Fifteen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1964, eleven by electrocution, and four by gas chamber.
The last executions for the crimes of rape and robbery in the United States occurred this year, with the executions of Ronald Wolfe and James Cobern, respectively. Since Cobern, who was not tried for murder, had still killed his victim, Wolfe is the last person to be executed for a crime that did not result in the death of anyone.
James Andrew Echols became the last juvenile offender to be executed in the United States prior to Furman v. Georgia. No other juvenile offenders would be executed in the United States until Charles Rumbaugh in 1985.