List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present

Last updated July 29, 2025

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 28 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas.^[1]

Executions 2020–present

The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, John Steven Gardner (the first person executed in Texas during the 2020 decade) was the 568th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.

2020 – 3 executions
#	Executed person	Ethnicity	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Victim(s)	Governor ^[2]
568	John Steven Gardner	White	64	M	15-Jan-2020	Collin	Tammy Gardner	Greg Abbott
569	Abel Revill Ochoa	Hispanic	47	M	06-Feb-2020	Dallas	5 murder victims^[a]
570	Billy Joe Wardlow	White	45	M	08-Jul-2020	Titus	Carl Cole
2021 – 3 executions
571	Quintin Phillippe Jones	Black	41	M	19-May-2021	Tarrant	Berthena Bryant
572	John William Hummel	White	45	M	30-Jun-2021	Tarrant	Joy Keziyah Hummel, Jodi Ruth Hummel, and Clyde Bedford
573	Rick Allan Rhoades	White	57	M	28-Sep-2021	Harris	Bradley Allen and Charles Allen
2022 – 5 executions
574	Carl Wayne Buntion	White	78	M	21-Apr-2022	Harris	Houston police officer James Bruce Irby
575	Kosoul Chanthakoummane	Asian	41	M	17-Aug-2022	Collin	Sarah Anne Walker
576	John Henry Ramirez	Hispanic	38	M	05-Oct-2022	Nueces	Pablo Castro
577	Tracy Lane Beatty	White	61	M	09-Nov-2022	Smith	Carolyn Click
578	Stephen Dale Barbee	White	55	M	16-Nov-2022	Tarrant	Lisa Underwood and Jayden Underwood
2023 – 8 executions
579	Robert Alan Fratta	White	65	M	10-Jan-2023	Harris	Farah Fratta
580	Wesley Lynn Ruiz	Hispanic	43	M	01-Feb-2023	Dallas	Dallas police officer Mark Timothy Nix
581	John Lezell Balentine	Black	54	M	08-Feb-2023	Potter	Mark Edward Caylor, Kai Brooke Geyer, and Steven Brady Watson
582	Gary Green	Black	51	M	07-Mar-2023	Dallas	Lovetta Armstead and Jazzmen Montgomery
583	Arthur Brown Jr.	Black	52	M	09-Mar-2023	Harris	4 murder victims ^[b]
584	Jedidiah Isaac Murphy	White	48	M	10-Oct-2023	Dallas	Bertie Lee Cunningham
585	Brent Ray Brewer	White	53	M	09-Nov-2023	Randall	Robert Doyle Laminack
586	David Santiago Renteria	Native American	53	M	16-Nov-2023	El Paso	Alexandra Flores
2024 – 5 executions
587	Ivan Abner Cantu	Hispanic	50	M	28-Feb-2024	Collin	James Edwin Mosqueda and Amy Michelle Kitchen
588	Ramiro Felix Gonzales	Hispanic	41	M	26-Jun-2024	Medina	Bridget Fay Townsend
589	Arthur Lee Burton	Black	54	M	07-Aug-2024	Harris	Nancy Jean Adleman
590	Travis James Mullis	White	38	M	24-Sep-2024	Galveston	Alijah James Mullis
591	Garcia Glen White	Black	61	M	01-Oct-2024	Harris	5 murder victims^[c]
2025 – 4 executions
592	Steven Lawayne Nelson	Black	37	M	05-Feb-2025	Tarrant	Clinton Dobson and Jonathan Holden^[d]
593	Richard Lee Tabler	White	46	M	13-Feb-2025	Bell	4 murder victims^[e]
594	Moises Sandoval Mendoza	Hispanic	41	M	23-Apr-2025	Collin	Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson
595	Matthew Lee Johnson	Black	49	M	20-May-2025	Dallas	Nancy Judith Harris
Source: List of executed offenders by the TDCJ since 1982.^[1]

Preceded by List of people executed in Texas, 2010–2019	Lists of people executed in Texas	Succeeded by Current list

Notes

↑ The 5 victims were: Cecilia Ochoa, Crystal Ochoa, Anahi Ochoa, Bartolo Alvizo, and Jacqueline Saleh.
↑ The 4 victims were: Jose Tovar, Jessica Quiñones, Frank Farias, and Audrey Brown.
↑ The 5 victims were: Greta Williams, Bonita Edwards, Annette Edwards, Bernette Edwards, and Hai Van Pham. White was not tried for Williams and Pham’s murders.
↑ Nelson was not tried for Holden’s murder.
↑ The 4 victims were: Amanda Benefield, Tiffany Lorraine Dotson, Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni, and Haitham Frank Zayed. Tabler was not tried for Benefield and Dotson’s murders.

References

1 2 List of Executed Offenders. Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved 26 September 2012. Note the list is updated within 1-2 days after the actual execution.
↑ In some cases, the offender may not have been tried for some of the victims listed, as a death sentence was rendered in a prior case.

External links

Death Row Information. Texas Department of Criminal Justice

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[3] The 5 victims were: Cecilia Ochoa, Crystal Ochoa, Anahi Ochoa, Bartolo Alvizo, and Jacqueline Saleh.

[4] The 4 victims were: Jose Tovar, Jessica Quiñones, Frank Farias, and Audrey Brown.

[5] The 5 victims were: Greta Williams, Bonita Edwards, Annette Edwards, Bernette Edwards, and Hai Van Pham. White was not tried for Williams and Pham’s murders.

[6] Nelson was not tried for Holden’s murder.

[7] The 4 victims were: Amanda Benefield, Tiffany Lorraine Dotson, Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni, and Haitham Frank Zayed. Tabler was not tried for Benefield and Dotson’s murders.

[tdjclistsince1982-1] 1 2 List of Executed Offenders. Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved 26 September 2012. Note the list is updated within 1-2 days after the actual execution.

[2] In some cases, the offender may not have been tried for some of the victims listed, as a death sentence was rendered in a prior case.

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List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present

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Executions 2020–present

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