List of death row inmates in the United States

As of October 1, 2024^[update], there were 2,180 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women.^[1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).^[2] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions, the information may become outdated.

As of December 5, 2024.

• California: 605
• Florida: 279
• Texas: 174
• Alabama: 159
• North Carolina: 136
• Ohio: 114
• Arizona: 111
• Pennsylvania: 95
• Nevada: 63
• Louisiana: 57
• Tennessee: 45
• Mississippi: 35
• Georgia: 34
• Oklahoma: 33
• South Carolina: 30
• Arkansas: 26
• Kentucky: 25
• Nebraska: 11
• Missouri: 8
• Idaho: 9
• Kansas: 9
• Indiana: 8
• Utah: 5
• Montana: 2
• South Dakota: 1
• New Hampshire: 1
• Wyoming: 0
• Oregon: 0

• White: 921 (42.25%)
• African-American: 878 (40.28%)
• Hispanic: 315 (14.45%)
• Asian: 42 (1.93%)
• Native American: 23 (1.06%)^[1]

• Male: 2,131 (97.75%)
• Female: 49 (2.25%)

Comparatively, 50.8% of the U.S. population is female, and 49.2% is male

• 69.75% have less than a high school diploma or GED.^[3]

Comparatively, 12.19% of U.S. adults have less than a high school diploma or GED.^[3]

• It has been estimated that over 10% of death row inmates have a mental illness.^[4]

Comparatively, it is estimated that 4.2% of American adults have a serious mental illness.^[5]

• Median time, in years, a death row prisoner has been awaiting execution: 7^[3]
• Average time, in years, between imposition of a death sentence and execution: 12 (2014) ^[3]
  • For 2020: 22 years on average between offense and execution.

• 1.6% of death row prisoners since 1972 have been formally exonerated and released (200 total).^[6]

• On death row: 40 (as of May 22, 2024^[update])^[7]
• Total number executed: 50 (1927–2021)^[8]

Due to the number of federal death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Crime	Time on death row	Imprisoned at	Register number	Notes
Jorge Avila-Torrez	Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia.	10 years, 202 days	Northern Neck Regional Jail	16054-084	Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois.
Robert Gregory Bowers	Perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; an antisemitic terrorist attack in which eleven people were murdered.	1 year, 137 days	USP Terre Haute	39188-068	The shooting was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.
Len Davis	Conspiracy to violate civil rights through murder.	28 years, 236 days (since initial sentence) 19 years, 52 days (since re-sentencing)	USP Terre Haute	24325-034	Davis was an officer in the New Orleans Police Department. He ordered a drug dealer to kill a 32-year-old woman, Kim Groves, who had witnessed Davis abuse a suspect and filed a brutality complaint. He was also convicted of witness tampering (which was later thrown out) and, subsequent to his first death sentence, of two drug trafficking charges.
Marvin Gabrion	Kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman of Cedar Springs, Michigan.	22 years, 277 days (since initial sentence) 11 years, 204 days (since re-sentencing)	MCFP Springfield	09184-055	Gabrion had previously raped Timmerman on August 7, 1996, and two days before the trial she went missing. The murder took place in Michigan, which does not have the death penalty, but the body was found in Manistee National Forest, which is federal land. On appeal, his defense team argued that they should consider any reasonable doubt they have that the murder took place outside of the forest before being moved into the forest after death, which would make him ineligible for the death penalty.
Jurijus Kadamovas	Ransom-related kidnapping and murder of five people.	17 years, 281 days	USP Terre Haute	21050-112	Kadamovas and co-defendant Iouri Mikhel were sentenced to death for the ransom related kidnappings and murders of five people. The men allegedly demanded a total of more than $5.5 million from relatives and associates, and received more than $1 million from victims' relatives. Prosecutors said the victims were killed regardless of whether the ransoms were paid. The bodies were tied with weights and dumped in a reservoir near Yosemite National Park.
Iouri Mikhel			USP Terre Haute	23675-112
Dylann Roof	Perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, which killed nine African Americans.	7 years, 343 days	USP Terre Haute	28509-171	American mass murderer and white supremacist who, during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, sat down with his future victims for approximately 45 minutes before pulling out a Glock 41 .45-caliber handgun. Among those people who were killed was the senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Roof is the first person on death row for federal hate crimes.[9]
Kaboni Savage	Twelve counts of murder in aid of racketeering and one count of retaliating against a witness by murder.	11 years, 198 days	ADX Florence	58232-066	Philadelphia drug kingpin, sentenced to death for the firebombing of a house where a federal witness lived, killing six people.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev	Co-perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people and injured 264 runners and spectators.[10]	9 years, 177 days	ADX Florence	95079-038	Kyrgyz-American, Islamic terrorism[11] inspired lone wolf who, along with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrated the attack. Tamerlan later died due to critical injuries and massive blood loss during a shootout with police on April 19, 2013. On July 31, 2020, Tsarnaev's death sentence was overturned on appeal, but was reinstated by the US Supreme Court two years later.
Alejandro Enrique Umaña	Murdered two brothers at a family restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina.	14 years, 144 days	USP Terre Haute	23077-058	High-ranked member of the MS-13 gang and the first MS-13 member to receive a federal death sentence.

• On death row: 4^[12]
• Total number executed: 135 (1916–1961)^[13]

Name	Crime	Time on death row	Notes
Hasan Karim Akbar[14] (born Mark Fidel Kools)	Threw a hand grenade and murdered two commissioned officers and wounded eleven other servicemen during an attack in Kuwait on March 23, 2003.	19 years, 231 days
Ronald Adrin Gray	Raped and murdered multiple women at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from December 15, 1986, to January 6, 1987.	36 years, 172 days	On November 26, 2008, a federal judge issued a stay of execution stopping the planned December 10 execution. Gray is the military's longest-serving death row inmate and the only one to have his execution approved by the president.
Nidal Malik Hasan[15]	Perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.	11 years, 112 days	Convicted on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
Timothy B. Hennis[16]	Raped and stabbed Kathryn Eastburn, and stabbed Kathryn's two daughters, Kara and Erin Eastburn in 1985.	14 years, 247 days	Previously convicted in 1986 by the State of North Carolina, retried and acquitted in 1989, and widely reported as exonerated; recalled to active duty for military court martial (as he had been in the U.S. Army at the time of the murders) under separate sovereignty (see Double jeopardy).

• On death row: 159 (as of November 22, 2024^[update])^[17]
• Total number executed: 784 (1800–2024)

Due to the number of Alabama death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Donald Broadnax	Murdered his wife, 42-year-old Hector Jan Stamps, and her grandson, 4-year-old DeAngelo Marquez Stamps.	27 years, 97 days	The crimes were committed while he was on work release from a previous murder conviction.
Shonelle Jackson	Murdered LeFrick Moore during the commission of a robbery.	23 years, 214 days
Toforest Johnson	Shot and murdered 49-year-old Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in 1995.	26 years, 49 days	Johnson's conviction was controversial as his guilty verdict as centered on the testimony of a single witness who overheard Johnson allegedly admitting to the murder in a prison phone call. There were several alibi witnesses who testified that Johnson was at another part of the town when Hardy was killed, giving rise to concerns that Johnson was innocent.
Jeremy Bryan Jones	Raped and murdered 43-year-old Lisa Marie Nichols.	19 years, 53 days	Jones also confessed to committing twenty additional murders across four other states in a 12-year span. These confessions are considered dubious and he has since recanted them.
Jeffrey Lee	Murdered singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis and Elaine Thompson (Jimmy's ex-wife) during a robbery.	24 years, 68 days
Courtney Lockhart	Kidnapped and murdered 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk.	13 years, 291 days
Devin Moore	Murdered two police officers and a dispatcher.	19 years, 73 days
Cuhuatemoc Peraita	Killed a fellow inmate in 1999.	23 years, 47 days	Peraita was originally serving life without parole for his role in the 1994 murders of three Popeyes restaurant workers. His accomplice was executed for these murders in 2017.
Kerry Spencer	Killed three Birmingham police officers in 2004.	19 years, 86 days	Spencer shot all three officers and testified that he acted alone, but his alleged accomplice, Nathaniel Woods, was also sentenced to death. Woods was executed in 2020 in a highly publicized and controversial execution.

