Numbering is from the first post-Furman execution, that of Gary Gilmore in Utah on January 17, 1977.
A total of 39 executions were carried out in 9 states during 2013, all except one, by lethal injection, down from 43 executions in 9 states during 2012.
Texas had 16 of these, Florida 7, Oklahoma 6, and Ohio 3. Arizona and Missouri carried out 2 each and Alabama, Georgia and Virginia one each.
One female was executed in Texas – Kimberly McCarthy and Robert Gleason elected to die in Virginia’s electric chair.
These 39 people spent an average of 15.4 years on death row and had 61 victims between them.
32 states have death penalty statutes as 1/12/2013 and 3,108 inmates were on death row as of April 1st, 2013 in 36 states and the Federal Government. 80 new death sentences were passed in 2013.
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, (v) = volunteered for execution.
| No. | Date | State | Name | Crime/victims |
| 1321 | 01/16 | Virginia | Robert Gleason (E) (v) | 2 – strangled two fellow inmates |
| 1322 | 02/21 | Texas | Carl Henry Blue | 1 – ex girlfriend |
| 1323 | 02/21 | Georgia | Andrew Cook | 2 students – random shooting |
| 1324 | 03/06 | Ohio | Frederick Treesh | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1325 | 03/12 | Oklahoma | Steven Ray Thacker | 1 – rape/murder (2 other victims) |
| 1326 | 04/09 | Texas | Rickey Lynn Lewis | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1327 | 04/10 | Florida | Larry Eugene Mann | 1 – kidnap/murder |
| 1328 | 04/16 | Texas | Ronnie Threadgill | 1 – carjacking murder |
| 1329 | 04/24 | Texas | Richard Cobb | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1330 | 05/01 | Ohio | Steve Smith | 1 – rape/murder of baby |
| 1331 | 05/07 | Texas | Carroll Joe Parr | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1332 | 05/15 | Texas | Jeffrey Williams | 1 – police officer |
| 1333 | 05/29 | Florida | Elmer Carroll | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1334 | 06/12 | Texas | Elroy Chester | 1 – home invasion murder |
| 1335 | 06/12 | Florida | William Van Poyck | 1 – corrections officer |
| 1336 | 06/18 | Oklahoma | James Lewis DeRosa | 2 – robbery murder |
| 1337 | 06/25 | Oklahoma | Brian Darrell Davis | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1338 | 06/26 | Texas | Kimberly McCarthy (f) | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1339 | 07/16 | Texas | John Manuel Quintanilla | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1340 | 07/18 | Texas | Vaughn Ross | 2 – motive unclear |
| 1341 | 07/25 | Alabama | Andrew Reid Lackey (v) | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1342 | 07/31 | Texas | Douglas Feldman | 2 – road rage |
| 1343 | 08/06 | Florida | John Errol Ferguson | 8 – 6 robbery murder & 2 rape/murder |
| 1344 | 09/10 | Oklahoma | Anthony Rozelle Banks | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1345 | 09/19 | Texas | Robert Gene Garza | 4 – gang murder |
| 1346 | 09/25 | Ohio | Harry Mitts Jr. | 2 – gun rampage |
| 1347 | 09/26 | Texas | Arturo Diaz | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1348 | 10/01 | Florida | Marshall Lee Gore | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1349 | 10/09 | Arizona | Edward Schad | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1350 | 10/09 | Texas | Michael Yowell | 3 – parents and grandmother |
| 1351 | 10/15 | Florida | William Happ | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1352 | 10/23 | Arizona | Robert Glen Jones | 6 – robbery murder |
| 1353 | 11/12 | Florida | Darius Kimbrough | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1354 | 11/12 | Texas | Jamie McCoskey | 1 – rape/murder |
| 1355 | 11/20 | Missouri | Joseph Paul Franklin | Racially motivated serial killer |
| 1356 | 12/03 | Texas | Jerry Martin | 1 – Corrections officer |
| 1357 | 12/10 | Oklahoma | Ronald Clinton Lott | 2 – rape/murder |
| 1358 | 12/11 | Missouri | Allen Nicklasson | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1359 | 12/17 | Oklahoma | Johnny Dale Black | 1 – revenge but mistaken identity |
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