List of United States death row inmates
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of notable people on death row
by state and federal/military jurisdiction in the United States
. There were approximately 3,254 people on death row as of May 7, 2011(http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state_by_state). The states with the largest death row populations were California (704), Florida (398), Texas (333), Pennsylvania (222), and Alabama (204). Wyoming and New Hampshire had the fewest inmates on death row (one each), New Mexico and Montana both had two, and Colorado and South Dakota had three. There are 59 people on federal death row and seven on military death row.
, managed by the United States Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; women (there are currently none) would be confined at the Naval Consolidated Brig
near San Diego, California. Any U.S. Military execution order must currently be signed by the President of the United States [Article 71(a) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
], who is also the sole appeal, clemency, and pardon authority for the death sentence. The current method of executions is lethal injection. The most recent execution was John Arthur Bennett
, by hanging, on April 13, 1961.
Connecticut
As of March 30, 2011, there are ten inmates on death row in Connecticut.
The following is a partial excerpt from the Florida site.
, who ceased his appeals and was executed by lethal injection in 1994. Hanging was used until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death penalty nationally in 1972. Firing squad could have been chosen by the inmate, or if lethal injection was deemed problematic, but had never been used and was discontinued in 2009. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that Idaho's sentencing in death penalty cases has to be done by the jury, not the judge. Males on death row are housed at the Idaho State Correctional Institution.
, by lethal injection, on December 5, 2005. Maryland conducts executions at the Metropolitan Transition Center
in Baltimore; it is near the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center where death row inmates were previously confined (and a death row inmate died in his cell in March 2007). All death row inmates were relocated to the North Branch Correctional Institution
near Cumberland in June 2010.
near Deer Lodge. Montana's current method of execution is lethal injection, which is also conducted at Montana State Prison; the most recent execution was David Thomas Dawson
on August 11, 2006.
in Concord. New Hampshire allows execution by lethal injection, although hanging is available if lethal injection is impractical; the state has no death chamber as its last execution was in 1939. A bill to repeal the death penalty was vetoed in May 2000 by then-Governor Jeanne Shaheen; subsequent attempts have not left the legislature.
near Santa Fe; the state's most recent execution was Terry Doug Clark
by lethal injection on November 6, 2001.
in Sioux Falls; death row inmates are housed at its nearby Jameson Annex. South Dakota's most recent execution was Elijah Page, who ceased his appeals and was executed by lethal injection on July 11, 2007.
in Draper, (there are currently no women on Utah's death row);Utah's executions are also conducted there. The current method of executions is lethal injection, but those who chose firing squad at sentencing prior to its abolition on May 3, 2004 are marked with an *; it may also be used if an inmate has overturned lethal injection. The most recent execution was Ronnie Lee Gardner
* by firing squad on June 18, 2010.
in Walla Walla; there are currently no women on Washington's death row. Washington's executions are required to be conducted at the WSP. Washington's current method of execution is lethal injection; an inmate may choose hanging. Washington's most recent execution was Cal Coburn Brown by lethal injection on September 10, 2010.
in 1992.
Death row
Death row signifies the place, often a section of a prison, that houses individuals awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution , even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.After individuals are found...
by state and federal/military jurisdiction in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. There were approximately 3,254 people on death row as of May 7, 2011(http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state_by_state). The states with the largest death row populations were California (704), Florida (398), Texas (333), Pennsylvania (222), and Alabama (204). Wyoming and New Hampshire had the fewest inmates on death row (one each), New Mexico and Montana both had two, and Colorado and South Dakota had three. There are 59 people on federal death row and seven on military death row.
