The first execution carried out by federal authorities was in 1790, when U.S. marshals hanged a mariner in Maine. Since then the federal government has executed far fewer people than the states, and only three in more than a half century.
Q: HOW MANY FEDERAL EXECUTIONS HAVE THERE BEEN?
. Thirty-four were executed between 1927 and 1963, including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were put to death in 1953 for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
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