List of individuals executed in Connecticut

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Connecticut has executed one person since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. The execution of Michael Ross in 2005 was the first execution anywhere in New England since the 1960 execution of Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky, also in Connecticut.

The Espy file, perhaps the most comprehensive source, lists 126 executions in Connecticut between 1639 and 1960. These include seven executions for witchcraft in the 17th century. Connecticut carried out 12 executions in the 17th century, 16 executions in the 18th century, 33 executions in the 19th century, 65 executions in the 20th century. The last execution for a crime other than murder was in 1817. All executions were by hanging until 1937 when electrocution became the only method. Eighteen prisoners were executed by electrocution.

[edit] List of executions since 1976

	Executed person	Date of execution	Victims	Under Governor
1	Michael Ross	13 May 2005	Robin Stavinsky, April Brunais, Wendy Baribeault and Leslie Shelley.	M. Jodi Rell

[edit] List of earlier executions

Joseph Taborsky, d. May 17, 1960, by electric chair for murders and robbery of Edward Kurpiewski, Daniel Janowski, Samuel Cohn, Bernard Speyer, Ruth Speyer and John Rosenthal