List of people executed in the United States in 2000

Last updated April 28, 2024

This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2000. Eighty-five people were executed in the United States in 2000. Forty of them were in the state of Texas; the most carried out within a single year in Texas state history. Two (Betty Lou Beets and Christina Marie Riggs) were female. Five (four in Alabama and one in Virginia) were executed via electrocution.^[1]^[2]

List of people executed in the United States in 2000

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
No.	Date of execution	Name	At execution	At offense	Age difference	Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
1	January 6, 2000	Malcolm Rent Johnson	41	23	18	Male	Black	Oklahoma	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	January 7, 2000	David Ray Duren	37	21	16		White	Alabama	Electrocution	^[4]
3	January 10, 2000	Douglas Christopher Thomas	26	17	9			Virginia	Lethal injection	^[5]^[6]
4	January 12, 2000	Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr.	48	40	8			Texas		^[7]
5	January 13, 2000	Gary Alan Walker	46	30	16			Oklahoma		^[8]
6	January 13, 2000	Steve Edward Roach	23	17	6			Virginia		^[6]^[9]
7	January 18, 2000	Spencer Corey Goodman	31	22	9			Texas		^[10]
8	January 20, 2000	David Hicks	38	26	12		Black			^[11]
9	January 21, 2000	Larry Keith Robison	42	24	18		White			^[12]
10	January 24, 2000	Billy George Hughes Jr.	47	24	23		White			^[13]
11	January 25, 2000	Glen Charles McGinnis	27	17	10		Black			^[14]
12	January 27, 2000	James Walter Moreland	39	22	17		White			^[15]
13	February 10, 2000	Michael Donald Roberts	42	30	12		Black	Oklahoma		^[16]
14	February 16, 2000	Anthony Lee Chaney	45	28	17		White	Arizona		^[17]
15	February 23, 2000	Cornelius Alan Goss	38	25	13		Black	Texas		^[18]
16	February 23, 2000	Terry Melvin Sims	58	35	23		White	Florida		^[19]
17	February 24, 2000	Anthony Braden Bryan	40	24	16			Florida		^[20]
18	February 24, 2000	Betty Lou Beets	62	46	16	Female		Texas		^[21]
19	March 1, 2000	Odell Barnes Jr.	31	21	10	Male	Black	Texas		^[22]
20	March 3, 2000	Freddie Lee Wright	48	26	22			Alabama	Electrocution	^[23]
21	March 14, 2000	Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson	28	19	9			Texas	Lethal injection	^[24]
22	March 15, 2000	Darrell Keith Rich	45	23	22		Native American	California		^[25]
23		Patrick Gene Poland	50	27	23		White	Arizona		^[26]
24		Timothy Lane Gribble	36	24	12		White	Texas		^[27]
25	March 16, 2000	Lonnie Weeks Jr.	27	20	7		Black	Virginia		^[6]^[28]^[29]
26	March 22, 2000	James Henry Hampton	62	54	8		White	Missouri		^[30]
27	March 23, 2000	Kelly Lamont Rogers	31	22	9		Black	Oklahoma		^[31]
28	April 14, 2000	Robert Lee Tarver Jr.	52	37	15		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	^[32]^[33]
29	April 19, 2000	Robert Glen Coe	44	23	21		White	Tennessee	Lethal injection	^[34]
30	April 27, 2000	Ronald Keith Boyd	43	28	15		Black	Oklahoma		^[35]
31	May 2, 2000	Christina Marie Riggs	28	26	2	Female	White	Arkansas		^[36]
32	May 4, 2000	Tommy Ray Jackson	43	27	16	Male	Black	Texas		^[37]
33	May 9, 2000	William Joseph Kitchens	37	23	14		White			^[38]
34	May 11, 2000	Michael Lee McBride	38	23	15		White			^[39]
35	May 23, 2000	James Davis Richardson	32	19	13		Black			^[40]
36	May 24, 2000	Richard Donald Foster	47	31	16		White			^[41]
37	May 25, 2000	Charles Adrian Foster	51	34	17		Black	Oklahoma		^[42]
38	May 25, 2000	James Edward Clayton	33	20	13			Texas		^[43]
39	May 31, 2000	Robert Earl Carter	34	26	8			Texas		^[44]
40	June 1, 2000	James Glenn Robedeaux	51	36	15		Native American	Oklahoma		^[45]
41	June 2, 2000	Pernell Ford	35	18	17		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	^[33]^[46]
42	June 6, 2000	Feltus Taylor Jr.	38	29	9			Louisiana	Lethal injection	^[47]
