The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959.
Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. From 1861 to 1959, 112 people, all male, have been executed in West Virginia, 103 by hanging and 9 by electrocution.
On February 10, 1949, the West Virginia legislature approves the use of electrocution at the state penitentiary as the state's new default method of execution. The legislation was approved in March 1949 and signed by Governor Okey Patteson later that month. This made West Virginia the last state to adopt the electric chair as an execution method.