U.S. executions in 2023.
Numbering is from the first post-Furman execution, that of Gary Gilmore
in
24 men were put to death in 5 states during 2023 all by lethal
injection. 8 were executed in Texas, 6
in Florida, 4 in Oklahoma, 4 in Missouri and 2 in Alabama.
18 men were executed in 6 states during 2022, up from 16 men executed in 5
states during 2021.
Texas and Oklahoma each carried out 5 executions, Alabama 2, Arizona 3,
Missouri 2, Mississippi 1.
Just 21 new death sentences were passed in 2023.
2,331 inmates were on death row as of January 2023, including 50 women
and those sentenced by the US military and the Federal Government.
All executions are carried out for 1st degree murder and are by lethal
injection unless otherwise indicated after the prisoner's name.
(E = electrocution, G = lethal gas, H = hanging, S = shooting)
Prisoner details (f) = female, (t) = transgender (v) = volunteered for
execution.
|
No. |
Date |
State |
Name |
Crime/victims |
|
1558 |
01/03 |
Missouri |
Scott (Amber) McLaughlin (t) |
1 - Rape murder of ex-girlfriend |
|
1559 |
01/10 |
Texas |
Robert Fratta |
1 - Estranged wife |
|
1560 |
01/12 |
|
Scott James Eizember |
2 - Elderly couple to use their home |
|
1561 |
02/01 |
Texas |
Wesley Ruiz |
1 - Police officer |
|
1562 |
02/07 |
Missouri |
Raheem Taylor |
4 - girlfriend and her three children |
|
1563 |
02/08 |
Texas |
John Balentine |
3 - teenagers over a feud |
|
1564 |
02/23 |
Florida |
Donald David Dillbeck |
1 - carjacking |
|
1565 |
03/07 |
Texas |
Gary Green |
2 - estranged wife and daughter |
|
1566 |
03/09 |
Texas |
Arthur Brown Jr. |
4 - drug related |
|
1567 |
04/12 |
Florida |
Louis Bernard Gaskin |
2 - robbery murder |
|
1568 |
05/03 |
Florida |
Darryl B. Barwick |
1 - female victim |
|
1569 |
06/06 |
Missouri |
Michael Tisius
|
2 - Corrections officers |
|
1570 |
06/15 |
Florida |
Duane Owen |
2 - rape murder |
|
1571 |
07/20 |
Oklahoma |
Jemaine Cannon |
1 - female victim |
|
1572 |
07/21 |
Alabama |
James Barber |
1 - robbery murder |
|
1574 |
08/01 |
Missouri |
Johnny Johnson |
1 - abduction and murder of 6 year old girl |
|
1575 |
08/03 |
Florida |
James Phillip Barnes |
1 - rape murder |
|
1576 |
09/21 |
Oklahoma |
Anthony Sanchez |
1 - rape murder |
|
1577 |
10/03 |
Florida |
Michael Duane Zack |
2 – rape and robbery murder |
|
1578 |
10/10 |
Texas |
Jedidiah Murphy |
1 – carjacking murder |
|
1579 |
11/09 |
Texas |
Brent Brewer |
1 - robbery murder |
|
1580 |
11/16 |
Alabama |
Casey McWorter |
1 - robbery murder |
|
1581 |
11/16 |
Texas |
David Renteria |
1 – child abduction and murder |
|
1582 |
11/30 |
Oklahoma |
Phillip Dean Hancock |
2 – claimed self defence |
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