• On death row: 0
• Total number executed: 0 (since 1939)

Capital punishment exists as a punishment in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States, but does not have a prescribed method of execution. No executions have been imposed or performed since the territory gained self-governance in 1949; the last executions occurred in 1939, when the island was under the control of the United States Navy.^[18]

• On death row: 111 (as of September 1, 2024^[update])^[19]
• Total number executed: 143 (1800–2022)^[20]

Due to the number of Arizona death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
John Allen	Murder of his wife's cousin, Ame Deal.	7 years, 32 days	On July 12, 2011, police officers were called to ten-year-old Ame Deal's home, where she was found dead in a small foot locker, having suffocated. Ame lived with a number of relatives, including her aunt and legal guardian, Cynthia Stoltzmann. Allen was Stoltzmann's daughter. The family first told the police officers that Ame was playing hide-n-seek and locked herself in the trunk the night before, after the adults went to sleep. During interrogation, Sammantha and her husband John confessed to locking Ame in the trunk as a form of punishment, because she took a popsicle without permission.[citation needed]
Sammantha Allen	Murder of her cousin, Ame Deal.	7 years, 133 days
Wendi Andriano	Murder of her husband Joseph "Joe" Andriano.	19 years, 362 days	During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joseph to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a thirteen-inch knife in the couple's Ahwatukee, Arizona apartment. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull, and traces of sodium azide were also found in his system.[21] Approximately one hour before Joe's murder, his wife Wendi had called 911 at the behest of a co-worker, claiming that her terminally ill husband was dying. When paramedics arrived however, Wendi turned them away, stating that Joe had a do-not-resuscitate order, and that his wish was to die. Paramedics left the scene. One hour later, Wendi called 911 again, reporting that she had stabbed and beaten her husband to death in self-defense. She also made claims that her husband was physically and psychologically abusive toward her. However, being that Joe was weak from chemotherapy and the sodium azide poisoning, he was unable to defend himself.[21]
Trent Benson	Rapes and murders of two prostitutes, 21-year-old Alisa Marie Beck and 44-year-old Karen Jane Campbell in Mesa, committed in 2004 and 2007, respectively.	13 years, 72 days	Benson is serving 135 years imprisonment for two unrelated sexual assaults, and police believe he might be responsible for further crimes.
Jason Eugene Bush	Murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in Arivaca, Arizona, during a home invasion.	13 years, 256 days	Had ties with the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group. Convicted for four murders in total, and two suspected killings in 1997, was sentenced to death and received 78 years for other crimes just one month after his death sentence.
Shawna Forde		13 years, 300 days	On May 30, 2009, Forde was active in the Minuteman movement, a grassroots anti-illegal immigration group that would station themselves along the U.S. southern border and keep watch for Mexicans crossing the border illegally and alert the Border Patrol. Forde allegedly boasted of robbing drug dealers to finance the movement. Prosecutors alleged Forde and her associates entered the trailer disguised as government officials looking for fugitives. No drugs were found in the trailer.[22] Albert Gaxiola, who participated in the May 30, 2009 murders, received life without parole plus 54 years.[23]
Richard Djerf	Murder of the Luna family.	28 years, 210 days	Djerf and Albert Luna Jr. met and became friends while working at a Safeway supermarket. In January 1993, Luna burgled Djerf's apartment. Djerf told police he suspected Luna, but they took no action. In September of that year, Djerf entered the Luna home and killed Luna's father, mother, and two siblings over the course of several hours.[24]
Mark Goudeau	Series of rapes and murders.	13 years, 18 days	Goudeau is a serial killer and rapist, referred to as the Baseline Killer by law enforcement and media prior to his identification. Goudeau is believed to have committed nine counts of first degree murder (eight women and one man), in addition to fifteen sexual assaults on women and young girls, eleven counts of kidnapping, and a number of armed robberies.[25][26]
Aaron Gunches	Shot and killed his girlfriend's ex-husband, Ted Price.	16 years, 308 days
Charles Michael Hedlund	Murdered 40-year-old Christine Mertens and 65-year-old James McClain in separate burglaries.	31 years, 141 days	Both defendants, who are half-brothers, were sentenced to death
James Erin McKinney		31 years, 148 days
Cory Morris	Murdered five women between September 2002 and April 2003.	19 years, 152 days	Serial killer known as "The Crackhead Killer".
Roger Mark Scott	Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke	33 years, 240 days	Co-defendants James Lynn Styers and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015.
Preston Strong	Murdered a family of six in 2005.	7 years, 226 days	Strong was already serving a life sentence for murdering a physician when he was sentenced to death.
James Lynn Styers	Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke	34 years, 4 days	Co-defendants Roger Mark Scott and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015.
Robert Lee Walden	Rape and murder of 31-year-old Miguela Burhans in her Tucson apartment on June 13, 1991.	32 years, 9 days	Walden is also serving five life terms for another murder and four rapes, all committed within the Tucson area from 1989 to 1991. He has also been linked to a third murder, for which he has never been charged.
Ronald Turney Williams	Murder of a man in 1981	40 years, 239 days	Williams is currently serving two life terms in West Virginia for the murders of two police officers, who were killed four years apart. He killed one of them in 1979 while escaping prison and was later captured after he killed the man in Arizona.

• On death row: 26 (as of September 30, 2023^[update])^[27]
• Total number executed: 200 (1913–2017)^[28]

Due to the number of Arkansas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Randy William Gay	Shot and killed 49-year-old Connie Snow, a stranger with whom he had gotten into an argument.	9 years, 274 days	Had previously murdered his father-in-law and biological father in two separate incidents, in 1978 and 1991, respectively.
Zachary Holly	Abducted, raped and strangled 6-year-old Jersey Bridgeman.	9 years, 205 days
Karl Roberts	Raped and murdered 12-year-old Andria “Andi” Brewer.	24 years, 213 days	Andria Brewer was the daughter of former Arkansas state representative Rebecca Petty.

• On death row: 605 (as of December 3, 2024^[update])^[29]
• Total number executed: 722 (1700–2006)^[20][30]

