While reading about DLL's execution today I checked out Wiki's List of people executed by the United States federal government.
If we would restore these punishments (as some are shocking) crime would
clean up overnight.
What I found to be shocking but would be in favor to seeing them restored.
Executions for>
Kidnapping
"Attempted" bank robbery and murder
espionage and attempted sabotage for Nazi Germany
espionage
kidnapping and rape
If we would restore these punishments (as some are shocking) crime would
clean up overnight.
What I found to be shocking but would be in favor to seeing them restored.
Executions for>
Kidnapping
"Attempted" bank robbery and murder
espionage and attempted sabotage for Nazi Germany
espionage
kidnapping and rape
James Alderman | hanging | murder on the high seas | August 17, 1929 | Broward County Jail, Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Killed two US coastguardsmen and a Secret Service agent. | Herbert Hoover |
Carl Panzram | hanging | murder | September 5, 1930 | United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas | Killed a Federal Penitentiary employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. | |
George Barrett | hanging | murder | March 24, 1936 | Marion County Jail, Indiana | The first person to receive the death penalty by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Arthur Gooch | hanging | kidnapping | June 19, 1936 | Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma | Only person ever executed under the federal Lindbergh kidnapping law. | |
Earl Gardner | hanging | murder | July 12, 1936 | Gila County Jail, Arizona | ||
Anthony Chebatoris | hanging | attempted bank robbery and murder | July 8, 1938 | Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), Milan, Michigan | Only person ever to be executed from the State of Michigan since its admission to the Union. | |
Henry Seadlund | electrocution | kidnapping | July 14, 1938 | Cook County Jail, Illinois | ||
Robert Suhay | hanging | murder | August 12, 1938 | United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas | ||
Glenn Applegate | hanging | murder | August 12, 1938 | United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas | ||
James Dalhover | electrocution | bank robbery and murder | November 18, 1938 | Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Indiana | ||
Nelson Charles | hanging | murder | November 10, 1939 | Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska | ||
Herbert Hans Haupt, Richard Quirin, Heinrich Heinck, Edward Kerling, Herman Neubauer, Werner Thiel |
electrocution | espionage and attempted sabotage for Nazi Germany | August 8, 1942 | D.C. Jail, Washington, D.C. | Tried on July 8, 1942, by a military commission appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for their role in Operation Pastorius during World War II. | |
Clyde Arwood | electrocution | murder | August 14, 1943 | Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, Tennessee | Convicted of killing a federal agent during a moonshine raid. | |
Henry Ruhl | gas inhalation | murder on a government reservation | April 27, 1945 | Wyoming State Penitentiary, Rawlins, Wyoming | Harry S. Truman | |
Austin Nelson | hanging | murder | March 1, 1948 | Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska | ||
David Joseph Watson | electrocution | murder on the high seas | September 15, 1948 | Florida State Prison, near Raiford, Florida | ||
Samuel Richard Shockley | gas inhalation | murder | December 3, 1948 | California State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California | Convicted for their roles role in the Battle of Alcatraz. | |
Miran Edgar Thompson | gas inhalation | murder | ||||
Carlos Romero Ochoa | gas inhalation | murder | December 10, 1948 | California State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California | ||
Eugene LaMoore | hanging | murder | April 14, 1950 | Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska | ||
Fred Pritchertt | electrocution | murder | February 15, 1952 | Washington, D.C. | ||
William Tyler Jr. | electrocution | murder | July 25, 1952 | Washington, D.C. | ||
Albert Allen | electrocution | murder and robbery | March 20, 1953 | Washington, D.C. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Julius Rosenberg | electrocution | espionage | June 19, 1953 | New York State Prison, Sing Sing, Ossining, New York | Convicted for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and leaking American military secrets, including nuclear weapons designs. | |
Ethel Rosenberg | ||||||
Carl Austin Hall | gas inhalation | kidnapping and murder | December 18, 1953 | Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri | Convicted for the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease. | |
Bonnie Brown Heady | murder | |||||
Gerhard Puff | electrocution | murder | August 12, 1954 | New York State Prison, Sing Sing, Ossining, New York | Convicted for killing an FBI Special Agent. | |
Arthur Ross Brown | gas inhalation | kidnapping | February 24, 1956 | Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri | ||
Robert Carter | electrocution | murder | April 26, 1957 | Washington, D.C. | Convicted of robbery and murder of an off-duty Washington D.C. police officer who attempted to apprehend Carter after the robbery. | |
George Krull | electrocution | kidnapping and rape | August 21, 1957 | Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia | Convicted for the kidnapping and rape of a woman from Chattanooga, Tennessee. | |
Michael Krull | ||||||
Victor Feguer | hanging | kidnapping and murder | March 15, 1963 | Iowa State Penitentiary, Fort Madison, Iowa | Convicted for kidnapping and murdering a physician from Dubuque, Iowa. | John F. Kennedy |