American people executed for murder

John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)

Black American wrongfully convicted of murder (1929–1944)

American murderer (1860–1890)

American murderer (1953–2005)

American murderer (1940-1977)

American mobster (1899-1947)

American executed homeopath (1862–1910)

American murderer who became the first woman to die in the electric chair

American murderer (1895-1928)

American murderer (1959–1998)

American maid (1901–1945)

American Serial Killer (1943–1999)

convicted murderer (1923-1955)

American best known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States

Convicted murderer (1942–1982)

American sportsperson, veterenarian, and executed murderer (1879–1930)

American criminal who received the death penalty for murder in 1985

American murderer

mentally disabled American man wrongfully executed for rape/murder and posthumously granted a pardon

American murderer

12-year-old Native American sentenced to death and executed in Connecticut in 1786

American mobster

American murderer (1968–2004)

American murderer (1969–2010)

American contract killer (1909-1941)

American mobster

Youngest child sentenced to death/excuted at age 23

American murderer

the first transgender woman that was executed in the United States

American contract killer and gangster (1910–1942)

American murderer

German priest (1881–1916)

Confederate Army soldier (1846-1868)

American murderer (1965–2005)

Native American leader (1808–1858)

Mafia hitman (1906–1944)

execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith

American convicted murderer (1883-1908)

American murderer

American criminal

American criminal (1980–2020)

American mobster

condemned criminal from the United States

man enslaved in United States

American murderer

Convicted killer, student (1940-1962)

American murderer

American murderer (1949–1979)

American murderer (1909–1948)

American rebel (1834-1859)

American murderer (1958–2012)

American murderer who killed to get money

American outlaw (1876-1896)

American gangster (1913–1935)

U.S. American murder

American murderer (1968–2015)

American academic (1793-1850)