American people executed for murdering police officers

The list American people executed for murdering police officers includes Martin Grossman, Jesse Tafero, Lynda Lyon Block, Irene Schroeder and Francis Crowley. The list consists of 47 members.

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Timothy McVeigh

American, Criminal

Overview: Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others, and de ...

Date of birth: 23 April 1968

Date of death: 11 June 2001

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Executed American mass murderers 52T

Volunteer execution 85T

American people executed for murder 432T
2.

Michael Lockhart

American serial killer

Overview: Michael Lee Lockhart (September 30, 1960 - December 9, 1997) was an American serial killer who received death sentences in three states (Florida, Indiana, and Texas). He was executed on December 9, 1997 ...

Date of birth: 30 September 1960

Date of death: 9 December 1997

Age: 37 (age at death)

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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Male serial killers 1,638T

Executed American serial killers 164T

Executed people from Ohio 28T
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Martin Grossman

American murderer

Overview: Martin Edward Grossman (January 19, 1965 – February 16, 2010) was convicted of first degree murder for his part in the December 13, 1984, Florida killing of wildlife officer Peggy Park. He was executed ...

Date of birth: 19 January 1965

Date of death: 16 February 2010

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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American people convicted of burglary 97T

21st-century executions of American people 158T

People executed by Florida by lethal injection 18T
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Jesse Tafero

American murderer

Overview: Jesse Joseph Tafero (October 12, 1946 – May 4, 1990), was convicted of murder and executed via electric chair in the state of Florida for the murders of Florida Highway Patrol officer Phillip Black and ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1946

Date of death: 4 May 1990

Age: 43 (age at death)

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People executed by Florida by electric chair 11T

20th-century executions of American people 276T

20th-century executions by Florida 12T
5.

Lynda Lyon Block

American murderer

Overview: Lynda Cheryle Lyon Block (February 8, 1948 – May 10, 2002) was an American convicted murderer. Hers was the first execution of a woman in the state of Alabama since 1957. She was the 9th female executed ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1948

Date of death: 10 May 2002

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Gender: Female

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Sovereign citizen movement 15T

American female criminals 198T

Women sentenced to death 64T
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Irene Schroeder

American murderer

Overview: Irene Schroeder (February 17, 1909 – February 23, 1931) was an American criminal who became the first woman to be electrocuted in Pennsylvania and the fourth woman to be executed by electrocution in the ...

Date of birth: 17 February 1909

Date of death: 23 February 1931

Age: 22 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Female

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American female criminals 198T

Women sentenced to death 64T

People from Benwood, West Virginia 5T
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Adam Richetti

American gangster

Overview: Adam "Eddie" Richetti (August 5, 1909-October 7, 1938) was an American criminal and Depression-era bank robber. He was associated with Aussie Elliott and later Pretty Boy Floyd in the early-1930s, both ...

Date of birth: 5 August 1909

Date of death: 7 October 1938

Age: 29 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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20th-century executions by Missouri 6T

People from Palo Pinto County, Texas 14T

People from Coal County, Oklahoma 12T
8.

Francis Crowley

American criminal who went on a 3-month crime spree in the New York-area in 1931 and captured after a 2-hour standoff with the NYPD.

Overview: Francis "Two Gun" Crowley (October 31, 1912 – January 21, 1932) was an American murderer. His crime spree lasted nearly three months, ending in a two-hour shootout with the New York City Police Department ...

Date of birth: 13 October 1912

Date of death: 21 January 1932

Age: 19 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

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1931 murders in the United States 13T

Criminals from New York City 184T

Executed people from New York 27T
9.

Gerhard Puff

Convicted of the murder of an FBI agent

Overview: Gerhard Arthur Puff (c. 1914 - August 21, 1954) was an American gangster, executed by the federal authorities in New York for killing a federal agent. A native of Dresden, Germany, on June 6, 1927, the ...

Date of birth: 1914

Date of death: 21 August 1954

Age: 40 (age at death)

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Formerly wanted fugitives 150T

20th-century executions by New York 23T

People executed by the United States federal government by electric chair 6T
10.

