Numbering
is from the first post-Furman execution, that of Gary Gilmore in
A total of 60 executions were carried out during 2005, all by lethal injection.
All
executions are carried out for 1st degree murder and use lethal injection unless
otherwise indicated after the prisoner's name.
(E = electrocution, G = lethal gas, H = hanging, S = shooting)
Prisoner details (f) = female, (j) = juvenile (under 18 at time of crime) (v) =
volunteered for execution.
|
No. |
Date |
State |
Name |
No. of victims/crime |
|
945 |
01/04 |
|
James Porter (v) |
1 - fellow prisoner |
|
946 |
01/19 |
|
Donald Beardslee |
2 - women |
|
947 |
01/25 |
|
Timothy Carr |
1 - robbery murder |
|
948 |
01/25 |
|
Troy Kunkle |
1 - robbery murder |
|
949 |
02/16 |
|
Dennis Wayne Bagwell |
Murdered 4 of his family |
|
950 |
03/01 |
|
Stephen Mobley |
1 - robbery murder |
|
951 |
03/08 |
|
William Smith |
1 rape/murder |
|
952 |
03/08 |
|
George Hopper |
1 - rape/murder |
|
953 |
03/10 |
|
Donald Ray Wallace |
3 - robbery murder |
|
954 |
03/11 |
|
William Dillard Powell
|
1 - robbery murder |
|
955 |
03/15 |
|
Jimmy Ray Slaughter
|
2 girlfriend & daughter |
|
956 |
03/16 |
|
Stanley Hall |
1 kidnap murder |
|
957 |
04/05 |
|
Glen Ocha
(v) |
1 - rape/murder |
|
958 |
04/15 |
|
Richard
Longworth |
2 - robbery murder |
|
959 |
04/20 |
|
Douglas
Roberts |
1 - kidnap murder |
|
960 |
04/21 |
|
Bill Benefiel
Jr. |
1 - kidnap murder |
|
961 |
04/27 |
|
Donald Jones |
1 grandmother |
|
962 |
04/28 |
|
Mario Giovanni Centobie (v) |
1 police officer |
|
963 |
05/03 |
|
Lonnie Wayne Pursley |
1 - robbery murder |
|
964 |
05/06 |
|
Earl Richmond
Jr. |
4 2 adults, 2 children |
|
965 |
05/12 |
|
George James
Miller Jr. |
1 hotel clerk |
|
966 |
05/13 |
|
Michael Ross (v) |
8 rape & murder of women |
|
967 |
05/18 |
|
|
1 9 year old girl |
|
968 |
05/18 |
|
Bryan Wolfe |
1 - robbery murder |
|
969 |
05/19 |
|
Richard
Cartwright |
1 - robbery murder |
|
970 |
05/25 |
|
Gregory Scott
Johnson |
1 - robbery murder |
|
971 |
06/02 |
|
Jerry Paul
Henderson |
1 contract killing |
|
972 |
06/07 |
|
Alexander
Martinez (v) |
1 prostitute |
|
973 |
07/12 |
|
Robert
Conklin |
1 male lover |
|
974 |
07/19 |
|
Michael
Pennington |
1 - robbery murder |
|
975 |
07/27 |
|
Kevin
A. Conner |
3 victims |
|
976 |
07/27 |
|
David Martinez |
1 rape murder |
|
977 |
08/04 |
|
George Sibley
Jr. |
1 police murder |
|
978 |
08/10 |
|
|
1 - robbery murder |
|
979 |
08/11 |
|
Kenneth Eugene Turrentine |
1 girlfriend |
|
980 |
08/23 |
|
Robert Alan Shields |
1 - robbery murder |
|
981 |
08/31 |
|
Timothy Johnston |
1 wife |
|
982 |
09/14 |
|
Frances Newton (f) |
3 husband & 2 children |
|
983 |
09/22 |
|
John Peoples |
3 - robbery murder |
|
984 |
09/27 |
|
Herman Dale Ashworth (v) |
1 - robbery murder |
|
985 |
09/28 |
|
Alan Matheney |
1 ex wife |
|
986 |
10/06 |
|
Ronald R. Howard |
1 State trouper |
|
987 |
10/20 |
|
Luis Ramirez |
1 hiring killer of ex wife |
|
988 |
10/25 |
|
Willie Williams Jr. |
4 drug related |
|
989 |
10/26 |
|
Marlin
Gray |
2 sisters |
|
990 |
11/03 |
|
Melvin White |
1 - rape/murder of child |
|
991 |
11/04 |
|
Brian Steckel |
1-
rape/murder |
|
992 |
11/04 |
|
Arthur Hastings Wise (v) |
4 co workers |
|
993 |
11/08 |
|
Charles Daniel Thacker |
1-
rape/murder |
|
994 |
11/11 |
|
Steven Van McHone
|
2 - mother and stepfather |
|
995 |
11/15 |
|
Robert Dale Rowell |
2 drug related |
|
996 |
11/16 |
|
Shannon C. Thomas |
3 - robbery murder |
|
997 |
11/18 |
|
Elias Syriani |
1 wife |
|
998 |
11/28 |
|
Eric Nance |
1-
rape/murder |
|
999 |
11/29 |
|
John Hicks |
1 - robbery murder |
|
1000 |
12/01 |
|
Kenneth Lee Boyd |
2 - wife & father in law |
|
1001 |
12/02 |
|
Shawn Humphries |
1 - robbery murder |
|
1002 |
12/05 |
|
Wesley E. Baker |
1 - robbery murder |
|
1003 |
12/13 |
|
|
4 - robbery murder |
|
1004 |
12/15 |
|
John B. Nixon |
1 contract killing |
Listings of all executions in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.