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The youngest person to have been executed in the 20th century was likely Joe Persons, a boy executed by hanging in Georgia on September 24, 1915 for the rape of an 8-year-old girl that he committed in June 1915. Persons reportedly confessed to the crime while he was on the gallows.
Joseph Arridy (/ ˈ ær ɪ d i /; April 29, 1915 – January 6, 1939) [1] [2] was an American man who was falsely convicted and wrongfully executed for the 1936 rape and murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado.
Dustin Higgs (2021) most recent execution by the United States federal government; Joe Hill (1915) Paul Jennings Hill (2003) Taberon Honie (2024) most recent execution in Utah; Murray Hooper (2022) most recent execution in Arizona; Mark Hopkinson (1992) first post-Gregg execution in Wyoming and last execution in Wyoming; Walter Horsford (1898 ...
Joseph E. Corcoran was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing four people in Allen County. Corcoran was convicted of killing the four men on May 22, 1999, and sentenced to death on Aug. 26, 1999.
Joseph Corcoran, an Allen County man convicted of killing four people, is set to be the first death row inmate to be executed in Indiana in 15 years.. The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday set ...
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
Joseph Corcoran, who was convicted of a quadruple homicide in 1997, was executed in Indiana early Wednesday, state prison officials announced, marking Indiana’s first execution in 15 years.
Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty. People who were threatened with death and never jailed. People who were jailed by extralegal groups or courts, for example, as often occurs in cases of sentences of stoning.