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This is a list of people executed in New Jersey. No one has been executed by the state of New Jersey since 1963, although a statute reinstating capital punishment for murder had been in force from 1982 until 2007. New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007.[1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century.[2] The last execution for a crime other than murder (or conspiracy to murder) was of Andrew Clark in 1872 for rape. The last woman executed was Margaret Meierhoffer in 1881.

Except for a dozen slaves executed by burning in the early 18th century, executions in New Jersey were by hanging until 1906. Electrocution was used since then, with the exception of the execution of Frederick Lang in the Middlesex County jail by hanging in 1909. Hangings in New Jersey were carried out under the authority of the county in which the condemned man or woman was convicted; after the switch to the electric chair, all executions took place under state authority in the execution chamber of the Trenton State Prison, where death row and the electric chair resided.[3] In 1982, New Jersey resumed executions after the nationwide moratorium imposed by Furman v. Georgia; a year later, the state transitioned to lethal injection as their method of execution. However, they never ended up executing any inmates by that method. To this date, Ralph Hudson's 1963 electrocution is the last execution in New Jersey's state history.[4]

In 2006, New Jersey lawmakers drafted a moratorium on executions while a task force studied the fairness and cost of the death sentence. New Jersey had eight people on Death Row at the time.[5] On December 10, 2007, the New Jersey Senate passed bill to repeal the current death penalty statute, and replaced it with life imprisonment without parole. On Dec. 13, 2007, the state's General Assembly adopted the same law. Governor Corzine signed the bill into law on December 17, 2007.[6] All eight of New Jersey's death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life without parole.[4]

Executions in New Jersey, 1900-1963

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Name Age Race Method of Execution Date of Execution (YYYY-MM-DD) County Crime
James Brown ? Black Hanging 1900-02-09 Hudson Murder
Edward Williams ? Black Hanging 1900-03-09 Mercer Murder
Edward Clifford ? Black Hanging 1900-05-08 Hudson Murder
Robert Hill 28 White Hanging 1901-02-05 Camden Murder
Charles Brown ? ? Hanging 1901-12-03 Burlington Murder in the course of a robbery
Robert Henson ? Black Hanging 1901-12-27 Mercer Murder in the course of arson
John Young ? ? Hanging 1902-03-18 Burlington Murder in the course of a robbery
George Hettrick ? Black Hanging 1902-04-04 Mercer Murder
Samuel Van Stavern ? White Hanging 1902-04-08 Camden Murder
Henry Schaub ? White Hanging 1902-04-25 Essex Murder
Peter Herna ? White Hanging 1902-09-19 Bergen Murder
Lafayette Gruff ? ? Hanging 1902-09-19 Camden Murder
Job Williams 24 Black Hanging 1902-11-26 Cumberland Murder in the course of a robbery
Paul Woodward ? ? Hanging 1903-01-07 Camden Murder in the course of a robbery
Frank Raisinger ? White Hanging 1905-02-15 Cumberland Murder
Arthur Laster ? Black Hanging 1905-04-14 Passaic Murder in the course of a robbery
Joseph Miller ? Black Hanging 1905-04-14 Passaic Murder
Edwin Tapley, Jr. ? Black Hanging 1905-12-22 Hudson Murder
Charles Long ? Black Hanging 1906-01-12 Mercer Murder
Nicholas Murdaco 23 White Hanging 1906-01-26 Hudson Murder
Jerry Rossa ? White Hanging 1906-02-10 Bergen Murder
Guisseppe Marmo ? White Hanging 1906-03-22 Essex Murder