Troy Davis case

American murderer

Overview: Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) was an American man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail ...

Date of birth: 9 October 1968

Date of death: 21 September 2011

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

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20th-century American trials 46T

Executed people from Georgia (U.S. state) 8T

African-American-related controversies 134T
11.

William Morva

American murderer

Overview: William Charles Morva (February 9, 1982 – July 6, 2017) was an American-Hungarian criminal convicted of the two 2006 shooting deaths of Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Eric Sutphin and hospital security guard ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1982

Date of death: 6 July 2017

Age: 35 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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People from Midlothian, Virginia 37T

Attacks in the United States in 2006 11T

American male criminals 435T
12.

Clarence Hill (murderer)

American, Criminal

Overview: Clarence Edward Hill (December 2, 1957 – September 20, 2006) was an American convicted murderer executed by the state of Florida.

Date of birth: 2 December 1957

Date of death: 20 September 2006

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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21st-century African-American people 3,695T

Executed people from Alabama 10T

21st-century executions of American people 159T
13.

Ricky Ray Rector

American murderer

Overview: Ricky Ray Rector (January 12, 1950 – January 24, 1992) was executed for the 1981 murder of police officer Robert Martin in Conway, Arkansas.

Date of birth: 12 January 1950

Date of death: 24 January 1992

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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American male criminals 435T

People with traumatic brain injuries 101T

Lobotomised people 12T
14.

Adolph Fischer

Printer

Overview: Adolph Fischer (1858 – November 11, 1887) was an anarchist and labor union activist tried and executed after the Haymarket Riot.

Date of birth: 1858

Date of death: 11 November 1887

Age: 29 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Labor Leader

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1886 murders in the United States 7T

Haymarket affair 12T

19th-century executions of American people 114T
15.

Harry Pierpont

American gangster, murderer and bank robber

Overview: Harry "Pete" Pierpont (October 13, 1902 – October 17, 1934) was a Prohibition era gangster. He is perhaps most noted for being a friend and mentor of John Dillinger.

Date of birth: 13 October 1902

Date of death: 17 October 1934

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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Executed people from Indiana 6T

20th-century executions of American people 327T

20th-century executions by Ohio 7T
16.

August Spies

American anarchist

Overview: August Vincent Theodore Spies (/spiːs/, SPEES; 1855–1887) was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. Spies is remembered as one of the anarchist leaders in Chicago who were ...

Date of birth: 10 December 1855

Date of death: 11 November 1887

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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1886 murders in the United States 7T

Haymarket affair 12T

19th-century executions of American people 114T
17.

Albert Parsons

Printer

Overview: Albert Richard Parsons (1848–1887) was a pioneering American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist. As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate ...

Date of birth: 20 June 1848

Date of death: 11 November 1887

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

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American anti-capitalists 93T

Trade unionists from Alabama 5T

Knights of Labor people 28T
18.

Aaron Mitchell

American murderer

Overview: Aaron Mitchell (1930 – April 12, 1967) was executed in the gas chamber for murdering police officer Arnold Gamble in Sacramento on February 15, 1963.

Date of birth: 1930

Date of death: 12 April 1967

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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20th-century executions by California 18T

20th-century executions of American people 276T

People executed for murdering police officers 53T
19.

Daniel Wilkinson (murderer)

American murderer

Overview: Daniel Wilkinson (c. 1845 – November 21, 1885) was the last person to be executed by Maine. He was hanged for the murder of a police officer after a burglary in Bath, Maine.

Date of death: 21 November 1885

Nationality: American

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1883 murders in the United States 3T

19th-century executions of American people 114T

People executed by Maine by hanging 2T
20.

Clyde Arwood

American murderer

Overview: Clyde Arwood (September 7, 1901 - August 14, 1943) was the only person ever executed by the United States federal government in Tennessee. He was convicted of killing a federal agent during a moonshine ...

Date of birth: 7 September 1901

Date of death: 14 August 1943

Age: 41 (age at death)

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People from Ripley, Tennessee 21T

People executed by the United States federal government by electric chair 6T

20th-century executions by the United States federal government 13T