Due to the number of California death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Notes
Isauro Aguirre	Tortured and murdered his girlfriend's son, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez.	7 years, 15 days	Pearl Fernandez, Gabriel's mother, was sentenced to life without parole.
Rosie Alfaro	Murder of 9-year-old Autumn Wallace.	32 years, 157 days	Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty.
Alejandro Avila	Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion.	19 years, 216 days
Hector Ayala	Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop.	35 years, 18 days
Ronaldo Ayala		35 years, 313 days
Cimarron Bell	Shot his girlfriend Ineka Edmondson in La Habra on November 11, 2003, and three men at his house in South Whittier on January 27, 2004.	13 years, 123 days	The accomplice in the latter crime, Briaell Michael Lee, is serving a 40-years-to-life sentence.
Richard Delmer Boyer	Murdered elderly couple Francis and Eileen Harbitz in 1982.	40 years, 4 days	He was about to be released by the police when he admitted to committing the crime.
Luis Bracamontes	Shot and killed Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County detective Michael Davis Jr. in October 2014.	6 years, 237 days
Vincent Brothers	Murdered his wife, mother-in-law and three children.	17 years, 82 days	In 2003, Brothers drove from Columbus, Ohio to Bakersfield, California to murder his family. He then drove back to Columbus and flew back to California to find his family murdered. He was on trial two years later and convicted on all counts.
Albert Greenwood Brown	Abducted, raped and murdered 15-year-old Susan Louise Jordan.	42 years, 291 days	Brown posed as a jogger and dragged Jordan, who was on her way to school, into the woods, where he then strangled her with her shoelace. Brown then made numerous calls to the Riverside Police Department and the Jordan residence.
David Carpenter	Murdered four women and one man in 1979–1980 on hiking trails near San Francisco, California.	40 years, 165 days	Carpenter is known as the Trailside Killer. He is suspected in the murders of at least three other women and he was found guilty of two additional murders. He is the oldest death row inmate in California.
Dean Carter	Raped and strangled four women in April 1984.	34 years, 315 days
Steven David Catlin	Poisoned two of his wives and his adoptive mother.	34 years, 161 days
Run Chhoun	Killed nine people during the summer of 1995, including a family of five.	22 years, 281 days	Was a member of the Tiny Rascal Gang. Co-defendant and fellow gang member Samreth Pan was also sentenced to death, but for only four of the murders.
Cynthia Coffman	Murders of four women from October to November 1986 during robberies.	35 years, 109 days	Coffman insisted that she suffered from battered-woman syndrome.
James Marlow			Marlow sexually assaulted two of their victims.
Kevin Cooper	Axing and stabbing of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and their son Joshua's friend Christopher Hughes.	39 years, 211 days	8-year-old Joshua had his throat cut but survived the attack. Cooper escaped several times from custody in Pennsylvania and from the minimum security section of California Institution for Men in Chino.
Michael Cox	Kidnapped and killed three teenage girls in Placerville, California, between June and August 1984.	39 years, 13 days
Tiequon Cox	Shot and killed four relatives of former NFL player Kermit Alexander.	38 years, 225 days	Cox was a noted member of the Rollin' 60 Crips.
Kerry Lyn Dalton	Tortured and murdered Irene 'Melanie' Louise in 1988.	29 years, 209 days	Irene Louise's body was never found.
Joseph Danks	Strangled his 67-year-old cellmate to death in 1990.	31 years, 260 days	Was serving a life sentence for the murders of six transients in Koreatown, Los Angeles in January 1987.
Richard Allen Davis	Kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas.	28 years, 135 days	His criminal record fueled support for passage of California's "three-strikes law".
Skylar Preciosa Deleon	Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks.	15 years, 252 days	Both defendants were judged separately, Deleon was also charged with the murder of John Jarvi, a resident of Anaheim, California.
John Kennedy		15 years, 231 days
Jon Dunkle	Murdered three young boys including his friend's younger brother.	34 years, 315 days
Robert Mark Edwards	Sexually assaulted and murdered 55-year-old realtor Marjorie Deeble, the mother of his girlfriend, at her home in Los Alamitos in May 1986.	26 years, 95 days	Also convicted for a similar murder in Kihei, Hawaii on January 25, 1993, for which he was given five life terms.
Pedro Espinoza	Murder of Jamiel Shaw II.	12 years, 220 days
Richard Farley	Shot and killed seven people and wounded four others.	32 years, 336 days	Laura Black, a former coworker Farley had been stalking for four years prior to his rampage, was shot unconscious, but she survived.
Wayne Adam Ford	Confessed to killing four women in 1997 and 1998.	18 years, 139 days	Ford was arrested after he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He is believed to have killed others.
Rickie Lee Fowler	Perpetrator of the Old Fire which killed six people.	12 years, 325 days	The fire caused at least $1.2 billion in damages.
Michael Gargiulo	Murdered at least two women between 2001 and 2005.	3 years, 138 days	Believed to be responsible for other murders in different states, including his former neighbor, who was murdered in 1993 in Glenview, Illinois.
Steven Dean Gordon	Raped and strangled four prostitutes in Santa Ana and Anaheim from 2013 to 2014.	7 years, 319 days	Gordon's accomplice, fellow sex offender Franc Cano, pleaded guilty to four murders and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Both men are also accused in the murder of a fifth victim, but neither has been charged.
Jose Guerrero	Murders of three women in Madera from 1995 to 1998.	15 years, 175 days	Guerrero was arrested six years after the last crime based on DNA evidence after he had been jailed for a DUI.
Kevin Haley	Rapes and murders of two women during burglaries in Los Angeles in 1984, both committed on separate occasions.	36 years, 76 days	Haley committed these crimes in the midst of a crime spree with the help of his older brother Reginald, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Haleys are prime suspects in six additional murders, but were never charged.
Glenn Helzer	Cult leader who murdered five people in 2000.	19 years, 280 days	His brother, Justin, was also sentenced to death, but committed suicide in 2013.
Ivan Hill	Committed nine murders between 1979 and 1994.	17 years, 272 days	Hill dumped his victims' corpses along California State Route 60, earning him the nickname The 60 Freeway Killer.
Eric Houston	Perpetrator of the Lindhurst school shooting which killed four people and injured ten others.	31 years, 88 days
Ryan Hoyt	Kidnapped and shot Nicholas Markowitz in 2000.	23 years, 18 days	Jesse James Hollywood, orchestrator of Markowitz's murder, is serving life without parole.
Mervin Ray Hughes	Committed two murders during a shooting spree in 1999.	19 years, 191 days	Had previously served time for a manslaughter conviction in 1986.
Michael Hughes	Raped and strangled at least seven women between 1986 and 1993.	12 years, 169 days	In 1998, Hughes was originally sentenced to life without parole.
Michael Jackson	Shot and killed a police officer in August 1983.	40 years, 211 days	Was high on phencyclidine at the time of the killing.
Emrys John	Murder of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak.	11 years, 124 days
Tyrone Miller		11 years, 152 days
Kesaun Sykes		10 years, 41 days
Bryan Maurice Jones	Raped and murdered prostitutes JoAnn Sweets and Sophia Glover in May and August 1986	30 years, 90 days	Known as "The Dumpster Killer" for leaving his victims' bodies in dumpsters, sometimes setting them alight. Also charged with two other murders dating back to 1985, but was never brought to trial due to his existing death sentence.
Randy Kraft	Raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered a minimum of sixteen young men.	35 years, 19 days	In a series of killings spanning between 1972 and 1983, the majority of his crimes were committed in California. He is suspected of having raped and murdered 51 other boys and young men.
Cherie Lash-Rhoades	Shot six people at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office in Alturas, killing four on February 20, 2014.	7 years, 242 days	One of the injured was also attacked with a butcher knife after Lash-Rhoades ran out of ammunition.
John Irving Lewis	Robbed and murdered five people around the Puente Hills Mall from July to August, 1991.	31 years, 290 days	Lewis’ three co-defendants received life without parole for their involvement.
Gunner Lindberg	Tortured and stabbed 24-year-old Thien Minh Ly, a Vietnamese-American, 22 times.	26 years, 362 days	Lindberg and his accomplice, 17-year-old Domenic Christopher, encountered Ly, who was around the tennis courts at Tustin High School. Lindberg and Christopher trapped Ly on the courts, beat him, kicked him, and then stabbed him.
Kendrick Loot	Killed three people during robberies from 1995 to 1996.	24 years, 299 days	Was the accomplice of Bruce Millsap, who committed five additional murders. He was sentenced to death for all eight.
David Allen Lucas	Murdered two women and one young boy in 1979 and 1984.	35 years, 90 days	Lucas was also suspected of three similar murders that occurred in the same time period, but was acquitted at trial.
Franklin Lynch	Murdered three elderly women in 1987.	32 years, 234 days	A series of thirteen murders that lasted throughout the summer of 1987 in the East Bay became known as the "Day Stalker Murders". Lynch was arrested on October 14, 1987, and was convicted of three of the murders and was sentenced to death.
Jarvis Jay Masters	Convicted of participating in the murder of Sergeant Howell Burchfield in 1985.	34 years, 141 days	Masters was originally sent to prison for armed robbery. He was convicted of fashioning the weapon that was used by Andre Johnson, another inmate in the murder of Sergeant Burchfield.
Robert Maury	Murdered at least three women in Shasta County in the late 1980s.	35 years, 42 days
Timothy Joseph McGhee	Serial killer from 1997 to 2003, killed twelve people.	15 years, 344 days	McGhee was a Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from Atwater Village, Los Angeles. He is believed to be responsible for at least 12 homicides, three of which led to convictions, and at least 10 attempted murders, four of which led to convictions.
Charles "Chase" Merritt	Perpetrator of the McStay family murders.	4 years, 323 days	Merritt was convicted of torturing and murdering his business partner, Joseph McStay, Joseph's wife Summer, and their two young sons. The family went missing in February 2010, in a case that attracted national attention. Their remains were found in two shallow graves in November 2013 and Merritt was charged in November 2014. After numerous trial delays, a jury convicted Merritt in June 2019.
Andrew Mickel	Shot Red Bluff police officer David Mobilio.	19 years, 234 days
Bruce Millsap	Killed eight people during robberies from 1995 to 1996.	24 years, 292 days	Co-defendant Kendrick Loot was also sentenced to death, but for three of the murders.
Michael Morales	Raped, hammered and stabbed 17-year-old Terri Lynn Winchell.	41 years, 171 days	Morales's cousin, Richard Ortega, hired him to murder Winchell, Ortega's male lover's girlfriend. Richard Ortega was sentenced to life without parole. Morales's original execution date of February 21, 2006, was postponed as a result of two court-appointed anesthesiologists withdrawing from the procedure.
Joseph Naso	Drugged, raped and strangled four women between 1977 and 1994.	11 years, 22 days
Charles Ng	Serial killer in 1985.	25 years, 171 days	Ng is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice, Leonard Lake, at the latter's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
Joseph Nissensohn	Raped and murdered 13-year-old Tammy Jarschke and 14-year-old Tanya Jones in 1981, and 15-year-old Kathy Graves in 1989	10 years, 196 days	Nissensohn was convicted following a cold case review of one case, and was implicated in the earlier murders by witness testimony. He had previously been convicted for the murder of a woman in Washington State and was serving a 25-year sentence.
Raymond Lee Oyler	Perpetrator of the Esperanza Fire which killed five firefighters.	15 years, 196 days
Samreth Pan	Killed four people in gang related shootings during the summer of 1995.	22 years, 280 days	Accomplice of Run Chhoun, who was sentenced to death for these crimes as well as the murder of five family members. Both were members of the Tiny Rascal Gang.
Gerald Parker	Raped and murdered five women in their homes.	25 years, 325 days	A sixth woman, who was pregnant, was also attacked by Parker. She survived, but her baby was delivered stillborn.
Cleophus Prince Jr.	Burglarized several homes and murdered six women, one of whom he raped.	31 years, 43 days
David Allen Raley	Murdered a woman and attempted to murder her friend.	36 years, 208 days	Raley worked as a security guard at the Carolands mansion in Hillsborough, San Mateo County, where he kidnapped and attacked both women.
Ramon Rogers	Murdered his former roommate and two ex-girlfriends in San Diego from 1993 to 1996, dismembering their remains post-mortem.	27 years, 92 days	Additionally considered a suspect in the disappearance of a neighbor in Idaho in 1977, but never charged.
David Allen Rundle	Murdered two Placer County girls.	35 years, 88 days	Had also murdered a third woman in Sacramento for which he was sentenced to life.
Ramon Salcido	Murdered his wife, two of his three daughters, his mother in-law, her two daughters, and his work supervisor.	34 years, 1 day
Wesley Shermantine	Committed at least four murders from 1984 to 1999.	23 years, 211 days	One half of the Speed Freak Killers along with Loren Herzog, who committed suicide in 2012.
Mauricio Silva	Murdered three teenagers, including his half-sister, during a two-week killing spree in May 1984.	38 years, 120 days	The killings were committed less than a month after being paroled from a voluntary manslaughter conviction.
Gerald Frank Stanley	Murdered his fourth wife in 1980 after being paroled for the 1975 killing of his second wife.	40 years, 314 days	He is also suspected in the disappearance of his third wife in 1980.
Cary Stayner	Murdered 42-year-old Carole Sund and her daughter's friend, 16-year-old Argentine exchange student Silvina Pelosso, later he raped and slit the throat of Sund's daughter, 15-year-old Juliana Sund in 1999. He also murdered and beheaded 26-year-old Joie Ruth Armstrong, five months later.	22 years, 6 days	He is the older brother of kidnapping victim Steven Stayner, abducted by child molester Kenneth Parnell.
Charles Stevens	Murdered four people on Interstate 580 in 1989.	31 years, 141 days	Worked with an accomplice named Richard James Clark in some of the attacks.
William Suff	Raped, stabbed, strangled and/or mutilated at least twelve sex workers between 1986 and 1991.	29 years, 47 days	Suff and his ex-wife were previously convicted of beating their infant daughter to death.
Regis Deon Thomas	Three murders between 1992 and 1993.	29 years, 125 days	Bloods gang member. Two of the victims were officers in the Compton Police Department.
Chester Turner	Fifteen murders between 1987 and 1998.	17 years, 162 days	First sentenced for the murders of ten women and the unborn child of one of them. Then sentenced again for the other four murders.
Billy Ray Waldon	Murdered 42-year old Dawn Ellerman and her daughter, 13-year-old Erin Ellerman, during a robbery in which he also set the home of the victims on fire. Two weeks later he shot 59-year-old Charles Wells, who was working on a car.	32 years, 286 days	Creator of the constructed language Poliespo. In 2023, Waldon's convictions were overturned by the California Supreme Court on grounds that he was denied representation by competent counsel.[31]
Darnell Keith Washington	Murdered 55-year-old Susie Ko during a home invasion.	7 years, 336 days	Washington committed the murder as well as numerous other serious crimes across southern California with his wife Tania.
David Esco Welch	Mass murder of six people.	35 years, 146 days
Marcus Wesson	Mass shooting of nine of his children.	19 years, 138 days	Wesson's victims were his own children, fathered by incestuous relationships with his daughters and nieces, as well as the children by his wife.
David Alan Westerfield	Kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.	21 years, 337 days
Daniel Wozniak	Murder of PFC Samuel Eliezer Herr and his friend, Juri Kibuishi.	8 years, 76 days	Killed two people in an attempt to fund his 2010 wedding and honeymoon. A jury deliberated for 1 hour 14 minutes before recommending the death penalty, one of the shortest death penalty deliberations in Orange County history.[32]