Abolished
There are 16 states that have abolished their death penalty; federal cases there, Washington D.C., and the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands may still have death penalty verdicts and sentences. New Mexico is currently in the unique position of having replaced its death penalty with a sentence of life without parole, but its law doing so did not address those previously convicted, cases in progress, or crimes committed before its enactment; there are two inmates with a death sentence there. The jurisdictions without the death penalty, listed by year of repeal are Michigan (1st May 18, 1846); Wisconsin (2nd 1853); Maine (3rd 1887); Minnesota (4th 1911); (Puerto Rico, constitutionally in 1929); Hawaii (5th 1948 - prior to statehood); Alaska (6th 1957 - prior to statehood); Vermont (with the exception of a lingering statute for treason)(1964); Iowa & West Virginia (1965); North Dakota (1973); (Washington, D.C. in 1981); (Massachusetts ruled unconstitutional) & Rhode Island (1984); New Jersey & (New York ruled unconstitutional) (2007); New Mexico (2009); Illinois (signed and takes effect 2011).United States Military
Although early and wartime records may be incomplete, the U.S. Military has conducted at least 1206 executions since 1775 (although only 10 since 1951). Inmates are confined at the United States Disciplinary BarracksUnited States Disciplinary Barracks
The United States Disciplinary Barracks is a military prison located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas....
, managed by the United States Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; women (there are currently none) would be confined at the Naval Consolidated Brig
Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar
Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar is a military prison operated by the U.S. Navy at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in Miramar, San Diego, California, located just under north of Downtown San Diego. Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar is one of two Navy consolidated brigs and also serves as the...
near San Diego, California. Any U.S. Military execution order must currently be signed by the President of the United States [Article 71(a) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
Uniform Code of Military Justice
The Uniform Code of Military Justice , is the foundation of military law in the United States. It is was established by the United States Congress in accordance with the authority given by the United States Constitution in Article I, Section 8, which provides that "The Congress shall have Power . ....
], who is also the sole appeal, clemency, and pardon authority for the death sentence. The current method of executions is lethal injection. The most recent execution was John Arthur Bennett
John A. Bennett
John Arthur Bennett was a Private First Class in the United States Army who was convicted and executed for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl. He is the last person to have been executed by the United States military.Bennett was born in Virginia to a family of African...
, by hanging, on April 13, 1961.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hasan Karim Akbar Hasan Akbar case The Hasan Akbar case refers to an event in the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, when Hasan Karim Akbar was convicted of the double-murder of two officers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait.The victims were Army... (born Mark Fidel Kools) |
Multiple murder by hand grenade and shooting of two commissioned officers and 11 other servicemen in Kuwait on March 23, 2003 | Convicted April 21, 2005; sentenced May 2005 | |
| Ronald Arthur Gray Ronald A. Gray Ronald Adrin Gray is an American spree killer whose convictions include four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and eight counts of rape. His crimes were committed when he was in the United States Army, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was tried and convicted by military... |
Multiple rape and murders of women on Fort Bragg, North Carolina from December 15, 1986 to January 6, 1987 | July 29, 1988 | Longest on the military's death row |
| Timothy B. Hennis | Triple murder by stabbing of a North Carolina woman and two of her children in 1985 | Convicted April 8, 2010; sentenced April 15, 2010 | 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 Double jeopardy Double jeopardy is a procedural defense that forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same, or similar charges following a legitimate acquittal or conviction... ) |
