List of death row inmates in the United States

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As of January 1, 2016, there were 2,943 death row inmates in the United States. The number of death row inmates changes daily with new convictions, appellate decisions, sentence commutations, deaths (through execution or otherwise), and exonerations. Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions, the information in this article may be out of date.

Capital punishment since 1976
(by jurisdiction)

Jurisdiction	Executions	Current death row inmates
Texas	531	265
Oklahoma	112	50
Virginia	111	8
Florida	92	400
Missouri	86	31
Georgia	60	84
Alabama	56	195
Ohio	53	146
North Carolina	43	156
South Carolina	43	44
Arizona	37	124
Louisiana	28	83
Arkansas	27	36
Mississippi	21	48
Indiana	20	14
Delaware	16	17
California	13	746
Illinois	12	0
Nevada	12	78
Utah	7	9
Tennessee	6	72
Maryland	5	0
Washington	5	9
Federal govt.	3	62
Idaho	3	11
Kentucky	3	34
Montana	3	2
Nebraska	3	10
Pennsylvania	3	183
South Dakota	3	3
Oregon	2	35
Colorado	1	3
Connecticut	1	12
New Mexico	1	2
Wyoming	1	1
Kansas	0	9
New Hampshire	0	1
U.S. military	0	6
Total	1,423	2,984
No current death penalty statute: Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. Statute ruled unconstitutional: Massachusetts and New York. Notes:

Demographics

Race of defendants on death row

• White: 1,251 (42.51%)
• Black: 1,227 (41.69%)
• Latino/Latina: 383 (13.01%)
• Asian: 51 (1.73%)
• Native American: 30 (1.02%)
• Unknown: 1 (0.03%)

Comparatively the US population is 63.7% non-Hispanic white, 12.2% black, 16.3% Hispanic or Latino, 4.7% Asian and 0.9% Native American and 2.1% mixed or other.

Gender of defendants on death row

See also: List of women on death row in the United States

• Male: 2,888 (98.13%)
• Female: 55 (1.87%)

Comparatively 51.32% of the US population is female, 48.68% is male (2014).

Education

• 51.7% have less than a high school diploma or GED

Comparatively, 84.1% of US adults have a high school diploma or GED.

Mental illness

• 5-10% of death row inmates have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness

Comparatively, it's estimated that 4.2% of American adults have a serious mental illness.

Time on death row

• Median time, in years, a death row prisoner has been awaiting execution: 7.4
• Average time, in years, between imposition of a death sentence and execution: 11.8
• Longest time on death row: 39 years, Gary Alvord was on Florida's death row from 1973–2013

Innocence

Main article: List of wrongful convictions in the United States

• 1.6% of death row prisoners since 1972 have been subsequently exonerated.

Likelihood of being executed

• 13% of those who have received a death sentence have been executed

List of death row inmates by jurisdiction

Federal

• Currently on death row: 62 (as of 2014)
• Total number executed: 37 (1927–2003)

Due to the high number of federal death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed on this page. A full list is externally linked:

• List of federal death row inmates

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Joseph E. Duncan III	Murders of the Groene family in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho		Duncan was convicted of the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family and sentenced to three death sentences and three life sentences. He is also serving 11 life sentences in conjunction with the same crimes as well as the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California. Duncan has confessed but not been charged with the 1996 murder of two girls in Seattle, Washington.
Marvin Gabrion	Kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman, of Cedar Springs, Michigan		The murder took place in Michigan, which does not have the death penalty, but the body was found in Manistee National Forest, which is federal land. On appeal, his defense team argued that they should consider any reasonable doubt they have that the murder took place outside of the forest before being moved into the forest after death, which would make him ineligible for the death penalty
Jurijus Kadamovas	Ransom-related kidnapping and murder of five people.		Jurijus Kadamovas and Iouri Mikhel are Russian and Lithuanian immigrants sentenced to death row for ransom related kidnapping and murder of five people. The men allegedly demanded a total of more than $5.5 million from relatives and associates, and received more than $1 million from victim's relatives. Prosecutors said the victims were killed regardless of whether the ransoms were paid. The bodies were tied with weights, and dumped in a reservoir near Yosemite National Park.
Iouri Mikhel	Ransom-related kidnapping and murder of five people		See above
Lisa M. Montgomery	Lisa was convicted of the 2004 murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was pregnant, and stealing her unborn child.
Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr.	Rape and murder of Dru Sjodin in Grand Forks, North Dakota.		Crossed state lines into Minnesota making a federal case.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev	Terrorism		Boston Marathon bombing

