No one has ever been executed by the state of New Jersey since 1976, although capital punishment is still legal there. Historically, at least 361 people were executed by the state between the execution of a slave named Tom for rape in 1690 and the execution of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. 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 1700's, executions in New Jersey were by hanging until 1906 and electrocution afterwards. (One execution in 1909 was by hanging.)

Executions since 1950

• Buford Tanismore, April 4 1950
• Howard Auld, May 27 1951
• Clarence Smith, May 13 1952
• Frederick Dunk, May 13 1952
• Robert Jellison, May 13 1952
• Irving Peterson, August 26 1952
• Theodore Walker, July 27 1954
• James Beard, August 17 1954
• Frank Roscus, January 4 1955
• Eugene Monahan, January 11 1955
• Felipe Rios, May 3 1955
• Joaquin Rodriguez, May 3 1955
• Jose Cruz, May 3 1955
• Alfred Stokes, September 2 1955
• Harry Wise, September 2 1955
• Albert Wise, September 2 1955
• John Henry Tune, August 21 1956
• Fred Sturdivant, July 3 1962
• Joseph Ernst, July 31 1962
• Ralph Hudson, January 22 1963

See also Capital punishment in the United States

External link

• New Jersey execution data from the Espy file