| Dwight J. Loving | Multiple murder by shooting of two cab drivers on and near Fort Hood, Texas on December 11, 1988 | April 1989 | |
| Kenneth G. Parker | Multiple murder by shooting of two men in 1992 | July 1993 | Only marine on the military's death row |
| Andrew Paul Witt Andrew P. Witt Andrew Paul Witt is a former Senior Airman in the United States Air Force who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of a fellow Airman and his wife while he was an avionics technician in the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base.-Early life :Witt grew up in West Salem,... |
Double murder by stabbing of a couple in their Robins Air Force Base, Georgia home on July 5, 2004 | October 2005 | Only airman on the military's death row |
California
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Bittaker | Serial Killer in late 1970s, killed 5 teenage girls. | February 17, 1981 | |
| Richard Allen Davis Richard Allen Davis Richard Allen Davis is a convicted murderer, whose criminal record fueled support for passage of California's "Three strikes law" for repeat offenders... |
Murder of Polly Klaas | August 5, 1996 | |
| Charles Ng Charles Ng Charles Chi-Tat Ng is a serial killer. With Leonard Lake, he is suspected of murdering between 11 and 25 victims at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California, United States.... |
Serial killer in 1985 | 1998 | |
| Scott Peterson Scott Peterson Scott Lee Peterson , an American, was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child in Modesto, California, in 2002. Peterson's arrest and subsequent trial dominated the American news media until 2005, when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection... |
Murder of his pregnant wife Laci Peterson Murder of Laci Peterson Laci Denise Peterson was an American woman who was the subject of a highly discussed murder case after she went missing while seven and a half months pregnant with her first child. Peterson was reportedly last seen alive on December 24, 2002... |
2005 | |
| Richard Ramirez Richard Ramirez Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison... |
"Night Stalker" killings in 1985 | 1989 | |
| Ryan Hoyt Ryan Hoyt Ryan Hoyt is an associate of Jesse James Hollywood and who was convicted of the murder of Nick Markowitz on August 9, 2000... |
Murder of Nicholas Markowitz Murder of Nicholas Markowitz Nicholas Samuel "Nick" Markowitz was a American teenager who was kidnapped and murdered at the age of 15 after a feud over drug money between his half-brother Benjamin Markowitz and Jesse James Hollywood... in 2000 |
2001 |
ConnecticutCapital punishment in ConnecticutCapital punishment in Connecticut currently exists as an available sanction for a criminal defendant upon conviction for the commission of a capital offense. Connecticut, along with New Hampshire, are the only two New England states that maintain a death penalty. Since the 1976 United States...
As of March 30, 2011, there are ten inmates on death row in Connecticut.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lazale Ashby | Rape and murder of his 21-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Garcia, in her Hartford apartment on December 2, 2002. The crime occurred four days after Ashby's 18th birthday. | March 28, 2008 | |
| Robert Breton | Two counts of murder and one count of capital felony for the December 13, 1987, beating and stabbing deaths of his 38-year-old ex-wife, JoAnn Breton, and their 16-year-old son, Robert Breton, Jr. | October 27, 1989 | Breton's original death sentence was overturned in 1995. He was sentenced again in 1998. |
| Jessie Campbell III | Murder, attempted murder, first-degree assault, and weapons violations for the August 26, 2000, shooting deaths in Hartford of 20-year-old LaTaysha Logan and 18-year-old Desiree Privette and the shooting of Privette's aunt, Carolyn Privette. | August 16, 2007 | |
| Sedrick "Ricky" Cobb | Rape and murder of 23-year-old Julia Ashe of Watertown Watertown, Connecticut Watertown is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 21,661 at the 2000 census. The zip code for Watertown is 06795. It is a suburb of Waterbury. It borders the towns of Woodbury, Middlebury, Litchfield, Plymouth, Bethlehem, and Thomaston.-Founding History:More... , whom he kidnapped from a Waterbury Waterbury Waterbury is a city in Connecticut in the United States.Waterbury may also refer to any one of the following:-Places:United States*Waterbury, Nebraska*Waterbury, Vermont*Waterbury , Vermont,a village within the town of Waterbury, Vermont.... department store parking lot on December 16, 1989. |
September 24, 1991 | |