United States military

• Currently on death row: 6
• Total number executed: 135 (1916 to present)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Nidal Malik Hasan	Perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting on November 5, 2009. 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
Hasan Karim Akbar (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
Ronald Arthur Gray	Multiple rape and murders of women at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from December 15, 1986, to January 6, 1987		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		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)
Dwight J. Loving	Multiple murder by shooting of two cab drivers on and near Fort Hood, Texas, on December 11, 1988
Andrew Paul Witt	Double murder by stabbing of a couple in their Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, home on July 5, 2004		Only airman on the military's death row

Alabama

Main article: Capital punishment in Alabama

• Currently on death row: 187

Due to the high number of death row inmates in Alabama, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Alabama

Arizona

Main article: Capital punishment in Arizona

• Currently on death row: 120 (2014)
• Total number executed: 126 (1800–2002)

Due to the high number of death row inmates in Arizona, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Arizona

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Wendi Andriano	Murder of her husband Joe		During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joe to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a 13-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. Wendi was charged with murder.
Richard Djerf	Murder of the Luna family		Djerf and Albert Luna met and became friends while working at a Safeway supermarket. In January 1993, Luna burglarized Djerf's apartment. Djerf told police he suspected Luna, but they took no action. In September of that year, Djerf entered the Luna home and killed Luna, his wife, and their two children over the course of several hours.
Mark Goudeau	Series of rapes and murders		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 (8 women, 1 man), in addition to 15 sexual assaults on women and young girls, 11 counts of kidnapping, and a number of armed robberies.

Arkansas

Main article: Capital punishment in Arkansas

• Currently on death row: 34 (as of August 5, 2015)
• Total number executed: 196 (1913–2015)

Due to the high number of Arkansas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

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California

Main article: Capital punishment in California

• Currently on death row: 746 (as of January 8, 2016)
• Total number executed: 719 (1700–2002)

Due to the high number of California death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in California

