Numbering is from the first post-Furman execution, that of Gary Gilmore in Utah on January 17, 1977.
17 men were put to death during 2020, down from 22 men 2019.
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 |
| 1513 | 01/15 | Texas | John Gardner | 1 – wife |
| 1514 | 01/29 | Georgia | Donnie Cleveland Lance | 2 – wife and her lover |
| 1515 | 02/06 | Texas | Abel Ochoa | 5 – wife, 2 children and 2 family members |
| 1516 | 02/21 | Tennessee | Nicholas Todd Sutton (E) | 1 – fellow inmate |
| 1517 | 03/05 | Alabama | Nathaniel Woods | 3 – police officers |
| 1518 | 05/19 | Missouri | Walter Barton | 1 – rape murder |
| 1519 | 07/08 | Texas | Billy Joe Wardlow | 1 – robbery murder |
| 1520 | 07/14 | Federal | Daniel Lewis Lee | 3 – robbery murders |
| 1521 | 07/16 | Federal | Wesley Ira Purkey | 1 – rape murder |
| 1522 | 07/17 | Federal | Dustin Lee Honken | 5 – including 2 children – drug related |
| 1523 | 08/26 | Federal | Lezmond Mitchell | 2 – grandmother and 9 yr. old granddaughter |
| 1524 | 08/28 | Federal | Keith Dwayne Nelson | 1 – rape murder of child |
| 1525 | 09/22 | Federal | William Emmett LeCroy | 1 – rape murder |
| 1526 | 09/24 | Federal | Christopher Andre Vialva | 2 – robbery murders |
| 1527 | 11/19 | Federal | Orlando Hall | 1 – rape murder |
| 1528 | 12/10 | Federal | Brandon Bernard | 2 – robbery murders |
| 1529 | 12/11 | Federal | Alfred Bourgeois | 1 – his two year old daughter |
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