List of hazing deaths in the United States

Incidents involving criminal or civil proceedings that did not find a definite link with hazing may still be included if they meet this criterion.

According to the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention at the University of Maine, hazing is defined as "any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses or endangers them, regardless of a person's willingness to participate".

[3] The practice of hazing at West Point entered the national spotlight following his death.

The night and morning hours prior to the accident, the pledges had been practicing the "probate death march," an aspect of the initiation ceremony.

The leader, Dante Martin, was convicted of manslaughter and hazing charges and sentenced to six years in prison.

In 1905, as Stuart Pierson was being initiated into Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio , students sent him to a railroad bridge, which they believed was not in use; however, an unscheduled train arrived, killing Pierson.