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Lawrence Bittaker	Serial killer in 1979, killed 5 teenage girls.		Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris are two American serial killers and rapists known as the Tool Box Killers, who together committed the kidnap, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls over a period of five months in southern California in 1979
Rosie Alfaro	Murder of nine-year-old Autumn Wallace		First woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and first woman in Orange County, California to get the death penalty
Richard Allen Davis	Murder of Polly Klaas
Charles Ng	Serial killer in 1985		He is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
Scott Peterson	Murder of his pregnant wife Laci Peterson and child, Conner
Timothy Joseph McGhee	Serial killer from 1997 to 2003, killed 12 people		Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He is alleged to have been responsible for at least 12 homicides between 1997 and 2001, three of which led to convictions. McGhee is also suspected of at least 10 attempted murders, four of which led to convictions
Ryan Hoyt	Murder of Nicholas Markowitz in 2000	2001
Randy Steven Kraft	Rape, torture, mutilation and murder of a minimum of 16 young men in a series of killings spanning between 1972 and 1983, the majority of which had been committed in California.
Richard Farley	Shot and killed 7 people and wounded 4 others
Rodney Alcala	five murders committed between 1977 and 1979.		Rodney Alcala's victim count is unknown. He has been convicted of 7 homicides. Some sources estimate the number to be as high as 130.
Vincent Brothers	Quintuple murder of his family	September 27, 2007	In 2005, Vincent Brothers drove from Columbus, Ohio, to Bakersville, California, nonstop to murder his wife, mother-in-law, and three children. He then drove back to Columbus and then flew back to California to find his family murdered. He was on trial 2 years later and convicted on all counts.
Albert Greenwood Brown	Brown was convicted for the abduction, rape, and murder of 15-year-old Susan Louise Jordan on her way to school. Brown posed as a jogger and dragged her into the woods. He strangled her with her shoelace. Brown then made numerous calls to the Riverside Police Department and the Jordan residence. One of Brown's subsequent calls was recorded by a police officer. "Hello, Mrs. Jordan, Susie isn't home from school yet, is she? You will never see your daughter again. You can find her body on the corner of Victoria and Gibson." Brown was arrested after witnesses identified his license plate number. In his residence, police found Susan's books, a newspaper article about the case, and a Riverside telephone book bookmarked to the page of the Jordan home. Brown was late to work on the day she disappeared, a bloody jogging suit was found in his locker and Brown's shoes were matched to footprints from the crime scene.		Prior to his arrest for Jordan's murder, he was previously convicted of molesting an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old girl. The latter of which he was on parole for at the time of the Jordan murder.
David Carpenter	Carpenter was convicted of the murders of four women and one man in 1979-1980 on hiking trails near San Francisco, California. He is known as the Trailside Killer. He is suspected in the murders of at least two other women. In 2009, DNA evidence on evidence from another murder victim, Mary Frances Bennett, was identified as matching Carpenter's DNA.
Dean Carter
Cynthia Coffman	Convicted along with her boyfriend James Marlow of the murders of four women from October - November 1986		Coffman admits to committing the murders, but insists she suffered from battered-woman syndrome.
Kevin Cooper (inmate)
Tiequon Cox
Kerry Lyn Dalton
Chester Turner	15 murders
Scott Erskine
Wayne Adam Ford	Confessed to killing four women in 1997 and 1998 but is thought to have killed others.		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 confessed to having killed four women in 1997 and 1998, and is thought to have killed others
Phillip Carl Jablonski	Multiple murders	1994	In January, 2006, the California Supreme Court upheld Jablonski's death sentence on appeal.
Gunner Lindberg
Andrew Mickel
Michael Morales
Joseph Naso
Cleophus Prince Jr.
Cary Stayner
William Suff

Colorado

Main article: Capital punishment in Colorado

• Currently on death row: 3 (as of 2013)
• Total number executed: 102 (1800–2002)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Nathan Dunlap	Murdered 4 people during a robbery at a Chuck E. Cheese.
Sir Mario Owens	Murdered a witness and his fiance who was going to testify against his friend for a murder.
Robert Ray	Ordered the killing of witnesses in his pending murder trial, Co-defendant of Sir Mario Owens

Delaware

Main article: Capital punishment in Delaware

• Currently on death row: 13 (as of 2016)
• Total number executed: 75 (1800–2002)
• List of death row inmates in Delaware

Florida

Main article: Capital punishment in Florida

• Currently on death row: 390 (as of January 9, 2016)
• Total number executed: 367 (1800–2002)

Due to the high number of Florida death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Florida

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Bobby Joe Long	Serial killer who murdered 10 women in Tampa, Florida area. Also linked to dozens of rapes in Florida and California that were never prosecuted.		Also received numerous life sentences for some of his murders and rapes
Emilia Carr	Kidnapping and murder of a woman in February 2009		One of five women on death row in Florida
Gary Ray Bowles
Lucious Boyd
Tiffany Cole
Daniel Conahan
Rory Enrique Conde
Donald Dillbeck
Paul Durousseau
Kevin Foster
Eddie James
Phillup Partin
Franklin Delano Floyd	Murder of Cheryl Ann Commesso		Commesso was working as an exotic dancer in Florida when she disappeared in 1989. Floyd, whose wife worked with Commesso, was a prime suspect in her disappearance. Floyd's wife, Sharon Marshall, died soon after in a mysterious hit-and-run incident and their son, Michael, was put into foster care. Floyd kidnapped Michael and fled with him. Floyd was captured, but Michael was not with him and is presumed deceased. Floyd is the prime suspect in the deaths of both Michael and Sharon. It was discovered that his wife Sharon was raised as his daughter and is herself a kidnap victim herself of Floyd's. Floyd was convicted of Commesso's murder after photos of her beaten body were found in Floyd's vehicle.
Randy Schoenwetter	Murders of Ronald and Virginia Friskey		At the time of his sentencing, he became the youngest person on death row.

