The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.
The total amounts to 125 people, and all were executed by lethal injection. [1] Of the 125 people, 122 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
# | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of execution | County | Victim(s) |
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Under the Governorship of Henry Bellmon – 1 execution | |||||||
1 | Charles Troy Coleman | White | 43 | M | September 10, 1990 | Muskogee | John Seward and Roxie Seward [lower-alpha 1] |
Under the Governorship of David Walters – 2 executions | |||||||
2 | Robyn Leroy Parks | Black | 37 | M | March 10, 1992 | Oklahoma | Abdullah Ibrahim |
3 | Olan Randle Robison | White | 46 | M | March 13, 1992 | Stephens | Shiela Lovejoy, Averil Bourque, and Robert Swinford |
Under the Governorship of Frank Keating – 52 executions | |||||||
4 | Thomas Joseph Grasso | White | 32 | M | March 20, 1995 | Tulsa | Hilda Johnson |
5 | Roger Dale Stafford | White | 43 | M | July 1, 1995 | McClain and Oklahoma | 9 murder victims [lower-alpha 2] |
6 | Robert Allen Brecheen [2] | White | 40 | M | August 11, 1995 | Tulsa | Marie Stubbs |
7 | Benjamin Brewer | White | 38 | M | April 26, 1996 | Canadian | Karen Joyce Stapleton |
8 | Steven Keith Hatch | White | 42 | M | August 9, 1996 | Carter | Richard Douglass and Marilyn Douglass |
9 | Scott Dawn Carpenter | Native American | 22 | M | May 8, 1997 | McIntosh | A.J. Kelley |
10 | Michael Edward Long | White | 35 | M | February 20, 1998 | Muskogee | Sheryl Graber and Andrew Graber |
11 | Stephen Edward Wood | White | 38 | M | August 5, 1998 | Greer | Robert B. Brigden |
12 | Tuan Anh Nguyen | Asian | 39 | M | December 10, 1998 | Tulsa | Donna Nguyen, Amanda White, and Joseph White |
13 | John Wayne Duvall | White | 47 | M | December 17, 1998 | Stephens | Karla Duvall |
14 | John Walter Castro Sr. [3] | Native American | 37 | M | January 7, 1999 | Kay | Beulah Grace Sissons Cox and Rhonda Pappan |
15 | Sean Richard Sellers | White | 29 | M | February 4, 1999 | Oklahoma | Paul Bellofatto, Vonda Bellofatto, and Robert Bower |
16 | Scotty Lee Moore | White | 43 | M | June 3, 1999 | Alex Fernandez | |
17 | Norman Lee Newsted | White | 45 | M | July 8, 1999 | Osage | Larry Donnell Buckley |
18 | Cornel Cooks | Black | 43 | M | December 2, 1999 | Comanche | Jennie Elva Ridling |
19 | Bobby Lynn Ross | Black | 41 | M | December 9, 1999 | Roger Mills | Elk City Police Sergeant Steven Leroy Mahan |
20 | Malcolm Rent Johnson | Black | 41 | M | January 6, 2000 | Oklahoma | Ura Alma Thompson |
21 | Gary Alan Walker | White | 46 | M | January 13, 2000 | Tulsa | 6 murder victims [lower-alpha 3] |
22 | Michael Donald Roberts | Black | 41 | M | February 10, 2000 | Oklahoma | Lula Mae Brooks |
23 | Kelly Lamont Rogers | Black | 31 | M | March 23, 2000 | Payne | Karen Marie Lauffenburger |
24 | Ronald Keith Boyd | Black | 43 | M | April 27, 2000 | Oklahoma | Oklahoma City Police Officer Richard Oldham Riggs |
25 | Charles Adrian Foster | Black | 51 | M | May 25, 2000 | Muskogee | Claude Wiley |
26 | James Glenn Robedeaux | Native American | 51 | M | June 1, 2000 | Oklahoma | Nancy Rose Lee McKinney |
27 | Roger James Berget | White | 39 | M | June 8, 2000 | Rick Lee Patterson | |