• On death row: 279 (as of December 5, 2024^[update])^[33]
• Total number executed: 418 (1800–2024)^[20][30]

Due to the number of Florida death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Lucious Boyd	Kidnapped, raped and stabbed 21-year-old Dawnia Dacosta with a screwdriver.	22 years, 180 days	He is a suspect in at least ten other homicides, rapes, and disappearances.
Daniel Conahan	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and strangled a 21-year-old man, tied him to a tree, then removed his genitals.	25 years, 312 days	Conahan is also a suspect in the deaths of twelve other men.
Rory Enrique Conde	Strangled six sex workers, including a male crossdresser, then had anal sex with their corpses.	24 years, 286 days
Mesac Damas	Murder of his wife and five children at their home.	7 years, 52 days	He was given six death sentences for each murder.
Leon Davis Jr.	Murders of four people.	13 years, 233 days	He was given an additional life sentence for killing the unborn child of one of the victims
Noel Doorbal	Murdered and dismembered Hungarian couple, Frank Griga and his girlfriend Krisztina Furton, during an extortion kidnapping.	26 years, 155 days	Changes to capital punishment laws have helped Doorbal, who in 2017 had his death sentence overturned. In case Miami prosecutors seek the death penalty again, he will be tried by a jury.
Daniel Lugo
Wayne C. Doty	Murder of fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez in 2013.	11 years, 197 days (first sentence; overthrown) 6 years, 217 days (second sentence)	Originally sentenced to death for the murder of Harvey Horne II in 1996, the Florida Supreme Court threw out Doty's sentence in 2016, but he was retried and received a new one in 2018. Has selected electrocution as his method of execution.
Kevin Foster	Shot high school music teacher Mark Schwebes.	26 years, 215 days	Two of Foster's accomplices were sentenced to life without parole. Another was sentenced to 32 years.
Leonard Gonzalez	Murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings.	13 years, 305 days
Gary Hilton	Kidnapped, robbed, murdered and dismembered Cheryl Dunlap at Apalachicola National Forest.	13 years, 241 days	He was also sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for the murder of Meredith Emerson, and was sentenced in North Carolina to four life sentences for the murders of John and Irene Bryant. Hilton is also suspected in the killing of Judy Smith.
Michael James Jackson	Kidnapped, robbed and buried alive his girlfriend's former neighbors, married couple James "Reggie" and Carol Sumner, both 61-year-old.	17 years, 111 days	Alan Wade, who help in the murders was sentenced to death. His girlfriend, Tiffany Cole was also sentenced to death, but retrial and sentenced to life on August 23, 2023. Bruce Nixon, who also participed in the murders was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Eddie James	Strangled 8-year-old Toni Neuner and raped her corpse, and repeatedly stabbed her grandmother, 58-year-old Elizabeth "Betty" Dick.	29 years, 122 days	James was living with the family of the victims at the time.
Michael King	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee.	15 years, 105 days
Markeith Loyd	Shot and killed Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton.	2 years, 290 days	Loyd was previously sentenced to life for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon.
Dontae Morris	Killed five people, including two police officers, in Tampa between May and June 2010.	10 years, 202 days
Glen Edward Rogers	Stabbed Tina Marie Cribbs to death.	27 years, 160 days	Rogers was also sentenced to death in California for the murder of Sandra Gallagher, and is suspected of having murdered three other women in Ohio, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Considered by investigators as a possible alternative suspect to O. J. Simpson in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Mark Sievers	Orchestrated the murder of his wife, 46-year-old Teresa Sievers.	4 years, 350 days
Donald James Smith	Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.	6 years, 230 days
George Trepal	Poisoned and murdered his neighbor, 41-year-old Peggy Carr.	33 years, 287 days
Troy Victorino	Bludgeoned six people to death.	18 years, 88 days	Victorino and accomplice Jerone Hunter were both sentenced to death for the crime. The crime was the bloodiest mass murder in Volusia County history.
Frank A. Walls	Robbery and murder of five people in Ocean City from 1985 to 1987	32 years, 142 days	Granted a new trial in 1994, but was found guilty and was resentenced to death
Wade Wilson	Strangled two women to death then ran over the second victim multiple times.	112 days	Called the Deadpool killer due to sharing the same name as him. His trial also occurred around the same time as the release of Deadpool & Wolverine.
Zephen Xaver	Perpetrated the 2019 Sebring shooting.	2 days
Tommy Zeigler	Quadruple murder of Eunice Zeigler, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and Charlie Mays.	48 years, 155 days	Zeigler's case has been the focus of controversy since he was denied bloodstain DNA analysis in 2013 and 2016, and touch DNA analysis in April 2017. Zeigler was scheduled to be executed on October 22, 1982. However, the U.S. District Court stayed the execution due to new evidence. Zeigler was then scheduled to be executed on May 20, 1986, but it was again stayed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals due to inadequate representation. Zeigler is Florida's longest-serving death row inmate.

• On death row: 34 (as of June 30, 2024^[update])^[34]
• Total number executed: 1022 (1700–2024)^[20][30]

Due to the number of Georgia death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
David Edenfield	Raped and murdered 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr.	15 years, 73 days	Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia.
Tiffany Moss	Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss.	5 years, 232 days	Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia.
Michael Nance	Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking.	27 years, 83 days
Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace	Robbed and killed at least four elderly women between 1988 and 1989.	28 years, 286 days
Reinaldo Rivera	Abducted, raped, and killed four women between 1999 and 2000.	20 years, 302 days

• On death row: 9^[35]
• Total number executed: 29 (1800–2012)^[35][36]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Azad Haji Abdullah[35]	Murder by arson of his wife and attempted murder of their four children in Boise on October 5, 2002.	20 years, 25 days
Thomas Eugene Creech	Murder by beating of a fellow inmate on May 13, 1981.	48 years, 268 days (first sentence) 41 years, 352 days (second sentence)	Previously on Idaho's death row; in 1977 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Idaho's previous death penalty on his appeal.
Chad Guy Daybell	Co-perpetrator of the murders of his wife and his lover's children in 2019.	200 days	His co-defendant Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Timothy Alan Dunlap[35]	Fatally shot a Soda Springs bank teller during a robbery on October 16, 1991.	32 years, 242 days	Also sentenced in Ohio for murdering his girlfriend.[37]
James Harvey Hairston[35]	Robbed and shot an elderly Downey couple on January 6, 1996.	28 years, 47 days	Denied retrial in 2010.[38][39]
Erick Virgil Hall[35]	Rape and murder of two women on September 24, 2000, and one in 2003.	20 years, 139 days
Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr.[35]	Killed a Marsing woman and her nephew in July 1985.	38 years, 231 days	Denied retrial in 2010.[38][39]
Jonathan Daniel Renfro[35]	Shot dead Coeur d'Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore on May 5, 2015.	7 years, 66 days
Robin Lee Row[35]	Murder by arson of her husband and their two children in February 1992.	31 years, 17 days	Only woman on Idaho's death row; housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center.

