List of death row inmates in the United States

As of January 1, 2026^[update], there were 2,004 death row inmates in the United States, including 44 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions, the information may become outdated.

Demographics

Number on death row by jurisdiction

As of February 10, 2026.

• California: 579
• Florida: 251
• Texas: 168
• Alabama: 155
• North Carolina: 122
• Ohio: 110
• Arizona: 108
• Pennsylvania: 94
• Nevada: 64
• Louisiana: 55
• Tennessee: 41
• Mississippi: 35
• Georgia: 33
• Oklahoma: 27
• Kentucky: 24
• South Carolina: 23
• Arkansas: 23
• Nebraska: 11
• Kansas: 9
• Idaho: 8
• Missouri: 8
• Indiana: 5
• U.S. Military: 4
• Utah: 3
• Federal Government: 3
• Montana: 2
• South Dakota: 1
• New Hampshire: 1
• Wyoming: 0
• Oregon: 0

Ethnicity of defendants on death row

• White: 834 (41.62%)
• African-American: 814 (40.62%)
• Hispanic: 299 (14.92%)
• Asian: 38 (1.90%)
• Native American: 19 (0.95%)

Comparatively, 61.63% of the U.S. population is White, 12.40% is African-American, 18.7% is Hispanic, 7.24% is Asian, and 2.92% is Native American.

Gender of defendants on death row

• Male: 1,960 (97.80%)
• Female: 44 (2.20%)

Comparatively, 50.8% of the U.S. population is female, and 49.2% is male.

Education

• 69.75% have less than a high school diploma or GED.

Comparatively, 12.19% of U.S. adults have less than a high school diploma or GED.

Time on death row

• Median time, in years, a death row prisoner has been awaiting execution: 7 (2014)
• Average time, in years, between imposition of a death sentence and execution: 12 (2014)
  • For 2024: 25 years on average between offense and execution.

Later found innocent or exonerated

• 1.6% of death row prisoners since 1972 have been formally exonerated and released (200 total).

List of death row inmates by jurisdiction

Federal

• On death row: 3 (as of December 23, 2024^[update])
• Total number executed: 50 (1927–2021)

Name	Crime	Time on death row	Imprisoned at	Register number	Notes
Robert Gregory Bowers	Perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; an antisemitic terrorist attack in which eleven people were murdered.	2 years, 194 days	USP Terre Haute	39188-068	The shooting was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.
Dylann Roof	Perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, which killed nine African Americans.	9 years, 34 days	USP Terre Haute	28509-171	American mass murderer and white supremacist who, during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, sat down with his future victims for approximately 45 minutes before pulling out a Glock 41 .45-caliber handgun. Among those people who were killed was the senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Roof is the first person on death row for federal hate crimes.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev	Co-perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people and injured 264 runners and spectators.	10 years, 234 days	ADX Florence	95079-038	Chechen-American, Islamic terrorism inspired lone wolf who, along with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrated the attack. Tamerlan later died due to critical injuries and massive blood loss during a shootout with police on April 19, 2013. On July 31, 2020, Tsarnaev's death sentence was overturned on appeal, but was reinstated by the US Supreme Court two years later.

Military

• On death row: 4
• Total number executed: 160 US servicemen (1942 to 1961) & numerous others convicted of varying offences against US forces during and after World War II^{[excessive citations]}

Name	Crime	Time on death row	Notes
Hasan Karim Akbar (born as Mark Fidel Kools)	Murdered two commissioned officers and wounded eleven other servicemen during an attack in Kuwait on March 23, 2003 after throwing a hand grenade and opening fire upon his fellow troops.	20 years, 288 days
Ronald Adrin Gray	Raped and murdered multiple women at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from December 15, 1986, to January 6, 1987. His convictions include 4 counts of murder and 8 counts of rape	37 years, 229 days	On November 26, 2008, a federal judge issued a stay of execution stopping the planned December 10 execution. Gray is the military's longest-serving death row inmate and the only one to have his execution approved by the President.
Nidal Malik Hasan	Perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.	12 years, 169 days	Convicted on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
Timothy B. Hennis	Raped and murdered Kathryn Eastburn, and murdered Kathryn's two daughters, Kara and Erin Eastburn in 1985.	15 years, 304 days	Previously convicted in 1986 by the State of North Carolina, retried and acquitted in 1989, and widely reported as exonerated; recalled to active duty for military court martial (as he had been in the U.S. Army at the time of the murders) under separate sovereignty (see Double jeopardy).

Alabama

• On death row: 155 (as of June 10, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 786 (1800–2025)

Due to the number of Alabama death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Nicholas Acklin	Shot and murdered four people in 1996 inside a house in Huntsville, Alabama.	27 years, 99 days	Acklin, Wilson and a third man named Corey Johnson shot and killed the four victims and also injured two others over a dispute regarding a stolen cellphone. Acklin and Wilson were both sentenced to death in 1998. Johnson was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to 15 years' jail after reaching a plea bargain, and released in 2011, before he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend.
Joey Wilson		27 years, 149 days
Donald Broadnax	Murdered his wife, 42-year-old Hector Jan Stamps, and her grandson, 4-year-old DeAngelo Marquez Stamps.	28 years, 154 days	The crimes were committed while he was on work release from a previous murder conviction.
John Joseph DeBlase	Murdered four-year-old Natalie DeBlase and three-year-old Chase DeBlase, the biological children of John DeBlase and stepchildren of Leavell-Keaton	11 years, 36 days	On two separate occasions in March and June 2010 respectively, Natalie and Chase were being poisoned with antifreeze and also bound and gagged with tape, and died from the abuse. The children's bodies were found buried in Alabama and Mississippi. Leavell-Keaton was the first woman to be given the death penalty in Mobile County.
Heather Leavell-Keaton		10 years, 177 days
Thomas Dale Ferguson	Murdered 11-year-old Joey Pugh and his 41-year-old father Harold Pugh in Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve, Alabama.	27 years, 158 days	Ferguson and Maxwell and three other men intended to rob the Pughs of their truck in order to commit a bank robbery in Mississippi, and both Ferguson and Maxwell shot the father-son pair to death. Maxwell was sentenced to death by a 10–2 vote from the jury, while Ferguson was sentenced to death by the judge despite the jury's 11-1 majority vote for life imprisonment. Two of the other co-accused were sentenced to life in prison while the final member was jailed for 15 years for robbery after he testified against the others.
Michael Craig Maxwell		27 years, 228 days
Westley Devon Harris	Murdered six members of his girlfriend's family in 2002.	20 years, 185 days	Harris committed the murders out of anger towards his girlfriend's family for separating him and his girlfriend. Harris was originally sentenced to life without parole by the jury through a 7–5 vote, but the judge overrode the jury's recommendation and sentenced him to six death sentences for all six counts of capital murder.
Shonelle Jackson	Murdered LeFrick Moore during the commission of a robbery.	24 years, 271 days
Toforest Johnson	Shot and murdered 49-year-old Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in 1995.	27 years, 106 days	Johnson's conviction was controversial as his guilty verdict as centered on the testimony of a single witness who overheard Johnson allegedly admitting to the murder in a prison phone call. There were several alibi witnesses who testified that Johnson was at another part of the town when Hardy was killed, giving rise to concerns that Johnson was innocent.
Jeremy Bryan Jones	Raped and murdered 43-year-old Lisa Marie Nichols.	20 years, 110 days	Jones also confessed to committing twenty additional murders across four other states in a 12-year span. These confessions are considered dubious and he has since recanted them.
Jeffrey Lee	Murdered singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis and Elaine Thompson (Jimmy's ex-wife) during a robbery.	25 years, 125 days
Courtney Lockhart	Kidnapped and murdered 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk.	14 years, 348 days
Devin Moore	Murdered two police officers and a dispatcher.	20 years, 130 days
Cuhuatemoc Peraita	Killed a fellow inmate in 1999.	24 years, 104 days	Peraita was originally serving life without parole for his role in the 1994 murders of three Popeyes restaurant workers. His accomplice was executed for these murders in 2017.
Ryan Clark Petersen	Killed three people during a nightclub shooting in 2012.	8 years, 326 days	Petersen committed the shooting in retaliation after he was driven out of the nightclub for unruly behavior. Petersen also shot and wounded a fourth person during the shooting. Petersen was convicted of three counts of capital murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to death.
Kerry Spencer	Killed three Birmingham police officers in 2004.	20 years, 143 days	Spencer shot all three officers and testified that he acted alone, but his alleged accomplice, Nathaniel Woods, was also sentenced to death. Woods was executed in 2020 in a highly publicized and controversial execution.
Christie Michelle Scott	Killed her six-year-old autistic son Mason Scott by arson in 2008.	16 years, 192 days	Scott intentionally engineered the murder of her son Mason by starting a fire and disguising it as an accident. Scott's motive was to collect insurance money amounting to $175,000 through the death of Mason.
Jeremy Tremaine Williams	Raped, sodomized and murdered five-year-old Kamarie Holland in December 2021.	1 year, 304 days	Williams was also charged for allegedly killing his one-month-old daughter in 2005 in Alaska. The victim's mother, Kristy Siple, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sex trafficking of her daughter and allowing Williams to rape her daughter.

American Samoa

• On death row: 0
• Total number executed: 0 (since 1939)

Capital punishment exists as a punishment in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States, but does not have a prescribed method of execution. No executions have been imposed or performed since the territory gained self-governance in 1949; the last executions occurred in 1939, when the island was under the control of the United States Navy.

