List of people executed in Vermont

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Vermont from 1778 to 1954.

Capital punishment was abolished in Vermont in 1972.[1] From 1778-1954, 26 people were executed in Vermont, 21 by hanging and 5 by electrocution.[2] All but one of those executed were white. 24 of the executions were of males, while 2 were of females.[2]

Executions 1778-1954

Name Race Age Sex Date of Execution County Method Crime(s) Victim(s) Governor
David Redding White 24 M June 11, 1778 Bennington Hanging Treason Thomas Chittenden
Cyrus Dean White M November 11, 1808 Chittenden Murder Jonathan Ormsby and Asa Marsh, white Isaac Tichenor
Samuel Godfrey White M February 13, 1818 Windsor Murder Thomas Hewlett, 46, white (guard)[3] Jonas Galusha
Luther Virginia Black M January 14, 1820 Franklin Murder Rufus W. Jackson, white
Archibald Bates White 33 M February 6, 1839 Bennington Murder Harriet Jane Bates, 29, white (sister-in-law) Silas H. Jennison
William Barnett White 58 M January 20, 1864 Chittenden Murder Anne Barnett, 35, white (wife)[4] J. Gregory Smith
Sandy Kavanaugh White 61 M Chittenden Murder Katharine Kavanaugh, white (wife)[5]
John Ward White M March 21, 1868 Chittenden Murder Ephriam Griswold, 57, white[6] John B. Page
Hiram Miller White 30 M June 25, 1869 Windsor Murder-Robbery Joshua Goshing and Abigail Gowing, 56 and 51, white[7]
Henry Welcome White 18 M January 20, 1871 Chittenden Murder-Robbery Perry Russell, 72, white[8] John Wolcott Stewart
Henry Boudreau Gravelin White M March 14, 1879 Windsor Murder Herbert White, white[9][a] Redfield Proctor
John P. Phair White 33 M April 10, 1879 Rutland Murder-Robbery Ann Frieze (girlfriend)[10]
Asa S. Magoon White 59 M November 28, 1879 Washington Murder Rufus Streeter, 70, white[11]
Edward Tatro White 23 M April 2, 1880 Franklin Murder-Rape Alice A. Butler, 20, white
Edwin Clay Hayden White 33 M February 25, 1881 Orleans Murder Gertrude White Hayden, 23, white (wife) Roswell Farnham
Royal Carr White M April 29, 1881 Washington Murder William Wallace Marcommock, 35, white/Native American[12][b]
Emeline Lucy Meaker White 44 F March 30, 1883 Washington Murder Alice Meaker, 9, white (husband's half-sister) John L. Barstow
Sylvester Henry Bell White 58 M January 1, 1892 Franklin Murder Emma Bell, white (wife) Carroll S. Page
Mary Rogers White 22 F December 8, 1905 Bennington Murder Marcus Merritt Rogers, 32 (husband) Charles J. Bell
Elroy Kent White 33 M July 5, 1912 Rutland Murder-Robbery Delia Belle Congdon, 41, white John A. Mead
Arthur Bosworth White 28 M January 2, 1914 Chittenden Murder Mae Labelle, 19, white[13] Allen M. Fletcher
George Edward Warner White 51 M July 12, 1919 Windsor Electrocution Murder Henry Filmore Wiggins and Georgia Ann Wiggins, 66 and 61, white (father-in-law and mother-in-law) Percival W. Clement
Bert A. Stacey White 54 M July 7, 1932 Washington Murder Ruth May Stacey, 31, white (wife) Stanley C. Wilson
Ronald Watson White 21 M January 2, 1947 Rutland Murder Henry Charles Teelon, 45, white Mortimer R. Proctor
Francis Herbert Blair White 32 M February 8, 1954 Windsor Murder-Robbery Elizabeth Chase Weatherup, 54, white[c] Lee E. Emerson
Donald Edward DeMag White 31 M December 8, 1954

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Also suspected of the murders of his first wife and two French Canadians.
  2. ^ Previously convicted of manslaughter for the rape and murder of Mary E. Loomis, a white woman, and served 10 years in prison. He had avoided a first degree murder conviction in that case on account of his intellectual disabilities.
  3. ^ Both men were escaped convicts from the Vermont State Prison, where DeMag was already serving a life sentence for the murder of 83-year-old Francis Racicot, white, in 1948.

References

  1. ^ "Abolition of capital punishment in Vermont". statelaws.findlaw.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Executions in Vermont, from 1778-1954". deathpenaltyusa.org. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Samuel Godfrey, 1818 February 13". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  4. ^ "William Barnett, 1864 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  5. ^ "Sandy Kavanaugh, 1864 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  6. ^ "John Ward, 1868 March 21". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  7. ^ "Hiram Miller, 1869 June 25". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  8. ^ "Henry Welcome, 1871 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  9. ^ "Henery Gravelin, 1879 March 14". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  10. ^ "John Phair, 1879 April 10". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  11. ^ "Asa Magoon, VT, 1879 November 28". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  12. ^ "Royal Carr Murder Trial (William Wallace Murcommock); Austin Loomis Reference". News and Citizen. 1 January 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  13. ^ "Arthur Bosworth, VT, 1914 January 2". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
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