List of people executed in the United States in 1998

Sixty-eight people, sixty-six male and two female, Karla Faye Tucker and Judy Buenoano, were executed in the United States in 1998, sixty by lethal injection, seven by electrocution, and one by gas chamber. Twenty of them were carried out in Texas. ^{[1] [2]} Three people, Angel Francisco Breard (Paraguay), Jose Roberto Villafuerte (Honduras), and Tuan Anh Nguyen (Vietnam) were foreign nationals. ^[3]

List of people executed in the United States in 1998

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 21, 1998	Lloyd Wayne Hampton	44	36	8	Male	White	Illinois	Lethal injection	[4]
2		Jose Jesus Ceja	42	18	24		Hispanic	Arizona		[5]
3	January 29, 1998	Robert Allan Smith	47	45	2		White	Indiana		[6]
4	January 30, 1998	Ricky Lee Sanderson	38	26	12			North Carolina	Gas Chamber	[7]
5	February 3, 1998	Karla Faye Tucker		23	15	Female		Texas	Lethal injection	[8]
6	February 9, 1998	Steven Ceon Renfro	40	38	2	Male				[9]
7	February 10, 1998	Tony Albert Mackall	33	22	11		Black	Virginia		[10]
8	February 20, 1998	Michael Edward Long	35	24			White	Oklahoma		[11]
9	February 24, 1998	Terry Allen Langford	31	22	9			Montana		[12]
10	February 25, 1998	Reginald Love Powell	29	18	11		Black	Missouri		[13]
11	March 6, 1998	John David Arnold Jr.	43	23	20		White	South Carolina		[14]
12	March 11, 1998	Jerry Lee Hogue	47	28	19			Texas		[15]
13	March 18, 1998	Douglas McArthur Buchanan Jr.	29	18	11			Virginia		[16]
14	March 23, 1998	Gerald Eugene Stano	46		28			Florida	Electrocution	[17]
15	March 24, 1998	Leo Alexander Jones	47	31	16		Black			[18]
16	March 25, 1998	Milton V. Griffin-El	37	25	12			Missouri	Lethal injection	[19]
17		Ronald L. Watkins	35		10			Virginia		[20]
18	March 30, 1998	Judias Anna Lou Buenaono	54	28	26	Female	White	Florida	Electrocution	[21]
19	March 31, 1998	Daniel Eugene Remeta	40	27	13	Male	Native American			[22]
20	April 14, 1998	Angel Francisco Breard	32	26	6		Hispanic	Virginia	Lethal injection	[23]
21	April 22, 1998	Glennon Paul Sweet	43	31	12		White	Missouri		[24]
22		Jose Roberto Villafuerte	45	30	15		Hispanic	Arizona		[25]
23		Joseph John Cannon	38	17	21		White	Texas		[26]
24	April 24, 1998	Lesley Lee Gosch	42	30	12					[27]
25	April 29, 1998	Arthur Martin Ross	43	35	8			Arizona		[28]
26		Frank Basil McFarland	34	24	10			Texas		[29]
27	May 8, 1998	Steven Allen Thompson		20	14			Alabama	Electrocution	[30]
28	May 18, 1998	Robert Anthony Carter		17	17		Black	Texas	Lethal injection	[31]
29	May 19, 1998	Pedro Cruz Muniz	41	20	21		Hispanic			[32]
30	June 3, 1998	Douglas Edward Gretzler	47	22	25		White	Arizona		[33]
31	June 10, 1998	David Loomis Cargill	39	26	13			Georgia	Electrocution	[34]
32	June 11, 1998	Clifford Holt Boggess	33	21	12			Texas	Lethal injection	[35]
33	June 15, 1998	Johnny Dean Pyles	40	24	16					[36]
34	June 18, 1998	Dennis Wayne Eaton	41	32	9			Virginia		[37]
35	June 26, 1998	Leopoldo Narvaiz Jr.	30	20	10		Hispanic	Texas		[38]
36	July 8, 1998	Wilburn A. Henderson	56	38	18		White	Arkansas		[39]
37	July 10, 1998	John Herman Plath	43	23	20			South Carolina		[40]