• On death row: 8 (November 21, 2020)^[40]
• Total number executed: 151 (1800–2009)^[20]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Joseph Edward Corcoran	Fatally shot his brother, his future brother-in-law, and two of his brother's friends.	25 years, 114 days	Corcoran was living with his brother, sister, and his sister's fiancé. He became enraged when he heard his brother, future brother-in-law, and two of his brother's friends talking about him. After putting his 7-year-old niece in an upstairs bedroom to protect her, he loaded his semiautomatic rifle and killed them. He then went to a neighbor's house and asked them to call the police.[41] Scheduled to be executed on December 18, 2024.
William Clyde Gibson	Rape and bludgeoning of 75-year-old Christine Whitis.	11 years, 37 days	Whitis was a family friend who had come to his New Albany home to console Gibson after his mother's death.[41] Gibson has pleaded guilty to three murders. After he was arrested for Whitis' murder, police excavated Gibson's yard to recover the body of Stephanie Kirk, a 35-year-old Charlestown woman who disappeared in 2012. He also admitted to fatally stabbing Karen Hodella of Port Orange, Florida, in October 2002.[42][43]
Eric D. Holmes	Stabbed to death 20-year-old Theresa Blosl and 30-year-old Charles Ervin.	31 years, 267 days	Holmes was fired from his job at Shoney's Restaurant after an argument with co-worker Amy Foshee. At closing on the day of his firing, Holmes waited in the parking lot with Michael Vance. Holmes and Vance attacked Foshee and two managers as they exited the building, stabbing them multiple times, and stealing the bank deposit money. The restaurant managers, Theresa Blosl and Charles Ervin, died; Foshee survived. Vance was tried separately and sentenced to 190 years.[41]
Kevin Isom	Shot his wife, 40-year-old Cassandra Isom and his two stepchildren, 16-year-old Michael Moore and 13-year-old Ci'Andria Cole.	11 years, 285 days	The crime was in response to learning his wife was planning to leave him. He then barricaded himself in the family's apartment and shot at police officers attempting to take him into custody.[41] Isom's defense attorney argued that a death sentence was inappropriate given the emotional state of his client, who suffered an extreme emotional disturbance from losing his job and then being left by his wife. However, the prosecution pointed out that he was extremely abusive and unfaithful to his wife and drove her away.[44]
Michael Dean Overstreet	Raped, strangled and shot 18-year-old Kelly Eckart.	24 years, 140 days	Kelly Eckart, an 18-year-old freshman at Franklin College, was last seen on September 27, 1997, after leaving work. The next morning, her car was found abandoned in a rural area, with its lights on and keys in the ignition. She was found in a ravine in Brown County four days later. She had been shot and strangled. Semen found on the body was matched to Overstreet. He has schizoaffective disorder and had hallucinations as a child. He was discharged from the marines on the basis of mental illness.[41] A judge determined Overstreet was not competent to be executed in November 2014. The Indiana Attorney General chose not to appeal the decision. He remains on death row indefinitely.[45]
Benjamin Ritchie	Shot 32-year-old officer William Toney in the chest.[41]	22 years, 64 days	Ritchie was involved in a police chase after he was spotted driving a stolen vehicle. The chase ended when he crashed the vehicle and proceeded on foot before shooting Toney. Ritchie has a number of cognitive and emotional disorders. He has bipolar disorder and a non-specified cognitive disorder. The cause of the physiological condition was not identified, but experts speculated that several past serious head injuries, his mother's heavy use of drugs and alcohol during pregnancy, his own history of drug use, and a history of childhood abuse were to likely causes.[46]
Roy Lee Ward	Rape and stabbing of 15-year-old Stacy Payne in her home.	22 years, 0 days	The victim's 14-year-old sister was sleeping upstairs when she heard the screams of her sister. She called 911. Police found Ward still in the home when they arrived. Ward's first conviction was overturned in 2004 on the basis that pretrial publicity tainted the jury pool. He was again convicted and sentenced to death. Ward has been diagnosed with a number of psychiatric disorders including exhibitionism, antisocial personality disorder, and ADHD.[47]
Jeffrey A. Weisheit	Murder by arson of the two children of his girlfriend, 8-year-old Alyssa and 5-year-old Caleb Lynch.	11 years, 160 days	After his arrest, Weisheit admitted stuffing a dish towel in Caleb's mouth and using duct tape to bind his arms behind his back. Two flares were found near the boy's body. Autopsies revealed the children were alive when the fire was set. He told police he did it because Caleb was misbehaving on the night before the fire.[48] Weisheit has bipolar disorder.[41]

• On death row: 9^[49]
• Total number executed: 57 (1800–1965)^[20]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Reginald Carr	Five random brutal crimes committed from December 7 to 14, 2000.	22 years, 33 days (first sentence; overturned) 8 years, 333 days (second sentence)	After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned their death sentences, the United States Supreme Court reinstated them on January 20, 2016.
Jonathan Carr
Scott Cheever	Murder of Sheriff Matt Samuels in January 2005.	16 years, 330 days
Kyle Trevor Flack	Shot two men, and a mother and daughter on May 1, 2013.	8 years, 214 days
Sidney Gleason	Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004.	18 years, 112 days (first sentence; overturned) 8 years, 333 days (second sentence)	After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.
James Kraig Kahler	Murders of his wife Karen, his two daughters, Lauren and Emily, and his wife's grandmother, Dorothy Wight.	13 years, 68 days
Gary Kleypas	1996 rape and murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg, Kansas.	26 years, 282 days (first sentence; overturned) 16 years, 15 days (second sentence)	The Kansas Supreme Court, in its review of his case, found serious errors with the state's death penalty statute and ordered that the penalty phase of his trial be redone. The sentence was overturned in 2001. In 2008, he was sentenced to death again.
John E. Robinson Sr.	Capital murder convictions for the murders of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten and first degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985.	21 years, 332 days	In 2005, he admitted responsibility for five additional homicides across the river, at trial in Kansas City, Missouri, in a deal to receive multiple life sentences without possibility of parole and avoid more death sentences.
Justin Thurber	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm in 2007.[50]	15 years, 273 days	In October 2017, he appealed death sentence with arguments whether he is developmentally disabled. The judge rejected the defense's request for a hearing on whether Thurber is developmentally disabled, ruling that the defense had not presented enough evidence to warrant a hearing.[51]

• On death row: 25^[52]
• Total number executed: 427 (1700–2008)^[20]

Due to the number of Kentucky death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Ralph Baze	Shot two police officers at his home.	30 years, 318 days	He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees
Victor Dewayne Taylor	Kidnapped, robbed and shot two 17-year-old Trinity High School students.	38 years, 209 days	Taylor's cousin, George Wade, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Larry Lamont White	Robbery and shooting of 22-year-old Pamela Armstrong in Louisville on June 4, 1983.	39 years, 278 days (first sentence; overturned) 18 years, 146 days (second sentence)	White was initially convicted and sentenced to death for two other murders committed between June and July 1983, but his sentence was overturned and he was resentenced to 29 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 2001 and rearrested for violating his parole in 2006, when he was linked via DNA to Armstrong's killing.[53]

• On death row: 57 (as of June 13, 2023^[update])^[54]
• Total number executed: 659 (1700–2010)^[20]

Due to the number of Louisiana death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Henri Broadway	Involved in the murder of 36-year-old police officer Betty Smothers.	28 years, 317 days	The murdered police officer was the mother of Warrick Dunn, a former NFL running back. Broadway's accomplice, Kevan Brumfield, was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life on July 20, 2016, as he was ruled too intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution.
Nathaniel Code	Mass murder of four people.	33 years, 328 days	Code had also been responsible for at least four other murders, and investigators believe his murder count could be as high as twelve.
Antoinette Frank	Murdered 25-year-old police officer Ronald Williams and 17-year-old Cuong Vu and 24-year-old Ha Vu, two brothers owners of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard.	29 years, 59 days	Frank was a New Orleans police officer. Her accomplice, Roger Lacaze was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life.
Jesse Montejo	Shot and killed a business owner inside a home.	19 years, 219 days

• On death row: 35^[55]
• Total number executed: 374 (1800–2022)^[20]

Due to the number of Mississippi death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Anthony Carr	Tortured and murdered four members of the Parker family.	34 years, 90 days	Carr was sentenced to death for all four of the murders, while Simon was sentenced to death for three, receiving a life sentence for the fourth.
Robert Simon Jr.		34 years, 66 days
Willie Cory Godbolt	Fatally shot eight people in a killing spree in Lincoln County, Mississippi, including police officer William Durr.	4 years, 295 days	Godbolt was given four death sentences and six life sentences plus 40 years.
Richard Gerald Jordan	Kidnapped and murdered 34-year-old Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive.	47 years, 291 days	Jordan is Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate.
Willie Jerome Manning	Murdered 19-year-old Jon Steckler and 22-year-old Tiffany Miller.	30 years, 40 days	Manning was sentenced to death for two separate double murders. One of these convictions was overturned but he remains on death row for the other one.

