List of people executed in the United States in 1938

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One hundred and eighty-eight people, one hundred and eighty-six male and two female, were executed in the United States in 1938, one hundred and twenty-two by electrocution, thirty-three by hanging, thirty-two by gas chamber, and one by firing squad.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 1938

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No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 6, 1938 Salvatore Ossido 27 26 1 Male White New York Electrocution [2]
2 January 7, 1938 Frank Wilhelm 24 23 Asian California Hanging [3]
3 January 14, 1938 Elvin Jack Odom 27 26 White Arizona Gas chamber [4]
4 Willis Fuller 28 27 Indiana Electrocution [5]
5 Albert Lee Hemphill 23 22 Black Texas [6]
6 January 15, 1938 Owen J. Cauche 29 7 White Louisiana Hanging [7]
7 Anthony Dallao 33 26
8 Joseph Ugarte 27 20
9 Franklin Robideau 49 49 0 Montana [8]
10 January 17, 1938 William McKinley Gardner 37 34 3 Ohio Electrocution [9]
11 Charles J. Hines 26 25 1
12 January 18, 1938 Anthony DiStasio 26 24 2 Massachusetts [10]
13 Frank DiStasio 52 50
14 January 21, 1938 James Sermons 29 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
15 Ramon A. Cota 35 34 1 White New Jersey Electrocution [11]
16 January 24, 1938 John Milton Mercer 29 21 8 Iowa Hanging [12]
17 Allen Baldwin Wheaton 21 20 1
18 January 28, 1938 Frank Millhouse 18 15 3 Black Alabama Electrocution [13]
19 R.P. Vaughn 20 17
20 Angelo Ralph Giancola 22 21 1 White Illinois [14]
21 Marie Porter 38 37 Female
22 February 4, 1938 Duncan Pigue 27 Unknown Unknown Male Black Arkansas [1]
23 James Marshall 30 Unknown Unknown North Carolina Gas chamber [15]
24 February 7, 1938 Walter Strantz 37 36 1 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [16]
25 February 8, 1938 William John Stephan 31 29 2 New Jersey [17]
26 February 18, 1938 Roy Leon Righthouse 28 27 1 California Hanging [18]
27 Lee Goodwin Unknown Unknown
28 Milford Harris Exum 40 Unknown Unknown North Carolina Gas chamber [19]
29 Edgar Leroy Smoak Sr. 37 3
30 February 23, 1938 Clifford Hawkins 25 24 1 Washington Hanging [20]
31 February 24, 1938 Charles James Brown 30 29 Black New York Electrocution [1]
32 February 25, 1938 Leroy Ware 19 Unknown Unknown Arkansas
33 Claud Henry Ryan 34 33 1 White Washington Hanging [21]
34 March 4, 1938 John Brown 35 2 Black Missouri Gas chamber [22]
35 William Wright 32 27 5
36 March 5, 1938 Raymond Boyer 33 31 2 White [23]
37 March 11, 1938 Willie Noble 25 24 1 Black Arkansas Electrocution [24]
38 March 15, 1938 Leroy Kelley 33 32 Texas [25]
39 March 18, 1938 Lester Warfel Brockelhurst Jr. 24 23 White Arkansas [26]
40 Joe Newt Sims 30 29
41 Norman Wesley Robinson 29 27 2 Black District of Columbia [27]
42 March 21, 1938 Martin Joseph Sullivan 71 70 1 White Pennsylvania [28]
43 Orville Adkins 25 25 0 West Virginia Hanging [29]
44 John Travis 24 1
45 Arnett Allen Booth 47 47 0
46 March 22, 1938 Doran Roach 27 26 1 Black New Jersey Electrocution [30]
47 March 25, 1938 Everett Jones 33 32 White Ohio [31]
48 James Jackson 28 26 2 Black Virginia [32]
49 Jasper McNeill 24 24 0
