One hundred and forty-two people, one hundred and forty-one male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1945, seventy-one by electrocution, thirty-four by gas chamber, thirty-three by hanging, and four by firing squad.
The military executed 27 people, including 14 German prisoners of war for the murders of three fellow German prisoners. The mass execution of seven German prisoners for the murder of Werner Drechsler would be the largest mass execution by hanging in the United States in the 20th century, not including the mass executions of Nazi war criminals by the military in Allied-occupied Germany.