Rufus Johnson 31 Black Hanging 1906-03-24 Burlington Murder in the course of a sexual assault and robbery
George Smalls ? Black Hanging 1906-03-24 Burlington Murder in the course of a sexual assault and robbery
Edward Brown ? Black Hanging 1906-06-28 Monmouth Murder
Samuel Monich ? White Hanging 1906-08-10 Morris Murder
Saverio DiGiovanni 31 White Electric chair 1907-12-11 Somerset Murder of Joseph Sansome in September 1907
Stephen Dorsey 26 Black Electric chair 1907-12-17 Camden Murder in the course of a robbery
Charles Gibson 31 Black Electric chair 1907-12-17 Camden Murder in the course of a robbery
James Stewart 22 Black Electric chair 1908-02-04 Camden Murder
Gilbert Matticks 45 Black Electric chair 1908-02-25 Cumberland Murder
George Wilson 27 Black Electric chair 1908-03-03 Essex Murder in the course of a robbery
Michael Tomasi 25 White Electric chair 1908-03-09 Hunterdon Murder
Giacento Ricci 35 White Electric chair 1908-12-22 Middlesex Murder in the course of a sexual assault
John Montessana 50 White Electric chair 1909-01-11 Essex Murder
Sabino Millilio 32 White Electric chair 1909-01-18 Hudson Murder
Adolphus Walker 27 Black Electric chair 1909-02-17 Camden Murder
Frederick Lang ? White Hanging 1909-02-23 Middlesex Murder of his niece, Gate Gordon, on April 20, 1906, after she rejected his marriage proposal; he was hanged because the murder occurred before the electric chair law came into effect
Adolph Bertchey 49 White Electric chair 1909-08-10 Ocean Murder during a burglary
Richard Donegan 27 White Electric chair 1909-09-07 Cumberland Murder
George Ves 32 White Electric chair 1910-01-25 Middlesex Murder
Petro Silverio 39 White Electric chair 1910-08-09 Passaic Murder
Arthur Rose 25 Black Electric chair 1910-08-16 Passaic Murder
Howard Savage 35 Black Electric chair 1910-08-30 Hudson Murder
Gyula Toft 22 White Electric chair 1911-01-03 Somerset Murder
John Sears 33 Black Electric chair 1911-03-15 Mercer Murder during a burglary
Christopher Buntin 34 Black Electric chair 1911-04-18 Essex Murder
Frank Heideman 27 White Electric chair 1911-05-23 Monmouth Murder in the course of a sexual assault
Antonio Luciano 28 White Electric chair 1912-01-16 Essex Murder
Mariano Bellini 25 White Electric chair 1912-03-12 Middlesex Murder
Alexander Kompovic 62 White Electric chair 1912-11-04 Middlesex Murder
Joseph Kiviatkowski 30 White Electric chair 1913-01-04 Hudson Murder
Charles Ford 43 White Electric chair 1913-02-18 Camden Murder
Sanders Sylvanus 45 White Electric chair 1913-06-17 Hunterdon Murder
William Diamond 21 Black Electric chair 1913-12-02 Mercer Murder of Eli Stetser, a prison guard, during attempted prison break on Sept. 22, 1913
Edwin Williams 30 Black Electric chair 1913-12-16 Camden Murder
William Overton 27 Black Electric chair 1913-12-30 Essex Murder
Antonio Fiore 34 White Electric chair 1914-02-10 Essex Murder
Raffael Longo 46 White Electric chair 1914-05-26 Union Murder
John Dolan 41 White Electric chair 1914-08-08 Essex Murder
Joseph Toth 23 White Electric chair 1914-11-02 Middlesex Murder
Stefano Ruggierri 17 White Electric chair 1914-12-22 Somerset Murder
Griffin Johnson 46 Black Electric chair 1915-01-05 Burlington Murder
Richard Sparks 16 Black Electric chair 1915-01-05 Monmouth Murder in the course of a robbery
George Green 24 Black Electric chair 1915-01-05 Monmouth Murder in the course of a robbery
Adolph Kubaszewski 30 White Electric chair 1915-01-26 Essex Murder
August Martin 40 White Electric chair 1915-02-02 Hudson Murder
Tony Haronovick 26 White Electric chair 1915-11-30 Passaic Murder
Edgar C. Murphy 28 White Electric chair 1915-12-07 Burlington Shot and killed Herman Fisher in July 1911
Emil Swentain 30 White Electric chair 1916-07-05 Monmouth Murder