50 March 28, 1938 Ralph E. Hawk 21 20 1 White Pennsylvania [33]
51 Fred Reibaldi 27 26
52 Albert Gregg 32 32 0
53 March 31, 1938 Virgil Terrill 25 Unknown Unknown Black Texas [34]
54 April 1, 1938 Albert Faria 31 30 1 White New Jersey [35]
55 Harry Peter Simmons 27 26 Native American
56 April 8, 1938 Joe Martin 31 Unknown Unknown Black Virginia [1]
57 April 12, 1938 Frank Palko 25 22 3 White Connecticut [36]
58 April 13, 1938 Earnest Gaines 25 0 Black South Carolina [1]
59 April 15, 1938 Gus McKinney 19 18 1 Tennessee [37]
60 April 19, 1938 Marlo Marcus Heinz 32 29 3 White Iowa Hanging [38]
61 Franz A. Jacobsen 30 28 2
62 J.C. Scott 22 22 0 Black Illinois Electrocution [1]
63 April 25, 1938 Edward Rose 20 2 White Pennsylvania [39]
64 Theodore Duminiak 20 18
65 John Oreszak
66 April 29, 1938 Waddell Hadley 22 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [40]
67 Sylvester Outlaw 32 31 1
68 Benjamin Rivers 46 44 2 South Carolina Electrocution [41]
69 Johnnie Banks 25 Unknown Unknown Texas [42]
70 April 30, 1938 John Walker Vaughn 32 31 1 White [43]
71 May 3, 1938 Monroe White 33 32 Black Indiana [1]
72 May 6, 1938 Archie Haywood 37 36 Georgia
73 Heber Luther Hicks 40 38 2 White Indiana [44]
74 Henderson Young 15 Unknown Unknown Black Texas [45]
75 Roscoe Young 17 Unknown Unknown
76 May 10, 1938 Paul Layes 34 32 2 White [46]
77 May 13, 1938 George Thomas 21 21 0 Black Georgia [1]
78 Edward Philip Simpson 40 39 1 White Massachusetts [47]
79 Raymond Styers 25 24 West Virginia Hanging [48]
80 May 20, 1938 Troy Triplett 23 22 Kentucky Electrocution [49]
81 Ollie Armstrong Unknown Unknown Unknown Black Mississippi Hanging [50]
82 Alvin Taylor Unknown Unknown Unknown
83 May 26, 1938 Terrence Roberts 26 25 1 White New York Electrocution [51]
84 May 31, 1938 Charlie Brooks 41 39 2 Black Texas [52]
85 June 1, 1938 John Dee Smith 22 19 3 White Indiana [53]
86 June 2, 1938 Lawrence Marks 50 49 1 New York [54]
87 June 3, 1938 Harold Van Venison 30 30 0 Black Kentucky Hanging [55]
88 Tonnie Moore 26 25 1 Texas Electrocution [56]
89 June 10, 1938 Empie Baldwin 25 0 North Carolina Gas chamber [57]
90 June 13, 1938 Wendell Forrest Bowers 20 19 1 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [58]
91 June 17, 1938 Levy Lamar Rozier 41 Unknown Unknown Georgia [59]
92 Lonnie Gardner 27 26 1 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [60]
93 Apsom Outlaw 28 27
94 Tommie Wells 24 Unknown Unknown Texas Electrocution [61]
95 Mark Henry Calhoun 18 Unknown Unknown
96 June 20, 1938 Orson Williams 28 Unknown Unknown Florida [62]
97 June 24, 1938 Frank Carter 26 25 1 Arkansas [63]
98 Theo Thomas 28 27
99 June 27, 1938 Thomas B. Williams 19 19 0 Ohio [64]
100 June 28, 1938 Robert Shaw 28 28 White Indiana [65]
101 June 30, 1938 Raymond Batson 32 4 Black Missouri Gas chamber [66]
102 July 1, 1938 Wiley Brice 37 25 12 North Carolina [67]
103 William Andrew Payne 41 41 0 White
104 John Washington Turner 36 36
105 July 5, 1938 Willie Randolph 34 34 Black Florida Electrocution [68]
106 July 6, 1938 William Hobbs 33 32 1 White Ohio [69]
107 July 8, 1938 Hugh Marshall Jr. 20 19 Indiana [70]
108 Vurtis Neal 24 22 2
109 Anthony Chebatoris 40 39 1 Federal government Hanging [71]