Georgia

Main article: Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state)

• Currently on death row: 85 (as of 2014)
• Total number executed: 976 (1700–2002)

Due to the high number of Georgia death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Georgia

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Carlton Gary

Idaho

Main article: Capital punishment in Idaho

• Currently on death row: 9 (2015)
• Total number executed: 29 (since 1864)

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
David Leslie Card	Murder by shooting of a Nampa newscarrier couple on June 5, 1988		Denied retrial in 2010.
Thomas Eugene Creech	Murder by beating of an inmate on May 13, 1981		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		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
James Harvey Hairston	Murder by shooting and robbery of an elderly Downey couple on January 6, 1996		Denied retrial in 2010.
Erick Virgil Hall	Murder and rape of two women on September 24, 2000 and in 2003	August 2004
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr.	Murder by beating of a Marsing woman and her nephew in July 1985		Denied retrial in 2010.
Robin Lee Row	Murder by arson of her husband and their two children in February 1992		Only woman on Idaho's death row; housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center.

Indiana

Main article: Capital punishment in Indiana

• Currently on death row: 13 (2014)
• Total number executed: 140 (1800–2002)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
William Gibson	Gibson pleaded guilty in 2013 for the sexual assault and bludgeoning death of Christine Whitis, 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. At sentencing, in response to being sentenced to death, he replied “I deserve what I’m getting. It ain’t no big deal.” He is known for his signature handlebar mustache.
Frederick M. Baer	Convicted of the murder of 26-year-old Cory Clark, murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Baer– later admitted that he intended to rape Clark, but decided not to go through with it for fear of disease. He decided to go through with the murders to avoid being identified.		Baer appealed the verdict on the basis that he suffers from multiple serious mental illnesses, cognitive impairments, substance induced psychotic disorder, and schizotypal, paranoid, and borderline personality disorders. Dr. Philip Harvey, a neuropsychologist with a specialty in psychosis, diagnosed Baer with persisting dementia, most likely the result of his substance abuse as well as substance induced psychosis. Baer contends the combination of these illnesses meant Baer was under an extreme mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the crime which affected his ability to conform his conduct. Dr. George Savarese concluded that Baer could understand his conduct, but had no ability to control his behavior.
Debra Brown	Along with Alton Coleman, Brown was convicted of several murders as part of a midwestern crime spree. Coleman was executed in 2002.		Despite being on death row in Indiana, Brown is being held in Ohio on unrelated murder charges.
Joseph Edward Corcoran	Corcoran was living with his brother, sister, and his sister's fiance. He became enraged when he heard his brother, future brother in law, and two of his brother's friends talking about him. After putting his 7-year-old niece in an upstairs bedroom to protect her, he loaded his semiautomatic rifle and fatally shot the four men. He then went to a neighbor's house and asked them to call police.		Corcoran suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has had ongoing issues with delusions and auditory hallucination. When asked why he was not pursuing post conviction relief, he stated: "I want to waive my appeals because I am guilty of murder. I think that I should be executed for what I have done...I am guilty of murder. I should be executed. That is all there is to it. That is what I believe. I believe the death penalty is a just punishment for four counts of murder, and I believe that I should be executed since I am guilty of four counts of murder."
Eric D. Holmes	Holmes was fired from his job at a 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 2 managers as they exited the building, stabbing them multiple times, and stealing the bank deposit money. Blosl and Ervin died; Foshee survived. Vance was tried separately and sentenced to 190 years.
Kevin Isom	In response to learning his wife was planning to leave him, Isom shot his wife and his two stepchildren. 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. He also pointed out that Isom had a stressful upbringing growing up in gang-ridden projects in Chicago. Despite this Isom had no significant criminal history and lived a productive life.
