List of people executed in Connecticut

This is a list of people executed in Connecticut, prior to the abolition of capital punishment in the state on April 25, 2012.

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 * 1) On this occasion, two executions took place.
 * 2) On this occasion, three executions took place.
 * 3) This is what the chart claimed in 2005, but contrary to popular belief, Adonijah Bailey was not the oldest person executed at age 79 in 1824; instead, he was tried and sentenced to death at age 80 in January 1825 for the murder of Jeremiah W. Pollock, and hanged himself on May 24, over 2 weeks before he was to be executed.  The title of the oldest person executed goes instead to Gershon Marx, hanged on May 18, 1905, for murder at age 73.
 * 4) James Savage, ed., John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Vol. 2, (Boston:Little, Brown, 1853), page 324. See also Goodheart, where there are 158 death penalty victims identified for Connecticut.
 * 5) Posthumously pardoned.