US Executions in 2024

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

Nine states carried out 25 executions in 2024 – Alabama 6, Florida 1, Georgia 1, Indiana 1, Missouri 4, Oklahoma 4, South Carolina 2, Texas 5, and Utah 1. 

Ten states sentenced 21 people to death in 2024 – Alabama 4, Arizona 1, California 3, Florida 7, Idaho 1, Mississippi 1, Nevada 1, Ohio 1, Tennessee 1, and Texas 6.

27 states have retained the death penalty.  2,216 inmates were on death row as of January 2024, 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 = Nitrogen gas, H = hanging, S = shooting)
Prisoner details (f) = female, (t) = transgender (v) = volunteered for execution.

No.DateStateNameCrime/victims
158301/25AlabamaKenneth Eugene Smith (G)1 – Murder for hire
158402/28TexasIvan Cantu2 – Cousin and his fiancée. Drug related
158503/20GeorgiaWillie James Pye1 – Rape/murder of ex-girlfriend
158604/04OklahomaMichael Dewayne Smith2 – Motive unclear
158704/09MissouriBrian Dorsey2 – Family members, drug related
158805/30AlabamaJamie Ray Mills2 – Robbery murders
158906/11MissouriDavid Hosier2 – Revenge murders
159006/26TexasRamiro Gonzales1 – Rape/murder
159106/27OklahomaRichard Rojem1 – Rape/murder of 7 year old stepdaughter
159207/18AlabamaKeith Edmund Gavin1 – Robbery murder
159308/07TexasArthur Lee Burton1 – Rape/murder of jogger
159408/08UtahTaberon Dave Honie1 – Female family member
159508/29FloridaLoran Kenstley Cole1 – Male student & rape of female student
159609/20S. CarolinaFreddie Owens1 – Robbery murder
159709/24MissouriMarcellus Williams1 – Robbery murder
159809/24TexasTravis James Mullis1 – sexual assault and murder of son
159909/25OklahomaEmmanuel Littlejohn1 – Robbery murder
160009/25AlabamaAlan Eugene Miller (G)3 – Co-workers
160110/01TexasGarcia Glenn White5 – Serial killer
160210/17AlabamaDerrick Dearman (v)5 – Family members
160310/18S. CarolinaRichard Moore1 – Robbery murder
160411/21AlabamaCarey Dale Grayson (G)1 – Female hitchhiker
160512/03MissouriChristopher Leroy Collings1 – Female
160612/18IndianaJoseph Corcoran4 – Family and friends
160712/19OklahomaKevin Ray Underwood1 – Child in cannibalistic fantasy

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