| Steven Hayes | Sentenced to death on all six possible death-penalty counts: killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and Michaela and Hayley [Petit] in the course of a single action; killing a child under the age of 16; killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a kidnapping; killing Hayley in the course of a kidnapping; killing Michaela in the course of a kidnapping; and killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a sexual assault. | December 2, 2010 | |
| Russell Peeler, Jr. | Ordering his younger brother to kill Karen Clarke and her eight-year-old son, Leroy "B.J." Brown, Junior, in their Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.Bridgeport may also refer to:-Places:In Canada:* Bridgeport, Nova ScotiaIn the United States:* Bridgeport, Alabama* Bridgeport, California, in Mono County... duplex on January 8, 1999. The boy was expected to be the key witness against Peeler in the fatal shooting of Clarke's boyfriend. |
December 10, 2007 | Peeler is the only inmate on Connecticut's Death Row who did not actually commit murder.http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=7473710 Rather, he ordered his younger brother to commit the murder.http://news.aol.com/story/_a/connecticut-death-row-inmates/n20080328131709990018 |
| Richard Reynolds | Murder of 34-year-old Waterbury Waterbury Waterbury is a city in Connecticut in the United States.Waterbury may also refer to any one of the following:-Places:United States*Waterbury, Nebraska*Waterbury, Vermont*Waterbury , Vermont,a village within the town of Waterbury, Vermont.... Police Officer Walter T. Williams. |
April 13, 1995 | |
| Todd Rizzo | The 1997 murder of 13-year-old Stanley Edwards of Waterbury Waterbury Waterbury is a city in Connecticut in the United States.Waterbury may also refer to any one of the following:-Places:United States*Waterbury, Nebraska*Waterbury, Vermont*Waterbury , Vermont,a village within the town of Waterbury, Vermont.... . He lured Edwards into his backyard under the guise of hunting snakes and then hit him 13 times with a three-pound sledgehammer. |
August 13, 1999 | The Connecticut Supreme Court ordered a new penalty hearing in Rizzo's case in 2003, but he was sentenced to death again in 2005. |
| Eduardo Santiago | Murder of Joseph Niwinski as he slept in his West Hartford apartment in December 2000. | January 31, 2005 | |
| Daniel Webb | Kidnapping and murder for the 1989 slaying in Hartford of Diane Gellenbeck, a 37-year-old Connecticut National Bank vice president.http://news.aol.com/story/_a/connecticut-death-row-inmates/n20080328131709990018 | September 12, 1991 | Prior to this, Webb already had an extensive criminal record including a 1983 robbery conviction, 1984 rape and kidnapping conviction, and an arrest in 1987 for rape. While out on bail after the 1987 arrest, he murdered Gellenbeck. |
Colorado
Three individuals are on death row in Colorado.| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Dunlap | Murdered 4 people during a robbery at a Chuck E. Cheese. | May 17, 1996 | |
| Sir Mario Owens | Murdered a witness and his fiance who was going to testify against his friend for a murder. | June 16, 2008 | |
| Robert Ray | Ordered the killing of witnesses in his pending murder trial, Co-defendant of Sir Mario Owens | May 5, 2010 |
Federal
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr. | Rape Rape Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The... and murder of Dru Sjodin Dru Sjodin Dru Katrina Sjodin , a student of the University of North Dakota and a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, was a murder victim... in Grand Forks, North Dakota Grand Forks, North Dakota Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461... . |
September 22, 2006 | Crossed state lines into Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state... making a federal case. |
Florida
A comprehensive list of the nearly 400 (as of December 2010) Florida death row inmates can be found on the Florida managed site here .The following is a partial excerpt from the Florida site.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emilia Carr | Kidnapping and murder of a woman in February 2009 | December 7, 2010. | One of four women on death row in Florida |
Georgia
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|
Idaho
Idaho has executed 27 people since 1864 (including 12 since it became a state in 1890); but only one since 1957, Keith Eugene WellsKeith Wells
Keith Eugene Wells was convicted of the murders of John Justad and Brandi Rains. He was executed in 1994 at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution by the State of Idaho by lethal injection, only one year and nine months after having been sentenced to death...
