List of people executed in the United States in 2002

Last updated January 16, 2025

Seventy-one people were executed in the United States in 2002. Thirty-three of them were in the state of Texas. Two (Lynda Lyon Block and Aileen Carol Wuornos) were female. One (Lynda Lyon Block) was executed via electrocution.^[1]^[2]

List of people executed in the United States in 2002

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 9, 2002	James R. Johnson	52	42	10	Male	White	Missouri	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	January 9, 2002	Michael Patrick Moore	38	30	8		White	Texas		^[4]
3	January 16, 2002	Jermarr Carlos Arnold	43	24	19		Black	Texas		^[5]
4	January 24, 2002	Ronald Keith Spivey	62	37	25		White	Georgia		^[6]
5	January 29, 2002	Stephen Wayne Anderson	48	26	22			California		^[7]
6	January 29, 2002	John Joseph Romano	43	27	16			Oklahoma		^[8]
7	January 30, 2002	Windell Broussard	41	32	9		Black	Texas		^[9]
8	January 31, 2002	Randall Wayne Hafdahl Sr.	48	32	16		White	Texas		^[10]
9	January 31, 2002	David Wayne Woodruff	42	25	17		White	Oklahoma		^[11]
10	February 6, 2002	Michael Owsley	40	31	9		Black	Missouri		^[12]
11	February 19, 2002	John William Byrd Jr.	38	19	19		White	Ohio		^[13]
12	February 28, 2002	Monty Allen Delk	35	19	16			Texas		^[14]
13	March 6, 2002	Jeffrey Lane Tokar	37	27	10			Missouri		^[15]
14	March 7, 2002	Gerald Wayne Tigner Jr.	29	20	9		Black	Texas		^[16]
15	March 12, 2002	Tracy Lee Housel	43	26	17		White	Georgia		^[17]
16	March 14, 2002	James Earl Patterson	35	19	16			Virginia		^[18]
17	April 2, 2002	Daniel Lee Zirkle	33	30	3			Virginia		^[19]
18	April 10, 2002	Paul W. Kreutzer	30	20	10			Missouri		^[20]
19	April 10, 2002	Jose Santellan Sr.	40	31	9		Hispanic	Texas		^[21]
20	April 11, 2002	William Kendrick Burns	43	22	21		Black			^[22]
21	April 18, 2002	Gerald Dwight Casey	47	34	13		White			^[23]
22	April 26, 2002	Alton Coleman	46	28	18		Black	Ohio		^[24]
23	April 30, 2002	Rodolpho Baiza Hernandez	52	35	17		Hispanic	Texas		^[25]
24	May 3, 2002	Richard Charles Johnson	39	22	17		White	South Carolina		^[26]
25	May 9, 2002	Reginald Lenard Reeves	28	19	9		Black	Texas		^[27]
26	May 10, 2002	Lynda Lyon Block	54	45	9	Female	White	Alabama	Electrocution	^[28]
27	May 10, 2002	Leslie Dale Martin	35	24	11	Male		Louisiana	Lethal injection	^[29]
28	May 16, 2002	Ronford Lee Styron Jr.	32	24	8			Texas		^[30]
29	May 22, 2002	Johnny Joe Martinez	29	20	9		Hispanic			^[31]
30	May 28, 2002	Napoleon Beazley	25	17	8		Black			^[32]
31	May 30, 2002	Stanley Allison Baker Jr.	35	27	8		White			^[33]
32	June 12, 2002	Walter Mickens Jr.	47	37	10		Black	Virginia		^[34]
33	June 13, 2002	Daniel Earl Reneau	27	20	7		White	Texas		^[35]
34	June 25, 2002	Robert Otis Coulson	34	24	10		White			^[36]
35	June 26, 2002	Jeffery Lynn Williams	30	23	7		Black			^[37]
36	July 17, 2002	Tracy Alan Hansen	39	23	16		White	Mississippi		^[38]
37	July 23, 2002	Randall Eugene Cannon	42	25	17			Oklahoma		^[39]
38	July 30, 2002	Earl Alexander Frederick Sr.	51	38	13			Oklahoma		^[40]
39	August 7, 2002	Richard William Kutzner	59	53	6			Texas		^[41]
40	August 8, 2002	T. J. Jones	25	17	8		Black			^[42]
41	August 14, 2002	Javier Suarez Medina	33	19	14		Hispanic			^[43]
42	August 14, 2002	Daniel Anthony Basile	35	25	10		White	Missouri		^[44]