110 July 13, 1938 Robert Anderson Snow 27 27 0 Ohio Electrocution [72]
111 July 14, 1938 John Henry Seadlund Federal government [73]
112 July 15, 1938 Johnnie Jones 35 34 1 Black Missouri Gas chamber [74]
113 July 18, 1938 Michael Fugmann 54 51 3 White Pennsylvania Electrocution [75]
114 July 22, 1938 Mack Davidson 28 Unknown Unknown Black Alabama [76]
115 Gary Young 41 40 1
116 July 25, 1938 Arthur Mosby 26 Unknown Unknown Tennessee [77]
117 July 29, 1938 L.O. Goodman Unknown Unknown Unknown South Carolina [1]
118 Fobie Grays 22 22 0 Texas [78]
119 August 2, 1938 Vince Boss 20 2 White [79]
120 August 5, 1938 Stanley N. Knapp 20 19 1 Washington Hanging [80]
121 August 11, 1938 Felix John Cummings 28 25 3 New York Electrocution [81]
122 George Lewis 26 23
123 August 12, 1938 Glen J. Applegate 46 45 1 Federal government Hanging [82]
124 Robert J. Suhay 25 24
125 August 18, 1938 John Rylowicz 39 38 New York Electrocution [83]
126 August 19, 1938 Curtis Cobb 22 21 Black Alabama [84]
127 Willie James Whitfield 17 16
128 Callan Hardy Morgan 37 36 White Texas [85]
129 Jesus E. Polanco 22 19 3 Hispanic
130 August 23, 1938 William Albert Brown 24 23 1 Black New Jersey [86]
131 Smalley Burrell
132 August 28, 1938 Richard Hammond 31 30 Maryland Hanging [1]
133 August 29, 1938 James Albert Turner 25 Unknown Unknown
134 September 2, 1938 Francisco Aguirre 30 29 1 Hispanic California [87]
135 Parkie Denny 44 42 2 White Kentucky Electrocution [88]
136 September 16, 1938 Albert Dyer 33 31 California Hanging [89]
137 September 23, 1938 L.J. Jefferson 18 17 1 Black North Carolina Gas chamber [90]
138 Tom Linney 32 31
139 September 26, 1938 William Gentry Peters 44 43 Ohio Electrocution [1]
140 September 30, 1938 Henry A. Noelke 33 32 White Indiana [91]
141 George Ford 20 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [1]
142 October 7, 1938 Adam C. Richetti 29 23 6 White Missouri [92]
143 October 10, 1938 Fred Holland Mitchell 23 Unknown Unknown Black Pennsylvania Electrocution [93]
144 October 14, 1938 Harrison Wells 49 48 1 California Hanging [94]
145 October 21, 1938 John Jelliga 33 33 0 White Illinois Electrocution [95]
146 Henry Mathias Unknown Unknown Unknown Louisiana Hanging [1]
147 October 26, 1938 Sam Thomas 23 22 1 Black Ohio Electrocution
148 October 28, 1938 Ralph Benton 40 39 Georgia
149 Walter Melton 31 30 [96]
150 Leonard Mosley 43 43 0 Kentucky [1]
151 Granville Allen 28 26 2 Missouri Gas chamber [97]
152 Salinas Canedo 26 24 Hispanic Texas Electrocution [1]
153 October 31, 1938 Antonio Peronace 36 35 1 White Pennsylvania [98]
154 John W. Deering 40 39 Utah Firing squad [99]
155 November 3, 1938 Carl Ferrito 21 20 Ohio Electrocution [100]
156 November 4, 1938 Isaac McBride 31 30 Black Georgia [101]
157 Byron Ethelbert King 28 25 3 White Missouri Gas chamber [102]
158 November 10, 1938 Buck Etheridge 20 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia Electrocution [103]
159 November 18, 1938 Rhuel James Dalhover 32 31 1 White Federal government [104]
160 Ed Robinson 33 Unknown Unknown Black North Carolina Gas chamber [105]
161 November 21, 1938 Joseph R. O’Donnell 40 37 3 White Washington Hanging [106]