Arizona

• On death row: 108 (as of December 31, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 145 (1800–2025)

Due to the number of Arizona death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
John Allen	Murder of his wife's cousin, Ame Deal.	8 years, 89 days	On July 12, 2011, police officers were called to ten-year-old Ame Deal's home, where she was found dead in a small foot locker, having suffocated. Ame lived with a number of relatives, including her aunt and legal guardian, Cynthia Stoltzmann. Allen was Stoltzmann's daughter. The family first told the police officers that Ame was playing hide-n-seek and locked herself in the trunk the night before, after the adults went to sleep. During interrogation, Sammantha and her husband John confessed to locking Ame in the trunk as a form of punishment, because she took a popsicle without permission.^[citation needed]
Sammantha Allen	Murder of her cousin, Ame Deal.	8 years, 190 days
Wendi Andriano	Murder of her husband Joseph "Joe" Andriano.	21 years, 53 days	During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joseph to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a thirteen-inch knife in the couple's Ahwatukee, Arizona apartment. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull, and traces of sodium azide were also found in his system. Approximately one hour before Joe's murder, his wife Wendi had called 911 at the behest of a co-worker, claiming that her terminally ill husband was dying. When paramedics arrived however, Wendi turned them away, stating that Joe had a do-not-resuscitate order, and that his wish was to die. Paramedics left the scene. One hour later, Wendi called 911 again, reporting that she had stabbed and beaten her husband to death in self-defense. She also made claims that her husband was physically and psychologically abusive toward her. However, being that Joe was weak from chemotherapy and the sodium azide poisoning, he was unable to defend himself.
Trent Benson	Rapes and murders of two sex workers, 21-year-old Alisa Marie Beck and 44-year-old Karen Jane Campbell in Mesa, committed in 2004 and 2007, respectively.	14 years, 129 days	Benson is serving 135 years imprisonment for two unrelated sexual assaults, and police believe he might be responsible for further crimes.
Jason Eugene Bush	Murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in Arivaca, Arizona, during a home invasion.	14 years, 313 days	Had ties with the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group. Convicted for four murders in total, and two suspected killings in 1997, was sentenced to death and received 78 years for other crimes just one month after his death sentence.
Shawna Forde		14 years, 356 days	On May 30, 2009, Forde was active in the Minuteman movement, a grassroots anti-illegal immigration group that would station themselves along the U.S. southern border and keep watch for Mexicans crossing the border illegally and alert the Border Patrol. Forde allegedly boasted of robbing drug dealers to finance the movement. Prosecutors alleged Forde and her associates entered the trailer disguised as government officials looking for fugitives. No drugs were found in the trailer. Albert Gaxiola, who participated in the May 30, 2009 murders, received life without parole plus 54 years.
Cleophus Cooksey Jr.	Series of 8 murders between November and December 2017.	57 days	Suspected of a 9th killing in 2017. Convicted of a separate murder in 2001.
Mark Goudeau	Series of rapes and murders.	14 years, 75 days	Goudeau is a serial killer and rapist, referred to as the Baseline Killer by law enforcement and media prior to his identification. Goudeau is believed to have committed nine counts of first degree murder (eight women and one man), in addition to fifteen sexual assaults on women and young girls, eleven counts of kidnapping, and a number of armed robberies.
Scott Lehr	Kidnapped, raped and murdered Margaret Christorf in 1991 as well as Belinda Cronin and Michelle Morales in 1992.	28 years, 189 days	Also known as the “Baby Seat Rapist”. Lehr had raped a total of 20 women, three of whom later died from fatal head injuries.
Charles Michael Hedlund	Murdered 40-year-old Christine Mertens and 65-year-old James McClain in separate burglaries.	32 years, 198 days	Both defendants, who are half-brothers, were sentenced to death
James Erin McKinney		32 years, 205 days
Bryan Patrick Miller	Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Angela Brosso in 1992 as well as Melanie Bernas in 1993.	2 years, 221 days	Also known as the “Zombie Hunter” or “Canal Killer”. The murders were the first cold cases solved by genetic genealogy.
Cory Morris	Murdered five women between September 2002 and April 2003.	20 years, 209 days	Serial killer known as "The Crackhead Killer".
Scott Douglas Nordstrom	One of the two gunmen involved in the 1996 Tucson murders	27 years, 270 days (first sentence; overturned) 16 years, 138 days (second sentence)	Nordstrom was originally handed six death sentences in 1998, before his first death sentence was vacated for re-sentencing. Nordstrom was given two death sentences in his 2009 re-trial, in addition to four consecutive life terms without parole. Nordstrom's accomplice Robert Glen Jones Jr. was sentenced to death and executed on October 23, 2013. David Nordstrom, who was the get-away driver of the pair, was jailed for armed robbery after agreeing to testify against his brother and Jones in their respective murder trials.
Roger Mark Scott	Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke	34 years, 297 days	Co-defendants James Lynn Styers and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015.
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr.	Murders of Sandy Spencer and Neva Lee in 1975 and 1976 respectively	48 years, 166 days	Smith was also responsible for several rapes committed between 1973 and 1976. Smith was on probation for a 1973 rape case when he committed the murders. Smith is the state's longest-serving prisoner on death row.
Preston Strong	Murdered a family of six in 2005.	8 years, 283 days	Strong was already serving a life sentence for murdering a physician when he was sentenced to death.
James Lynn Styers	Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke	35 years, 61 days	Co-defendants Roger Mark Scott and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015.
Robert Lee Walden	Rape and murder of 31-year-old Miguela Burhans in her Tucson apartment on June 13, 1991.	33 years, 66 days	Walden is also serving five life terms for another murder and four rapes, all committed within the Tucson area from 1989 to 1991. He has also been linked to a third murder, for which he has never been charged.
Ronald Turney Williams	Murder of a man in 1981	41 years, 296 days	Williams is currently serving two life terms in West Virginia for the murders of two police officers, who were killed four years apart. He killed one of them in 1979 while escaping prison and was later captured after he killed the man in Arizona.

Arkansas

• On death row: 23 (as of June 28, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 509 (1800–2017)

Due to the number of Arkansas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Randy William Gay	Shot and killed 49-year-old Connie Snow, a stranger with whom he had gotten into an argument.	10 years, 331 days	Had previously murdered his father-in-law and biological father in two separate incidents, in 1978 and 1991, respectively.
Zachary Holly	Abducted, raped and strangled 6-year-old Jersey Bridgeman.	10 years, 262 days
Karl Douglas Roberts	Raped and murdered 12-year-old Andria “Andi” Brewer.	25 years, 270 days	Andria Brewer was the daughter of former Arkansas state representative Rebecca Petty. Brewer was also the niece of Roberts.

California

• On death row: 580 (as of January 12, 2026^[update])
• Total number executed: 722 (1778–2006)