43	June 7, 2000	Bennie Eddie Demps	49	26	23			Florida		^[48]
44	June 8, 2000	Roger James Berget	39	24	15		White	Oklahoma		^[49]
45	June 12, 2000	Thomas Wayne Mason	48	39	9		White	Texas		^[50]
46	June 14, 2000	John Albert Burks	44	33	11		Black	Texas		^[51]
47	June 15, 2000	William Clifford Bryson	29	18	11		Black	Oklahoma		^[52]
48	June 15, 2000	Paul Selso Nuncio	31	25	6		Hispanic	Texas		^[53]
49	June 21, 2000	Thomas Harrison Provenzano	51	34	17		White	Florida		^[54]
50	June 22, 2000	Shaka Sankofa	36	17	19		Black	Texas		^[55]
51	June 28, 2000	Bert Leroy Hunter	47	39	8		White	Missouri		^[56]
52	June 29, 2000	Jessy Carlos San Miguel	28	19	9		Hispanic	Texas		^[57]
53	July 6, 2000	Michael David Clagett	39	33	6		White	Virginia	Electrocution	^[6]^[58]
54	July 12, 2000	Orien Cecil Joiner	50	37	13			Texas	Lethal injection	^[59]
55	July 20, 2000	Gregg Francis Braun	39	28	11			Oklahoma		^[60]
56	July 26, 2000	Juan Salvez Soria	33	18	15		Hispanic	Texas		^[61]
57	August 9, 2000	Brian Keith Roberson	36	22	14		Black			^[62]
58	August 9, 2000	David Oliver Cruz	33	21	12		Hispanic			^[63]
59	August 10, 2000	George Kent Wallace	59	46	13		White	Oklahoma		^[64]
60	August 16, 2000	John Thomas Satterwhite	53	32	21		Black	Texas		^[65]
61	August 22, 2000	Richard Wayne Jones	40	25	15		White			^[66]
62	August 23, 2000	David Earl Gibbs	39	24	15					^[67]
63	August 25, 2000	Daniel Patrick Hauser	30	25	5			Florida		^[68]
64	August 30, 2000	Gary Lee Roll	47	39	8			Missouri		^[69]
65		Jeffery Henry Caldwell	37	25	12		Black	Texas		^[70]
66		Russel William Burket	32	25	7		White	Virginia		^[6]^[71]
67	September 13, 2000	George Bernard Harris	41	30	11		Black	Missouri		^[72]
68	September 14, 2000	Derek Rocco Barnabei	33	26	7		White	Virginia		^[6]^[73]
69	September 27, 2000	Rickey Nolen McGinn	43	36	7		White	Texas		^[74]
70	October 10, 2000	Bobby Lee Ramdass	29	21	8		Black	Virginia		^[6]^[75]
71	November 1, 2000	Jeffrey Dillingham	27	19	8		White	Texas		^[76]
72	November 3, 2000	Kevin Dean Young	32	20	12		Black	South Carolina		^[77]
73	November 8, 2000	Donald Jay Miller	36	27	9		White	Arizona		^[78]^[79]
74	November 9, 2000	Michael Earl Sexton	34	23	11		Black	North Carolina		^[80]
75	November 9, 2000	Miguel Angel Flores	31	20	11		Hispanic	Texas		^[81]
76	November 14, 2000	Stacey Lamont Lawton	31	23	8		Black	Texas		^[82]
77	November 15, 2000	James Wilson Chambers	48	30	18		White	Missouri		^[83]
78	November 15, 2000	Tony Neyshea Chambers	32	22	10		Black	Texas		^[84]
79	November 17, 2000	Dwayne L. Weeks	37	28	9		Black	Delaware		^[85]
80	December 5, 2000	Garry Dean Miller	32	21	11		White	Texas		^[86]
81	December 6, 2000	Daniel Joe Hittle	50	39	11		White	Texas		^[87]
82	December 6, 2000	Christopher Cornelius Goins	27	20	7		Black	Virginia		^[6]^[88]
83	December 7, 2000	Edward Castro	50	36	14		Hispanic	Florida		^[89]
84	December 7, 2000	Claude Howard Jones	60	49	11		White	Texas		^[90]
85	December 19, 2000	David Dewayne Johnson	37	27	10		Black	Arkansas		^[91]
		Average:	40 years	27 years	13 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	83	98%
Female	2	2%
Ethnicity
White	42	49%
Black	35	41%
Hispanic	6	7%
Native American	2	2%
State
Texas	40	47%
Oklahoma	11	13%
Virginia	8	9%
Florida	6	7%
Missouri	5	6%
Alabama	4	5%
Arizona	3	4%
Arkansas	2	2%
California	1	1%
Delaware	1	1%
Louisiana	1	1%
North Carolina	1	1%
South Carolina	1	1%
Tennessee	1	1%
Method
Lethal injection	80	94%
Electrocution	5	6%
Month
January	12	14%
February	6	7%
March	9	11%
April	3	4%
May	9	11%
June	13	15%
July	4	5%
August	10	12%
September	3	4%
October	1	1%
November	9	11%
December	6	7%
Age
20–29	11	13%
30–39	37	44%
40–49	23	27%
50–59	11	13%
60–69	3	4%
Total	85	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2001	66
2000	85
1999	98
Total	249

