List of people executed in the United States in 2019

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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2019. A total of twenty-two people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2019, twenty by lethal injection and two, in Tennessee, by electrocution.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 2019[]

No. Date of execution Name Date of birth Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 30, 2019 Robert Mitchell Jennings December 3, 1957 61 30 31 Male Black Texas Lethal injection [2][3]
2 February 7, 2019 Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray May 31, 1976 42 19 23 Alabama [4][5]
3 February 28, 2019 Billie Wayne Coble September 9, 1948 70 40 30 White Texas [6]
4 April 24, 2019 John William King November 3, 1974 44 23 21 [7][8]
5 May 2, 2019 Scotty Garnell Morrow March 2, 1967 52 27 25 Black Georgia [9]
6 May 16, 2019 Michael Brandon Samra October 12, 1977 41 19 22 White Alabama [10]
7 Donnie Edward Johnson January 15, 1951 68 33 35 Tennessee [11]
8 May 23, 2019 Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long October 14, 1953 65 30 Florida [12][13]
9 May 30, 2019 Christopher Lee Price September 4, 1972 46 19 27 Alabama [14]
10 June 20, 2019 Marion Wilson Jr. July 29, 1976 42 19 23 Black Georgia [15]
11 August 15, 2019 Stephen Michael West September 16, 1962 56 23 33 White Tennessee Electrocution [16]
12 August 21, 2019 Larry Ray Swearingen May 21, 1971 48 27 21 Texas Lethal injection [17]
13 August 22, 2019 Gary Ray Bowles January 25, 1962 57 32 25 Florida [18]
14 September 4, 2019 Billy Jack Crutsinger October 5, 1954 64 48 16 Texas [19][20]
15 September 10, 2019 Mark Anthony Soliz January 27, 1982 37 28 9 Hispanic [21]
16 September 25, 2019 Robert Sparks February 13, 1974 45 33 12 Black [22][23]
17 October 1, 2019 Russell Earl Bucklew May 16, 1968 51 27 24 White Missouri [24]
18 November 4, 2019 Charles Russell Rhines July 11, 1956 63 35 28 South Dakota [25]
19 November 6, 2019 Justen Grant Hall June 16, 1981 38 21 17 Texas [26]
20 November 13, 2019 Ray Jefferson Cromartie February 6, 1967 52 27 25 Black Georgia [27]
21 December 5, 2019 Leroy Hall Jr. October 28, 1966 53 24 29 White Tennessee Electrocution [28][29][30]
22 December 11, 2019 Travis Trevino Runnels December 17, 1972 46 30 16 Black Texas Lethal injection [31]
Average: 52 years 28 years 24 years

Demographics[]

Gender
Male 22 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
White 14 64%
Black 7 31%
Hispanic 1 5%
State
Texas 9 41%
Alabama 3 14%
Georgia 3 14%
Tennessee 3 14%
Florida 2 9%
Missouri 1 5%
South Dakota 1 5%
Method
Lethal injection 20 91%
Electrocution 2 9%
Month
January 1 5%
February 2 9%
March 0 0%
April 1 5%
May 5 23%
June 1 5%
July 0 0%
August 3 14%
September 3 14%
October 1 5%
November 3 14%
December 2 9%
Age
30–39 2 19%
40–49 8 36%
50–59 6 27%
60–69 5 22%
70–79 1 5%
Total 22 100%

Executions in recent years[]

Number of executions
2020 17
2019 22
2018 25
Total 64

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Execution List 2019". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  2. ^ The Texas Tribune. "Robert Mitchell Jennings – Texas Prison Inmates – The Texas Tribune". www.texastribune.org. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  3. ^ "Houston cop killer executed in Huntsville, three decades after officer slaying". Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  4. ^ "Alabama executes Domineque Ray for 1995 killing of Selma teen". Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  5. ^ Jacobs, Julia (February 6, 2019). "Muslim Inmate's Execution Is Blocked Over Denial of Request for Imam". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  6. ^ "Billie Wayne Coble executed for murder of three near Waco". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  7. ^ "Death Row Information". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 2019-04-25. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  8. ^ Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (2019-04-24). "Texas executes John William King in racist dragging death of James Byrd Jr". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  9. ^ "Georgia executes man convicted of 1994 killings of 2 women". Las Vegas Review Journal. 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
  10. ^ "Alabama executes Michael Brandon Samra in state's second lethal injection of 2019". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  11. ^ "Donnie Johnson of Memphis executed for 1984 murder of wife". Daily Memphian. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  12. ^ "Bobby Joe Long is executed in Florida for killing eight women in 1984". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  13. ^ "Robert Joseph Long death warrant" (PDF). Florida Supreme Court. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  14. ^ "Alabama executes second man in two weeks". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  15. ^ "Georgia puts inmate to death for man's 1996 shotgun slaying". AP. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  16. ^ "Stephen Michael West executed: Death row inmate electrocuted for double murder". Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  17. ^ "Texas executes man who killed college student in 1998". Retrieved 2019-09-19.
  18. ^ "Jacksonville serial killer Gary Ray Bowles executed by lethal injection". Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  19. ^ "Death Row Information". www.tdcj.texas.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  20. ^ Jolly, Bradley; Dresch, Matthew (2019-09-05). "Final words of murderer executed by lethal injection after 16 years on death row". mirror. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  21. ^ "Texas executes Mark Soliz for a 2010 Johnson County slaying. He said fetal alcohol disorder should have excluded him from death". texas tribune. 2019-09-10. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  22. ^ "Death Row Information". www.tdcj.texas.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  23. ^ Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (2019-09-25). "Texas set to execute Robert Sparks after brutal deaths of his stepsons, wife". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  24. ^ "Missouri executes Russell Bucklew despite concerns over rare medical condition". Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  25. ^ "Convicted killer Charles Rhines executed in South Dakota for stabbing co-worker in 1992". Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  26. ^ "The Latest: Texas man executed in 2002 strangulation". Archived from the original on November 7, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  27. ^ "Death Row inmate Ray Cromartie killed by lethal injection after humongous last meal". Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  28. ^ Tamburin, Adam (November 7, 2019). "Death row inmate Lee Hall chooses the electric chair for his Dec. 5 execution". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Hall, previously known as Leroy Hall Jr., was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend Traci Crozier in Chattanooga. Hall threw a burning 2-gallon jug of gas at her while she was sitting in her car.
  29. ^ Timms, Mariah (November 16, 2019). "Who is Lee Hall? What to know about the next man scheduled for execution in Tennessee". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Leroy Hall Jr., 52, was sentenced to death for the 1991 slaying of Traci Crozier, his ex-girlfriend.…On the night of April 16, 1991, Hall threw gasoline on Crozier and set her on fire as she sat in her car. She suffered burns over 95 percent of her body and died hours later of what emergency-room doctors… called the worst injuries they'd ever seen.
  30. ^ "Tennessee murderer Lee Hall put to death by electric chair". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  31. ^ "Texas executed Travis Runnels for a prison murder. His lawyers said false testimony put him on death row". Retrieved December 11, 2019.
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