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List of people executed in Vermont

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The following is alist of people executed by theU.S. state ofVermont from 1778 to 1954.

Capital punishment was abolished in Vermont in 1972.[1] From 1778-1954, 26 people were executed in Vermont, 21 byhanging and 5 byelectrocution.[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

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NameRaceAgeSexDate of ExecutionCountyMethodCrime(s)Victim(s)Governor
David ReddingWhite24MJune 11, 1778BenningtonHangingTreasonThomas Chittenden
Cyrus DeanWhiteMNovember 11, 1808ChittendenMurderJonathan Ormsby and Asa Marsh, whiteIsaac Tichenor
Samuel GodfreyWhiteMFebruary 13, 1818WindsorMurderThomas Hewlett, 46, white (guard)[3]Jonas Galusha
Luther VirginiaBlackMJanuary 14, 1820FranklinMurderRufus W. Jackson, white
Archibald BatesWhite33MFebruary 6, 1839BenningtonMurderHarriet Jane Bates, 29, white (sister-in-law)Silas H. Jennison
William BarnettWhite58MJanuary 20, 1864ChittendenMurderAnne Barnett, 35, white (wife)[4]J. Gregory Smith
Sandy KavanaughWhite61MChittendenMurderKatharine Kavanaugh, white (wife)[5]
John WardWhiteMMarch 21, 1868ChittendenMurderEphriam Griswold, 57, white[6]John B. Page
Hiram MillerWhite30MJune 25, 1869WindsorMurder-RobberyJoshua Goshing and Abigail Gowing, 56 and 51, white[7]
Henry WelcomeWhite18MJanuary 20, 1871ChittendenMurder-RobberyPerry Russell, 72, white[8]John Wolcott Stewart
Henry Boudreau GravelinWhiteMMarch 14, 1879WindsorMurderHerbert White, white[9][a]Redfield Proctor
John P. PhairWhite33MApril 10, 1879RutlandMurder-RobberyAnn Frieze (girlfriend)[10]
Asa S. MagoonWhite59MNovember 28, 1879WashingtonMurderRufus Streeter, 70, white[11]
Edward TatroWhite23MApril 2, 1880FranklinMurder-RapeAlice A. Butler, 20, white
Edwin Clay HaydenWhite33MFebruary 25, 1881OrleansMurderGertrude White Hayden, 23, white (wife)Roswell Farnham
Royal CarrWhiteMApril 29, 1881WashingtonMurderWilliam Wallace Marcommock, 35, white/Native American[12][b]
Emeline Lucy MeakerWhite44FMarch 30, 1883WashingtonMurderAlice Meaker, 9, white (husband's half-sister)John L. Barstow
Sylvester Henry BellWhite58MJanuary 1, 1892FranklinMurderEmma Bell, white (wife)Carroll S. Page
Mary RogersWhite22FDecember 8, 1905BenningtonMurderMarcus Merritt Rogers, 32 (husband)Charles J. Bell
Elroy KentWhite33MJuly 5, 1912RutlandMurder-RobberyDelia Belle Congdon, 41, whiteJohn A. Mead
Arthur BosworthWhite28MJanuary 2, 1914ChittendenMurderMae Labelle, 19, white[13]Allen M. Fletcher
George Edward WarnerWhite51MJuly 12, 1919WindsorElectrocutionMurderHenry Filmore Wiggins and Georgia Ann Wiggins, 66 and 61, white (father-in-law and mother-in-law)Percival W. Clement
Bert A. StaceyWhite54MJuly 7, 1932WashingtonMurderRuth May Stacey, 31, white (wife)Stanley C. Wilson
Ronald WatsonWhite21MJanuary 2, 1947RutlandMurderHenry Charles Teelon, 45, whiteMortimer R. Proctor
Francis Herbert BlairWhite32MFebruary 8, 1954WindsorMurder-Robbery-BurglaryElizabeth Chase Weatherup, 54, white[c]Lee E. Emerson
Donald Edward DeMagWhite31MDecember 8, 1954

See also

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Notes

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  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

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  1. ^"Abolition of capital punishment in Vermont". statelaws.findlaw.com. Retrieved18 August 2019.
  2. ^ab"Executions in Vermont, from 1778-1954". deathpenaltyusa.org. Retrieved18 August 2019.
  3. ^"Samuel Godfrey, 1818 February 13".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  4. ^"William Barnett, 1864 January 20".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  5. ^"Sandy Kavanaugh, 1864 January 20".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  6. ^"John Ward, 1868 March 21".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  7. ^"Hiram Miller, 1869 June 25".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  8. ^"Henry Welcome, 1871 January 20".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  9. ^"Henery Gravelin, 1879 March 14".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  10. ^"John Phair, 1879 April 10".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  11. ^"Asa Magoon, VT, 1879 November 28".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  12. ^"Royal Carr Murder Trial (William Wallace Murcommock); Austin Loomis Reference".News and Citizen. 1 January 1880. p. 2. Retrieved27 October 2025.
  13. ^"Arthur Bosworth, VT, 1914 January 2".archives.albany.edu. Retrieved27 October 2025.
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