US Executions in 2014

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

A total of 35 executions were carried out in 9 states during 2014, all except one, by lethal injection, down from 39 executions in 9 states during 2013. 

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 3108 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.DateStateNameCrime/victims
136001/07FloridaThomas Knight1 – corrections officer + 2 kidnap murders
136101/09OklahomaMichael Lee Wilson1 – robbery murder
136201/16OhioDennis McGuire1 – rape/murder plus unborn child of victim
136301/22TexasEdgar Tamayo1 – police officer
136401/23OklahomaKenneth Eugene Hogan1 – motive unclear
136501/29MissouriHerbert Smulls1 – robbery/murder
136602/05TexasSuzanne Basso (f)1 – murder for insurance
136702/12FloridaJuan Carlos Chavez1 – rape/murder of child
136802/26MissouriMichael Anthony Taylor1 – rape/murder of child
136902/26FloridaPaul Augustus Howell1 – police officer
137003/19TexasRay Jasper1 – robbery murder
137103/20FloridaRobert L. Henry2 – robbery murder
137203/25MissouriJeffrey Ferguson1 – rape/murder
137303/27TexasAnthony Doyle1 – robbery murder
137404/03TexasTommy Lynn Sells1 – child (there were other victims)
137504/09TexasRamiro Hernandez1 – murder + rape
137604/16TexasJose Luis Villegas Jr.3 – drug related
137704/23MissouriWilliam Rousan2 – robbery murder
137804/24FloridaRobert Hendrix2 – to prevent them testifying against him
137904/29OklahomaClayton Lockett1 – robbery murder
138006/17GeorgiaMarcus Wellons,1 – rape/murder of 15 year old girl
138106/18MissouriJohn Winfield2 – women plus attempted murder of a 3rd
138206/18FloridaJohn Ruthell Henry2 – wife and child
138307/11FloridaEddie Wayne Davis1 – rape/murder of 11 year old girl
138407/16MissouriJohn Middleton3 – drug related
138507/23ArizonaJoseph Rudolph Wood2 – revenge
138608/06MissouriMichael Worthington1 – murder + rape
138709/10MissouriEarl Ringo Jr.2 – robbery murder
138809/10TexasWillie Tyrone Trottie2 – ex girlfriend & her brother
138909/17TexasLisa Ann Coleman (f)1 – girlfriend’s son
139010/27TexasMiguel Paredes Texas3 – drug related
139111/13FloridaChadwick Banks1 – child rape and murder
139211/19MissouriLeon Taylor1 – robbery murder
139312/09GeorgiaRobert Wayne Holsey1 – robbery murder
139412/10MissouriPaul Goodwin1 – rape/murder

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