162 November 25, 1938 Jimmie Brown 25 25 0 Black Alabama Electrocution [1]
163 Conrad Vaughan 27 Unknown Unknown White
164 Frank Knight 26 Unknown Unknown Black Georgia
165 Otis Cypress 29 29 0 Virginia [107]
166 George Washington Pingley 44 43 1 White
167 November 29, 1938 Louis Carrol 23 23 0 Black Mississippi Hanging [108]
168 November 30, 1938 George Gilbert 28 27 1 Georgia Electrocution [1]
169 Fred Mosley 47 46 White Ohio [109]
170 December 2, 1938 Robert Lee Cannon 30 29 California Gas chamber [110]
171 Albert Kessel 29 28
172 John Howie Black North Carolina [1]
173 December 7, 1938 Anna Marie Hahn 32 31 Female White Ohio Electrocution [111]
174 December 9, 1938 Fred Barnes 40 39 Male California Gas chamber [112]
175 Wesley Eudy 34 33
176 Raymond Carter 25 25 0 Black Georgia Electrocution [113]
177 Arthur Mack 26 24 2
178 Arthur Perry 25 23
179 Charlie Rucker 18 18 0
180 Willie Drew Russell 31 31
181 John Henry Williams 21 21
182 Theodore Blanchard 24 24 Mississippi Hanging [114]
183 William Baxter Parnell 33 33 White North Carolina Gas chamber [115]
184 George Gates 21 Unknown Unknown Black South Carolina Electrocution [1]
185 December 16, 1938 Ed Davis 37 36 1 White California Gas chamber [116]
186 Morris Norman 20 20 0 Black Texas Electrocution [117]
187 December 21, 1938 Stephen Figuli 21 1 White Ohio [118]
188 December 30, 1938 Adolph Smith 23 23 0 Black Alabama [119]

Executions in recent years

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Number of executions
1939 162
1938 188
1937 151
Total 501
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t “Executions in the U.S. 1608-2002: The ESPY File” (PDF). Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
  2. ^ “OSSIDO PUT TO DEATH; Brooklyn Killer of Girl, 9, Pays Penalty in Electric Chair”. The New York Times. January 7, 1938.
  3. ^ “People v. Wilhelm”. Stanford Law School.
  4. ^ “Poison Gas Executes Slayer”. San Jose News. January 14, 1938. p. 1.
  5. ^ “Electrocuted for Murder”. Lawrence Journal-World. January 14, 1938. p. 1.
  6. ^ “Wire Briefs”. Prescott Evening Courier. January 14, 1938. p. 2.
  7. ^ “Three Hanged for Slaying Guard”. The Evening Independent. January 15, 1938. p. 18.
  8. ^ “Murderer of Family Dies”. San Jose News. January 15, 1938. p. 27.
  9. ^ “Two Die in Chair”. St. Petersburg Times. January 17, 1938. p. 23.
  10. ^ “Father, Son Die in Chair for Murder”. The Southeast Missourian. January 18, 1938. p. 1.
  11. ^ “Hammer-Murderer Dies”. The Pittsburgh Press. January 22, 1938. p. 11.
  12. ^ “Two Women Witnesses at Double Hanging”. The Windsor Daily Star. January 24, 1938. p. 11.
  13. ^ “Negro Gets Reprieve”. The Tuscaloosa News. January 19, 1938. p. 10.
  14. ^ “ILLINOIS EXECUTES WOMAN; First in State in Chair, With Man in Insurance Slaying”. The New York Times. January 28, 1938.
  15. ^ “Executed for Burglary”. The Toledo News-Bee. February 4, 1938. p. 3.
  16. ^ “Pays Penalty With Life For ‘Murder Expedition;’ Displays Little Emotion”. Mount Carmel Item via newspapers.com. February 7, 1938. p. 1.
  17. ^ “Goes to Chair for Jersey Slaying”. The New York Times. February 9, 1938.
  18. ^ “Fresno Man Is Hanged For Slaying”. The Fresno Bee via newspapers.com. February 18, 1938. p. 1.