Due to the number of California death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Notes
Isauro Aguirre	Tortured and murdered his girlfriend's son, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez.	8 years, 72 days	Pearl Fernandez, Gabriel's mother, was sentenced to life without parole.
Rosie Alfaro	Murder of 9-year-old Autumn Wallace.	33 years, 214 days	Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty.
Alejandro Avila	Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion.	20 years, 273 days
Hector Ayala	Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop.	36 years, 75 days
Ronaldo Ayala		37 years, 4 days
Cimarron Bell	Shot his girlfriend Ineka Edmondson in La Habra on November 11, 2003, and three men at his house in South Whittier on January 27, 2004.	14 years, 180 days	The accomplice in the latter crime, Briaell Michael Lee, is serving a 40-years-to-life sentence.
Richard Delmer Boyer	Murdered elderly couple Francis and Eileen Harbitz in 1982.	41 years, 61 days	He was about to be released by the police when he admitted to committing the crime.
Luis Bracamontes	Shot and killed Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County detective Michael Davis Jr. in October 2014.	7 years, 294 days
Vincent Brothers	Murdered his wife, mother-in-law and three children.	18 years, 139 days	In 2003, Brothers drove from Columbus, Ohio to Bakersfield, California to murder his family. He then drove back to Columbus and flew back to California to find his family murdered. He was on trial two years later and convicted on all counts.
Albert Greenwood Brown	Abducted, raped and murdered 15-year-old Susan Louise Jordan.	43 years, 348 days	Brown posed as a jogger and dragged Jordan, who was on her way to school, into the woods, where he then strangled her with her shoelace. Brown then made numerous calls to the Riverside Police Department and the Jordan residence.
David Carpenter	Murdered six women and one man in 1979–1980 on hiking trails near San Francisco, California.	41 years, 89 days	Carpenter is known as the Trailside Killer. He is suspected in the murders of at least three other women and was found guilty of seven murders in two separate trials, one in 1984 and another in 1988. He is the oldest death row inmate in California.
Dean Carter	Raped and strangled four women in April 1984.	36 years, 6 days
Steven David Catlin	Poisoned two of his wives and his adoptive mother.	35 years, 218 days
Run Chhoun	Killed nine people during the summer of 1995, including a family of five.	23 years, 338 days	Was a member of the Tiny Rascal Gang. Co-defendant and fellow gang member Samreth Pan was also sentenced to death, but for only four of the murders.
Herbert Coddington	Murdered chaperones Maybelle Martin and Dorothy Walsh at his home in South Lake Tahoe in 1987.	37 years, 14 days	Killed the victims after kidnapping two teenage models who worked for Martin's modeling agency. Also considered a suspect in the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cynthia Coffman	Murders of four women from October to November 1986 during robberies.	36 years, 166 days	Coffman insisted that she suffered from battered-woman syndrome.
James Marlow			Marlow sexually assaulted two of their victims.
Kevin Cooper	Axing and stabbing of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and their son Joshua's friend Christopher Hughes.	40 years, 268 days	8-year-old Joshua had his throat cut but survived the attack. Cooper escaped several times from custody in Pennsylvania and from the minimum security section of California Institution for Men in Chino.
Michael Cox	Kidnapped and killed three teenage girls in Placerville, California, between June and August 1984.	40 years, 70 days
Tiequon Cox	Shot and killed four relatives of former NFL player Kermit Alexander.	39 years, 282 days	Cox was a noted member of the Rollin' 60 Crips.
Kerry Lyn Dalton	Tortured and murdered Irene 'Melanie' Louise in 1988.	30 years, 266 days	Irene Louise's body was never found.
Joseph Danks	Strangled his 67-year-old cellmate to death in 1990.	32 years, 317 days	Was serving a life sentence for the murders of six transients in Koreatown, Los Angeles in January 1987.
Richard Allen Davis	Kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas.	29 years, 192 days	His criminal record fueled support for passage of California's "three-strikes law".
Skylar Preciosa Deleon	Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks.	16 years, 309 days	Both defendants were judged separately, Deleon was also charged with the murder of John Jarvi, a resident of Anaheim, California.
John Kennedy		16 years, 288 days
Robert Mark Edwards	Sexually assaulted and murdered 55-year-old realtor Marjorie Deeble, the mother of his girlfriend, at her home in Los Alamitos in May 1986.	27 years, 152 days	Also convicted for a similar murder in Kihei, Hawaii on January 25, 1993, for which he was given five life terms.
Pedro Espinoza	Murder of Jamiel Shaw II.	13 years, 277 days
Richard Farley	Shot and killed seven people and wounded four others.	34 years, 27 days	Laura Black, a former coworker Farley had been stalking for four years prior to his rampage, was shot unconscious, but she survived.
Wayne Adam Ford	Confessed to killing four women in 1997 and 1998.	19 years, 196 days	Ford was arrested after he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He is believed to have killed others.
Rickie Lee Fowler	Perpetrator of the Old Fire which killed six people.	14 years, 16 days	The fire caused at least $1.2 billion in damages.
Michael Gargiulo	Murdered at least two women between 2001 and 2005.	4 years, 195 days	Believed to be responsible for other murders in different states, including his former neighbor, who was murdered in 1993 in Glenview, Illinois.
Steven Dean Gordon	Raped and strangled four sex workers in Santa Ana and Anaheim from 2013 to 2014.	9 years, 10 days	Gordon's accomplice, fellow sex offender Franc Cano, pleaded guilty to four murders and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Both men are also accused in the murder of a fifth victim, but neither has been charged.
Jose Guerrero	Murders of three women in Madera from 1995 to 1998.	16 years, 232 days	Guerrero was arrested six years after the last crime based on DNA evidence after he had been jailed for a DUI.
Kevin Haley	Rapes and murders of two women during burglaries in Los Angeles in 1984, both committed on separate occasions.	37 years, 133 days	Haley committed these crimes in the midst of a crime spree with the help of his older brother Reginald, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Haleys are prime suspects in six additional murders, but were never charged.
Glenn Helzer	Cult leader who murdered five people in 2000.	20 years, 337 days	His brother, Justin, was also sentenced to death, but committed suicide in 2013.
Ivan Hill	Committed nine murders between 1979 and 1994.	18 years, 329 days	Hill dumped his victims' corpses along California State Route 60, earning him the nickname The 60 Freeway Killer.
Eric Houston	Perpetrator of the Lindhurst school shooting which killed four people and injured ten others.	32 years, 145 days
Michael Hughes	Raped and strangled at least seven women between 1986 and 1993.	13 years, 226 days	In 1998, Hughes was originally sentenced to life without parole.
Michael Jackson	Shot and killed a police officer in August 1983.	41 years, 268 days	Was high on phencyclidine at the time of the killing.
Emrys John	Murder of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak.	12 years, 181 days
Tyrone Miller		12 years, 209 days
Kesaun Sykes		11 years, 98 days
Bryan Maurice Jones	Raped and murdered sex workers JoAnn Sweets and Sophia Glover in May and August 1986	31 years, 147 days	Known as "The Dumpster Killer" for leaving his victims' bodies in dumpsters, sometimes setting them alight. Also charged with two other murders dating back to 1985, but was never brought to trial due to his existing death sentence.
Randy Kraft	Raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered a minimum of sixteen young men.	36 years, 76 days	In a series of killings spanning between 1972 and 1983, the majority of his crimes were committed in California. He is suspected of having raped and murdered 51 other boys and young men.
Cherie Lash-Rhoades	Shot six people at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office in Alturas, killing four on February 20, 2014.	8 years, 299 days	One of the injured was also attacked with a butcher knife after Lash-Rhoades ran out of ammunition.
Eric Leonard	Murdered 6 people in two separate robberies in Sacramento in 1991.	29 years, 245 days	Committed two robberies in February 1991, killing six employees of the stores in total. In May 2007, the Supreme Court of California upheld his death sentence.
Gunner Lindberg	Tortured and stabbed 24-year-old Thien Minh Ly, a Vietnamese-American, 22 times.	28 years, 53 days	Lindberg and his accomplice, 17-year-old Domenic Christopher, encountered Ly, who was around the tennis courts at Tustin High School. Lindberg and Christopher trapped Ly on the courts, beat him, kicked him, and then stabbed him.
Kendrick Loot	Killed three people during robberies from 1995 to 1996.	25 years, 355 days	Was the accomplice of Bruce Millsap, who committed five additional murders. He was sentenced to death for all eight.
David Allen Lucas	Murdered two women and one young boy in 1979 and 1984.	36 years, 147 days	Lucas was also suspected of three similar murders that occurred in the same time period, but was acquitted at trial.
Jarvis Jay Masters	Convicted of participating in the murder of Sergeant Howell Burchfield in 1985.	35 years, 198 days	Masters was originally sent to prison for armed robbery. He was convicted of fashioning the weapon that was used by Andre Johnson, another inmate in the murder of Sergeant Burchfield.
Robert Maury	Murdered at least three women in Shasta County in the late 1980s.	36 years, 99 days
Timothy Joseph McGhee	Serial killer from 1997 to 2003, killed twelve people.	17 years, 35 days	McGhee was a Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from Atwater Village, Los Angeles. He is believed to be responsible for at least 12 homicides, three of which led to convictions, and at least 10 attempted murders, four of which led to convictions. In 2025, McGhee's murder convictions and death penalty sentences were overturned by the California Supreme Court on grounds that juror was improperly dismissed during deliberations.
Charles "Chase" Merritt	Perpetrator of the McStay family murders.	6 years, 14 days	Merritt was convicted of torturing and murdering his business partner, Joseph McStay, Joseph's wife Summer, and their two young sons. The family went missing in February 2010, in a case that attracted national attention. Their remains were found in two shallow graves in November 2013 and Merritt was charged in November 2014. After numerous trial delays, a jury convicted Merritt in June 2019.
Andrew Mickel	Shot Red Bluff police officer David Mobilio.	20 years, 291 days
Bruce Millsap	Killed eight people during robberies from 1995 to 1996.	25 years, 349 days	Co-defendant Kendrick Loot was also sentenced to death, but for three of the murders.
Michael Morales	Raped, hammered and stabbed 17-year-old Terri Lynn Winchell.	42 years, 228 days	Morales's cousin, Richard Ortega, hired him to murder Winchell, Ortega's male lover's girlfriend. Richard Ortega was sentenced to life without parole. Morales's original execution date of February 21, 2006, was postponed as a result of two court-appointed anesthesiologists withdrawing from the procedure.
Joseph Naso	Drugged, raped and strangled four women between 1977 and 1994.	12 years, 79 days
Charles Ng	Serial killer in 1985.	26 years, 228 days	Ng is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice, Leonard Lake, at the latter's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
Joseph Nissensohn	Raped and murdered 13-year-old Tammy Jarschke and 14-year-old Tanya Jones in 1981, and 15-year-old Kathy Graves in 1989	11 years, 253 days	Nissensohn was convicted following a cold case review of one case, and was implicated in the earlier murders by witness testimony. He had previously been convicted for the murder of a woman in Washington State and was serving a 25-year sentence.
Raymond Lee Oyler	Perpetrator of the Esperanza Fire which killed five firefighters.	16 years, 253 days
Samreth Pan	Killed four people in gang related shootings during the summer of 1995.	23 years, 337 days	Accomplice of Run Chhoun, who was sentenced to death for these crimes as well as the murder of five family members. Both were members of the Tiny Rascal Gang.
Gerald Parker	Raped and murdered five women in their homes.	27 years, 16 days	A sixth woman, who was pregnant, was also attacked by Parker. She survived, but her baby was delivered stillborn.
Cleophus Prince Jr.	Burglarized several homes and murdered six women, one of whom he raped.	32 years, 100 days
Ramon Rogers	Murdered his former roommate and two ex-girlfriends in San Diego from 1993 to 1996, dismembering their remains post-mortem.	28 years, 149 days	Additionally considered a suspect in the disappearance of a neighbor in Idaho in 1977, but never charged.
David Allen Rundle	Murdered two Placer County girls.	36 years, 145 days	Had also murdered a third woman in Sacramento for which he was sentenced to life.
Ramon Salcido	Murdered his wife, two of his three daughters, his mother in-law, her two daughters, and his work supervisor.	35 years, 58 days
Wesley Shermantine	Committed at least four murders from 1984 to 1999.	24 years, 268 days	One half of the Speed Freak Killers along with Loren Herzog, who committed suicide in 2012.
Mauricio Silva	Murdered three teenagers, including his half-sister, during a two-week killing spree in May 1984.	39 years, 177 days	The killings were committed less than a month after being paroled from a voluntary manslaughter conviction.
Gerald Frank Stanley	Murdered his fourth wife in 1980 after being paroled for the 1975 killing of his second wife.	42 years, 5 days	He is also suspected in the disappearance of his third wife in 1980.
Cary Stayner	Murdered 42-year-old Carole Sund and her daughter's friend, 16-year-old Argentine exchange student Silvina Pelosso, later he raped and slit the throat of Sund's daughter, 15-year-old Juliana Sund in 1999. He also murdered and beheaded 26-year-old Joie Ruth Armstrong, five months later.	23 years, 63 days	He is the older brother of kidnapping victim Steven Stayner, abducted by child molester Kenneth Parnell.
Charles Stevens	Murdered four people on Interstate 580 in 1989.	32 years, 198 days	Worked with an accomplice named Richard James Clark in some of the attacks.
William Suff	Raped, stabbed, strangled and/or mutilated at least twelve sex workers between 1986 and 1991.	30 years, 104 days	Suff and his ex-wife were previously convicted of beating their infant daughter to death.
Regis Deon Thomas	Three murders between 1992 and 1993.	30 years, 182 days	Bloods gang member. Two of the victims were officers in the Compton Police Department.
Chester Turner	Fifteen murders between 1987 and 1998.	18 years, 219 days	First sentenced for the murders of ten women and the unborn child of one of them. Then sentenced again for the other four murders.
Billy Ray Waldon	Murdered 42-year old Dawn Ellerman and her daughter, 13-year-old Erin Ellerman, during a robbery in which he also set the home of the victims on fire. Two weeks later he shot 59-year-old Charles Wells, who was working on a car.	33 years, 343 days	Creator of the constructed language Poliespo. In 2023, Waldon's convictions were overturned by the California Supreme Court on grounds that he was denied representation by competent counsel.
Darnell Keith Washington	Murdered 55-year-old Susie Ko during a home invasion.	9 years, 27 days	Washington committed the murder as well as numerous other serious crimes across southern California with his wife Tania.
Marcus Wesson	Mass shooting of nine of his children.	20 years, 195 days	Wesson's victims were his own children, fathered by incestuous relationships with his daughters and nieces, as well as the children by his wife.
David Alan Westerfield	Kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.	23 years, 28 days
Daniel Wozniak	Murder of PFC Samuel Eliezer Herr and his friend, Juri Kibuishi.	9 years, 133 days	Killed two people in an attempt to fund his 2010 wedding and honeymoon. A jury deliberated for 1 hour 14 minutes before recommending the death penalty, one of the shortest death penalty deliberations in Orange County history.