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[dpic-1] "Execution List 2000". Death Penalty Information Center . Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[tccp-2] "U.S. Executions Since 1976". The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[3] "Malcolm Rent Johnson Executed January 6, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[4] "David Ray Duren Executed January 7, 2000 by Electric Chair in Alabama".

[5] "Douglas Christopher Thomas Executed January 10, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[vadp-6] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "The Men on Virginia's Death Row". vadp.org. Archived from the original on May 8, 1999. Retrieved May 28, 2023.

[7] "Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. Executed January 12, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[8] "Gary Alan Walker a/k/a Gary Alan Edwards Executed January 13, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[9] "Steve Edward Roach Executed January 13, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[10] "Spencer Corey Goodman Executed January 18, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[11] "David Hicks Executed January 20, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[12] "Larry Keith Robison Executed January 21, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[13] "Billy George Hughes Jr. Executed January 24, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[14] "Glen Charles McGinnis Executed January 25, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[15] "James Walter Moreland Executed January 27, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[16] "Michael Donald Roberts Executed February 10, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[17] "Anthony Lee Chaney Executed February 16, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Arizona".

[18] "Cornelius Alan Goss Executed February 23, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[19] "Terry Melvin Sims Executed February 23, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[20] "Anthony Braden Bryan Executed February 24, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[21] "Betty Lou Beets Executed February 24, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[22] "Odell Barnes Jr. Executed March 1, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[23] "Freddie Lee Wright Executed March 3, 2000 by Electric Chair in Alabama".

[24] "Ponchai Wilkerson Executed March 14, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[25] "Darrell Keith Rich a/k/a/ "Young Elk" Executed March 15, 2000 by Lethal Injection in California".

[26] "Patrick Gene Poland Executed March 15, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Arizona".

[27] "Timothy Lane Gribble Executed March 15, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[28] "Lonnie Weeks Jr. Executed March 16, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[29] "NC DPS Offender Public Information – Lonnie Weeks Jr".