, who ceased his appeals and was executed by lethal injection in 1994. Hanging was used until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death penalty nationally in 1972. Firing squad could have been chosen by the inmate, or if lethal injection was deemed problematic, but had never been used and was discontinued in 2009. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that Idaho's sentencing in death penalty cases has to be done by the jury, not the judge. Males on death row are housed at the Idaho State Correctional Institution.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azad Haji Abdullah | Murder by arson of his wife and attempted murder of their four children in Boise on October 5, 2002 | November 23, 2004 | |
| David Leslie Card | Murder by shooting of a Nampa newscarrier couple on June 5, 1988 | September 1989 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
| Thomas Eugene Creech | Murder by beating of an inmate on May 13, 1981 | January 1983 | Previously on Idaho's death row; in 1977 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Idaho's previous death penalty on his appeal. |
| Timothy Alan Dunlap | Murder by shooting of a Soda Springs bank teller during a robbery on October 16, 1991 | April 20, 1992 | Also sentenced by Ohio for murdering his girlfriend. |
| Zane Jack Fields | Murder by stabbing of a Boise store owner during a robbery February 11, 1988 | August 1991 | |
| James Harvey Hairston | Murder by shooting and robbery of an elderly Downey couple on January 6, 1996 | November 1996 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
| Erick Virgil Hall | Murder and rape of two women on September 24, 2000 and in 2003 | August 2004 | |
| Michael Allen Jauhola | Murder by beating of an inmate on April 16, 1998 | May 2001 | |
| Richard Albert Leavitt | Murder by stabbing and sexual mutilation of a woman on July 18, 1984 | December 1985 | |
| Darrell Payne | 1st degree murder for the death of a woman in Ada County | May 2002 | |
| Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. | Murder by beating of a Marsing woman and her nephew in July 1985 | May 1986 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
| Robin Lee Row | Murder by arson of her husband and their two children in February 1992 | December 1993 | Only woman on Idaho's death row; housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center. |
| Lacey Mark Sivak | Murder by shooting and stabbing of a gas station former co-worker during a robbery in April 1981 | December 1981 | Has been on Idaho's death row the longest. |
| Gene Francis Stuart | Murder by torture of his girlfriend's three year old son in September 1981 | December 1982 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
Louisiana
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antoinette Frank Antoinette Frank Antoinette Frank is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard, and the murders of three people, including her partner on the police force, who was also a... |
Murdered 3 people at fast food chain where she worked as security guard | 1995 | was a police officer |
Maryland
Maryland has executed 314 people since June 20, 1638. Maryland's current method of execution is lethal injection; the most recent execution was Wesley Eugene BakerWesley Baker
Wesley Eugene Baker was a convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of Maryland. He was convicted for the June 6, 1991, murder of Jane Tyson in Catonsville. He was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m...
, by lethal injection, on December 5, 2005. Maryland conducts executions at the Metropolitan Transition Center
Metropolitan Transition Center
The Maryland Metropolitan Transition Center , formerly known as the Maryland Penitentiary, is a maximum security Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services prison located in Baltimore. It was established in 1811 as the first prison in the state and the second of its kind in the...
in Baltimore; it is near the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center where death row inmates were previously confined (and a death row inmate died in his cell in March 2007). All death row inmates were relocated to the North Branch Correctional Institution
North Branch Correctional Institution
North Branch Correctional Institution is a high-tech, maximum security prison operated by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in unincorporated Allegany County, Maryland, near Cumberland. The prison houses the most serious offenders within the State of Maryland...
