One hundred and forty-eight people, one hundred and forty-seven male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1942, one hundred and nineteen by electrocution, twenty by gas chamber, eight by hanging, and one by firing squad.
Six Nazi saboteurs were executed by the federal government for their roles in Operation Pastorius. One of them, Herbert Hans Haupt, was an American citizen, making him the only American citizen to be executed by the United States for collaborating with the Axis powers. The military carried out its first wartime execution of World War II, that of Private James Rowe for the murder of a fellow soldier.