Wilson Ashbridge 22 White Electric chair 1917-01-02 Camden Murder
Calogero Pettito 34 White Electric chair 1917-03-27 Salem Murder in the course of a robbery
Francesco Nicolisi 23 White Electric chair 1917-03-27 Salem Murder in the course of a robbery
Paul Maywoon 32 White Electric chair 1917-08-14 Hunterdon Murder
Giovanni Iraca 34 White Electric chair 1918-02-09 Burlington Murder
Thomas Conway 32 White Electric chair 1918-04-09 Camden Murder
Frank Laviere 27 White Electric chair 1919-08-19 Middlesex Murder in the course of a robbery
Michael DePalma 33 White Electric chair 1919-08-19 Middlesex Murder in the course of a robbery
Gerino Palmieri 24 White Electric chair 1919-08-19 Middlesex Murder in the course of a robbery
Camill Martin 25 White Electric chair 1920-09-14 Essex Murder
Philip Schilling 29 White Electric chair 1921-02-01 Essex Murder
Stephen Carrigan 35 White Electric chair 1921-03-15 Passaic Murder
Frederick Pierson 40 Black Electric chair 1921-07-26 Warren Murder
Harold V. Lamble (AKA George Brandon) 29 White Electric chair 1921-08-23 Union Murder of Edith Janny and Arthur P. Kupfer on Aug. 21, 1918
William Fitzsimmons 32 White Electric chair 1921-08-23 Middlesex Murder
Raymond P. Schuck ? White Electric chair 1921-08-30 Camden Murder in the course of a robbery
Frank J. James ? White Electric chair 1921-08-30 Camden Murder in the course of a robbery
Louis Lively 37 Black Electric chair 1922-01-17 Burlington Murder
George Knight 26 Black Electric chair 1922-01-17 Middlesex Murder in the course of a sexual assault and robbery
George Gares 56 White Electric chair 1922-02-02 Middlesex Murder and sexual assault of a female child
William Morehouse 57 White Electric chair 1922-05-31 Essex Murder during a burglary
Guilford Young 28 White Electric chair 1922-09-15 Camden Murder
William Battles 19 Black Electric chair 1923-02-13 Essex Murder in the course of a sexual assault
Frank Sage 31 White Electric chair 1924-01-15 Hudson Murder
Antonio Turco 34 White Electric chair 1924-01-29 Sussex Murder in the course of a robbery
Angelino Carlino 38 White Electric chair 1924-01-29 Sussex Murder in the course of a robbery
Frank Taylor 34 White Electric chair 1924-07-15 Gloucester Murder
Edward Allen 25 White Electric chair 1924-07-15 Gloucester Murder
Tony Briglia 25 White Electric chair 1924-07-15 Gloucester Murder
Anthony Bagdanowitz 23 White Electric chair 1924-07-15 Camden Murder
Anthony Staub 59 White Electric chair 1924-07-22 Passaic Murder
Daniel Genese 24 White Electric chair 1925-12-15 Somerset Murder in the course of a robbery
James Lynch 28 White Electric chair 1926-11-30 Bergen Murder in the course of a robbery
Peter Doro 32 White Electric chair 1927-01-11 Essex Murder
Paul William Feursten 45 White Electric chair 1927-05-17 Camden Murder of Harriet A. Vickers on Jun. 29, 1926
Salvatore Merra 49 White Electric chair 1927-08-05 Essex Murder
Louis Capozzi 27 White Electric chair 1927-11-18 Essex Murder in the course of a robbery
Joseph "Big Joe" Juliano 35 White Electric chair 1927-11-18 Essex Murder in the course of a robbery
Christopher Barone 21 White Electric chair 1927-11-18 Essex Murder in the course of a robbery
Nick "Little Joe" Juliano 28 White Electric chair 1927-11-18 Essex Murder in the course of a robbery
George Yarrow 28 White Electric chair 1928-06-01 Gloucester Murder in the course of a sexual assault
David Ware 49 Black Electric chair 1929-05-31 Mercer Murder
Peter Kudzinowski 25 White Electric chair 1929-12-21 Hudson Serial killer; murders of 20-year-old Harry Quinn, 5-year-old Julia Mlodzianowski, and 7-year-old Joseph Storelli
Joseph Marrazzo 29 White Electric chair 1930-01-10 Mercer Murder