near Cumberland in June 2010.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Booth-El | Double murder by stabbing an elderly couple during a robbery of their Baltimore home on May 20, 1983 | October 18, 1984 | Vacated in 1987; resentenced May 27, 1988; vacated 1989; resentenced August 17, 1990 |
| Heath William Burch | Double murder of an elderly neighbor couple by stabbing and bludgeoning in their home on March 19, 1995 | Two sentences March 29, 1996 | One vacated in 1997, as they had been submitted on one verdict card |
| Vernon Lee Evans Vernon Lee Evans Vernon Lee Evans is a Maryland death row inmate. In 1984, he was convicted and sentenced to death together with drug kingpin Anthony Grandison for the 1983 murders of Susan Kennedy and David Scott Piechowicz... , Jr.(hired by Anthony Grandison, Sr.) |
Double murder for hire shooting of a scheduled witness and the witness' sister-in-law (mistaken for her sister) in a Baltimore County motel on April 28, 1983 | Two separate sentences on May 15, 1984 | Both sentences vacated 1991; resentenced November 15, 1992 |
| Anthony Grandison Anthony Grandison Anthony Grandison is an American drug dealer and murderer who is currently awaiting execution in Maryland. He was sentenced to death for ordering the killing of a pair of witnesses more than 25 years ago.... , Sr.(hired Vernon Lee Evans, Jr.) |
Double murder for hire shooting of a scheduled witness and the witness' sister-in-law (mistaken for her sister) in a Baltimore County motel on April 28, 1983 | June 6, 1984 | Vacated in July 1992; resentenced June 1994 |
| Jody Lee Miles | Robbery and murder by shooting of a theater manager on April 2, 1997 | March 19, 1998 |
Montana
Montana has executed 3 people since 1976. Montana does not specifically have a death row as there are currently two inmates with death sentences; they are confined at the Montana State PrisonMontana State Prison
The Montana State Prison is a men's correctional facility of the Montana Department of Corrections in unincorporated Powell County, Montana, about west of Deer Lodge...
near Deer Lodge. Montana's current method of execution is lethal injection, which is also conducted at Montana State Prison; the most recent execution was David Thomas Dawson
David Thomas Dawson
David Thomas Dawson was a convicted murderer. He was born in San Diego, California and executed at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana.- The crime :...
on August 11, 2006.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Jay Gollehon | Murder by bludgeoning of an inmate during a riot in 1991 | 1992 | |
| Ronald Allen Smith Ronald Allen Smith Ronald Allen Smith is a Canadian man who was sentenced to death in Montana for murdering two people. As of 2011, Smith is one of two prisoners on Montana's death row... |
Kidnap and murder by shooting of two Native American men in the fall of 1982 | March 1983 | Only Canadian on death row in the United States |
New Hampshire
Since 1734, 24 executions have been conducted. Since 1868, all executions have been conducted at the New Hampshire State Prison for MenNew Hampshire State Prison for Men
New Hampshire State Prison for Men is a New Hampshire Department of Corrections prison in New Hampshire, United States. Located in Concord, New Hampshire, it is equipped to accept maximum, medium, and minimum security prisoners....
in Concord. New Hampshire allows execution by lethal injection, although hanging is available if lethal injection is impractical; the state has no death chamber as its last execution was in 1939. A bill to repeal the death penalty was vetoed in May 2000 by then-Governor Jeanne Shaheen; subsequent attempts have not left the legislature.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael "Stix" Kiser Addison | Murder by shooting of an on-duty police officer 2006 Manchester, New Hampshire police shooting The 2006 Manchester, New Hampshire police shooting was an incident that took place on October 16, 2006 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. The incident occurred when police officer Michael Briggs was shot while on duty. Briggs was later transported to the hospital before dying of his... on October 16, 2006 |
December 2008 | Currently New Hampshire's only death row inmate |
New Mexico
New Mexico has conducted 74 executions (only one since 1976). On March 18, 2009, New Mexico became the 15th state without a death penalty when then-Governor Bill Richardson signed the law replacing New Mexico's death penalty with life without parole. The law was not made retroactive; the two inmates on death row at the time remain there, although no further executions have been performed; crimes committed before the repeal may still result in a death penalty sentence (pending review). New Mexico does not house death row inmates at a consolidated facility. Executions are conducted at the Penitentiary of New MexicoPenitentiary of New Mexico
The Penitentiary of New Mexico is a men's prison located in unincorporated Santa Fe County, south of central Santa Fe, on New Mexico State Road 14. It is operated by the New Mexico Corrections Department....