28 | William Clifford Bryson | Black | 29 | M | June 15, 2000 | James Earl Plantz | |
29 | Gregg Francis Braun [4] | White | 39 | M | July 20, 2000 | Carter | 5 murder victims [lower-alpha 4] |
30 | George Kent Wallace | White | 59 | M | August 10, 2000 | LeFlore | William Von Eric Domer and Mark Anthony McLaughlin |
31 | Eddie Leroy Trice | Black | 48 | M | January 9, 2001 | Oklahoma | Ernestine Jones |
32 | Wanda Jean Allen | Black | 41 | F | January 11, 2001 | Gloria Jean Leathers | |
33 | Floyd Allen Medlock | White | 29 | M | January 16, 2001 | Canadian | Katherine Ann Busch |
34 | Dion Athanasius Smallwood | Native American | 31 | M | January 18, 2001 | Oklahoma | Lois Frederick |
35 | Mark Andrew Fowler | White | 35 | M | January 23, 2001 | John Barrier, Rick Cast, and Chumpon Chaowasin | |
36 | Billy Ray Fox | White | 35 | M | January 25, 2001 | ||
37 | Loyd Winford Lafevers | White | 35 | M | January 30, 2001 | Addie Mae Hawley | |
38 | Dorsie Leslie Jones Jr. | White | 61 | M | February 1, 2001 | Comanche | Stanley Eugene Buck Sr. |
39 | Robert William Clayton | White | 40 | M | March 1, 2001 | Tulsa | Rhonda Kay Timmons |
40 | Ronald Dunaway Fluke | White | 52 | M | March 27, 2001 | Ginger Lou Fluke, Kathryn Lee Fluke, and Suzanna Michelle Fluke | |
41 | Marilyn Kay Plantz | White | 40 | F | May 1, 2001 | Oklahoma | James Earl Plantz |
42 | Terrance Anthony James | Native American | 41 | M | May 22, 2001 | Muskogee | Mark Allen Berry |
43 | Vincent Allen Johnson | Black | 42 | M | May 29, 2001 | Pittsburg | Shirley Mooneyham |
44 | Jerald Wayne Harjo | Native American | 40 | M | July 17, 2001 | Seminole | Ruth Porter |
45 | Jack Dale Walker | White | 35 | M | August 28, 2001 | Tulsa | Shelly Deann Ellison and Donald Gary Epperson |
46 | Alvie James Hale Jr. | White | 53 | M | October 18, 2001 | Pottawatomie | William Jeffery Perry |
47 | Lois Nadean Smith | White | 61 | F | December 4, 2001 | Sequoyah | Cindy Baillee |
48 | Sahib Lateef Al-Mosawi | Arab | 53 | M | December 6, 2001 | Oklahoma | Inaam Al-Nashi and Mohammed Al-Nashi |
49 | John Joseph Romano | White | 43 | M | January 29, 2002 | Roger Joel Sarfaty and Lloyd Thompson | |
50 | David Wayne Woodruff | White | 42 | M | January 31, 2002 | ||
51 | Randall Eugene Cannon | White | 42 | M | July 23, 2002 | Addie Mae Hawley | |
52 | Earl Alexander Frederick Sr. | White | 51 | M | July 30, 2002 | Bradford Lee Beck | |
53 | Jerry Lynn McCracken [5] | White | 35 | M | December 10, 2002 | 4 murder victims [lower-alpha 5] | |
54 | Jay Wesley Neill | White | 37 | M | December 12, 2002 | Comanche [lower-alpha 6] | 4 murder victims [lower-alpha 7] |
55 | Ernest Marvin Carter Jr. | Black | 36 | M | December 17, 2002 | Oklahoma | Eugene Manowski |
Under the Governorship of Brad Henry – 40 executions | |||||||
56 | Daniel Juan Revilla | White | 34 | M | January 16, 2003 | Jackson | Mark Gomez |
57 | Bobby Joe Fields | Black | 39 | M | February 13, 2003 | Oklahoma | Louise J. Schem |
58 | Walanzo Deon Robinson | Black | 31 | M | March 18, 2003 | Dennis Eugene Hill | |
59 | John Michael Hooker | Black | 49 | M | March 25, 2003 | Sylvia Stokes and Drusilla Morgan | |
60 | Scott Allen Hain | White | 32 | M | April 3, 2003 | Creek | Michael William Houghton and Laura Lee Sanders |
