List of people executed in Rhode Island

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state and former colony of Rhode Island from 1670 to 1845.

Capital punishment was first abolished in Rhode Island in 1852, reinstated in 1873 and was finally abolished in 1984.^[1] 53 people were ever executed in Rhode Island, 51 by hanging, 1 by hanging, drawing and quartering and 1 by hanging and gibbeting.^[2] Only 8 of the executions were after Rhode Island’s statehood.

List of people executed in Rhode Island

British Colony

Colonial Era: 45 executions; 43 hanged, 1 hanged, drawn and quartered, 1 hanged and gibbeted

#	Name	Race	Sex	Date of Execution	Method	Crime(s)
1	Thomas Flounders[3]	White	M	November 2, 1670	Hanging	Murder[4]
2	Thomas Cornell Jr.			May 23, 1673		Matricide[3]
3	Punnean	Native American				Rape and Murder[3]
4	Joshua Tefft	White		January 18, 1676	Hanging, drawing and quartering[5]	Unlawfully fighting[5]
5	Peter Pylatt	Black		November 10, 1679	Hanging	Assault and Rape[3]
6	Job	Native American		September 12, 1712	Hanging and Gibbeting[6]	Kidnapping and Murder[6]
7	Jeremiah Meacham	White		May 12, 1715	Hanging	Murder
8	William Dyer			1718
9	Reuben Hull			June 23, 1718
10	William Blades			July 19, 1723		Piracy
11	Charles Harris
12	Thomas Hugget
13	Thomas Linnicar
14	Peter Cues
15	Daniel Hyde
16	William Jones
17	Stephen Mundon
18	Edward Eaton
19	Abraham Lacy
20	John Brown
21	Edward Lawson
22	James Sprinkley
23	John Tomkins
24	Joseph Sound
25	Francis Laughton
26	Charles Church
27	John Fitzgerald
28	William Stutfield
29	Owen Rice
30	William Rhad
31	Thomas Hazel
32	John Bright
33	Joseph Libby
34	Thomas Powest
35	John Waters
36	Francis Baudoine			November 3, 1738
37	Thomas Davis
38	Peter LeGrand
39	Peter Jesseau
40	Thomas Carter			May 10, 1751		Robbery and Murder
41	Samuel Parks			August 21, 1760		Piracy
42	Benjamin Hawkins
43	Fortune Price	Black		May 14, 1762		Arson
44	John Sherman	White		November 16, 1764		Burglary
45	Daniel Wilson			April 29, 1774		Rape[3]

State

Statehood: 8 executions; all hanged

#	Name	Race	Sex	Date of Execution	Method	Crime(s)
46	John Hart	White	M	May 17, 1777	Hanging	Treason
47	Thomas Mount			May 27, 1791		Burglary
48	David Comstock					Murder
49	Hopkins Hudson	?		October 26, 1798
50	Amasa Walmsley	Native American		June 1, 1832
51	Amos Miner	White		December 27, 1833
52	Charles Brown	Black				Robbery
53	John Gordon	White		February 14, 1845		Murder

See also

• Capital punishment in Rhode Island
• Capital punishment in the United States