U.S. executions in 2024.
Numbering is from the first post-Furman execution, that of Gary Gilmore in Utah on January 17, 1977.

Nine states carried out 25 executions in 2024 - Alabama 6, Florida 1, Georgia 1, Indiana 1, Missouri 4, Oklahoma 4, South Carolina 2, Texas 5, and Utah 1. 

Ten states sentenced 21 people to death in 2024 – Alabama 4, Arizona 1, California 3, Florida 7, Idaho 1, Mississippi 1, Nevada 1, Ohio 1, Tennessee 1, and Texas 6.

27 states have retained the death penalty.  2,216 inmates were on death row as of January 2024, 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 = Nitrogen gas, H = hanging, S = shooting)
Prisoner details (f) = female, (t) = transgender (v) = volunteered for execution.

No.

Date

State

Name

Crime/victims

1583

01/25

Alabama

Kenneth Eugene Smith (G)

1 – Murder for hire

1584

02/28

Texas

Ivan Cantu

2 - Cousin and his fiancιe. Drug related

1585

03/20

Georgia

Willie James Pye

1 – Rape/murder of ex-girlfriend

1586

04/04

Oklahoma

Michael Dewayne Smith

2 – Motive unclear

1587

04/09

Missouri

Brian Dorsey

2 – Family members, drug related

1588

05/30

Alabama

Jamie Ray Mills

2 – Robbery murders

1589

06/11

Missouri

David Hosier

2 – Revenge murders

1590

06/26

Texas

Ramiro Gonzales

1 – Rape/murder

1591

06/27

Oklahoma

Richard Rojem

1 – Rape/murder of 7 year old stepdaughter

1592

07/18

Alabama

Keith Edmund Gavin

1 – Robbery murder

1593

08/07

Texas

Arthur Lee Burton

1 – Rape/murder of jogger

1594

08/08

Utah

Taberon Dave Honie

1 – Female family member

1595

08/29

Florida

Loran Kenstley Cole

1 - Male student & rape of female student

1596

09/20

S. Carolina

Freddie Owens

1 - Robbery murder

1597

09/24

Missouri

Marcellus Williams

1 - Robbery murder

1598

09/24

Texas

Travis James Mullis

1 – sexual assault and murder of son

1599

09/25

Oklahoma

Emmanuel Littlejohn

1 - Robbery murder

1600

09/25

Alabama

Alan Eugene Miller (G)

3 – Co-workers

1601

10/01

Texas

Garcia Glenn White

5 – Serial killer

1602

10/17

Alabama

Derrick Dearman (v)

5 – Family members

1603

10/18

S. Carolina

Richard Moore

1 - Robbery murder

1604

11/21

Alabama

Carey Dale Grayson (G)

1 – Female hitchhiker

1605

12/03

Missouri

Christopher Leroy Collings

1 - Female

1606

12/18

Indiana

Joseph Corcoran

4 – Family and friends

1607

12/19

Oklahoma

Kevin Ray Underwood

1 – Child in cannibalistic fantasy

 

 

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