Sixty-nine people, sixty-eight male and one female, were executed in the United States in 1957, forty-eight by electrocution, sixteen by gas chamber, and five by hanging.
The District of Columbia would conduct its final execution this year, before abolishing capital punishment in 1981.
Ross McAfee became the last person to be executed in the United States for burglary. He was executed in North Carolina for a burglary in which he attempted to rape and murder a 17-year-old girl.