Florida

• On death row: 251 (as of December 19, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 425 (1827–2025)

Due to the number of Florida death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Howard Ault	1996 murders of DeAnn Emerald Mu'min and Alicia Sybilla Jones in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.	25 years, 336 days	Ault, who had previous antecedents for sex crimes against minors, had lured the girls (who were sisters) to his apartment after promising them candy. Ault raped the older sister, Mu'min, before he murdered both girls by strangulation.
Michael Shane Bargo Jr.	2011 murder of Seath Jackson in Summerfield, Florida.	12 years, 170 days	Bargo was the ringleader and one of the five youths involved in the murder of Jackson. The 5 youths beat, shot, dismembered and burned Seath Jackson. later they dumped his burnt body into a quarry. Three of Bargo' s accomplices (including two juveniles) were sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree murder, while the fourth was convicted of second-degree murder and released after spending close to ten years in jail.
Leo Boatman	Murdered a fellow prisoner, William Chapman, in 2019	3 years, 96 days	Boatman was serving two life sentences without parole for the 2006 murders of Amber Peck and John Parker, and 15 years for the 2010 murder of Ricky Morris in prison.
William Edward Wells		4 years, 274 days	Wells, infamously dubbed the "Monster of Mayport", was serving multiple life sentences without parole for the 2003 murders of his wife and four other people, and the 2011 murder of another inmate in prison.
Lucious Boyd	Kidnapped, raped and stabbed 21-year-old Dawnia Dacosta with a screwdriver.	23 years, 237 days	He is a suspect in at least ten other homicides, rapes, and disappearances.
Tina Lasonya Brown	Kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Audreanna Zimmerman by beating and burning her alive in 2010.	13 years, 138 days	Brown's 16-year-old daughter Britnee Miller was sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder, while Brown's neighbour Heather Lee accepted a plea deal and thus given 25 years' jail for second-degree murder. Brown is presently the sole woman incarcerated on Florida's death row since 2023.
Daniel Conahan	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and strangled a 21-year-old man, tied him to a tree, then removed his genitals.	27 years, 3 days	Conahan is also a suspect in the deaths of twelve other men.
Rory Enrique Conde	Strangled six sex workers, including a male crossdresser, then had anal sex with their corpses.	25 years, 343 days
Steven Anthony Cozzie	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 15-year-old Courtney Wilkes in 2011.	12 years, 119 days	Cozzie was sentenced to death for first-degree murder, in addition to double life sentences for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and for kidnapping, plus 30 years' jail for aggravated child abuse.
Willie Crain Jr.	Kidnapped and murdered seven-year-old Amanda Brown in 1998.	26 years, 86 days	Prior to the murder, Crain had raped at least eight young girls from the 1960s to the 1980s, and sentenced to 20 years' jail in 1984 for five related charges, but he served only six years before being released. In the case of Brown's murder, the body was never found.
Mesac Damas	Murder of his wife and five children at their home.	8 years, 109 days	He was given six death sentences for each murder.
Leon Davis Jr.	Murders of four people.	14 years, 290 days	He was given an additional life sentence for killing the unborn child of one of the victims
Wayne C. Doty	Murder of fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez in 2013.	12 years, 254 days (first sentence; overthrown) 7 years, 274 days (second sentence)	Before killing Rodriguez, Doty was already serving life without parole for the murder of Harvey Horne II in 1996. Has selected electrocution as his method of execution. William Wells was also convicted as an accomplice in Rodriguez's murder and sentenced to life without parole, but later received a death sentence for another inmate's murder in 2019.
James Aren Duckett	Convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of Teresa McAbee in Mascotte, Florida.	37 years, 228 days	Duckett, a former Mascotte police officer, was also named a suspect in two more unsolved murders: the 1987 murder of 14-year-old Jeanifer Weldon and the 1986 murder of an unidentified woman in Lakeland. Duckett was convicted and sentenced to death based on circumstantial evidence, but there were some who believed he was innocent due to the disputed validity of certain parts of the evidence in his case.
Kevin Foster	Shot high school music teacher Mark Schwebes.	27 years, 272 days	Two of Foster's accomplices were sentenced to life without parole. A third was sentenced to 32 years' jail.
Leonard Gonzalez	Murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings.	14 years, 361 days
James Herard	Solicited the fatal shooting of Eric Jean-Pierre.	11 years, 21 days	Herard was also sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Kiem Huynh, as well as multiple other life terms for three Dunkin' Donuts robberies.
Gary Hilton	Kidnapped, robbed, murdered and dismembered Cheryl Dunlap at Apalachicola National Forest.	14 years, 298 days	He was also sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for the murder of Meredith Emerson, and was sentenced in North Carolina to four life sentences for the murders of John and Irene Bryant. Hilton is also suspected in the killing of Judy Smith.
Jerone Hunter	Bludgeoned and stabbed six people to death.	19 years, 145 days	The crime was the bloodiest mass murder in Volusia County history.
Troy Victorino
Michael James Jackson	Kidnapped, robbed and buried alive his girlfriend's former neighbors, married couple James "Reggie" and Carol Sumner, both 61-year-old.	18 years, 168 days	Alan Wade, who helped in the murders, was also sentenced to death but later had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. His girlfriend, Tiffany Cole was also sentenced to death, but after a retrial, she was re-sentenced to life on August 23, 2023. Bruce Nixon, who also participated in the murders was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Billy Leon Kearse	Shot and murdered 29-year-old Fort Pierce police sergeant Danny Parrish.	34 years, 97 days	Kearse was out on probation at the time of the crime. Scheduled to be executed on March 3, 2026.
Michael King	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee.	16 years, 162 days
Steven Lorenzo	Raped and murdered two homosexual men, Michael Wachholtz and Jason Galehouse, in 2003.	2 years, 354 days	Lorenzo was also involved in the rapes of seven other homosexual men, who survived the encounters. Lorenzo was convicted under federal law for drugging and raping all his victims and sentenced to 200 years in federal prison after his 2005 arrest by the federal authorities, before he was sentenced to death for state murder charges in 2023. Lorenzo's accomplice Scott Paul Schweickert was sentenced to life imprisonment for state murder charges, as well as 40 years in federal prison for the drug-related offences. Lorenzo had since expressed his wish to be executed and forgo his appeals.
Markeith Loyd	Shot and killed Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton.	3 years, 347 days	Loyd was previously sentenced to life for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon.
Patrick McDowell	Killed Nassau County Sheriff's Deputy Joshua Moyers in September 2021.	1 year, 211 days	McDowell killed the officer in order to avoid arrest for outstanding charges of felony misdemeanors from Georgia.
Dontae Morris	Killed five people, including two police officers, in Tampa between May and June 2010.	11 years, 259 days
Lenard James Philmore	1997 carjacking and murder of Kazue Perron, a Japanese citizen, in Martin County, Florida	25 years, 207 days	Philmore and Spann kidnapped Perron in West Palm Beach, Florida, and killed her in Martin County. The duo used her car as their getaway vehicle in a pre-planned bank robbery that took place later the same day. Spann was wanted for the unrelated 1997 murder of Reginald Lott in Tallahassee at the time of Perron's abduction-killing, and he was sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in Lott's death.
Anthony Antonio Spann		25 years, 235 days
William Reaves	Killed Indian River County sheriff's deputy Richard Raczkoski in September 1986.	38 years, 164 days (first sentence; overturned) 33 years, 344 days (second sentence)	Reaves's original death sentence was overturned because one of the trial's prosecutors had previously defended him in a robbery case, and during his 1992 re-trial, a second death sentence was issued to Reaves.
Mark Sievers	Orchestrated the murder of his wife, 46-year-old Teresa Sievers.	6 years, 41 days
Donald James Smith	Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.	7 years, 287 days	In April 2021, the Supreme Court of Florida upheld Smith's conviction and death sentence.
David Kelsey Sparre	2010 murder of Tiara Pool in Jacksonville, Florida.	13 years, 320 days	Sparre was dubbed the "Craigslist killer", as he met Pool through an ad in Craigslist, and murdered her after having sex with her in her apartment.
George Trepal	Poisoned and murdered his neighbor, 41-year-old Peggy Carr.	34 years, 344 days
Quentin Marcus Truehill	Kidnapped and murdered a 29-year-old Florida State University student Vincent Binder.	11 years, 273 days	Truehill, who was previously jailed 30 years in Louisiana for manslaughter, committed the murder after he escaped from jail with his two accomplices. Truehill's two accomplices, Peter Marcus Hughes and Kentrell Feronti Johnson, were both sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. Johnson was originally condemned to death row before the sentence was commuted to life upon his appeal.
Wade Wilson	Strangled two women to death then ran over the second victim multiple times.	1 year, 169 days	Called the Deadpool killer due to sharing the same name as the fictional character. His trial also occurred around the same time as the release of Deadpool & Wolverine.
Zephen Xaver	Perpetrated the 2019 Sebring shooting.	1 year, 59 days
Tommy Zeigler	Quadruple murder of Eunice Zeigler, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and Charlie Mays.	49 years, 212 days	Zeigler's case has been the focus of controversy since he was denied bloodstain DNA analysis in 2013 and 2016, and touch DNA analysis in April 2017. Zeigler was scheduled to be executed on October 22, 1982. However, the U.S. District Court stayed the execution due to new evidence. Zeigler was then scheduled to be executed on May 20, 1986, but it was again stayed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals due to inadequate representation. Zeigler is Florida's longest-serving death row inmate.

