This is a list of individuals executed by the United States. The United States federal government (in comparison to the separate states) applies the death penalty for certain crimes: treason, espionage, federal murder, large scale drug trafficking and attempting to kill a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases. Military law allows execution of soldiers for several crimes.

Recent civilian executions

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Since 1963, three people have been executed by the federal government of the United States. All were executed by lethal injection.

		Executed person	Date of execution	Crime		1	Timothy McVeigh	June 11, 2001	murder of eight federal employees through the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. (See Oklahoma City bombing.)		2	Juan Raul Garza	June 19, 2001	murder of Thomas Albert Rumbo, ordering the murders of Gilberto Matos, Erasmo De La Fuente, Antonio Nieto, Bernabe Sosa, Diana Flores Villareal, Oscar Cantu, and Fernando Escobar Garcia in conjunction with a drug-smuggling ring		3	Louis Jones, Jr.	March 18, 2003	rape and murder of Pvt. Tracie McBride

Earlier civilian executions

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Between 1950 and 1963, 13 people were executed (not counting those executed under military law):

		Executed person	Date of execution	Method	Crime		1	Fred Pritchertt	February 15, 1952	electric chair	murder		2	William Tyler Jr.	July 25, 1952	electric chair	murder		3	Bonnie Headley	December 18, 1953	gas chamber	murder/kidnapping		4	Carl Hall	December 18, 1953	gas chamber	murder/kidnapping		5	Ethel Rosenberg	June 19, 1953	electric chair	espionage		6	Julius Rosenberg	June 19, 1953	electric chair	espionage		7	Albert Allen	March 20, 1953	electric chair	murder/robbery		8	Gerhard Puff	February 24, 1956	electric chair	murder		9	Arthur Brown	April 26, 1957	gas chamber	murder/kidnap		10	Robert Carter	August 21, 1957	electric chair	murder		11	Michael Krull	August 21, 1957	electric chair	rape		12	George Krull	August 21, 1957	electric chair	rape		13	Victor Feguer	March 15, 1963	hanging	kidnapping and murdering a Dubuque, Iowa doctor

From 1790 to 1950, there were 327 Federal, 271 Territorial and 40 Indian Tribunal executions according to the most complete records.^*

Presidential assassins

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	Executed person	Date of execution	Method	President		David Herold	7 July 1865	hanging	Abraham Lincoln		George Atzerodt	7 July 1865	hanging	Abraham Lincoln		Mary Surratt	7 July 1865	hanging	Abraham Lincoln		Charles J. Guiteau	30 June 1882	hanging	James Garfield		Leon Czolgosz	29 October 1901	electric chair	William McKinley

Military executions

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The United States military has executed 135 people since 1916. The last execution was in 1961.

• U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett on April 13, 1961 for rape and attempted murder.

Since 1865 (American Civil War) only one person has been executed for a purely military offense.

• Private Eddie Slovik, January 31, 1945, convicted of desertion

See also

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• Capital punishment in the United States

Lists of executed people