# List of people executed in Iowa

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963.
Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965. 45 people were executed in Iowa from 1834-1963, all by hanging. In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection.

## List of people executed in Iowa
### State executions

| Name | Race | Sex | Date of Execution | Method | Crime(s) |
| Patrick O’Connor | White | M | June 30, 1834 | Hanging | Murder |
| William McCauley | White | M | May 13, 1845 | Hanging | Murder |
| William Hodge | White | M | July 15, 1845 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Stephen Hodge | White | M | July 15, 1845 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| William Hinkle | White | M | August 13, 1858 | Hanging | Murder |
| F. Gillick | White | M | April 27, 1860 | Hanging | Murder |
| N. A. Johnson | White | M | May 18, 1860 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Daniel Clifford | White | M | June 19, 1860 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Benjamin McComb | White | M | February 17, 1865 | Hanging | Murder |
| Chester Bellows | White | M | December 16, 1887 | Hanging | Murder |
| Henry Schmidt | White | M | January 15, 1888 | Hanging | Murder |
| James Dooley | White | M | January 19, 1894 | Hanging | Rape and Murder |
| Jacob Cumberland | White | M | February 8, 1895 | Hanging | Murder |
| Joseph Smith | Black | M | April 20, 1906 | Hanging | Murder |
| John Junkins | Black | M | July 29, 1910 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Stanley Grammell | Black | M | July 5, 1918 | Hanging | Rape |
| Robert Johnson | Black | M | July 5, 1918 | Hanging | Rape |
| Fred Allen | Black | M | July 5, 1918 | Hanging | Rape |
| Ira Pavey | White | M | September 8, 1922 | Hanging | Murder |
| Eugene Weeks | White | M | September 15, 1922 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Orrie Cross | White | M | November 24, 1922 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Earl Throst | White | M | March 9, 1923 | Hanging | Murder |
| William Olander | White | M | September 7, 1923 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Roy Maupin | Black | M | January 18, 1924 | Hanging | Murder |
| Archie Burris | Black | M | January 2, 1925 | Hanging | Murder |
| Harland Simmons | White | M | November 16, 1925 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| J. A. R. Altringer | White | M | November 6, 1931 | Hanging | Murder |
| Elmer Brewer | White | M | June 5, 1935 | Hanging | Murder |
| Pat Griffin | White | M | June 5, 1935 | Hanging | Murder |
| Reginald Tracy | White | M | November 29, 1935 | Hanging | Murder |
| Allen Wheaton | White | M | January 24, 1938 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| John Mercer | White | M | January 24, 1938 | Hanging | Murder |
| Franz Jacobson | White | M | April 19, 1938 | Hanging | Murder |
| Marlo Heinz | White | M | April 19, 1938 | Hanging | Murder |
| Walter Rhodes | White | M | May 7, 1940 | Hanging | Murder |
| Ivan Sullivan | White | M | November 12, 1941 | Hanging | Murder |
| Stanley Kaster | White | M | December 29, 1944 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| William Jarrett | White | M | February 23, 1945 | Hanging | Murder |
| William Heincy | White | M | March 29, 1946 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Philip Heincy | White | M | March 29, 1946 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Corliss Bruntlett | White | M | July 6, 1949 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Edward James Beckwith | White | M | August 4, 1952 | Hanging | Rape and Murder |
| Charles Noel Brown | White | M | July 24, 1962 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |
| Charles Edwin Kelley | White | M | September 6, 1962 | Hanging | Robbery and Murder |

### Federal executions

| Name | Race | Sex | Date of Execution | Place of Execution | Method | Crime(s) |
| Victor Feguer | White | M | March 15, 1963 | Iowa State Penitentiary | Hanging | Kidnapping (victim killed) |
| Dustin Lee Honken | White | M | July 17, 2020 | USP Terre Haute | Lethal injection | Murder |