Friday 29th of January 1904 (-) — Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging
Egbert was the first man to be hanged at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Friday 5th of May 1905 (-) — Murderer Frank Guglielmo is executed by hanging
Friday 13th of July 1906 (-) — Murderer George Lauth is executed by hanging
Tuesday 18th of September 1906 (-) — Murderer John Barnes is executed by hanging
Friday 28th of June 1907 (-) — Murderer Holliver Megorden is executed by hanging
Friday 18th of June 1909 (-) — Murderer Adolph Nordstrom is executed by hanging
Friday 2nd of July 1909 (-) — Murderer Joseph Anderson is executed by hanging
Friday 12th of November 1909 (-) — Murderer James Finch is executed by hanging
Friday 26th of February 1909 (-) — Murderer Cyrus Timmons is executed by hanging
Friday 9th of September 1910 (-) — Double murderer Isaac Harrell is executed by hanging
Harrell's neck was cut by the rope.
Saturday 22nd of March 1913 (-) — Murderers Charles and George Humphery are executed by hanging at the age of 52 and 39
Friday 31st of October 1913 (-) — Murderer Mike Spanos is executed by hanging
Friday 14th of November 1913 (-) — Murderer Oswald Hansel is executed by hanging
Friday 31st of October 1913 (-) — Murderer Frank Seymour is executed by hanging
Friday 26th of May 1916 (x) — Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram sets fire to the prison’s flax mill and workshops
Friday 5th of November 1920 (-) — Cop killer Emmet Bancroft is executed by hanging
Bancroft was convicted of murdering the Umatilla sheriff during a jail break.
Friday 8th of September 1922 (-) — Murderer George Howard is executed by hanging
Friday 7th of July 1922 (-) — Cop killer Elvie Kerby is executed by hanging
Friday 7th of July 1922 (-) — Cop killer John Rathie is executed by hanging
Friday 9th of March 1923 (-) — Cop killer Husted Walters is executed by hanging
Friday 4th of January 1924 (-) — Cop killer George Parker is executed by hanging
Friday 22nd of May 1925 (-) — Murder plotter Arthur Covell is executed by hanging
Friday 22nd of May 1925 (-) — Double murderer Llewellyn Wilson Peare is executed by hanging
Peare went on a moonshine spree and killed his wife and a neighbour. He became the oldest man ever executed in Oregon.
Monday 30th of November 1925 (-) — Murderer William Lloyd is executed by hanging
Friday 16th of April 1926 (-) — Cop killer Archie Cody is executed by hanging
Tuesday 17th of May 1927 (-) — Cop killer Albert Brownlee is executed by hanging
Friday 10th of June 1927 (-) — Murderer John Butchek is executed by hanging
Friday 20th of April 1928 (-) — Murderer James Willos is executed by hanging
Friday 20th of April 1928 (-) — Murderer Ellsworth Kelley is executed by hanging
Friday 30th of October 1931 (-) — Cop killer James Kingsley is executed by hanging
Friday 20th of January 1939 (-) — Murderer LeRoy McCarthy is executed by the gas chamber
McCarthy was the first man to be executed in the Oregon State Gas Chamber.
Friday 26th of July 1940 (-) — Double murderer Claude Cline is executed by the gas chamber
Thursday 30th of October 1941 (-) — Murderer James Harvey Thomas is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 20th of March 1942 (-) — Triple murderer John Soto is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 26th of February 1943 (+) — Murderer William Wallace is executed by the gas chamber
Wallace was the oldest man executed in the Oregon State Penitentiary Gas Chamber.
Monday 6th of March 1944 (-) — Murderer Harvey Cunningham is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 8th of December 1944 (-) — Murderer Richard Layton is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 5th of January 1945 (-) — Murderer Robert Folkes is executed by the gas chamber
Folkes was the first man to walk into the gas chamber without wearing a blindfold.
Monday 15th of January 1945 (-) — Murderer Henry Merten is executed by the gas chamber
Monday 15th of January 1945 (-) — Murderer Walter Wilson is executed by the gas chamber
Saturday 2nd of February 1946 (-) — Murderer Andrew Dennis is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 13th of September 1946 (-) — Murderer Kenneth Bailey is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 23rd of January 1948 (-) — Murderer Wardell Henderson is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 8th of August 1952 (-) — Murderer Wayne Long is executed by the gas chamber
All Oregon executions except for that of Long have been held within the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. Long died in a special concrete structure built near the prison because the superintendent believed it would have less of a 'bad psychological effect' on other inmates. But the state later determined that the penal code required executions to occur within the penitentiary walls.
Friday 9th of January 1953 (-) — Murderer Frank Payne is executed by the gas chamber
Friday 9th of January 1953 (-) — Child killer Leland Morris is executed by the gas chamber
On 5 August 1949 Morris abducted and killed 15-year-old Thelma Taylor in Portland. The site of the murder under St. John's Bridge is supposedly haunted by Taylor.
Friday 30th of January 1953 (-) — Murderer Albert Karnes is executed by the gas chamber
Monday 20th of August 1962 (-) — Double murderer LeRoy McGahuey is executed by the gas chamber
McGahuey was the last person to be executed in the Gas Chamber in Oregon.
Wednesday 13th of August 1969 (x) — Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Brudos has a bucket of water slammed into his head by an unidentified fellow-inmate
Friday 1st of January 1971 (x) — Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Brudos is treated for rectal bleeding
Friday 6th of September 1996 (-) — Multiple murderer Douglas Wright is executed by lethal injection
Wright was the first criminal executed by lethal injection in Oregon.
Friday 16th of May 1997 (-) — Double murderer Harry Charles Moore is executed by lethal injection
Moore's last meal request was for two green apples, two red apples, a tray of fresh fruit, and two 2-liter bottles of Coke.
Tuesday 28th of March 2006 (-) — Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Brudos dies of liver cancer
At the time of his death, Brudos was the longest incarcerated inmate in the Oregon Department of Corrections, a total of 37 years.