Wayne D. Kubsch	Kubsch's wife Elizabeth was found stabbed to death in the basement of the family home along with the bodies of her ex-husband and one of her sons. Kubsch took out a $575,000 life insurance policy on Elizabeth two months before the murders. Prosecutors found that Kubsch had more than $400,000 in debt and alleged that this was a motive for the murders.
Paul Michael McManus	Divorce papers were served on him at his mother's house on the day of the murders of his wife Melissa and the couple's two daughters. After the murders, he jumped off a bridge in a suicide attempt, but survived. McManus had told acquaintances the weekend before the murders to "watch the papers" because he was going to "do something big."		McManus unsuccessfully attempted to use an insanity defense at trial. Police retrieved a cassette tape recorded by McManus that said: "Well, if you're listening to this tape, I guess I've done what I had to do. I don't expect you guys to understand, but I had to do it․ I want you to make sure that I am buried with my kids and my wife. No matter what, I want you to make sure that happens."
Michael Dean Overstreet	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 also had been shot and strangled. Semen found on the body was matched to Overstreet.		Overstreet suffers from schizoaffective disorder and suffered from hallucination as a child including "demons". He was discharged from the marines on the basis of mental illness.
Tommy R. Pruitt	Pruitt was pulled over by Morgan County Deputy Dan Starnes, who was investigating Pruitt for involvement in a burglary a few days earlier. Pruitt exited the vehicle and pulled a .45-caliber handgun. Starnes died after being shot five times by Pruitt. Pruitt was shot seven times but recovered.		Pruitt has an IQ of 60, putting him in the range of mental retardation and suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
Benjamin Ritchie	Ritchie was involved in a police chase after he was spotted driving a stolen vehicle. The chase ended when he wrecked the vehicle and proceeded on foot before shooting officer William Toney in the chest.		Ritchie suffers from a number of cognitive and emotional disorders. He has bipolar disorder and a non-specified cognitive disorder. The cause of the physiological defect was not identified, but experts speculated that several past serious head injuries, his mother's heavy use of drugs and alcohol during pregnancy, his own history of drug use, and a history of abuse throughout his childhood.
John M. Stephenson	Stephenson was convicted of the murders of Jay Tyler, 29, and his wife, Kathy, 29, and another woman named Brandy Southard, 21. Prosecutors allege that the trio were chased in their car to an intersection in rural Warrick County, where they were shot and then stabbed. Stephenson also was convicted of an earlier burglary at Southard's residence. His 8-month trial was, at the time, the longest and most expensive in Indiana history. Sister Helen Prejean, who was portrayed in the movie "Dead Man Walking," testified at his sentencing hearing.		Stephenson maintains his innocence, alleging that the witnesses who testified against him are lying and that a surveillance tape proving he was at a convenience store was hidden by police. In his statement to police, Stephenson claimed that he spoke to the victims at a convenience store, went to another residence, and then went home. The investigating officer visited the Circle S to view surveillance footage to corroborate his statement. The officer testified at trial that the footage had been erased by the time he arrived. Lisa Huddleston, the clerk at Circle S, claims she indeed reviewed the footage with a police officer and saw both Stephenson and one of the victims on the tape. His appeal was denied.
Roy Lee Ward	Ward was convicted of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in her home. Her 14-year-old sister was sleeping upstairs when she heard the screams of her sister. She called 911. Police found Ward still in the home when they arrived.		Ward's first conviction was overturned in 2004 on the basis that pretrial publicity tainted the jury pool. He was again convicted and sentenced to death. Ward has been diagnosed with a number of psychiatric disorders including exhibitionism, antisocial personality disorder, and ADHD.
Jeffrey A. Weisheit	Weisheit was convicted for setting a fire that killed the two children of his girlfriend. 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 suffers from bipolar disorder.