  19. ^ “Two White Men Die In Prison Gas Chamber, One For Slaying Negro”. The Daily Times-News via newspapers.com. February 18, 1938. p. 1.
  20. ^ “Slayer Of Two Pays”. The News Tribune via newspapers.com. February 23, 1938. p. 1.
  21. ^ “Noose Awaits Young Slayer”. The Spokesman-Review. February 25, 1938. p. 13.
  22. ^ “Executed by Gas”. Daytona Beach Morning Journal. March 5, 1938. p. 2.
  23. ^ “Slayer Dies With Secret of Identity”. The Southeast Missourian. March 5, 1938. p. 1.
  24. ^ “Noble v. State”. vLex.
  25. ^ “Kelley v. State”. vLex.
  26. ^ “Crime Tourist Goes To Chair”. The Tuscaloosa News. March 18, 1938. p. 2.
  27. ^ “DC Killer Mum as He Walks to Chair”. The Afro-American. March 26, 1938. p. 14.
  28. ^ “Sullivan Pays With Life For Mass Slaying Here”. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 21, 1938. p. 2.
  29. ^ “Laughter at Triple Hangings Sharply Condemned by Sheriff”. The Southeast Missourian. March 23, 1938. p. 8.
  30. ^ “Negro Slayer Dies In Chair in Jersey”. Schenectady Gazette. March 23, 1938. p. 33.
  31. ^ “Reads Indictment Of Ohio’s Penal System, Goes to Chair”. The Portsmouth Times. March 23, 1938. p. 29.
  32. ^ “Jasper McNeill Pays With Life”. The Bladen Journal. March 31, 1938. p. 1.
  33. ^ “Triple Execution in Pennsylvania Prison”. The Lewiston Daily Sun. March 28, 1938. p. 6.
  34. ^ “Huntsville Death House Will Have 8”. The Victoria Advocate. March 30, 1938. p. 1.
  35. ^ “New Jersey Claims Lives of 2 Killers”. Prescott Evening Courier. April 2, 1938. p. 2.
  36. ^ “Palko v. Connecticut”. Justia Law.
  37. ^ “Only Governor Can Save Tenn. Slayer”. The Afro-American. January 29, 1938. p. 19.
  38. ^ “Two Die on Gallows”. The Pittsburgh Press. April 19, 1938. p. 9.
  39. ^ “Three Youths Die in Chair”. Reading Eagle. April 25, 1938. p. 2.
  40. ^ “Two Negroes Die; One Confesses”. The News and Observer via newspapers.com. April 30, 1938. p. 11.
  41. ^ “Charleston Negro Put to Death for Killing Officer”. Herald-Journal. April 30, 1938. p. 4.
  42. ^ “Convict Executed on Fourth Attempt”. The Pittsburgh Press. April 30, 1938. p. 3.
  43. ^ “Slayer John Vaughn Is Executed in Texas Prison”. Lawrence Journal-World. April 30, 1938. p. 2.
  44. ^ “‘Head and Hands’ Slayer Pays for Crime in Chair”. The Telegraph-Herald. May 6, 1938. p. 1.
  45. ^ “Negro Brothers Die Together in Chair”. The Southeast Missourian. May 6, 1938. p. 1.
  46. ^ “Texan Dies in Chair for Slaying”. Kentucky New Era. May 10, 1938. p. 2.
  47. ^ “Simpson Executed For Newton Cop Slayings”. Lewiston Evening Journal. May 13, 1938. p. 5.
  48. ^ “Styers in ‘Strait Jacket’ For ‘Last Mile’ to Gallows”. The Pittsburgh Press. May 14, 1938. p. 1.
  49. ^ “Troy Triplett, 22, Is Executed for Death of 13-year-old Boy”. Kentucky New Era. May 21, 1938. p. 1.
  50. ^ “Two Negroes Hanged for Calhoun Murder”. The Greenwood Commonwealth via newspapers.com. May 21, 1938. p. 1.
  51. ^ “Convicted Slayer Dies at Sing Sing”. Schenectady Gazette. May 27, 1938. p. 1.