Georgia

• On death row: 33 (as of June 30, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 1,027 (1735–2024)

Due to the number of Georgia death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
David Edenfield	Raped and murdered 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr.	16 years, 130 days	Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia.
Tiffany Moss	Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss.	6 years, 289 days	Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia.
Jerry Scott Heidler	Murdered four members of the Daniels family in 1997.	26 years, 162 days	Heidler, who received four death sentences for the killings, had also kidnapped three other children from the same household where he committed the murders.
Stacey Humphreys	Robbed and murdered two real estate agents, Lori Brown and Cyndi Williams, in 2003.	18 years, 136 days	Humphreys was out on parole for a 1993 felony theft conviction at the time of the killings.
Michael Nance	Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking.	28 years, 140 days
Dorian Frank O'Kelley	Murdered 41-year-old Susan Pittman and her 13-year-old daughter Kimberly Pittman during a robbery in 2002.	20 years, 97 days	The men assaulted and tortured both the victims before Susan was stabbed to death while Kimberly died in a fire started by both men to burn the house and destroy evidence of their crime.
Darryl Scott Stinski		18 years, 245 days
Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace	Robbed and killed at least four elderly women between 1988 and 1989.	29 years, 343 days
Virgil Delano Presnell Jr.	Abducted, raped, and killed eight-year-old Lori Ann Smith in 1976.	49 years, 171 days	Presnell is the state's longest-serving death row inmate.
Reinaldo Rivera	Abducted, raped, and killed four women between 1999 and 2000.	21 years, 358 days

Idaho

• On death row: 8
• Total number executed: 29 (1800–2012)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Azad Haji Abdullah	Murder by arson of his wife and attempted murder of their four children in Boise on October 5, 2002.	21 years, 82 days
Thomas Eugene Creech	Murder by beating of a fellow inmate on May 13, 1981.	49 years, 325 days (first sentence) 43 years, 43 days (second sentence)	Previously on Idaho's death row; in 1977 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Idaho's previous death penalty on his appeal.
Chad Guy Daybell	Co-perpetrator of the murders of his wife and his lover's children in 2019.	1 year, 257 days	His co-defendant Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Timothy Alan Dunlap	Fatally shot a Soda Springs bank teller during a robbery on October 16, 1991.	33 years, 299 days	Also sentenced in Ohio for murdering his girlfriend.
James Harvey Hairston	Robbed and shot an elderly Downey couple on January 6, 1996.	29 years, 104 days	Denied retrial in 2010.
Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr.	Killed a Marsing woman and her nephew in July 1985.	39 years, 288 days	Denied retrial in 2010.
Jonathan Daniel Renfro	Shot dead Coeur d'Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore on May 5, 2015.	8 years, 123 days
Robin Lee Row	Murder by arson of her husband and their two children in February 1992.	32 years, 74 days	Only woman on Idaho's death row; housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center.

Indiana

• On death row: 5 (October 10, 2025)
• Total number executed: 153 (1800–2025)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
William Clyde Gibson	Rape and bludgeoning of 75-year-old Christine Whitis.	12 years, 94 days	Whitis was a family friend who had come to his New Albany home to console Gibson after his mother's death. Gibson has pleaded guilty to three murders. After he was arrested for Whitis' murder, police excavated Gibson's yard to recover the body of Stephanie Kirk, a 35-year-old Charlestown woman who disappeared in 2012. He also admitted to fatally stabbing Karen Hodella of Port Orange, Florida, in October 2002.
Eric Darnell Holmes	Stabbed to death 20-year-old Theresa Blosl and 30-year-old Charles Ervin.	32 years, 324 days	Holmes was fired from his job at Shoney's Restaurant after an argument with co-worker Amy Foshee. At closing on the day of his firing, Holmes waited in the parking lot with Michael Vance. Holmes and Vance attacked Foshee and two managers as they exited the building, stabbing them multiple times, and stealing the bank deposit money. The restaurant managers, Theresa Blosl and Charles Ervin, died; Foshee survived. Vance was tried separately and sentenced to 190 years.
Kevin Charles Isom	Shot his wife, 40-year-old Cassandra Isom and his two stepchildren, 16-year-old Michael Moore and 13-year-old Ci'Andria Cole.	12 years, 342 days	The crime was in response to learning his wife was planning to leave him. He then barricaded himself in the family's apartment and shot at police officers attempting to take him into custody. Isom's defense attorney argued that a death sentence was inappropriate given the emotional state of his client, who suffered an extreme emotional disturbance from losing his job and then being left by his wife. However, the prosecution pointed out that he was extremely abusive and unfaithful to his wife and drove her away.
Michael Dean Overstreet	Raped, strangled and shot 18-year-old Kelly Eckart.	25 years, 197 days	Kelly Eckart, an 18-year-old freshman at Franklin College, was last seen on September 27, 1997, after leaving work. The next morning, her car was found abandoned in a rural area, with its lights on and keys in the ignition. She was found in a ravine in Brown County four days later. She had been shot and strangled. Semen found on the body was matched to Overstreet. He has schizoaffective disorder and had hallucinations as a child. He was discharged from the marines on the basis of mental illness. A judge determined Overstreet was not competent to be executed in November 2014. The Indiana Attorney General chose not to appeal the decision. He remains on death row indefinitely.
Jeffrey Alan Weisheit	Murder by arson of the two children of his girlfriend, 8-year-old Alyssa and 5-year-old Caleb Lynch.	12 years, 217 days	After his arrest, Weisheit admitted stuffing a dish towel in Caleb's mouth and using duct tape to bind his arms behind his back. Two flares were found near the boy's body. Autopsies revealed the children were alive when the fire was set. He told police he did it because Caleb was misbehaving on the night before the fire. Weisheit allegedly has bipolar disorder.

Kansas

• On death row: 9
• Total number executed: 57 (1800–1965)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Reginald Carr	Five random brutal crimes committed from December 7 to 14, 2000.	23 years, 90 days (first sentence; overturned) 10 years, 24 days (second sentence)	After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned their death sentences, the United States Supreme Court reinstated them on January 20, 2016.
Jonathan Carr
Scott Cheever	Murder of Sheriff Matt Samuels in January 2005.	18 years, 21 days
Kyle Trevor Flack	Shot two men, and a mother and daughter on May 1, 2013.	9 years, 271 days
Sidney Gleason	Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wornkey in February 2004.	19 years, 169 days (first sentence; overturned) 10 years, 24 days (second sentence)	After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.
James Kraig Kahler	Murders of his wife Karen, his two daughters, Lauren and Emily, and his wife's grandmother, Dorothy Wight.	14 years, 125 days
Gary Kleypas	1996 rape and murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg, Kansas.	27 years, 339 days (first sentence; overturned) 17 years, 72 days (second sentence)	The Kansas Supreme Court, in its review of his case, found serious errors with the state's death penalty statute and ordered that the penalty phase of his trial be redone. The sentence was overturned in 2001. In 2008, he was sentenced to death again.
John E. Robinson Sr.	Capital murder convictions for the murders of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten and first degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985.	23 years, 23 days	In 2005, he admitted responsibility for five additional homicides across the river, at trial in Kansas City, Missouri, in a deal to receive multiple life sentences without possibility of parole and avoid more death sentences. In 2015 the Kansas Supreme Court overturned Robinson's convictions for the murders of Suzette Trouten and Lisa Stasi on technicalities but his death sentence for the murder of Izabel Lewicka was upheld.
Justin Thurber	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm in 2007.	16 years, 330 days	In October 2017, he appealed death sentence with arguments whether he is developmentally disabled. The judge rejected the defense's request for a hearing on whether Thurber is developmentally disabled, ruling that the defense had not presented enough evidence to warrant a hearing.

Kentucky

• On death row: 24
• Total number executed: 427 (1700–2008)

Due to the number of Kentucky death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Ralph Baze	Shot two police officers at his home.	32 years, 9 days	He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees
Virginia Susan Caudill	Murdered 73-year-old Lonetta White during a robbery in 1998 and later burned her body.	25 years, 326 days	Caudill is the only woman on Kentucky's death row. Caudill, along with co-defendant Jonathan Goforth (1960-2025), were the first two white people sentenced to death in modern-era Kentucky for murdering an African-American person.
Victor Dewayne Taylor	Kidnapped, robbed and shot two 17-year-old Trinity High School students.	39 years, 266 days	Taylor's cousin, George Wade, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Larry Lamont White	Robbery and shooting of 22-year-old Pamela Armstrong in Louisville on June 4, 1983.	40 years, 335 days (first sentence; overturned) 19 years, 203 days (second sentence)	White was initially convicted and sentenced to death for two other murders committed between June and July 1983, but his sentence was overturned and he was resentenced to 29 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 2001 and rearrested for violating his parole in 2006, when he was linked via DNA to Armstrong's killing.

Louisiana

• On death row: 55 (as of March 18, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 660 (1700–2025)

