US Executions in 2019

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

The USA, 22 men were put to death during 2019, 20 by lethal injection and 2 by electrocution (in Tennessee), down from 25 men executed in 8 states during 2018.

Texas carried out 9 executions, Georgia 3, Tennessee 3, Florida 2, Alabama 3, Missouri 1 and South Dakota 1.

30 states have death penalty statutes as December 2019 and 2,656 inmates were on death row as of July 2019, including those sentenced by the US military and the Federal Government.

33 new death sentences were handed down in 11 states during 2019, down from 42 people who were sentenced to death in the USA during 2018.

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
149101/30TexasRobert Mitchell Jennings1 – police officer
149202/07AlabamaDominique Ray1 – rape/murder of teenage girl
149302/28TexasBillie Wayne Coble3 – family members
149404/24TexasJohn William King1 – dragging murder
149505/02GeorgiaScotty Garnell Morrow2 – jealousy murder
149605/16AlabamaMichael Brandon Samra4 – revenge
149705/16TennesseeDon Johnson1 -wife
149805/23FloridaBobby Joe Long10 – serial killer of young women
149905/30AlabamaChristopher Lee Price1 – robbery/murder
150006/20GeorgiaMarion Wilson Jr.1 – robbery/murder
150108/15TennesseeStephen Michael West (E)2 – rape/murder
150208/21TexasLarry Swearingen1 – rape/murder
150308/22FloridaGary Ray Bowles6 – gay men
150409/04TexasBilly Jack Crutsinger2 – robbery/murder
150509/10TexasMark Anthony Soliz1 – robbery/murder
150609/25TexasRobert Sparks3 – wife and two satepsons
150710/01MissouriRussell Bucklew1 – ex girlfriend’s new lover
150811/04S. DakotaCharles Rines1 – robbery/murder
150911/06TexasJusten Grant Hall2 – drug related
151011/13GeorgiaRay Jefferson Cromartie1 – robbery/murder
151112/05TennesseeLee Hall (E)1 – ex-girlfriend
151212/11TexasTravis Runnels1 – corrections officer

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