Frank Pannatiere 26 White Electric chair 1930-01-10 Mercer Murder
Henry Colin Campbell (AKA Henry Close) 62 White Electric chair 1930-04-18 Union Murder of Mildred Mowry in 1929; suspected of murdering Margaret Brown in 1928
Joseph Rado 27 White Electric chair 1930-07-22 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
John Murray 32 White Electric chair 1930-07-22 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Louis Malanga 23 White Electric chair 1930-07-22 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Victor Giampietro 24 White Electric chair 1930-07-22 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Arthur Cort 22 White Electric chair 1930-12-29 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
William Gimbel 21 White Electric chair 1930-12-29 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Joseph Calabrese 24 White Electric chair 1930-12-29 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Daniel Grosso 32 White Electric chair 1931-04-10 Union Murder during the course of a robbery
Joseph Rusnak 25 White Electric chair 1931-07-14 Hudson Murder
Bonaventura Nardella 43 White Electric chair 1931-07-20 Passaic Murder
Vincent Leonar 36 White Electric chair 1931-07-27 Essex Murder
Charles Fithian 22 White Electric chair 1931-12-30 Salem Murder of J. William MacCausland during a botched robbery attempt
Peter Giordano 20 White Electric chair 1931-12-30 Salem Murder of J. William MacCausland during a botched robbery attempt
William Frazier 31 White Electric chair 1932-04-01 Union Murder
Raymond George 22 Black Electric chair 1932-04-25 Hudson Murder
Eugene Compo 22 White Electric chair 1932-06-08 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Giuseppe Di Dolce 43 White Electric chair 1932-07-20 Union Murder
John Hart 32 Black Electric chair 1933-04-05 Union Murder
Louis Fine 50 White Electric chair 1933-06-12 Atlantic Murder during the course of a robbery
Andreacy Kumachinsky 52 White Electric chair 1933-11-08 Hunterdon Murder
Melroyal Burrell 33 Black Electric chair 1934-03-26 Essex Murder
George DiStefano 25 White Electric chair 1935-03-15 Mercer Murder during the course of a robbery
Michael Mule 23 White Electric chair 1935-03-15 Mercer Murder during the course of a robbery
Connie Scarponi 23 White Electric chair 1935-03-15 Mercer Murder during the course of a robbery
John Favorito 25 White Electric chair 1935-10-15 Bergen Murder during the course of a robbery
Kurt Barth 22 White Electric chair 1935-10-15 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Romaine Johnson 32 Black Electric chair 1935-12-30 Cumberland Murder during the course of a sexual assault and robbery
Bruno Richard Hauptmann 36 White Electric chair 1936-04-03 Hunterdon Famous kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. on March 2, 1932
Charles Zied 37 White Electric chair 1936-06-22 Camden Murder
Edward Metalski 26 White Electric chair 1936-08-04 Middlesex Murder
Ramon Cota (AKA Orby Hethcoat) 35 White Electric chair 1938-01-21 Mercer Murder
William Stephan 29 White Electric chair 1938-02-08 Camden Murder during the course of a robbery
Doran Roach 27 Black Electric chair 1938-03-22 Union Murder of Celia Kadesh and her daughter by stabbing
Albert Faria 30 White Electric chair 1938-04-01 Essex Murder
Harry Simmons 26 Native American Electric chair 1938-04-01 Essex Murder
Smalley Burrell 23 Black Electric chair 1938-08-23 Gloucester Murder during the course of a robbery
William Brown 23 Black Electric chair 1938-08-23 Gloucester Murder during the course of a robbery
Walter Dworecki 42 White Electric chair 1940-03-28 Camden Conspiracy to commit murder