Due to the number of Louisiana death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Anthony Bell	Convicted of murdering his wife and four in-laws during a church shooting in 2006.	17 years, 154 days	Bell was sentenced to five consecutive death sentences for the first-degree murders of all five victims. He also received a 50-year prison term for the attempted murder of his mother-in-law, who was the sole survivor of the shooting.
Daniel Blank	Convicted of the 1997 murder of 71-year-old Lillian Philippe.	26 years, 66 days	Dubbed the "River Parishes serial killer", Blank had murdered a total of six people, including Philippe. Blank was sentenced to death only for Philippe's murder, in addition to four sentences of life without parole for another four of the killings, but never stood trial for the sixth murder.
Henri Broadway	Involved in the murder of 36-year-old police officer Betty Smothers.	30 years, 8 days	The murdered police officer was the mother of Warrick Dunn, a former NFL running back. Broadway's accomplice, Kevan Brumfield, was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life on July 20, 2016, as he was ruled too intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution.
David Brown	Murdered 49-year-old Corrections Captain David Knapps at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1999.	14 years, 106 days	Brown and Clark were both members of the "Angola 5", a group of five inmates involved in an escape attempt that led to the murder of Knapps. Brown was serving a life sentence for a 1992 second-degree murder case while Clark was originally sentenced to death for a 1984 murder case before the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The remaining three Angola 5 members – David Mathis, Barry Edge and Robert Carley – were all sentenced to life without parole for their participation in the murder.
Jeffrey Cameron Clark		14 years, 265 days
Nathaniel Code	Mass murder of four people.	35 years, 19 days	Code had also been responsible for at least four other murders, and investigators believe his murder count could be as high as twelve.
Antoinette Frank	Murdered 25-year-old police officer Ronald Williams and 17-year-old Cuong Vu and 24-year-old Ha Vu, a brother and a sister owners of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard.	30 years, 116 days	Frank was a New Orleans police officer. Her accomplice, Roger Lacaze was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life.
Kyle David Joekel	Shot and murdered two police officers, 34-year-old Brandon Nielsen and 27-year-old Jeremy Triche, in a mass shooting in 2012.	3 years, 3 days	Joekel was one of the two shooters involved in the shooting, which also left another two policemen injured. The other shooter, Brian Lyn Smith, was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial and detained in a mental facility. Three members of Smith's family and his girlfriend were arrested for lesser charges of being an accessory to attempted first-degree murder.
Jesse Montejo	Shot and killed a business owner inside a home.	20 years, 276 days
Larry Roy	Slashed five people in 1993 at Cheneyville, Louisiana, which led to the deaths of 33-year-old Freddie Richard Jr. and 75-year-old Rosetta Silas.	31 years, 167 days	Dubbed the "Cheneyville Slasher" by the media, Roy attacked Richard's ex-wife, who was his former girlfriend, after she broke off their relationship, resulting in the slashing-deaths.
Todd Wessinger	Shot and killed two restaurant employees, 27-year-old Stephanie Guzzardo and 46-year-old David Breakwell, during a robbery-turned mass shooting in 1995.	28 years, 149 days	Wessinger used to work as a dishwasher at the restaurant where he robbed and later shot four of his former co-workers, which led to the deaths of Breakwell and Guzzardo.

Mississippi

• On death row: 35
• Total number executed: 376 (1800–2025)

Due to the number of Mississippi death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Martez Terrell Abram	Fatally shot two colleagues at a Walmart store and wounded a police officer during a gunfight near the store.	3 years, 73 days	Abram was given two death sentences for two counts of first-degree murder and life imprisonment for one count of attempted murder.
Anthony Carr	Tortured and murdered four members of the Parker family.	35 years, 147 days	Carr was sentenced to death for all four of the murders, while Simon was sentenced to death for three, receiving a life sentence for the fourth.
Robert Simon Jr.		35 years, 123 days
Willie Cory Godbolt	Fatally shot eight people in a killing spree in Lincoln County, Mississippi, including police officer William Durr.	5 years, 351 days	Godbolt was given four death sentences and six life sentences plus 40 years.
Lisa Jo Chamberlin	Murdered 34-year-old Vernon Hulett and 38-year-old Linda Heinztelman in 2004	19 years, 193 days	Chamberlin, who received two death sentences for both counts of capital murder, is the only woman on Mississippi's death row. Chamberlin's boyfriend, Roger Lee Gillett, was originally sentenced to death in 2007 for the murders, but his death sentences were commuted to life without parole in 2018.
Willie Jerome Manning	Murdered 19-year-old Jon Steckler and 22-year-old Tiffany Miller.	31 years, 97 days	Manning was sentenced to death for two separate double murders. One of these convictions was overturned but he remains on death row for the other one.

Missouri

• On death row: 8
• Total number executed: 379 (1800–2025)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Terrance Anderson	Murdered Stephen and Debbie Rainwater, his ex-girlfriend's parents.	24 years, 273 days
William Theodore Boliek Jr.	Murdered 18-year-old Jody Harless in Kansas City in 1983.	41 years, 64 days	In 1997, Boliek was granted a stay of execution by Governor Mel Carnahan. Carnahan died in a plane crash in 2000 and Boliek's case was not resolved. A court determined only Carnahan could overturn the stay, effectively leaving Boliek's case in permanent limbo. Governor Jay Nixon's office determined Boliek would not be executed and he will spend the remainder of his life in prison. Boliek is Missouri's longest-serving death row inmate.
Richard Emery	Murdered his girlfriend and her family in their home.	3 years, 102 days
Charles Lee Mathenia	Murdered elderly sisters, 72-year-old Daisy Nash and 70-year-old Louanna Bailey in 1984.	41 years, 36 days	In 1994, he was declared mentally disabled.
Vincent McFadden	Fatally shot his girlfriend's sister, 18-year-old Leslie Addison.	20 years, 294 days	McFadden also committed another fatal shooting in 2002.
Roosevelt Pollard	Murdered Richard Alford, an Arkansas businessman.	40 years, 17 days	Pollard has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. In 1999, he was ruled incompetent.
Joshua Rocha	Murdered North Kansas City Police Officer, Daniel Vasquez.	128 days
Craig Michael Wood	Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 10-year-old Hailey Owens.	8 years, 33 days

Montana

• On death row: 2
• Total number executed: 74 (1800–2006)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
William Jay Gollehon	Murder by bludgeoning of Gerald Pileggi, an inmate during a riot in 1991.	33 years, 334 days	At that moment, Gollehon was serving a 130-year sentence for murdering a woman.
Ronald Allen Smith	Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982.	42 years, 328 days	Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.

Nebraska

• On death row: 11
• Total number executed: 38 (1866–2018)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Roy Ellis	Abducted, sexually assaulted, and beat 12-year-old Amber Harris to death with a hammer, later he threw her body into a ravine.	17 years, 7 days	Ellis was a registered sex offender at the time of the murder
Jorge Galindo	Shooting of five people in a failed bank robbery.	21 years, 95 days	Gabriel Rodriguez, who participed in the failed robbery was sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment.
Jose Sandoval		21 years, 13 days
Erick Fernando Vela		19 years, 32 days
Anthony Garcia	Committed two separate double murders in March 2008 and May 2013.	7 years, 152 days
Jeffrey Hessler	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 15-year-old Heather Guerrero.	20 years, 271 days
Nikko Allen Jenkins	Killed four people in 2013 over the course of 10 days in a killing spree.	8 years, 259 days
John Lotter	Murdered 19-year-old Phillip DeVine, 24-year-old Lisa Lambert and 21-year-old Brandon Teena.	29 years, 357 days	Days prior, Teena had reported to police that Lotter and his accomplice Tom Nissen had beat and raped him upon discovering he was transgender. Nissen was sentenced to life.
Raymond Mata Jr.	Kidnapped, murdered and dismembered 3-year-old Adam Gomez, his ex-girlfriend's son.	25 years, 257 days
Marco Torres	Execution style shooting of two men, with one of the victims being strangled and bound.	16 years, 15 days
Aubrey Clifton Trail	Killed and dismembered 24-year-old Sydney Loofe.	4 years, 249 days	His accomplice, Bailey Boswell, was sentenced to life in prison.

Nevada

• On death row: 64
• Total number executed: 76 (1800–2006)

Due to the number of Nevada death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
James Biela	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 19-year-old Brianna Denison.	15 years, 262 days
Zane Michael Floyd	Shot four employees during a mass shooting in a supermarket.	25 years, 216 days
David Stephen Middleton	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 42-year-old Thelma Davila and 45-year-old Katherine Powell in 1994 and 1995, respectively.	28 years, 148 days	Middleton was an ex-police officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department, Middleton is a suspect in a third murder committed in Colorado in 1993 and rapes done during his tenure with the Miami-Dade PD.

New Hampshire

• On death row: 1 (2014)
• Total number executed: 24 (1700–1939)

Note: On May 30, 2019, the state Senate voted to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and abolished capital punishment, replacing it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The law was not retroactive and the one person on death row at the time of abolition remains there.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Michael Kiser Addison	Murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer, on October 16, 2006.	17 years, 57 days	Only death row inmate in New Hampshire due to the subsequent abolition of state capital punishment.

North Carolina

• On death row: 122
• Total number executed: 827 (1700–2006)

Due to the number of North Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Mikel Edward Brady II	Murdered four prison employees during a foiled prison escape attempt in 2017.	6 years, 108 days	The fourth accomplice, Seth Jameson Frazier, was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without parole for his role in the murders. Brady was the leader of the four in the prison attack. Prior to the murders, Brady and Monk were incarcerated for attempted murder in unrelated cases, while Buckman was convicted and detained for second-degree murder in another case.
Wisezah Datawn Buckman		2 years, 102 days
Jonathan Michael Monk		323 days
Linwood Forte	Murders of three elderly Goldsboro residents in their homes committed between May and October 1990.	22 years, 128 days	Also serving four consecutive life sentences for rapes related to the crimes. Additionally suspected of a murder in 1994, but never charged.
Terry Hyatt	Kidnappings, rapes and murders of Harriet Simmons and Betty McConnell, committed four months apart in 1979.	26 years, 6 days	Also serving six life sentences for the same murders, and a seventh for a third murder committed in 1987.
Blanche Taylor Moore	Poisoned her boyfriend, Raymond Reid, with arsenic.	35 years, 26 days	Moore has also been linked to the deaths of her father, mother in law, and first husband.
Michael McGay Reeves	Murdered 27-year-old Susan Toler during a home invasion in 1989.	33 years, 275 days	Reeves, a convicted rapist, is suspected in two similar murders in Virginia and multiple sexual assaults across North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
Henry Louis Wallace	Raped and killed nine women between 1990 and 1994.	29 years, 15 days	Known as "The Taco Bell Strangler". Wallace confessed to the murders of eleven women.
Lesley Eugene Warren	Raped and murdered his girlfriend Jayme Hurley and student Katherine Johnson on separate occasions in 1990.	30 years, 130 days	Known as "The Babyface Killer". Warren was also sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a woman in South Carolina, and was never charged for a murder in New York. He confessed to four murders additional murders committed in the Carolinas, but these victims have never been identified.
John Williams Jr.	Raped and killed two women in 1996.	27 years, 346 days	Williams was the believed prime suspect in multiple murders across the Raleigh area.

