US Executions in 2023

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

24 men were put to death in 5 states during 2023 all by lethal injection. 

Just 21 new death sentences were passed in 2023.

2,331 inmates were on death row as of January 2023, including 50 women and those sentenced by the US military and the Federal Government.

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, (t) = transgender (v) = volunteered for execution.

No.DateStateNameCrime/victims
155801/03MissouriScott (Amber) McLaughlin (t)1 – Rape murder of ex-girlfriend
155901/10TexasRobert Fratta1 – Estranged wife
156001/12OklahomaScott James Eizember2 – Elderly couple to use their home
156102/01TexasWesley Ruiz1 – Police officer
156202/07MissouriRaheem Taylor4 – girlfriend and her three children
156302/08TexasJohn Balentine3 – teenagers over a feud
156402/23FloridaDonald David Dillbeck1 – carjacking
156503/07TexasGary Green2 – estranged wife and daughter
156603/09TexasArthur Brown Jr.4 – drug related
156704/12FloridaLouis Bernard Gaskin2 – robbery murder
156805/03FloridaDarryl B. Barwick1 – female victim
156906/06MissouriMichael Tisius2 – Corrections officers
157006/15FloridaDuane Owen2 – rape murder
157107/20OklahomaJemaine Cannon1 – female victim
157207/21AlabamaJames Barber1 – robbery murder
157408/01MissouriJohnny Johnson1 – abduction and murder of 6 year old girl
157508/03FloridaJames Phillip Barnes1 – rape murder
157609/21OklahomaAnthony Sanchez1 – rape murder
157710/03FloridaMichael Duane Zack2 – rape and robbery murder
157810/10TexasJedidiah Murphy1 – carjacking murder
157911/09TexasBrent Brewer1 – robbery murder
158011/16AlabamaCasey McWorter1 – robbery murder
158111/16TexasDavid Renteria1 – child abduction and murder
158211/30OklahomaPhillip Dean Hancock2 – claimed self defence

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