near Santa Fe; the state's most recent execution was Terry Doug Clark
Terry D. Clark
Terry Doug Clark was convicted of the murder of nine-year-old Dena Lynn Gore. He was executed by the State of New Mexico by means of lethal injection...
by lethal injection on November 6, 2001.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Allen | Kidnapping, rape, and murder by strangulation of a teenage girl in 1994 | 1995 | Confined at the Central New Mexico Facility near Los Lunas |
| Robert Ray Fry | Murder by bludgeoning and stabbing of a Shiprock mother in 2000 | 2002 | Confined at the Penitentiary of New Mexico near Santa Fe |
South Dakota
South Dakota has executed 16 men (including 12 since statehood in 1889). The first 14 were by hanging; the 15th by electrocution. Executions are currently only by lethal injection and are conducted at the South Dakota State PenitentiarySouth Dakota State Penitentiary
The South Dakota State Penitentiary is a state prison located in South Dakota's largest city, Sioux Falls, and holds the state's most deadly and dangerous criminals, as well as sex offenders. It was built in 1881. The building's industry shop makes several things for the state, including woodwork...
in Sioux Falls; death row inmates are housed at its nearby Jameson Annex. South Dakota's most recent execution was Elijah Page, who ceased his appeals and was executed by lethal injection on July 11, 2007.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donald Eugene Moeller | Rape and murder of a young girl in May 1990 | 1992 | Overturned by the South Dakota Supreme Court in 1996; reconvicted and resentenced in 1997 |
| Charles Russell Rhines | Murder by torture of a male store clerk during a robbery in 1992 | 1993 |
Texas
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darlie Routier Darlie Routier Darlie Lynn Routier is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted of murdering her young son Damon, and is currently on death row awaiting execution by lethal injection. Two of her three children, Damon and Devon, were stabbed to death in the family's home on June 6, 1996... |
Murdered her two sons in 1996 | ||
| Charles Victor Thompson Charles Victor Thompson Charles Victor Thompson is an American criminal. Sentenced to death for the murder of his ex-girlfriend and her lover in 1998, Thompson made headlines in 2005 by escaping from Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas after a parole meeting using a forged ID badge, claiming to be with the Attorney... |
Murder of ex-girlfriend and lover in 1998 | Escaped in 2005, and fled to Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties... , where he was captured |
Utah
Utah has conducted at least 51 executions since 1850 (only 7 since 1960, 3 by firing squad). There are currently 9 men on Utah's death row confined at the Utah State PrisonUtah State Prison
Utah State Prison, or USP, is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It is located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.-History:...
in Draper, (there are currently no women on Utah's death row);Utah's executions are also conducted there. The current method of executions is lethal injection, but those who chose firing squad at sentencing prior to its abolition on May 3, 2004 are marked with an *; it may also be used if an inmate has overturned lethal injection. The most recent execution was Ronnie Lee Gardner
Ronnie Lee Gardner
Ronnie Lee Gardner was an American criminal who received the death penalty for murder in 1985, and was executed by firing squad by the state of Utah in 2010...