Kansas

• Currently on death row: 9
• Total number executed: (1800–2002)
• List of death row inmates in Kansas

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Gary Kleypas	1996 rape-murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg, Kansas		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.
Reginald Carr	2000 murders of Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, and Aaron Sander as well as Ann Walenta four days earlier		After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.
Jonathan Carr	Convicted of the same five murders as his brother Reginald		After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.
John E. Robinson, Sr.	Capital murder convictions in the deaths of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten, first degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985
Douglas Belt	Capital murder, attempted rape, and aggravated arson in the killing of Lucille Gallegos in west Wichita	November 2004
Sidney Gleason	Deaths of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004	July 2006	After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.
Scott Cheever	Murder of Sheriff Matt Samuels in January 2005	November 2007
Justin Thurber	2007 killing of 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm	2009
James Kraig Kahler	Murders of his wife, Karen Kahler, his two daughters, Lauren and Emily Kahler, and his wife’s grandmother, Dorothy Wight	October 2011

Kentucky

• Currently on death row: 33 (as of 2014)
• Total number executed: 426 (as of 2002)

Due to the high number of Kentucky death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Kentucky

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Ralph Baze			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 United States Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees
Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr.	1990 murders of Tina and Eddie Earley		Along with Ralph Baze, Bowling sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections.

Louisiana

• Currently on death row: 85 (2014)
• Total number executed: 658 (1700–2002)

Due to the high number of death row inmates in Louisiana, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list of Louisiana death row inmates is not available.

Name	Description of crime	Year put on death row	Other
Antoinette Frank	Murdered 3 people at a restaurant where she worked as a security guard	1995	Was a police officer
Rodricus Crawford	Killed his infant son	2013	Complicated pathology findings in dispute

Mississippi

• Currently on death row: 49 (2014)
• Total number executed: 357 (1800–2002)

Due to the high number of death row inmates in Mississippi, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Mississippi

Missouri

Main article: Capital punishment in Missouri

• Currently on death row: 42 (2014)
• Total number executed: 340 (1800–2002)

Due to the high number of death row inmates in Missouri, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Missouri

Montana

Main article: Capital punishment in Montana

• Currently on death row: 2 (2014)
• Total number executed: 73 (1800–2002)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
William Jay Gollehon	Murder by bludgeoning of an inmate during a riot in 1991	1992
Ronald Allen Smith	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

Nebraska

Main article: Capital punishment in Nebraska

• Currently on death row: 10 (2015)
• Total number executed: 40 (1862–2002)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Carey Dean Moore	Murdered two cab drivers in the course of two separate robberies	June 1980
John Lotter	Triple murder of a prior sexual assault victim and two innocent bystanders	February 1996

Nevada

Main article: Capital punishment in Nevada

• Currently on death row: 78-82
• Total number executed: 74+

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other

New Hampshire

Main article: Capital punishment in New Hampshire

• Currently on death row: 1 (2014)
• Total number executed: 24 (1700–2002)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Michael "Stix" Kiser Addison	Murder by shooting of an on-duty police officer on October 16, 2006	December 2008	New Hampshire's only death row inmate

New Mexico

Main article: Capital punishment in New Mexico

• Currently on death row: 2 (2014)
• Total number executed: 73 (1800–2002)

Note: 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.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Timothy Allen	Kidnapping, rape, and murder by strangulation of a teenage girl in 1994	1995	Confined at the Central New Mexico Facility in Los Lunas
Robert Ray Fry	Murder by bludgeoning and stabbing of a Shiprock mother in 2000	2002	Confined at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe

North Carolina

Main article: Capital punishment in North Carolina

• Currently on death row: 148 (2016)
• Total number executed: 802 (1608–2002)

Due to the high number of North Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in North Carolina

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Blanche Taylor Moore

Ohio

Main article: Capital punishment in Ohio

• Currently on death row: 139 (January 6, 2016)
• Total number executed: 443 (1700–2002)

Due to the high number of Ohio death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Ohio

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Romell Broom
Anthony Sowell	Committed 11 murders between 2007 and 2009.
Anthony Kirkland

Oklahoma

Main article: Capital punishment in Oklahoma

• Currently on death row: 49 (2015)
• Total number executed: 183 (1800–2002)

Due to the high number of Oklahoma death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Oklahoma

Oregon

Main article: Capital punishment in Oregon

• Currently on death row: 36 (2014)
• Total number executed: 124 (1800–2002)

Due to the high number of Oregon death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Oregon