  52. ^ “Charlie Brooks Is Refused Clemency”. The Victoria Advocate. May 29, 1938. p. 1.
  53. ^ “Late Bulletins”. Prescott Evening Couriter. June 1, 1938. p. 1.
  54. ^ “TO ASK LEHMAN CLEMENCY; Hearings on Pleas of Five Murderers Will Be Held May 20”. The New York Times. May 7, 1938.
  55. ^ “Negro Dies on Gallows”. San Jose Evening News. June 3, 1938. p. 4.
  56. ^ “Texas Negro is Executed Today”. The Victoria Advocate. June 3, 1938. p. 1.
  57. ^ “Negro Pays Penalty”. The Bladen Journal. June 16, 1938. p. 2.
  58. ^ “Wendell Bowers is Electrocuted”. The Evening Independent. June 13, 1938. p. 1.
  59. ^ “Georgia Farmer Executed”. The Evening Independent. June 18, 1938. p. 2.
  60. ^ “Die For Assaults”. The Tuscaloosa News. June 17, 1938. p. 2.
  61. ^ “2 Negro Rapists Electrocuted”. Kentucky New Era. June 17, 1938. p. 3.
  62. ^ “Tampa Negro Dies In Electric Chair”. St. Petersburg Times. June 21, 1938. p. 5.
  63. ^ “Wire Briefs”. Prescott Evening Courier. June 24, 1938. p. 2.
  64. ^ “Negro Prays, Sings 19 Minutes Before Death”. The Telegraph-Herald. June 28, 1938. p. 3.
  65. ^ “Robert Shaw Executed”. The Montreal Gazette. June 29, 1938. p. 21.
  66. ^ “Negro Is Executed in Gas Chamber for Slaying Justice”. The Lewiston Daily Sun. June 30, 1938. p. 6.
  67. ^ “Turner, Payne Go to Death in N. C.” Herald-Journal. July 2, 1938. p. 1.
  68. ^ “Jax Slayer Dies in Death Chair”. St. Petersburg Times. July 6, 1938. p. 4.
  69. ^ “Hobbs Dies in Chair For Killing Officer”. The Portsmouth Times. July 7, 1938. p. 5.
  70. ^ “Two Youths are Executed”. Lawrence Journal-World. July 8, 1938. p. 4.
  71. ^ “Federal Hanging Breaks Tradition”. The Norwalk Hour. July 8, 1938. p. 6.
  72. ^ “Akron Truck Driver Dies In Chair For Killing Woman”. The Portsmouth Times. July 14, 1938. p. 4.
  73. ^ “Ross Killer Pays Penalty”. Reading Eagle. July 14, 1938. p. 4.
  74. ^ “Negro Dies for Madrid Crime”. The Southeast Missourian. July 15, 1938. p. 1.
  75. ^ “Triple Killer Pays With Life”. Prescott Evening Courier. July 18, 1938. p. 5.
  76. ^ “2 Negroes Die In Prison Chair”. The Tuscaloosa News. July 22, 1938. p. 9.
  77. ^ “Stolid Negro Executed For Attacking White”. The Tuscaloosa News. July 25, 1938. p. 1.
  78. ^ “Negro Executed In Chair Today”. The Victoria Advocate. July 29, 1938. p. 7.
  79. ^ “Governor Awaits Doctor’s Report on Boss’ Condition”. The Victoria Advocate. August 1, 1938. p. 1.
  80. ^ “Slayer Pleads For Companion Upon Gallows”. Ellensburg Daily Record. August 5, 1938. p. 1.
  81. ^ “2 KILLERS GO TO CHAIR; Cummings and Lewis Put to Death for Brooklyn Slaying”. The New York Times. August 12, 1938.
  82. ^ “NEWYORK GUNMEN HANGED; Suhay and Applegate Executed for Killing G-Man”. The New York Times. August 13, 1938.
  83. ^ “SLAYER OF TWO EXECUTED; John Rylowicz Put to Death in Chair at Sing Sing”. The New York Times. August 19, 1938.
  84. ^ “Clemency For Pair Of Negroes Refused”. The Tuscaloosa News. August 18, 1938. p. 1.
