The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state and former colony of Rhode Island from 1670 to 1845.
Capital punishment was first abolished in Rhode Island in 1852, reinstated in 1873 and was finally abolished in 1984. 53 people, all of them men, were ever executed in Rhode Island, 51 by hanging, 1 by hanging, drawing and quartering and 1 by hanging and gibbeting. Only 8 of the executions were after Rhode IslandâÂÂs statehood.