Numbering is from the first post-Furman execution, that of Gary Gilmore in Utah on 17 January 1977.
A total of 37 executions were carried out during 2007, 36 by lethal injection and 1 by electrocution. Michael Richard becoming the last on September 25th, prior to suspension of executions whilst the Supreme Court decided on the constitutionality of lethal injection. Executions resumed on May 6th 2008.
All executions are carried out for 1st degree murder and use lethal injection unless otherwise indicated after the prisoner’s name.
(E = electrocution, G = lethal gas, H = hanging, S = shooting)
Prisoner details (f) = female, (v) = volunteered for execution.
| No. | Date | State | Name | Crime |
| 1100 | 05/06 | Georgia | William Earl Lynd | 1 kidnap/murder |
| 1101 | 05/21 | Mississippi | Earl Wesley Berry | 1 – sexual murder |
| 1102 | 05/27 | Virginia | Kevin Green | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1103 | 06/04 | Georgia | Curtis Osborne | 2 – money related |
| 1104 | 06/06 | South Carolina | David Mark Hill (v) | 3 – social workers |
| 1105 | 06/11 | Texas | Karl Eugene Chamberlain | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1106 | 06/17 | Oklahoma | Terry Lyn Short | 1 – bomb murder |
| 1107 | 06/20 | South Carolina | James Earl Reed (E) | 2 – ex girlfriend’s parents |
| 1108 | 06/25 | Virginia | Robert Yarbrough | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1109 | 07/01 | Florida | Mark Dean Swarb | 1 – rape/murder of child |
| 1110 | 07/11 | Texas | Carlton Turner | 2 – adoptive parents |
| 1111 | 07/11 | Virginia | Kent Jermaine Jackson | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1112 | 07/23 | Mississippi | Dale Leo Bishop | 1 – friend |
| 1113 | 07/23 | Texas | Derrick Sonnier | 2 – mother & child |
| 1114 | 07/24 | Virginia | Christopher Emmett | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1115 | 07/31 | Texas | Larry Donnell Davis | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1116 | 08/05 | Texas | José Ernesto Medellín | 2 – rape/murder |
| 1117 | 08/07 | Texas | Heliberto Chi | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1118 | 08/12 | Texas | Leon David Dorsey IV | 2 – robbery murder |
| 1119 | 08/14 | Texas | Michael Rodriguez (v) | 1 – police officer |
| 1120 | 09/16 | Georgia | Jack Alderman | 1 – wife |
| 1121 | 09/17 | Texas | William Murray | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1122 | 09/23 | Florida | Richard Henyard | 2 – children |
| 1123 | 09/25 | 0klahoma | Jesse James Cummings | 1 – child |
| 1124 | 10/14 | Ohio | Richard Cooey | 2 – rape murder |
| 1125 | 10/14 | Texas | Alvin Kelly | 3 –drug related murder |
| 1126 | 10/16 | Texas | Kevin Michael Watts | 3 – robbery murder |
| 1127 | 10/21 | Texas | Joseph Ries | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1128 | 10/28 | Texas | Eric Nenno | 1 – rape murder of child |
| 1129 | 10/30 | Texas | Gregory Wright | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1130 | 11/06 | Texas | Elkie Lee Taylor | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1131 | 11/12 | Texas | George Whitaker III | 1 – revenge murder |
| 1132 | 11/13 | Texas | Denard Manns | 1– robbery rape murder |
| 1133 | 11/19 | Ohio | Gregory Bryant-Bey | 2 – robbery murder |
| 1134 | 11/20 | Texas | Robert Jean Hudson | 1 – revenge murder |
| 1135 | 11/21 | Kentucky | Marco Allen Chapman (v) | 2 – children |
| 1136 | 15/05 | South Carolina | Joseph Gardner | 1 – rape murder |
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