  85. ^ “Two Men Executed in Electric Chair for Their Crimes”. The Victoria Advocate. August 19, 1938. p. 1.
  86. ^ “Two Negroes Die in Jersey Chair”. The Evening Independent. August 24, 1938. p. 14.
  87. ^ “People v. Aguirre”. Stanford Law School.
  88. ^ “Denny v. Commonwealth”. CaseMine.
  89. ^ “State Hangs Slayer of 3 Little Girls”. The Meriden Daily Journal. September 16, 1938. p. 5.
  90. ^ “Two Pay Penalty”. The Bladen Journal. September 29, 1938. p. 4.
  91. ^ “Indiana Slayer Dies In Electric Chair Early Today”. Lewiston Morning Tribune. September 30, 1938. p. 2.
  92. ^ “Richetti Dies For Massacre”. Youngstown Vindicator. October 7, 1938. p. 12.
  93. ^ “Negro Put to Death for Killing Woman”. The Pittsburgh Press. October 10, 1938. p. 26.
  94. ^ “Negro, Charged With Murder, Hanged At Prison”. The Oxnard Daily Courier. October 14, 1938. p. 8.
  95. ^ “Steel Worker Dies in Electric Chair”. The Evening Independent. October 22, 1938. p. 9.
  96. ^ “Walter Melton Will Die on October 28th”. Waycross Journal-Herald. October 17, 1938. p. 4.
  97. ^ “Negro Must Die for Slaying White Man”. The Southeast Missourian. October 27, 1938. p. 1.
  98. ^ “Slayer Dies At Rockview”. Reading Eagle. October 31, 1938. p. 6.
  99. ^ “Killer’s Bold Front A Bluff”. Lewiston Morning Tribune. November 1, 1938. p. 3.
  100. ^ “Cleveland Youth Dies For Slaying Policeman”. Youngstown Vindicator. November 4, 1938. p. 33.
  101. ^ “McBride v. State”. vLex.
  102. ^ “Kidnapper Saved From Gas Chamber”. The Montreal Gazette. November 4, 1938. p. 9.
  103. ^ “McBride v. State”. vLex.
  104. ^ “DALHOVER PUT TO DEATH; ‘Trigger Man’ of Brady Gang Dies in Indiana Chair”. The New York Times. November 18, 1938.
  105. ^ “State v. Robinson”. CourtListener.
  106. ^ “Death Closing In On Two Men”. The Spokesman-Review. November 20, 1938. p. 8.
  107. ^ “Two Men Executed In Virginia Prison”. The Victoria Advocate. November 25, 1938. p. 1.
  108. ^ “Carrol v. State”. vLex.
  109. ^ “Mosley Goes To ‘Chair’“. The Circleville Herald via newspapers.com. December 1, 1938. p. 1.
  110. ^ “Convict Killers Die in Chamber”. Ellensburg Daily Record. December 2, 1938. p. 1.
  111. ^ “ANNA HAHN DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR; Slayer Put to Death in Ohio Penitentiary as Federal Judge Denies Her Last Appeal”. The New York Times. December 8, 1938.
  112. ^ “Two Prisoners Get Lethal Gas Execution”. The Oxnard Daily Courier. December 9, 1938. p. 5.
  113. ^ “Six Negro Men Are Executed”. The Tuscaloosa News. December 9, 1938. p. 13.
  114. ^ “Prisoner Hanged”. The Tuscaloosa News. December 9, 1938. p. 14.
  115. ^ “‘Hex’ Killer Dies In Gas Chamber”. The Free-Lance Star. December 9, 1938. p. 2.
  116. ^ “Ed Davis, Notorious Outlaw, Executed in San Quentin Prison”. The Nevada Daily Mail. December 17, 1938. p. 14.
  117. ^ “Negro is Executed In Electric Chair”. The Victoria Advocate. December 16, 1938. p. 7.
  118. ^ “Police Killer Dies in Chair”. Youngstown Vindicator. December 22, 1938. p. 2.
  119. ^ “Negro Electrocuted For Geneva Robbery”. The Tuscaloosa News. December 30, 1938. p. 2.
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