[30] "James Henry Hampton Executed March 22, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[31] "Kelly Lamont Rogers Executed March 23, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[32] "Robert Lee Tarver Jr. Executed April 14, 2000 by Electric Chair in Alabama".

[adoc-33] 1 2 "Inmates Executed in Alabama". doc.state.al.us. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[34] "Robert Glen Coe Executed April 19, 2000 at 1:37 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Tennessee".

[35] "Ronald Keith Boyd Executed April 27, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[36] "Christina Marie Riggs Executed May 2, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Arkansas".

[37] "Tommy Ray Jackson Executed May 4, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[38] "William Joseph Kitchens Executed May 9, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[39] "Michael Lee McBride Executed May 11, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[40] "James Davis Richardson Executed May 23, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[41] "Richard Donald Foster Executed May 24, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[42] "Charles Adrian Foster Executed May 25, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[43] "James Edward Clayton Executed May 25, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[44] "Robert Earl Carter Executed May 31, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[45] "James Glenn Robedeaux Executed June 1, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[46] "Pernell Ford Executed June 2, 2000 by Electric Chair in Alabama".

[47] "Feltus Taylor Executed June 6, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Louisiana".

[48] "Bennie Eddie Demps Executed June 7, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[49] "Roger James Berget Executed June 8, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[50] "Thomas Wayne Mason Executed June 12, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[51] "John Albert Burks Executed June 14, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[52] "William Clifford Bryson Executed June 15, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[53] "Paul Selso Nuncio Executed June 15, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[54] "Thomas Harrison Provenzano Executed June 21, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[55] "Gary Lee Graham a/k/a Shaka Sankofa Executed June 22, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[56] "Bert Leroy Hunter Executed June 28, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[57] "Jessy Carlos San Miguel Executed June 29, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[58] "Michael David Clagett Executed July 6, 2000 by Electric Chair in Virginia".

[59] "Orien Cecil Joiner Executed July 12, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[60] "Gregg Francis Braun Executed July 20, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[61] "Juan Salvez Soria Executed July 26, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[62] "Brian Keith Roberson Executed August 9, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[63] "David Oliver Cruz Executed August 9th, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[64] "George Kent Wallace Executed August 10th, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[65] "John Thomas Satterwhite Executed August 16, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[66] "Richard Wayne Jones Executed August 22, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[67] "David Earl Gibbs Executed August 23, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[68] "Daniel Patrick Hauser Executed August 25, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[69] "Gary Lee Roll Executed August 30, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[70] "Jeffery Henry Caldwell Executed August 30, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[71] "Russel William Burket Executed August 30, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[72] "George Bernard Harris Executed September 13, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[73] "Derek Rocco Barnabei Executed September 14, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[74] "Rickey Nolen McGinn Executed September 27, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[75] "Bobby Lee Ramdass Executed October 10, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[76] "Jeffrey Dillingham Executed November 1, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[77] "Kevin Dean Young Executed November 3, 2000 by Lethal Injection in South Carolina".

[78] "Donald Jay Miller Executed November 8, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Arizona".

[79] "Information for Inmate 102442 Miller Don, J". azcorrections.gov. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[80] "Michael Earl Sexton Executed November 9, 2000 by Lethal Injection in North Carolina".

[81] "Miguel Angel Flores Executed November 9, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[82] "Stacey Lamont Lawton Executed November 14, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[83] "James Wilson Chambers Executed November 15, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[84] "Tony Neyshea Chambers Executed November 15, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[85] "Dwayne L. Weeks Executed November 17, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Delaware".

[86] "Garry Dean Miller Executed December 5, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[87] "Daniel Joe Hittle Executed December 6, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[88] "Christopher Cornelius Goins Executed December 6, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[89] "Edward Castro Executed December 7, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[90] "Claude Howard Jones Executed December 7, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[91] "David Dewayne Johnson Executed December 19, 2000 by Lethal Injection in Arkansas".

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