William Kupkosky 31 White Electric chair 1941-12-02 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
George Foulds 23 White Electric chair 1942-01-06 Mercer Murder during the course of a robbery
Robert Cox 31 Black Electric chair 1942-03-10 Camden Murder
John Swan 26 Black Electric chair 1944-02-15 Middlesex Sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Marion Oliver
Howard Jefferson 30 Black Electric chair 1944-02-29 Salem Murder during the course of a sexual assault
Arthur Degroat 35 Black Electric chair 1945-11-05 Bergen Murder
Daniel Molnar 23 White Electric chair 1945-11-27 Middlesex Murder
Robert Deegan 28 White Electric chair 1945-12-11 Bergen Murder during the course of a robbery
James Brooks 24 Black Electric chair 1948-04-23 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
George Hicks 22 Black Electric chair 1948-09-28 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
George Cole 24 Black Electric chair 1948-09-28 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Ralph Cordasco 51 White Electric chair 1949-06-27 Essex Murder
Alfred Collins 36 Black Electric chair 1949-08-16 Gloucester Murder during the course of a sexual assault and robbery
Buford Tansimore 52 Black Electric chair 1950-04-04 Essex Murder
Howard Auld 26 White Electric chair 1951-05-27 Camden Murder during the course of a sexual assault
Clarence Smith 38 White Electric chair 1952-05-13 Essex Murder
Frederick Dunk 26 White Electric chair 1952-05-13 Essex Murder
Robert Jellison 23 White Electric chair 1952-05-13 Essex Murder
Irving Peterson 33 Black Electric chair 1952-08-26 Monmouth Murder
Theodore Walker 22 Black Electric chair 1954-07-27 Mercer Murder during the course of a sexual assault and robbery
James Beard 40 Black Electric chair 1954-08-17 Camden Murder
Frank Roscus 34 White Electric chair 1955-01-04 Essex Murder
Eugene Monahan 44 White Electric chair 1955-01-11 Union Murder during the course of a robbery
Felipe Rios 27 Asian (Filipino) Electric chair 1955-05-03 Camden Murder during the course of a robbery
Joaquin Rodriguez 33 Asian (Filipino) Electric chair 1955-05-03 Camden Murder during the course of a robbery
Jose Cruz 25 Asian (Filipino) Electric chair 1955-05-03 Camden Murder during the course of a robbery
Alfred Stokes 21 Black Electric chair 1955-09-02 Union Murder during the course of a robbery
Harry Wise 22 Black Electric chair 1955-09-02 Union Murder during the course of a robbery
Albert Wise 24 Black Electric chair 1955-09-02 Union Murder during the course of a robbery
John Henry Tune 24 Black Electric chair 1956-08-21 Essex Murder during the course of a robbery
Fred Sturdivant 23 Black Electric chair 1962-07-03 Essex Sexual assault and murder of his 4+1⁄2-year-old stepdaughter
Joseph R. Ernst 25 White Electric chair 1962-07-31 Camden Murder of Joan Connor, his ex-girlfriend
Ralph Hudson 43 Black Electric chair 1963-01-22 Atlantic Murder of Myrtle Hudson, his estranged wife

A complete list of 15,269 executions in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in the 1970s was compiled by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla, and was made available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/ESPYstate.pdf
  2. ^ http://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa1/state/new_jersey2.htm
  3. ^ http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/ESPYstate.pdf
  4. ^ a b "New Jersey". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  5. ^ New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (Gdabout)
  6. ^ New Jersey Senate Bill No. 171
  7. ^ http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/ESPYstate.pdf
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