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Gary Haugen	Murder of fellow prison inmate, David Polin, while serving a previous life sentence for murder of Mary Archer, his former girlfriend's mother		Confined at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem Former Oregon Governor, John Kitzhaber, placed a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term as 37th governor, which has upset the victims of Haugen, Gary Haugen himself, as well as Oregonians who voted in favor of Ballot Measures 6 and 7 in the 1984 General Elections. It is estimated that the case of Gary Haugen cost Oregon tax payers over $1.2 million, according to the Statesman Journal.
Christian Michael Longo	Murder of his wife and three children.
Bruce Turnidge (Father)	Woodburn bank bombing which killed Oregon State Trooper Bill Hakim and Woodburn Police Captain Tom Tennant
Joshua Turnidge (Son)	Woodburn bank bombing which killed Oregon State Trooper Bill Hakim and Woodburn Police Captain Tom Tennant
Dayton Leroy Rogers	Rogers was convicted in May 1989 for the murders of 23-year-old Lisa Marie Mock, 26-year-old Maureen Ann Hodges, 35-old Christine Lotus Adams, 20- year-old Cynthia Devore, 26-year-old Nondace "Noni" Cervantes, and 16-year-old Riatha Gyles.	Original sentencing date: 6/09/89

Pennsylvania

• Currently on death row: 190 (June 1, 2014)
• Total number executed: 1043 (1608–2002)

Due to the high number of Pennsylvania death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Pennsylvania

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
George Banks	Killing spree—13 people in 1982		On May 12, 2010, Banks was declared incompetent to be executed.
Richard Baumhammers	Former attorney who began a racially motivated crime spree on April 28, 2000 in Pittsburgh, killing five and paralyzing one
Harvey Miguel Robinson	Serial killer who killed three women		Initially sentenced to death for all three murders. 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

South Carolina

• Currently on death row: 48 (2013)
• Total number executed: 668 (1700–2002)

Due to the high number of South Carolina death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in South Carolina

South Dakota

Main article: Capital punishment in South Dakota

• Currently on death row: 3
• Total number executed: 18

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Charles Russell Rhines	Murder by torture of store clerk Donnivan Schaeffer during a robbery in 1992
Briley Piper	Torture and murder of Chester Allan Poage	, in addition to time served before an initial conviction was overturned
Rodney Berget	Murder of correctional officer Ronald "RJ" Johnson during a prison escape attempt, assisted by Eric Robert

Tennessee

• Currently on death row: 74
• Total number executed: 335

Due to the high number of Tennessee death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Tennessee

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Christa Pike

Texas

Main article: Capital punishment in Texas

• Currently on death row: 250 (2016)
• Total number executed: 1,031 (1800-2002)

Due to the high number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

• List of death row inmates in Texas

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
John Battaglia
Duane Buck	Murders of his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler		In 2011, the United States Supreme Court considered a challenge to his sentencing that was based on allegations that his right to a fair trial was violated after a psychologist testified at the trial that African-Americans have a higher risk of future dangerousness. In Texas, the prosecution must prove that the defendant poses a continuing threat to society to impose a death sentence, and the prosecutor used this testimony to argue that risk. The Supreme Court declined to hear his case. Justices Sotomayor and Kagan dissented. Sotomayor commented that Buck's sentence was "marred by racial overtones" that "our criminal justice system should not tolerate."
Andre Thomas	Murdered his estranged wife, four-year-old son, and 13-month-old daughter on March 27, 2004		He removed his right eye on April 1, 2004. He removed and consumed his left eye on December 9, 2008.
Darlie Routier	Murder of her two sons in 1996		Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is currently in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA.
Brittany Holberg	Holberg robbed and murdered an 80-year-old white male in his home. The victim was struck with a hammer and stabbed nearly 60 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 5 inches down the victim's throat.
Rodney Reed	On April 23, 1996, during the nighttime, Reed strangled and killed a 20-year-old white female during an aggravated sexual assault. Reed was identified by DNA taken from the crime scene.
Faryion Wardrip

Utah

Main article: Capital punishment in Utah

• Currently on death row: 8
• Total number executed: 49 (1800–2002), plus one in 2010