61 | Don Wilson Hawkins Jr. | White | 43 | M | April 8, 2003 | Oklahoma | Linda Ann Thompson |
62 | Larry Kenneth Jackson | Black | 40 | M | April 17, 2003 | Wendy Cade | |
63 | Robert Wesley Knighton | White | 62 | M | May 27, 2003 | Noble | Richard Denney and Virginia Denney |
64 | Kenneth Chad Charm | Black | 37 | M | June 5, 2003 | Comanche | Brandy Crystian Hill |
65 | Lewis Eugene Gilbert II | White | 31 | M | July 1, 2003 | Cleveland | 4 murder victims [lower-alpha 8] [6] |
66 | Robert Don Duckett | White | 39 | M | July 8, 2003 | Oklahoma | John E. Howard |
67 | Bryan Anthony Toles | Black | 31 | M | July 22, 2003 | Comanche | Juan Franceschi and Lonnie Franceschi |
68 | Jackie Lee Willingham | White | 33 | M | July 24, 2003 | Jayne Ellen Van Wey | |
69 | Harold Loyd McElmurry III | White | 33 | M | July 29, 2003 | McIntosh | Rosa Vivien Pendley and Robert Pendley |
70 | Tyrone Peter Darks | Black | 39 | M | January 13, 2004 | Cleveland | Sherry Goodlow |
71 | Norman Richard Cleary | White | 38 | M | February 17, 2004 | Tulsa | Wanda Neafus |
72 | David Jay Brown | White | 49 | M | March 9, 2004 | Grady | Eldon Lee McGuire |
73 | Hung Thanh Le | Asian | 37 | M | March 23, 2004 | Oklahoma | Hai Hong Nguyen |
74 | Robert Leroy Bryan | White | 63 | M | June 8, 2004 | Beckham | Mildred Inabell Bryan |
75 | Windel Ray Workman | White | 46 | M | August 26, 2004 | Oklahoma | Amanda Hollman |
76 | Jimmie Ray Slaughter | White | 57 | M | March 15, 2005 | Melody Sue Wuertz and Jessica Rae Wuertz | |
77 | George James Miller Jr. | Black | 37 | M | May 12, 2005 | Gary Kent Dodd | |
78 | Michael Lannier Pennington | Black | 37 | M | July 19, 2005 | Comanche | Bradley Thomas Grooms |
79 | Kenneth Eugene Turrentine | Black | 52 | M | August 11, 2005 | Tulsa | 4 murder victims [lower-alpha 9] |
80 | Richard Alford Thornburg Jr. | White | 40 | M | April 18, 2006 | Grady | Jim Poteet, Terry Shepard, and Kevin Smith |
81 | John Albert Boltz | White | 74 | M | June 1, 2006 | Pottawatomie | Doug Kirby |
82 | Eric Allen Patton | Black | 49 | M | August 29, 2006 | Oklahoma | Charlene Kauer |
83 | James Patrick Malicoat | White | 31 | M | August 31, 2006 | Grady | Tessa Leadford |
84 | Corey Duane Hamilton | Black | 38 | M | January 9, 2007 | Tulsa | 4 murder victims [lower-alpha 10] |
85 | Jimmy Dale Bland | White | 49 | M | June 26, 2007 | Tillman | Doyle Windle Rains |
86 | Frank Duane Welch | White | 46 | M | August 21, 2007 | Cleveland | Jo Talley Cooper and Debra Anne Stevens |
87 | Terry Lyn Short [7] | White | 47 | M | June 17, 2008 | Oklahoma | Ken Yamamoto |
88 | Jessie James Cummings Jr. | White | 52 | M | September 25, 2008 | Choctaw | Melissa Moody |
89 | Darwin Demond Brown | Black | 32 | M | January 22, 2009 | Tulsa | Richard Kevin Yost |
90 | Donald Lee Gilson | White | 48 | M | May 14, 2009 | Cleveland | Shane Coffman |
91 | Michael Paul DeLozier | White | 32 | M | July 9, 2009 | McCurtain | Orville Lewis Bullard and Paul Steven Morgan |
92 | Julius Ricardo Young | Black | 60 | M | January 14, 2010 | Tulsa | Joyland Morgan and Kewan Morgan |
93 | Donald Ray Wackerly II | White | 41 | M | October 14, 2010 | Sequoyah | Pan Sayakhoummane |
94 | John David Duty | White | 58 | M | December 16, 2010 | Pittsburg | Curtis Wise |
