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

• Capital punishment in Vermont
• Capital punishment in the United States

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.