Ohio

• On death row: 110 (as of December 29, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 494 (1700–2018)

Due to the number of Ohio death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Richard Beasley	Lured three men using a Craigslist ad for a non-existent job and shot them in 2011.	12 years, 330 days	His accomplice, Brogan Rafferty, was sentenced to life in prison.
George Brinkman	Killed a female friend, her two daughters, and an elderly couple who he was friends with in June 2017.	7 years, 47 days	First sentenced when he admitted to committing the Royalton murders, then sentenced again for the Lake Township murders. Scheduled to be executed on September 23, 2026.
Quisi Bryan	Killed a Cleveland police officer during a traffic stop in 2000.	24 years, 351 days	Scheduled to be executed on November 15, 2028.
Shawn Grate	Murdered five women from 2006 to 2016.	7 years, 257 days	An initial execution date was set upon conviction for September 13, 2018, but the execution was stayed due to a pending appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Danny Lee Hill	Raped and murdered 12-year-old Raymond Fife in 1985.	39 years, 345 days	Hill was one of two men convicted of the murder of Raymond Fife. Only Hill, who was 18 at the time of the crime, was sentenced to death. His accomplice, Timothy Combs, was sentenced to life imprisonment because he was 17 when the murder occurred and was therefore ineligible for the death penalty. Combs died in prison in 2018. Hill is scheduled to be executed on July 18, 2029. He was previously scheduled for execution on July 22, 2026, but the date was postponed.
Anthony Kirkland	Raped, strangled and burned the bodies of four females between 2006 and 2009.	15 years, 318 days	Kirkland previously served sixteen years for the beating, choking and burning murder of his girlfriend. He was handed two death sentences, plus two sentences of seventy years to life.
Michael Madison	Kidnapped, raped, strangled and mutilated three women in 2012 and 2013.	9 years, 245 days
Gregory McKnight	Kidnapped and murdered 20-year-old Emily Murray and hid her body in his trailer in 2000.	23 years, 106 days	McKnight had previously served seven years in a juvenile detention center for shooting and killing a man in 1992. The body of a different man was also found on McKnight's property in 2000.
Austin Myers	Orchestrated the murder of 18-year-old Justin Back.	11 years, 119 days	Timothy Mosley, Myers's accomplice, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence.
William Kessler Sapp	Raped and murdered 11-year-old Martha Leach and 12-year-old Phree Morrow in 1992. One year later, he murdered 31-year-old Belinda Anderson.	26 years, 115 days
Raymond A. Twyford III	Murdered 37-year-old Richard Franks, who he suspected of raping his girlfriend's daughter.	32 years, 307 days
Christopher Whitaker	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze.	7 years, 322 days
James D. Worley	Abducted and murdered 20-year-old Sierah Joughin.	7 years, 300 days	The murder prompted the creation of Ohio Senate Bill 231 'Sierah's Law', a statute that provides for a searchable database of convicted violent felons living in the state.

Oklahoma

• On death row: 26 (as of February 12, 2026^[update])
• Total number executed: 254 (1800–2025)

Due to the number of Oklahoma death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Raymond Eugene Johnson	Fatal beating and arson deaths of his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Brooke Whitaker, and her 7-month-old daughter, Kya.	16 years, 232 days	At the time of the crimes, he was on parole from a 20-year sentence for manslaughter.
Alton Alexander Nolen	Attacked two Vaughan Foods employees, beheading 54-year-old Colleen Hufford and critically wounding Traci Johnson.	8 years, 60 days	The attack followed a well-publicized series of beheadings carried out by the Islamic State.
William Lewis Reece	Raped and murdered 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston.	4 years, 178 days	Reece, a convicted kidnapper, was connected to her murder in 2015 on the basis of DNA evidence. He later confessed to three unrelated murders connected to the Texas Killing Fields, to which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Oregon

• On death row: 0 (as of December 13, 2022^[update])
• Total number executed: 124 (1800–1997)

Pennsylvania

• On death row: 94 (as of November 2, 2025^[update])
• Total number executed: 1,043 (1608–1999)

Due to the number of Pennsylvania death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Richard Baumhammers	Racially motivated crime spree in April 2000, in Pittsburgh, killing five people and paralyzing one.	24 years, 278 days	Baumhammers was given five death sentences plus 112 years.
Arthur Jerome Bomar Jr.	Murdered 22-year-old Aimee Willard, beating her to death.	27 years, 71 days	Bomar is also suspected to have murdered Maria Cabuenos to steal her car, since he had thrown out his own at a junkyard. Willard's DNA was found on the latter, which pointed out Bomar's culpability.
John Eichinger	Stabbing murders of Heather Greaves, her sister Lisa and her daughter Avery at their home in King of Prussia on March 25, 2005.	20 years, 63 days	Eichinger is also serving a life sentence for the murder of Jennifer Still, who was murdered under similar circumstances at her house in Bridgeport in 1999.
Eric Frein	Murdered Corporal Bryon Dickson II during a State police attack in September 2014.	8 years, 284 days
Melvin Knight	Tortured, raped and murdered mentally disabled Jennifer Daugherty.	13 years, 167 days	The other four members of The Greensburg Six received long prison sentences, ranging from thirty years to life without parole. Knight appealed his sentence, but on November 15, 2018, his appeal was denied.
Ricky Smyrnes		12 years, 350 days	Smyrnes appealed the death sentence, and his execution was delayed in July 2017.
Richard Laird	Murdered Anthony Milano because he was gay.	36 years, 209 days	Laird's co-defendant, Frank Chester, was also sentenced to death for the crime, but was resentenced to life without parole in 2016.
Richard Andrew Poplawski	Shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009.	14 years, 230 days
Harvey Miguel Robinson	Raped and murdered 47-year-old Jessica Jean Fortney.	31 years, 76 days	Robinson was initially sentenced to death for three murders, but the death sentences for the first two murders were later changed to life sentences.
Christopher Roney	First-degree murder for the shooting death of police officer Lauretha Vaird.	29 years, 62 days
Raghunandan Yandamuri	First-degree murders and kidnapping of Saanvi Venna and her grandmother, Satyavathi Venna.	11 years, 85 days	Yandamuri is one of the two only Indians on death row in the United States. His execution was delayed in January 2018.

South Carolina

• On death row: 23
• Total number executed: 690 (1700–2025)

Due to the number of South Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Steven Bixby	Shot and killed Abbeville County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Daniel Wilson and State Constable Donald Ouzts.	18 years, 357 days	Rita Bixby, Steven's mother, was given two life sentences, while his father, Arthur Bixby, was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and committed to a mental facility.
Timothy Jones Jr.	Murdered his five children in Lexington County.	6 years, 245 days	He disposed of their bodies in Alabama before later admitting to the crime.
Tyree Roberts	Murdered two police officers in Beaufort County.	22 years, 114 days	Roberts shot and killed both police officers after they responded to a domestic disturbance call made by his partner.
James William Wilson Jr.	Shot dead two 8-year-old students and wounded another seven, a teacher and a gym coach.	36 years, 278 days

South Dakota

• On death row: 1
• Total number executed: 20 (1866–2019)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Briley Piper	Tortured and murdered Chester Allan Poage.	25 years, 25 days (first sentence; overturned) 14 years, 198 days (second sentence)	Piper committed the crime along with Elijah Page and Darrell Hoadley. Page was sentenced to death and executed in 2007, becoming the first person executed in South Dakota in over sixty years. Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison.

Tennessee

• On death row: 41
• Total number executed: 348 (1700–2025)

Due to the number of Tennessee death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Lemaricus Davidson	Raped, tortured, and murdered Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.	16 years, 106 days	Davidson's four accomplices were also sentenced but only Davidson received a death sentence.
Jessie Dotson	Shot and killed his brother, Cecil Dotson, his brother's girlfriend, Marissa Williams, and two other adults, and fatally stabbed his nephews, aged 4 and 2.	15 years, 124 days	Three other children were found seriously injured at the house. Dotson received six death sentences for the crime.
Henry Eugene Hodges	Strangled and killed 37-year-old Ronald Bassett during a robbery in 1990.	34 years, 14 days	Hodges was also convicted of killing two more people in Tennessee and Georgia, and received two additional life sentences for these crimes. Hodges confessed to at least eight murders of homosexual men between 1988 and 1990, and he remains a suspect behind some of these cases.
Henry Lee Jones	Stabbed and strangled elderly couple, Clarence and Lillian James, at their home in Bartlett on August 22, 2003, ultimately slitting their throats with a pair of scissors.	16 years, 270 days	Jones was also sentenced to death in Florida for a similar murder committed just days after these murders, and is suspected of yet another killing in that state. His first death sentence was overturned, but he was found guilty in a second trial in 2015.
Donald Ray Middlebrooks	Tortured and murdered 14-year-old Kerrick Majors.	36 years, 144 days	Middlebrooks' wife, Tammy, and their friend, Robert Brewington, were sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in Majors' murder. They were spared the death penalty as both were under the age of 18 at the time of the offense. Middlebrooks was originally scheduled to be executed on December 8, 2022. His execution was later suspended due to an oversight in the preparation for lethal injection in another execution. Middlebrooks was then scheduled to be executed on September 24, 2025. This execution was stayed pending the conclusion of his federal litigation.
Christa Pike	Tortured and murdered her Job Corps classmate, 19-years-old Colleen Slemmer by crushing her skull with asphalt.	29 years, 320 days	Two of Pike's accomplices were also sentenced; Tadaryl Shipp was given life without parole plus 25 years, while Shadolla Peterson was sentenced to probation after testifying against her. In 2001, Pike and Natasha Cornett attempted to strangle fellow inmate Patricia Jones with a shoestring; Jones survived. Scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026.