* by firing squad on June 18, 2010.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Anthony Archuleta | Murder by torture of a Cedar Canyon man on November 21, 1988 | December 21, 1989 | |
| Douglas Stewart Carter | Murder by stabbing and shooting of an elderly woman during a burglary of her Provo home on February 27, 1985 | December 27, 1985 | |
| Taberone Dave Honie* | Murder and sexual assault of his ex-girlfriend's mother on July 9, 1998 | May 20, 1999 | |
| Troy Michael Kell Troy Kell Troy Michael Kell is an inmate on death row in Utah. Troy Kell was sentenced to life in prison by the State of Nevada for the 1986 murder of James "Cotton" Kelly. Shortly after his conviction he was transferred to the Utah State Prison as part of a prisoner exchange program... * |
Murder by stabbing of an inmate on July 6, 1994 | August 8, 1996 | |
| Ronald Watson Lafferty* | Murder by stabbing of his sister-in-law and infant niece in American Fork on July 24, 1984 | May 7, 1985 | |
| Douglas Anderson Lovell | Murder of a South Ogden rape victim before she could testify against him in his trial on | August 5, 1993 | Utah Supreme Court decision in 2010, Utah case No. 20030262 Utah v. Lovell allowed his 1993 request to withdraw his original guilty plea |
| Floyd Eugene Maestas | Sexual assault and murder by stabbing, strangulation, beating, and stomping of an elderly woman on September 28, 2004 | February 6, 2008 | |
| Ralph Leroy Menzies* | Kidknapping and murder by strangulation of a female gas station attendant in Kearns on February 23, 1986 | March 23, 1988 | |
| Von Lester Taylor | Murder of a woman and her mother near Beaver Springs, attempted murder by shooting and arson of the younger woman's husband, and kidnapping of the two daughters of the man and younger woman on December 14, 1990 | May 24, 1991 |
Washington
Washington has conducted at least 74 executions (only 6 since 1960). Death row inmates are confined at the High Crime Facility with those sentenced to life at the Washington State PenitentiaryWashington State Penitentiary
Washington State Penitentiary is a Washington State Department of Corrections men's prison located in Walla Walla, Washington...
in Walla Walla; there are currently no women on Washington's death row. Washington's executions are required to be conducted at the WSP. Washington's current method of execution is lethal injection; an inmate may choose hanging. Washington's most recent execution was Cal Coburn Brown by lethal injection on September 10, 2010.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayva Michael Cross | Triple murder by stabbing of his wife and two teen stepdaughters on March 6,1999 | June 22, 2001 | |
| Cecil Emile Davis | Rape and murder by asphyxiation and suffocation of an elderly woman during a burglary of her home on January 25, 1997 | February 6, 1998 | |
| Clark Richard Elmore | Rape and murder of his girlfriend's teen daughter on April 17, 1995 | July 6, 1995 | |
| Johnathan Lee Gentry | Murder by bludgeoning of a young girl on June 13, 1988 | June 26, 1991 | |
| Conner Michael Schierman | Multiple murder of a mother and her two young children, and the woman's sister on July 16, 2006 | April 12, 2010 | |
| Darold Ray Stenson | Multiple murder by shooting of his wife and his business partner on March 25, 1993 | August 11, 1994 | |
| Dwayne A. Woods | Multiple murder of two women on April 27, 1996 | June 20, 1997 | |
| Robert Lee Yates Robert Lee Yates Robert Lee Yates, Jr. is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. From 1996 to 1998, Yates is known to have murdered at least 16 women, all of whom were prostitutes working on Spokane's "Skid Row" on E. Sprague Avenue. Yates also confessed to two murders committed in Walla Walla in 1975... , Jr. |
Multiple murder of two women in 1997 and 1998 | Convicted September 19, 2002; sentenced October 4, 2002 | Concurrently serving 408 years for the murders of 13 other women |
Wyoming
Twenty-six executions have been conducted in Wyoming (including 1 federal execution and 18 executions since statehood in 1890). Male executions are conducted at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, female executions at the Wyoming Women's Center in Lusk (there have been none to date). Wyoming allows execution by lethal injection, although a gas chamber is available if lethal injection is impractical. Wyoming's most recent execution was Mark HopkinsonMark Hopkinson
Mark A. Hopkinson was a convicted murderer who was executed by the U.S. state of Wyoming in 1992 for the murders of Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green...
in 1992.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dale Wayne Eaton | Kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault, and murder by bludgeoning and stabbing of a Colorado woman in March 1988 | 2004 | Currently Wyoming's only death row inmate |