38	July 14, 1998	Thomas Martin Thompson		26	17			California		[41]
39	July 23, 1998	Danny Lee King	47	40	7			Virginia		[42]
40	August 5, 1998	Stephen Edward Wood	38	34	4			Oklahoma		[43]
41	August 14, 1998	Zane Brown Hill	62	53	9			North Carolina		[44]
42	August 20, 1998	Lance Antonio Chandler Jr.	25	20	5		Black	Virginia		[45]
43	August 26, 1998	Genaro Ruiz Camacho	43	33	10		Hispanic	Texas		[46]
44	August 31, 1998	Johnile L. DuBois	31	24	7		Black	Virginia		[47]
45	September 9, 1998	Delbert Boyd Teague Jr.	35	22	13		White	Texas		[48]
46	September 23, 1998	David Allen Castillo	34	18	16		Hispanic			[49]
47		Kenneth Manuel Stewart Jr.	44	36	8		White	Virginia	Electrocution	[50]
48	September 25, 1998	Sammy David Roberts	40	22	18			South Carolina	Lethal injection	[51]
49	October 1, 1998	Javier Cruz	41	33	8		Hispanic	Texas		[52]
50	October 5, 1998	Roderick Abeyta	44	35	9			Nevada		[53]
51	October 7, 1998	Jonathan Wayne Nobles	37	25	12		White	Texas		[54]
52	October 13, 1998	Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui	27		2			Washington		[55]
53	October 14, 1998	Dwayne Allen Wright	26	17	9		Black	Virginia		[56]
54	October 21, 1998	Ronald Lee Fitzgerald	29	24	5					[57]
55	November 16, 1998	Tyrone Delano Gilliam Jr.	32	22	10			Maryland		[58]
56	November 17, 1998	Kenneth Allen McDuff	52	20	32		White	Texas		[59]
57		Kenneth L. Wilson	34	29	5		Black	Virginia		[60]
58	November 20, 1998	John Thomas Noland	50	33	17		White	North Carolina		[61]
59	December 3, 1998	Kevin DeWayne Cardwell	29	22	7		Black	Virginia		[62]
60	December 4, 1998	Larry Gilbert	43		21			South Carolina		[63]
61		J.D. Gleaton	53	32						[64]
62	December 7, 1998	Daniel Lee Corwin	40	29	11		White	Texas		[65]
63	December 8, 1998	Jeff J. Emery	39	20	19					[66]
64	December 10, 1998	Tuan Anh Nguyen		22	17		Asian	Oklahoma		[67]
65	December 11, 1998	Louis Joe Truesdale	40		18		Black	South Carolina		[68]
66	December 15, 1998	James Ronald Meanes	42	24				Texas		[69]
67	December 17, 1998	John Wayne Duvall	47	35	12		White	Oklahoma		[70]
68	December 18, 1998	Andrew Lavern Smith	38	23	15		Black	South Carolina		[71]
		Average:	39 years	26 years	13 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	66	97%
Female	2	3%
Ethnicity
White	39	57%
Black	18	26%
Hispanic	9	13%
Native American	1	2%
Asian	1	2%
State
Texas	20	27%
Virginia	13	19%
South Carolina	7	10%
Arizona	4	6%
Florida	4	6%
Oklahoma	4	6%
Missouri	3	4%
North Carolina	3	4%
Alabama	1	2%
Arkansas	1	2%
California	1	2%
Georgia	1	2%
Indiana	1	2%
Maryland	1	2%
Montana	1	2%
Nevada	1	2%
Washington	1	2%
Method
Lethal injection	60	88%
Electrocution	7	10%
Gas chamber	1	2%
Month
January	4	6%
February	6	9%
March	9	13%
April	7	10%
May	3	4%
June	6	9%
July	4	6%
August	5	7%
September	4	6%
October	6	9%
November	4	6%
December	10	15%
Age
20-29	7	10%
30–39	25	37%
40–49	30	44%
50–59	5	7%
60–69	1	2%
Total	68	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
1999	98
1998	68
1997	74
Total	240

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Preceded by 1997

List of people executed       in the United States in    1998

Succeeded by 1999