95 | Billy Don Alverson | Black | 39 | M | January 6, 2011 | Tulsa | Richard Kevin Yost |
Under the Governorship of Mary Fallin – 17 executions | |||||||
96 | Jeffrey David Matthews | White | 38 | M | January 11, 2011 | Cleveland | Otis Earl Short |
97 | Gary Roland Welch | White | 49 | M | January 5, 2012 | Ottawa | Robert Dean Hardcastle |
98 | Timothy Shaun Stemple | White | 46 | M | March 15, 2012 | Tulsa | Trisha Stemple |
99 | Michael Bascum Selsor | White | 57 | M | May 1, 2012 | Clayton Chandler | |
100 | Michael Edward Hooper | White | 40 | M | August 14, 2012 | Canadian | Cynthia Jarman, Tonya Jarman, and Timmy Jarman |
101 | Garry Thomas Allen | Black | 56 | M | November 6, 2012 | Pittsburg | Lawanna Gail Titsworth |
102 | George Ochoa | Hispanic | 38 | M | December 4, 2012 | Oklahoma | Francisco Morales and Maria Yanez |
103 | Steven Ray Thacker [8] | White | 42 | M | March 12, 2013 | Mayes | Laci Dawn Hill, Forrest Reed Boyd, and Ray Patterson [lower-alpha 11] |
104 | James Lewis DeRosa | White | 36 | M | June 18, 2013 | LeFlore | Curtis Plummer and Gloria Plummer |
105 | Brian Darrell Davis | Black | 39 | M | June 25, 2013 | Kay | Josephine Sanford |
106 | Anthony Rozelle Banks | Black | 60 | M | September 10, 2013 | Tulsa | Sun Travis |
107 | Ronald Clinton Lott | Black | 53 | M | December 10, 2013 | Oklahoma | Anna Laura Fowler and Zelma Cutler |
108 | Johnny Dale Black | White | 48 | M | December 17, 2013 | Stephens | Bill Pogue |
109 | Michael Lee Wilson | Black | 38 | M | January 9, 2014 | Tulsa | Richard Kevin Yost |
110 | Kenneth Eugene Hogan | White | 52 | M | January 23, 2014 | Oklahoma | Lisa Stanley |
111 | Clayton Derrell Lockett | Black | 38 | M | April 29, 2014 | Kay | Stephanie Neiman |
112 | Charles Frederick Warner | Black | 47 | M | January 15, 2015 | Oklahoma | Adrianna Waller |
Under the Governorship of Kevin Stitt – 13 executions | |||||||
113 | John Marion Grant | Black | 60 | M | October 28, 2021 | Osage | Gay Carter |
114 | Bigler Jobe Stouffer II | White | 79 | M | December 9, 2021 | Oklahoma | Linda Kay Reaves |
115 | Donald Anthony Grant | Black | 46 | M | January 27, 2022 | Brenda McElyea and Felicia Suzette Smith | |
116 | Gilbert Ray Postelle | White | 35 | M | February 17, 2022 | 4 murder victims [lower-alpha 12] | |
117 | James Allen Coddington | White | 50 | M | August 25, 2022 | Albert Troy Hale | |
118 | Benjamin Robert Cole Sr. | White | 57 | M | October 20, 2022 | Rogers | Brianna Victoria Cole |
119 | Richard Stephen Fairchild | White | 63 | M | November 17, 2022 | Oklahoma | Adam Broomhall |
120 | Scott James Eizember | White | 62 | M | January 12, 2023 | Creek [lower-alpha 13] | A.J. Cantrell and Patsy Maye Cantrell |
121 | Jemaine Monteil Cannon | Black | 51 | M | July 20, 2023 | Tulsa | Sharonda White Clark |
122 | Anthony Castillo Sanchez | Hispanic | 44 | M | September 21, 2023 | Cleveland | Jewell Jean Busken |
123 | Phillip Dean Hancock | White | 59 | M | November 30, 2023 | Oklahoma | James Vincent Lynch III and Robert Lee Jett Jr. |
124 | Michael Dewayne Smith | Black | 41 | M | April 4, 2024 | Janet Denise Moore and Sharath Babu Pulluru | |
125 | Richard Norman Rojem Jr. | White | 66 | M | June 27, 2024 | Washita | Layla Dawn Cummings |
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