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Michael Anthony Archuleta	Torture, rape, and murder of a Cedar City man on November 21, 1988. Assigned Lethal Injection.
Douglas Stewart Carter	Murder by stabbing and shooting of an elderly woman during a burglary of her Provo home on February 27, 1985, Assigned Lethal Injection.
Taberone Dave Honie	Murder and sexual assault of his ex-girlfriend's mother on July 9, 1998, choice of Firing Squad.		Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.
Troy Michael Kell	Murder by stabbing of an inmate on July 6, 1994		Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.
Ronald Watson Lafferty	Murder by stabbing of his sister-in-law and infant niece in American Fork on July 24, 1984. Overturned in 1996. Resentenced to Death the same year, by Firing Squad.
Floyd Eugene Maestas	Sexual assault and murder by stabbing, strangulation, beating, and stomping of an elderly woman on September 28, 2004. Mandated Lethal Injection.
Ralph Leroy Menzies	Kidnapping and murder by strangulation of a female gas station attendant in Kearns on February 23, 1986, choice of Firing Squad.		Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.
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 22, 1990, choice of Lethal Injection.
Douglas Anderson Lovell	Aggravated kidnapping and murder of a woman, in order to prevent her from testifying against him in a rape case.		Lovell was originally sentenced to death for this murder in 1993, but on appeal was allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and was granted a new trial. He was again convicted of the murder and sentenced to death in 2015.

Virginia

Main article: Capital punishment in Virginia

• Currently on death row: 7
• Total number executed: 1361 (1608–2002)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
William Burns	Murder and rape
Anthony Juniper	Capital murder
Ivan Teleguz	Murder for hire
Ricky Javon Gray	Capital murder (two counts)
Thomas A. Porter	Capital murder (two counts)
William Morva	Capital murder (two counts)
Mark E. Lawlor	Capital murder

Washington

Main article: Capital punishment in Washington

• Currently on death row: 9 (as of 2014)
• Total number executed: 74 (since 1904)

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Dayva Michael Cross	Triple murder by stabbing of his wife and two teen stepdaughters on March 6, 1999
Cecil Emile Davis	Rape and murder by asphyxiation and suffocation of an elderly woman during a burglary of her home on January 25, 1997
Clark Richard Elmore	Rape and murder of his girlfriend's teen daughter on April 17, 1995
Jonathan Lee Gentry	Murder by bludgeoning of a 13-year-old female on June 13, 1988
Conner Michael Schierman	Murders of a mother and her two young children, and the woman's sister on July 16, 2006
Darold Ray Stenson	Murders by shooting of his wife and his business partner on March 25, 1993
Dwayne A. Woods	Murders of two women on April 27, 1996
Robert Lee Yates, Jr.	Murders of two women in 1997 and 1998		Concurrently serving 408 years for the murders of 13 other women

Wyoming

Main article: Capital punishment in Wyoming

• Currently on death row: 1 (2015)
• Total number executed: 23 (1866–2002)

Jurisdictions without the death penalty

Eighteen states have abolished capital punishment. Crimes committed in these states are still eligible for the death penalty if they are tried in federal court. Capital punishment has been abolished in New Mexico but only for new sentences. Prisoners who are already sentenced to death in that state remain on death row.

States:

1. Michigan (May 18, 1846)
2. Wisconsin (1853)
3. Maine (1887)
4. Minnesota (1911)
5. Hawaii (1948; prior to statehood)
6. Alaska (1957; prior to statehood)
7. Vermont (with the exception of treason; 1964)
8. Iowa (1965)
9. West Virginia (1965)
10. North Dakota (1973)
11. Massachusetts (October 18, 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)

Territories:

1. Washington, D.C. (1981)
2. Puerto Rico (1929)
3. American Samoa (The death penalty is still on the books in American Samoa. However, the last execution was in the 1930s, and steps are being taken to abolish the practice.)
4. Guam (date abolished unknown)
5. Northern Mariana Islands (date abolished unknown)
6. United States Virgin Islands (1991)

See also

• List of exonerated death row inmates
• List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
• List of wrongful convictions in the United States

External links

• List of death row inmates by state and country
• FindLaw documentation of Nathan Dunlap's appeal to the Supreme Court of Colorado