U.S. executions in 2020.
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 in 7 states, 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.

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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