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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 to 1954, 28 people were executed in Vermont, 22 by hanging, 5 by electrocution, and 1 by firing squad.[2] Five were executed by local authorities and two by the military prior to 1864, when Vermont became the first state to move executions to its state prison, where the remaining 21 were executed.[3] All but one of those executed were white. 26 of the executions were of males, while 2 were of females.[2]

Executions 1778–1954

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Name Race Age Sex Date of Execution County Method Crime Victim(s) Governor
David Redding White 24 M June 11, 1778 Bennington Hanging Treason N/A[4] Thomas Chittenden
Cyrus Dean White M November 11, 1808 Chittenden Murder Capt. Jonathan Ormsby and Pvt. Asa Marsh, white[5] Isaac Tichenor
John Cummings White M July 12, 1813 Chittenden (Military) Desertion N/A[6] Jonas Galusha
David Lord White M July 28, 1813 Chittenden (Military) Firing squad Desertion N/A[7][8]
Samuel Godfrey White M February 13, 1818 Windsor Hanging Murder Thomas Hewlett, 46, white (guard)[9] Jonas Galusha
Luther Virginia Black M January 14, 1820 Franklin Murder Rufus W. Jackson, white[10]
Archibald Bates White 33 M February 6, 1839 Bennington Murder Harriet Jane Bates, 29, white (sister-in-law)[11] Silas H. Jennison
William Barnett White 58 M January 20, 1864 Chittenden Murder Anne Barnett, 35, white (wife)[12] J. Gregory Smith
Sandy Kavanaugh White 61 M Murder Katharine Kavanaugh, white (wife)[13]
John Ward White M March 21, 1868 Chittenden Murder Ephriam Griswold, 57, white[14] John B. Page
Hiram Miller White 30 M June 25, 1869 Windsor Murder-Robbery Joshua Goshing and Abigail Gowing, 56 and 51, white[15]
Henry Welcome White 18 M January 20, 1871 Chittenden Murder-Robbery Perry Russell, 72, white[16] John Wolcott Stewart
Henry Boudreau Gravelin White M March 14, 1879 Windsor Murder Herbert White, white[17][a] Redfield Proctor
John P. Phair White 33 M April 10, 1879 Rutland Murder-Robbery Ann Frieze (girlfriend)[18]
Asa S. Magoon White 59 M November 28, 1879 Washington Murder Rufus Streeter, 70, white[19]
Edward Tatro White 23 M April 2, 1880 Franklin Murder-Rape Alice A. Butler, 20, white[20]
Edwin Clay Hayden White 33 M February 25, 1881 Orleans Murder Gertrude White Hayden, 23, white (wife)[21] Roswell Farnham
Royal Carr White M April 29, 1881 Washington Murder William Wallace Marcommock, 35, Mixed[22][b][c]
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)[23] 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[24] John A. Mead
Arthur Bosworth White 28 M January 2, 1914 Chittenden Murder Mae Labelle, 19, white[25] Allen M. Fletcher
George Edward Warner White 51 M July 12, 1919 Windsor Electrocution Murder Henry Filmore and Georgia Ann Wiggins, 66 and 61, white (father- and mother-in-law)[26] Percival W. Clement
Bert A. Stacey White 54 M July 7, 1932 Washington Murder Ruth May Stacey, 31, white (wife)[27] Stanley C. Wilson
Ronald Watson White 21 M January 2, 1947 Rutland Murder-Robbery Henry Charles Teelon, 45, white[28] Mortimer R. Proctor
Francis Herbert Blair White 32 M February 8, 1954 Windsor Murder-Burglary Elizabeth Chase Weatherup, 54, white[29][30][d] Lee E. Emerson
Donald Edward DeMag White 31 M December 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. ↑ Half white, half Native American.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Executions in Vermont, from 1778-1954". deathpenaltyusa.org. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  3. ↑ Procedures, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and (1970). To Abolish the Death Penalty: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1760... March 20, 21, and July 2, 1968. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  4. ↑ David Redding, 1778 June 11
  5. ↑ Cyrus Dean, 1808 November 11
  6. ↑ John Cummings, VT, 1813 July 12
  7. ↑ David Lord, VT, 1813 July 28
  8. ↑ Index Card Summary of Execution(s), Undated
  9. ↑ "Samuel Godfrey, 1818 February 13". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  10. ↑ Luther Virginia, VT, 1820 January 14
  11. ↑ Archibald Bates, VT, 1839 February 6
  12. ↑ "William Barnett, 1864 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  13. ↑ "Sandy Kavanaugh, 1864 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  14. ↑ "John Ward, 1868 March 21". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  15. ↑ "Hiram Miller, 1869 June 25". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  16. ↑ "Henry Welcome, 1871 January 20". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  17. ↑ "Henery Gravelin, 1879 March 14". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  18. ↑ "John Phair, 1879 April 10". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  19. ↑ "Asa Magoon, VT, 1879 November 28". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  20. ↑ Edward Tatro, VT, 1880 April 2
  21. ↑ Edwin Hayden, VT, 1881 February 25
  22. ↑ "Royal Carr Murder Trial (William Wallace Murcommock); Austin Loomis Reference". News and Citizen. 1 January 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  23. ↑ Sylvester Bell, VT, 1892 January 1
  24. ↑ Elroy Kent, 1912 July 5
  25. ↑ "Arthur Bosworth, VT, 1914 January 2". archives.albany.edu. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  26. ↑ George Warner, 1919 July 12
  27. ↑ Bert Stacey, VT, 1932 July 7
  28. ↑ Ronald Watson, VT, 1947 January 2
  29. ↑ Francis Blair, 1954 February 8
  30. ↑ Donald DeMag, 1954 December 8
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