• On death row: 8^[56]
• Total number executed: 378 (1800–2024)^[20]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Terrance Anderson	Murdered Stephen and Debbie Rainwater, his ex-girlfriend's parents.[57]	23 years, 216 days
William Theodore Boliek Jr.	Murdered 18-year-old Jody Harless in Kansas City in 1983.[57]	40 years, 7 days[58]	In 1997, Boliek was granted a stay of execution by Governor Mel Carnahan. Carnahan died in a plane crash in 2000 and Boliek's case was not resolved. A court determined only Carnahan could overturn the stay, effectively leaving Boliek's case in permanent limbo. Governor Jay Nixon's office determined Boliek would not be executed and he will spend the remainder of his life in prison. Boliek is Missouri's longest-serving death row inmate.[57][59][60]
Richard Emery	Murdered his girlfriend and her family in their home.[61]	2 years, 45 days
Charles Lee Mathenia	Murdered elderly sisters, 72-year-old Daisy Nash and 70-year-old Louanna Bailey in 1984.[57]	39 years, 345 days	In 1994, he was declared mentally disabled.[57]
Vincent McFadden	Fatally shot his girlfriend's sister, 18-year-old Leslie Addison.[57]	19 years, 237 days	McFadden also committed another fatal shooting in 2002.[57]
Roosevelt Pollard	Murdered Richard Alford, an Arkansas businessman.[57]	38 years, 326 days	Pollard has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. In 1999, he was ruled incompetent.[57]
Lance Shockley	Ambushed and murdered police officer Carl Dewayne Graham.[57]	15 years, 210 days
Craig Michael Wood	Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 10-year-old Hailey Owens.	6 years, 342 days

• On death row: 2^[62]
• Total number executed: 74 (1800–2006)^[20]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
William Jay Gollehon[62]	Murder by bludgeoning of Gerald Pileggi, an inmate during a riot in 1991.	32 years, 277 days	At that moment, Gollehon was serving a 130-year sentence for murdering a woman.
Ronald Allen Smith[62]	Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982.	41 years, 271 days	Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.[63]

• On death row: 11^[64][65]
• Total number executed: 38 (1866–2018)^[20]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Roy Ellis	Abducted and beat 12-year-old Amber Harris to death, later he threw her body into a ravine.	15 years, 316 days
Jorge Galindo	Shooting of five people in a failed bank robbery.	20 years, 38 days	Gabriel Rodriguez, who participed in the failed robbery was sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment.
Jose Sandoval		19 years, 322 days
Erick Fernando Vela		17 years, 341 days
Anthony Garcia	Committed two separate double murders in March 2008 and May 2013.	6 years, 95 days
Jeffrey Hessler	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 15-year-old Heather Guerrero.	19 years, 214 days
Nikko Allen Jenkins	Killed four people over the course of 10 days in August 2013.	7 years, 202 days
John Lotter	Murdered 19-year-old Phillip DeVine, 24-year-old Lisa Lambert and 21-year-old Brandon Teena.	28 years, 301 days	Days prior, Teena had reported to police that Lotter and his accomplice Tom Nissen had beat and raped him upon discovering he was transgender. Nissen was sentenced to life.
Raymond Mata Jr.	Kidnapped, murdered and dismembered 3-year-old Adam Gomez, his ex-girlfriend's son.	24 years, 200 days
Marco Torres	Shot two men, with one of the victims also being strangled and bound.	14 years, 324 days
Aubrey Clifton Trail	Killed and dismembered 24-year-old Sydney Loofe.	3 years, 192 days	His accomplice, Bailey Boswell, was sentenced to life in prison.

• On death row: 63^[66]
• Total number executed: 76 (1800–2006)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
James Biela	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 19-year-old Brianna Denison.	14 years, 205 days
Zane Michael Floyd	Shot four employees during a mass shooting in a supermarket.	24 years, 159 days
David Stephen Middleton	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 42-year-old Thelma Davila and 45-year-old Katherine Powell in 1994 and 1995, respectively.	27 years, 91 days	Middleton was an ex-police officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department, Middleton is a suspect in a third murder committed in Colorado in 1993 and rapes done during his tenure with the Miami-Dade PD.

• On death row: 1 (2014)
• Total number executed: 24 (1700–1939)^[20]

Note: On May 30, 2019, the state Senate voted to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed capital punishment, replacing it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The law was not retroactive and the one person on death row at the time of abolition remains there.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Michael Kiser Addison[67]	Murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer, on October 16, 2006.	16 years, 0 days	Only death row inmate in New Hampshire due to the subsequent abolition of state capital punishment.

• On death row: 136^[68]
• Total number executed: 823 (1700–2006)^[20]

Due to the number of North Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Linwood Forte	Murders of three elderly Goldsboro residents in their homes committed between May and October 1990.	21 years, 71 days	Also serving four consecutive life sentences for rapes related to the crimes. Additionally suspected of a murder in 1994, but never charged.
Terry Hyatt	Kidnappings, rapes and murders of Harriet Simmons and Betty McConnell, committed four months apart in 1979.	24 years, 315 days	Also serving six life sentences for the same murders, and a seventh for a third murder committed in 1987.
Blanche Taylor Moore	Poisoned her boyfriend, Raymond Reid, with arsenic.	33 years, 335 days	Moore has also been linked to the deaths of her father, mother in law, and first husband.
Henry Louis Wallace[69]	Raped and killed nine women between 1990 and 1994.	27 years, 324 days	Known as "The Taco Bell Strangler". Wallace confessed to the murders of eleven women.
Lesley Eugene Warren	Raped and murdered his girlfriend Jayme Hurley and student Katherine Johnson on separate occasions in 1990.	29 years, 73 days	Known as "The Babyface Killer". Warren was also sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a woman in South Carolina, and was never charged for a murder in New York. He confessed to four murders additional murders committed in the Carolinas, but these victims have never been identified.
John Williams Jr.	Raped and killed two women in 1996.	26 years, 289 days	Williams was the believed prime suspect in multiple murders across the Raleigh area.

• On death row: 114 (as of September 9, 2024^[update])^[70]
• Total number executed: 494 (1700–2018)^[20][30]

Due to the number of Ohio death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Richard Beasley	Lured three men using a Craigslist ad for a non-existent job and shot them in 2011.	11 years, 273 days[71]	His accomplice, Brogan Rafferty, was sentenced to life in prison.
George Brinkman	Killed a female friend, her two daughters, and an elderly couple who he was friends with in June 2017.	5 years, 356 days[72]	First sentenced when he admitted to committing the Royalton murders, then sentenced again for the Lake Township murders. Scheduled to be executed on September 23, 2026.
Quisi Bryan	Killed a Cleveland police officer during a traffic stop in 2000.	23 years, 295 days[73]	Scheduled to be executed on January 7, 2026.
Shawn Grate	Murdered five women from 2006 to 2016.	6 years, 200 days[74]	An initial execution date was set upon conviction for September 13, 2018, but the execution was stayed due to a pending appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Nathaniel E. Jackson	Shot his lover's ex-husband in order to collect his life insurance.	22 years, 7 days[75]
Anthony Kirkland	Raped, strangled and burned the bodies of four females between 2006 and 2009.	14 years, 261 days[76]	Kirkland previously served sixteen years for the beating, choking and burning murder of his girlfriend. He was handed two death sentences, plus two sentences of seventy years to life.
Michael Madison	Kidnapped, raped, strangled and mutilated three women in 2012 and 2013.	8 years, 188 days[77]
Gregory McKnight	Kidnapped and murdered 20-year-old Emily Murray and hid her body in his trailer in 2000.	22 years, 49 days[78]	McKnight had previously served seven years in a juvenile detention center for shooting and killing a man in 1992. The body of a different man was also found on McKnight's property in 2000.
Austin Myers	Orchestrated the murder of 18-year-old Justin Back.	10 years, 62 days[79]	Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence.
Donna Roberts	Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance.	21 years, 175 days[80]	Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio.
William Kessler Sapp	Raped and murdered 11-year-old Martha Leach and 12-year-old Phree Morrow in 1992. One year later, he murdered 31-year-old Belinda Anderson.	25 years, 58 days[81]
Raymond A. Twyford III	Murdered 37-year-old Richard Franks, who he suspected of raping his girlfriend's daughter.	31 years, 250 days[82]
Christopher Whitaker	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze.	6 years, 265 days[83]	Scheduled to be executed in July 2026.
James D. Worley	Abducted and murdered 20-year-old Sierah Joughin.	6 years, 243 days[84]	The murder prompted the creation of Ohio Senate Bill 231 'Sierah's Law', a statute that provides for a searchable database of convicted violent felons living in the state.

