 | 2% |
Unknown
| 39 | 31% |
Race
! Frequency ! Percent |
White
| 104 | 83% |
Native American
| 10 | 8% |
Black
| 7 | 6% |
Asian
| 2 | 2% |
Unknown
| 3 | 2% |
Sex
! Frequency ! Percent |
Male
| 117 | 93% |
Female{{Cite web |last=Pollard |first=Heather |title=The Execution of Women in Connecticut |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32220466 |access-date=May 17, 2024 |website=Research Gate}}
| 9 | 7% |
Crime
! Frequency ! Percent |
Murder
| 109 | 87% |
Witchcraft
| 7 | 6% |
Sodomy
| 4 | 3% |
Rape
| 3 | 2% |
Treason
| 2 | 2% |
Burglary
| 1 | 1% |
Date
! Frequency ! Percent |
1600 to 1699
| 12 | 10% |
1700 to 1799
| 16 | 13% |
1800 to 1899
| 32 | 25% |
1900 to 1999
| 65 | 52% |
2000 to present
| 1 | 1% |
Method
! Frequency ! Percent |
Hanging
| 107 | 85% |
Electrocution
| 18 | 14% |
Lethal injection
| 1 | 1% |
County
! Frequency ! Percent |
Hartford
| 42 | 33% |
New Haven
| 39 | 31% |
Fairfield
| 18 | 14% |
New London
| 8 | 6% |
Litchfield
| 6 | 5% |
Middlesex
| 6 | 5% |
Windham
| 3 | 2% |
Tolland
| 3 | 2% |
Unknown
| 1 | 1% |
Total:
! 126 Executions |
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
[https://archives.albany.edu/concern/daos/cz30q762p 7. https://archives.albany.edu/concern/daos/cz30q762p]
External links
- [http://www.mail-archive.com/deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/msg01797.html Death Penalty News from Mail-Archive.com]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100920141514/http://cslib.org/executions.htm Connecticut Executions from 1894 to 2005]
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