Texas

• On death row: 168
• Total number executed: 1344 (1800–2025)

Due to the number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages or part of a criminal enterprise with a separate Wikipedia page are listed.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Eugene Broxton	Shot newlyweds Waylon and Sheila Dockens during a robbery of their motel room in Channelview, killing Sheila.	33 years, 148 days	Broxton is also the prime suspect for a series of robbery-murders in Houston between March and May 1991, for which he has never been charged.
Kimberly Cargill	Murdered her son's 39-year-old babysitter Cherry Walker in 2010.	13 years, 251 days	Cargill killed Walker (who was mentally disabled) after luring her out for dinner with a purpose of preventing the victim from testifying against her in a child protective case; Cargill had dumped Walker's body, doused it in lighter fluid and set it on fire.
Linda Carty	Abducted and murdered 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez to steal her newborn son.	23 years, 343 days	Prosecutors alleged that Carty orchestrated the crime, which was committed by three masked men who abducted Rodriguez and her son. Rodriguez was later found dead in the trunk of a car. Her 3-day-old son was rescued from a car parked nearby. The other three men were arrested, but only Carty was prosecuted for capital murder. Carty claims she was framed by drug dealers in response to her work as an informant and has appealed her conviction. Her appeals have been unsuccessful and the appeal procedure has been exhausted. Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century.
Raul Cortez	Shot dead Rosa Barbosa, her nephew and two of his friends.	17 years, 9 days	Eddie Williams is serving 20 years, and Javier Cortez, Raul's brother, was sentenced to four years in prison.
Edgardo Rafael Cubas	Murdered two women and a 15-year-old girl, who had been kidnapped and raped.	21 years, 251 days	Eduardo Navarro, an accomplice, was 15 at the time of the crimes but was tried as an adult.
Walter Alexander Sorto		22 years, 64 days
William George Davis	Murdered four patients at a hospital in Tyler from 2017 to 2018, where he worked as a nurse, introducing air into patients’ arterial systems.	4 years, 107 days	In a call to his ex-wife in jail, Davis claimed he wanted to lengthen patients' time in the intensive care unit so he could earn more overtime.
Paul Devoe	Murdered his ex-girlfriend Paula Griffith, her teenage daughter Haylie Faulkner, Griffith's boyfriend Jay Feltner and Faulkner's 17-year-old friend Danielle Hensley	16 years, 128 days	Devoe had also murdered a bartender in Texas and an elderly woman in Pennsylvania. He was convicted of killing both Hensley and Faulkner and sentenced to death, but did not face trial for the other four homicides.
Michael Dean Gonzales	Robbed and murdered his elderly neighbors in Odessa, Texas.	30 years, 63 days
Howard Paul Guidry	Murdered 33-year-old Farah Fratta under the orders of her estranged husband Robert Fratta.	28 years, 303 days	Robert Fratta, the mastermind of his wife's murder, was sentenced to death and executed in 2023. Fratta recruited Joseph Prystash as a middleman to help him find a gunman, therefore hiring Guidry as the assassin to shoot and kill his wife. Prystash was also sentenced to death but he died of natural causes in 2025 while on death row.
Ruben Gutierrez	Robbed and murdered 85-year-old retired schoolteacher Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Texas.	26 years, 277 days	Gutierrez committed the crime with two others; one of them, Rene Garcia, was sentenced to life in prison while the other, Pedro Gracia, remains at large for the murder.
Randy Halprin	Murdered Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a robbery.	22 years, 246 days	Halprin was convicted under the Texas law of parties.
Patrick Murphy		22 years, 85 days	Murphy was the last member of the Texas Seven to be brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to death. Murphy was also convicted under the Texas law of parties.
Ronald Lee Haskell	Murdered his ex-wife's sister, her husband and four of their children in Harris County.	6 years, 120 days	Cassidy Stay was the lone survivor. She was shot, but played dead and informed police about Haskell.
Brittany Holberg	Robbed and murdered 80-year-old A. B. Towery Sr. in his home.	27 years, 323 days	The victim was struck with a hammer and stabbed nearly sixty times. The weapons used were a paring knife, a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, and a fork. A lamp pole had been shoved more than five inches down the victim's throat. Holberg's conviction was overturned in 2025 after a federal court found that evidence had been withheld during her original trial.
William Mitchell Hudson	Murdered six members of a family at a camp site.	8 years, 89 days	Hudson's motive behind the shooting was purportedly due to his rage of losing his family's land, which was sold to one of the victims he killed. A seventh member of the family escaped unharmed during the attack.
Ali Irsan	2012 killings of his son-in-law, Coty Beavers, and Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a friend of his daughter.	7 years, 177 days
Willie Roy Jenkins	Sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Sheryl Norris at her apartment in San Marcos.	12 years, 244 days	Jenkins, who was detained at a mental hospital in California for four rapes committed during the 1970s, was linked to the crime via DNA. He is also a suspect in three additional murders committed from 1975 to 1977, but has not been charged.
Kristopher Love	Shot and killed Dr. Kendra Hatcher in a murder-for-hire scheme.	7 years, 90 days	His co-defendant, Brenda Delgado, who hired him to carry out the murder, was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list after fleeing to Mexico. She was later captured and spared the death penalty.
Melissa Lucio	Murdered her 2-years-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez.	17 years, 185 days	Lucio was the first woman of Hispanic descent in Texas to be sentenced to death. A problematic conviction and rejected appeals led to her case being covered in the 2020 documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa.
Otis McKane	Shooting of Benjamin Marconi.	4 years, 190 days
Rodney Reed	Abducted, raped and murdered 19-year-old Stacie Stites.	27 years, 260 days
Robert Leslie Roberson III	Murder of his two-year-old daughter Nikki Michelle Curtis.	22 years, 357 days
Darlie Routier	Stabbed her two sons in 1996.	29 years, 8 days	Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA.
Víctor Saldaño	Kidnapped and shot dead Paul Ray King.	29 years, 154 days	Saldaño is the sole Argentine on death row in the United States. Jorge Chávez, his co-defendant, is serving life imprisonment.
Erica Sheppard	Robbed and murdered 43-year-old Marilyn Meagher in 1993	30 years, 294 days	Sheppard and a male accomplice, James Dickerson, robbed Meagher of her car and killed her by stabbing and beating with a statue. Dickerson was also sentenced to death, but he died on death row in 1999 due to AIDS. Sheppard is the longest-serving female prisoner on Texas's death row.
Andre Thomas	Murdered his estranged wife, 4-year-old son, and 13-month-old daughter on March 27, 2004.	20 years, 288 days	Residing in a psychiatric unit because of doubts about his mental health, since he removed his right eye on April 1, 2004, and then removed and consumed his left eye on December 9, 2008.
Jason Thornburg	Serial killer who murdered and dismembered three people at Fort Worth, Texas in 2021.	1 year, 71 days	Thornburg had also engaged in cannibalism by eating some of the victim's body parts and organs. Thornburg additionally confessed to murdering his girlfriend at Arizona in 2017, and also killed a roommate in May 2021 in Texas.
Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval	Shot United States Border Patrol agent Javier Vega Jr.	7 years, 253 days	Ismael Hernandez Vallejo was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Both men were undocumented Mexican citizens.
Lucky Ward	Strangled two people in September 2010 in Houston, during separate incidents	5 years, 337 days	Ward is considered the prime suspect in a series of at least four similar murders dating back to 1985, but was not charged with them due to lack of sufficient evidence for a conviction.
Faryion Wardrip	Raped and murdered five women in the 1980s.	26 years, 96 days	Wardrip was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 1986. He was released on December 11, 1997, but was sentenced to death on November 9, 1999, after he confessed to murdering Terry Sims. In December 2014, Wardrip's appeal was dismissed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Eric Lyle Williams	Shot and killed three people in Kaufman County, including Criminal District Attorney Michael McLelland.	11 years, 57 days	Williams's wife and accomplice, Kimberly Irene Williams, was tried separately, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
David Leonard Wood	Rapes and murders of six women in El Paso from May to August 1987, whose bodies were later found buried in the desert.	33 years, 30 days	Wood is also a suspect in the disappearances of three other young girls and women. He has denied responsibility for the crimes and has repeatedly attempted to have his sentence overturned, but so far has been unsuccessful.
Jeffery Lee Wood	Party to the shooting of gas station clerk Kriss Lee Keeran.	27 years, 348 days	On January 2, 1996, Wood and Daniel Earl Reneau robbed a Kerrville gas station. While Wood waited outside, Reneau shot the clerk because he did not cooperate. Wood was convicted under the Texas law of parties and his death row conviction has been regarded as controversial, as he was not present during the murder. Reneau was executed on June 13, 2002.

Utah

• On death row: 3
• Total number executed: 52 (1800–2024)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Michael Anthony Archuleta	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 28-year-old Gordon Church on November 21, 1988.	36 years, 54 days	Lance Wood, his co-defendant, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder. Has selected lethal injection as his method of execution.
Troy Kell	Stabbed fellow inmate, Lonnie Blackmon, 67 times on July 6, 1994.	29 years, 189 days	At the time, Kell was serving a life sentence in Nevada for the 1986 murder of 21-year-old James "Cotton" Kelly, who had been stalking 15-year-old Sandy Shaw, a long-time friend of Kell's. Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.
Von Lester Taylor	Murdered 49-year-old Kaye Tiede and her mother, 76-year-old Beth Potts near Beaver Springs, Summit County.	34 years, 265 days	Edward Deli, his co-defendant, was sentenced to life in prison. They also shot Tiede's husband, who survived, and attempted to set him on fire. Later they kidnapped their two daughters. Has selected lethal injection as his method of execution.

Wyoming

• On death row: 0
• Total number executed: 23 (1866–1992)

Jurisdictions without the death penalty

Twenty-three states have abolished capital punishment. Crimes committed in these states are still eligible for the death penalty if they are convicted in federal court for certain federal crimes. Capital punishment has been abolished in New Hampshire, but only for new sentences. One prisoner (Michael Addison) who was already sentenced to death remains on death row in the state.

States and the date of abolition of capital punishment:

1. Michigan (1846; abolished for murder, retained for treason until 1963)
2. Wisconsin (1853)
3. Maine (1887)
4. Minnesota (1911)
5. Hawaii (1948; prior to statehood)
6. Alaska (1957; prior to statehood)
7. Vermont (1964; abolished for murder, retained for treason until 1972)
8. Iowa (1965)
9. West Virginia (1965)
10. North Dakota (1973)
11. Massachusetts (1984)
12. Rhode Island (1984)
13. New Jersey (2007)
14. New York (2007)
15. New Mexico (2009)
16. Illinois (2011)
17. Connecticut (2012)
18. Maryland (2013)
19. Delaware (2016)
20. Washington (2018)
21. New Hampshire (2019)
22. Colorado (2020)
23. Virginia (2021)

Territories and federal districts:

1. Puerto Rico (1929)
2. Northern Mariana Islands (before 1970; prior to Commonwealth status)
3. Guam (1978)
4. Washington, D.C. (1981)
5. United States Virgin Islands (1991)

See also

• Death row
• Capital punishment in the United States
• List of women on death row in the United States
• List of people executed in the United States in 2026
• List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
• List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
• List of death row inmates in Japan
• List of death row inmates in the United States who have exhausted their appeals