• On death row: 33 (as of September 26, 2024^[update])^[85]
• Total number executed: 253 (1800–2024)^[20]

Due to the number of Oklahoma death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Richard Glossip	Commissioning the murder of Barry Van Treese.	26 years, 200 days (first sentence; overturned) 20 years, 113 days (second sentence)	Justin Sneed, the man who murdered Van Treese, agreed to plead guilty and testified against Glossip, so that he received a sentence of life without parole. The case is controversial as Sneed was at the time a methamphetamine addict and possibly a mythomaniac.
Raymond Eugene Johnson	Fatal beating and arson deaths of his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Brooke Whitaker, and her 7-month-old daughter, Kya.	15 years, 175 days	At the time of the crimes, he was on parole from a 20-year sentence for manslaughter.
Alton Alexander Nolen	Attacked two Vaughan Foods employees, beheading 54-year-old Colleen Hufford and critically wounding Traci Johnson.	7 years, 3 days	The attack followed a well-publicized series of beheadings carried out by the Islamic State.
William Lewis Reece	Raped and murdered 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston.	3 years, 121 days	Reece, a convicted kidnapper, was connected to her murder in 2015 on the basis of DNA evidence. He later confessed to three unrelated murders connected to the Texas Killing Fields, to which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Kevin Ray Underwood	Murdered 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin.	16 years, 259 days	Scheduled to be executed on December 19, 2024

• On death row: 0 (as of December 13, 2022^[update])^[86]
• Total number executed: 124 (1800–1997)^[20]

• On death row: 95 (as of November 2, 2024^[update])^[87]
• Total number executed: 1 043 (1608–1999)^[20]

Due to the number of Pennsylvania death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
George Banks	Killed thirteen people and wounded one in 1982.	41 years, 179 days	On May 12, 2010, Banks was declared incompetent to be executed.
Richard Baumhammers	Racially motivated crime spree in April 2000, in Pittsburgh, killing five people and paralyzing one.	23 years, 221 days	Baumhammers was given five death sentences plus 112 years.
Arthur Jerome Bomar Jr.	Murdered 22-year-old Aimee Willard, beating her to death.	26 years, 14 days	Bomar is also suspected to have murdered Maria Cabuenos to steal her car, since he had thrown out his own at a junkyard. Willard's DNA was found on the latter, which pointed out Bomar's culpability.
John Eichinger	Stabbing murders of Heather Greaves, her sister Lisa and her daughter Avery at their home in King of Prussia on March 25, 2005.	19 years, 6 days	Eichinger is also serving a life sentence for the murder of Jennifer Still, who was murdered under similar circumstances at her house in Bridgeport in 1999.
Eric Frein	Murdered Corporal Bryon Dickson II during a State police attack in September 2014.	7 years, 227 days
Melvin Knight	Tortured, raped and murdered mentally disabled Jennifer Daugherty.	12 years, 110 days	The other four members of The Greensburg Six received long prison sentences, ranging from thirty years to life without parole. Knight appealed his sentence, but on November 15, 2018, his appeal was denied.
Ricky Smyrnes		11 years, 294 days	Smyrnes appealed the death sentence, and his execution was delayed in July 2017.
Richard Andrew Poplawski	Shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009.	13 years, 173 days
Harvey Miguel Robinson	Raped and murdered 47-year-old Jessica Jean Fortney.	30 years, 19 days	Robinson was initially sentenced to death for three murders, but the death sentences for the first two murders were later changed to life sentences.
Christopher Roney	First-degree murder for the shooting death of police officer Lauretha Vaird.	28 years, 5 days
Raghunandan Yandamuri	First-degree murders and kidnapping of Saanvi Venna and her grandmother, Satyavathi Venna.	10 years, 28 days	Yandamuri is one of the two only Indians on death row in the United States. His execution was delayed in January 2018.

• On death row: 30^[88]
• Total number executed: 684 (1700–2024)^[20]

Due to the number of South Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Steven Bixby	Shot and killed Abbeville County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Daniel Wilson and State Constable Donald Ouzts.	17 years, 301 days	Rita Bixby, Steven's mother, was given two life sentences, while his father, Arthur Bixby, was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and committed to a mental facility.
Marion Bowman Jr.	Murdered his 21-year-old high school friend Kandee Louise Martin in Dorchester County, South Carolina.	22 years, 208 days	He disposed of Martin's body by burning it in the trunk of her car after he shot Martin to death.
Timothy Jones Jr.	Murdered his five children in Lexington County.	5 years, 188 days	He disposed of their bodies in Alabama before later admitting to the crime.
Mikal Mahdi	Murdered off-duty police officer James Myers in July 2004.	18 years, 10 days	Mahdi was also convicted of the 2004 murder of convenience store clerk Christopher Boggs in North Carolina and sentenced to life without parole.
Brad Sigmon	Murdered the elderly parents of his ex-girlfriend in April 2001.	22 years, 151 days	He also kidnapped and shot his ex-girlfriend, who survived the shooting.
Stephen Stanko	Murdered his girlfriend Laura Ling, and library patron Henry Lee Turner.	18 years, 122 days	He also raped and violently assaulted Ling's daughter, who survived the attack.
James William Wilson Jr.	Shot dead two 8-year-old students and wounded another seven, a teacher and a gym coach.	35 years, 221 days

• On death row: 1^[89]
• Total number executed: 20 (1866–2019)^[89]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Briley Piper	Tortured and murdered Chester Allan Poage.	23 years, 334 days (first sentence; overturned) 13 years, 141 days (second sentence)[90]	Piper committed the crime along with Elijah Page and Darrell Hoadley. Page was sentenced to death and executed in 2007, becoming the first person executed in South Dakota in over sixty years. Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison.

• On death row: 46^[91]
• Total number executed: 347 (1700–2020)

Due to the number of Tennessee death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Lemaricus Davidson	Raped, tortured, and murdered Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.	15 years, 49 days	Davidson's four accomplices were also sentenced but only Davidson received a death sentence.
Jessie Dotson	Shot his brother Cecil Dotson, his brother's girlfriend Marissa Williams and two other adults, and fatally stabbed his nephews, aged 4 and 2.	14 years, 67 days	Three other children were found seriously injured at the house. Dotson received six death sentences for the crime.
Henry Lee Jones	Stabbed and strangled elderly couple, Clarence and Lillian James, at their home in Bartlett on August 22, 2003, ultimately slitting their throats with a pair of scissors.	15 years, 213 days	Jones was also sentenced to death in Florida for a similar murder committed just days after these murders, and is suspected of yet another killing in that state. His first death sentence was overturned, but he was found guilty in a second trial in 2015.[92]
Donald Ray Middlebrooks	Tortured and murdered 14-year-old Kerrick Majors.	35 years, 87 days	Middlebrooks was scheduled to be executed on December 8, 2022. His execution was later suspended due to an oversight in the preparation for lethal injection in another execution.
Christa Pike	Tortured and murdered her Job Corps classmate, 19-years-old Colleen Slemmer by crushing her skull with asphalt.	28 years, 263 days	Two of Pike's accomplices were also sentenced; Tadaryl Shipp was given life without parole plus 25 years, while Shadolla Peterson was sentenced to probation after testifying against her. In 2001, Pike and Natasha Cornett attempted to strangle fellow inmate Patricia Jones with a shoestring; Jones survived.
Oscar Franklin Smith	Killed his estranged wife Judy Robird Smith and her two sons, Chad and Jason Burnett.	34 years, 145 days	Smith was scheduled to be executed on April 21, 2022. However, his execution was reprieved by Governor Bill Lee due to an oversight in the preparation for lethal injection. Smith is the oldest death row inmate in Tennessee.

• On death row: 174^[93]
• Total number executed: 1341 (1800–2024)^[20]

Due to the number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages or part of a criminal enterprise with a separate Wikipedia page are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Eugene Broxton	Shot newlyweds Waylon and Sheila Dockens during a robbery of their motel room in Channelview, killing Sheila.	32 years, 91 days	Broxton is also the prime suspect for a series of robbery-murders in Houston between March and May 1991, for which he has never been charged.
Linda Carty	Abducted and murdered 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez to steal her newborn son.	22 years, 286 days	Prosecutors alleged that Carty orchestrated the crime, which was committed by three masked men who abducted Rodriguez and her son. Rodriguez was later found dead in the trunk of a car. Her 3-day-old son was rescued from a car parked nearby. The other three men were arrested, but only Carty was prosecuted for capital murder. Carty claims she was framed by drug dealers in response to her work as an informant and has appealed her conviction. Her appeals have been unsuccessful and the appeal procedure has been exhausted. Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century.
Raul Cortez	Shot dead Rosa Barbosa, her nephew and two of his friends.	15 years, 318 days	Eddie Williams is serving 20 years, and Javier Cortez, Raul's brother, was sentenced to four years in prison.
Edgardo Rafael Cubas	Murdered two women and a 15-year-old girl, who had been kidnapped and raped.	20 years, 194 days	Eduardo Navarro, an accomplice, was 15 at the time of the crimes but was tried as an adult.
Walter Alexander Sorto		21 years, 7 days
William George Davis	Murdered four patients at a hospital in Tyler from 2017 to 2018, where he worked as a nurse, introducing air into patients’ arterial systems.	3 years, 50 days	In a call to his ex-wife in jail, Davis claimed he wanted to lengthen patients' time in the intensive care unit so he could earn more overtime.
Michael Dean Gonzales	Robbed and murdered his elderly neighbors in Odessa, Texas.	29 years, 6 days
Ruben Gutierrez	Robbed and murdered 85-year-old retired schoolteacher Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Texas.	25 years, 220 days	Gutierrez committed the crime with two others; one of them, Rene Garcia, was sentenced to life in prison while the other, Pedro Gracia, remains at large for the murder.
Randy Halprin	Murdered Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a robbery.	21 years, 189 days	Halprin was convicted under the Texas law of parties.
Patrick Murphy		21 years, 28 days	Murphy was the last member of the Texas Seven to be brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to death.
Ronald Lee Haskell	Murdered his ex-wife's sister, her husband and four of their children in Harris County.	5 years, 63 days	Cassidy Stay was the lone survivor. She was shot, but played dead and informed police about Haskell.
Brittany Holberg	Robbed and murdered 80-year-old A. B. Towery Sr. in his home.	26 years, 266 days	The victim was struck with a hammer and stabbed nearly sixty times. The weapons used were a paring knife, a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, and a fork. A lamp pole had been shoved more than five inches down the victim's throat.
William Hudson	Murdered six members of a family at a camp site.	7 years, 32 days
Ali Irsan	2012 killings of his son-in-law, Coty Beavers, and Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a friend of his daughter.	6 years, 120 days
Willie Roy Jenkins	Sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Sheryl Norris at her apartment in San Marcos.	11 years, 187 days	Jenkins, who was detained at a mental hospital in California for four rapes committed during the 1970s, was linked to the crime via DNA. He is also a suspect in three additional murders committed from 1975 to 1977, but has not been charged.
Melissa Lucio	Murdered her 2-years-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez.	16 years, 128 days	Lucio was the first woman of Hispanic descent in Texas to be sentenced to death. A problematic conviction and rejected appeals led to her case being covered in the 2020 documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa.
Otis McKane	Shooting of Benjamin Marconi.	3 years, 133 days
Steven Lawayne Nelson	Murder of Arlington church pastor Clint Dobson.	12 years, 63 days	Nelson had additionally murdered a fellow inmate named Jonathan Holden in prison before his trial commenced. Scheduled to be executed on February 5, 2025.
Scott Panetti	Murder of his father-in-law and mother-in-law.	29 years, 84 days	Panetti had an extensive history of psychiatric hospitalization and was a diagnosed schizophrenic.
Rodney Reed	Abducted, raped and murdered 19-year-old Stacie Stites.	26 years, 203 days
Robert Leslie Roberson III	Murder of his two-year-old daughter Nikki Michelle Curtis.	21 years, 301 days
Darlie Routier	Stabbed her two sons in 1996.	27 years, 317 days	Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA.[94][95]
Víctor Saldaño	Kidnapped and shot dead Paul Ray King.	28 years, 97 days	Saldaño is the sole Argentine on death row in the United States. Jorge Chávez, his co-defendant, is serving life imprisonment.
Richard Lee Tabler	Murdered a strip club manager and his friend in a fatal shooting on November 26, 2004.	17 years, 260 days	His accomplice Timothy Doan Payne was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007. Tabler confessed to two more murders of teenage girls on November 28, 2004, but had yet to stand trial for the double murder.
Andre Thomas	Murdered his estranged wife, 4-year-old son, and 13-month-old daughter on March 27, 2004.	19 years, 231 days	Residing in a psychiatric unit because of doubts about his mental health, since he removed his right eye on April 1, 2004, and then removed and consumed his left eye on December 9, 2008.
Charles Victor Thompson	Murdered his girlfriend Dennise Hayslip and her lover, Darren Cain.	25 years, 227 days	Thompson alleges that his death penalty conviction is unjust, stating he acted in self-defense as he had been shot by Cain. The killings could be viewed as a crime of passion which would exclude the capital murder sentence. He also alleges that Hayslip died a week later due to medical malpractice, and not the actual shooting. He made headlines in 2005 by escaping from Harris County Jail in Houston after a parole meeting using a forged ID badge, and he was captured three days later.
Jason Thornburg	Murdered and dismembered three people at Fort Worth, Texas in 2021.	14 days	Thornburg had also engaged in cannibalism by eating some of the victim's body parts and organs. Thornburg additionally confessed to murdering his girlfriend at Arizona in 2017, and also killed a roommate in May 2021 in Texas.
Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval	Shot United States Border Patrol agent Javier Vega Jr.	6 years, 196 days	Ismael Hernandez Vallejo was given a fifty-year prison sentence. Both men were undocumented Mexican citizens.
Lucky Ward	Strangled two people in September 2010 in Houston, during separate incidents	4 years, 280 days	Ward is considered the prime suspect in a series of at least four similar murders dating back to 1985, but was not charged with them due to lack of sufficient evidence for a conviction.
Faryion Wardrip	Raped and murdered five women in the 1980s.	25 years, 39 days	Wardrip was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 1986. He was released on December 11, 1997, but was sentenced to death on November 9, 1999, after he confessed to murdering Terry Sims. In December 2014, Wardrip's appeal was dismissed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Eric Lyle Williams	Shot and killed three people in Kaufman County, including Criminal District Attorney Michael McLelland.	10 years, 0 days	Williams's wife and accomplice, Kimberly Irene Williams, was tried separately, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
David Leonard Wood	Rapes and murders of six women in El Paso from May to August 1987, whose bodies were later found buried in the desert	31 years, 339 days	Wood is also a suspect in the disappearances of three other young girls and women. He has denied responsibility for the crimes and has repeatedly attempted to have his sentence overturned, but so far has been unsuccessful. Scheduled to be executed on March 13, 2025.
Jeffery Lee Wood	Party to the shooting of gas station clerk Kriss Lee Keeran.	26 years, 291 days	On January 2, 1996, Wood and Daniel Earl Reneau robbed a Kerrville gas station. While Wood waited outside, Reneau shot the clerk because he did not cooperate. Wood was convicted under the Texas law of parties and his death row conviction has been regarded as controversial, as he was not present during the murder. Reneau was executed on June 13, 2002.

• On death row: 5^[96]
• Total number executed: 51 (1800–2024)^[20][97]

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Michael Anthony Archuleta[96]	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 28-year-old Gordon Church on November 21, 1988.	34 years, 363 days	Lance Wood, his co-defendant, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder. Has selected lethal injection as his method of execution.[96]
Douglas Stewart Carter[96]	Stabbed and shot 57-year-old Eva Olesen during a burglary of her Provo home on February 27, 1985.	38 years, 357 days	Has selected lethal injection as his method of execution.
Troy Kell[96]	Stabbed fellow inmate, Lonnie Blackmon, 67 times on July 6, 1994.	28 years, 132 days	At the time, Kell was serving a life sentence in Nevada for the 1986 murder of 21-year-old James "Cotton" Kelly, who had been stalking 15-year-old Sandy Shaw, a long-time friend of Kell's. Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.[98]
Ralph Leroy Menzies[96]	Kidnapped and strangled gas station attendant, 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, in Kearns on February 23, 1986.	36 years, 270 days	Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.[98]
Von Lester Taylor[96]	Murdered 49-year-old Kaye Tiede and her mother, 76-year-old Beth Potts near Beaver Springs, Summit County.	33 years, 208 days	Edward Deli, his co-defendant, was sentenced to life in prison. They also shot Tiede's husband, who survived, and attempted to set him on fire. Later they kidnapped their two daughters. Has selected lethal injection as his method of execution.

• On death row: 0^[99]
• Total number executed: 23 (1866–1992)

Twenty-three states have abolished capital punishment. Crimes committed in these states are still eligible for the death penalty if they are convicted in federal court for certain federal crimes. Capital punishment has been abolished in New Hampshire, but only for new sentences. One prisoner (Michael Addison) who was already sentenced to death remains on death row in the state.

States and the date of abolition of capital punishment:

1. Michigan (1846; abolished for murder, retained for treason until 1963)
2. Wisconsin (1853)
3. Maine (1887)
4. Minnesota (1911)
5. Hawaii (1948; prior to statehood)
6. Alaska (1957; prior to statehood)
7. Vermont (1964; abolished for murder, retained for treason until 1972)
8. Iowa (1965)
9. West Virginia (1965)
10. North Dakota (1973)
11. Massachusetts (1984)
12. Rhode Island (1984)
13. New Jersey (2007)
14. New York (2007)
15. New Mexico (2009)
16. Illinois (2011)
17. Connecticut (2012)
18. Maryland (2013)
19. Delaware (2016)
20. Washington (2018)
21. New Hampshire (2019)
22. Colorado (2020)
23. Virginia (2021)

Territories and federal districts:

1. Puerto Rico (1929)^[100]
2. Northern Mariana Islands (before 1970; prior to Commonwealth status) ^[101]
3. Guam (1978) ^[101]
4. Washington, D.C. (1981)
5. United States Virgin Islands (1991)

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