43	August 16, 2002	Wallace Marvin Fugate III	52	41	11			Georgia		^[45]
44	August 20, 2002	Gary Wayne Etheridge	38	26	12			Texas		^[46]
45	August 23, 2002	Anthony Green	40	25	15		Black	South Carolina		^[47]
46	August 28, 2002	Toronto Markkey Patterson	24	17	7			Texas		^[48]
47	September 10, 2002	Tony Lee Walker	36	26	10			Texas		^[49]
48	September 13, 2002	Michael Joseph Passaro	40	36	4		White	South Carolina		^[50]
49	September 17, 2002	Jessie Joe Patrick	44	31	13			Texas		^[51]
50	September 18, 2002	Ron Scott Shamburger	30	22	8					^[52]
51	September 24, 2002	Rex Warren Mays	42	32	10					^[53]
52	September 25, 2002	Robert Anthony Buell	62	41	21			Ohio		^[54]
53	September 25, 2002	Calvin Eugene King	48	40	8		Black	Texas		^[55]
54	October 1, 2002	James Rexford Powell	56	44	12		White	Texas		^[56]
55	October 2, 2002	Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco	43	27	16		Hispanic	Florida		^[57]
56	October 9, 2002	Aileen Carol Wuornos	46	33–34	12–13	Female	White	Florida		^[58]
57	November 13, 2002	William Howard Putman	59	37	22	Male	White	Georgia		^[59]
58	November 14, 2002	Mir Aimal Kasi	38	28	10		Asian	Virginia		^[60]
59	November 19, 2002	Craig Neil Ogan Jr.	47	34	13		White	Texas		^[61]
60	November 20, 2002	William Robert Jones Jr.	37	21	16			Missouri		^[62]
61	November 20, 2002	William Wesley Chappell	66	51	15			Texas		^[63]
62	December 4, 2002	Leonard Uresti Rojas	52	44	8		Hispanic	Texas		^[64]
63	December 6, 2002	Ernest West Basden	50	39	11		White	North Carolina		^[65]
64	December 9, 2002	Linroy Bottoson	63	40	23		Black	Florida		^[66]
65	December 10, 2002	Desmond Keith Carter	35	24	11		Black	North Carolina		^[67]
66	December 10, 2002	Jerry Lynn McCracken	35	23	12		White	Oklahoma		^[68]
67	December 11, 2002	James Paul Collier	55	48	7			Texas		^[69]
68	December 11, 2002	Jessie Derrell Williams	51	31	20			Mississippi		^[70]
69	December 12, 2002	Jay Wesley Neill	37	19	18			Oklahoma		^[71]
70	December 12, 2002	Anthony Keith Johnson	46	27	19			Alabama		^[72]
71	December 17, 2002	Ernest Marvin Carter Jr.	36	23	13		Black	Oklahoma		^[73]
		Average:	42 years	29 years	13 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	69	97%
Female	2	3%
Ethnicity
White	46	65%
Black	18	25%
Hispanic	6	8%
Asian	1	1%
State
Texas	33	46%
Oklahoma	7	10%
Missouri	6	8%
Georgia	4	6%
Virginia	4	6%
Florida	3	4%
Ohio	3	4%
South Carolina	3	4%
Alabama	2	3%
Mississippi	2	3%
North Carolina	2	3%
California	1	1%
Louisiana	1	1%
Method
Lethal injection	70	99%
Electrocution	1	1%
Month
January	9	13%
February	3	4%
March	4	6%
April	7	10%
May	8	11%
June	4	6%
July	3	4%
August	8	11%
September	7	10%
October	3	4%
November	5	7%
December	10	14%
Age
20–29	7	10%
30–39	25	35%
40–49	23	32%
50–59	12	17%
60–69	4	6%
Total	71	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2003	65
2002	71
2001	66
Total	202

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[dpic-1] "Execution List 2002". Death Penalty Information Center . Retrieved December 27, 2022.

[tccp-2] "U.S. Executions Since 1976". The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney. Retrieved December 27, 2022.

[3] "James R. Johnson Executed January 9, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[4] "Michael Patrick Moore Executed January 9, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[5] "Jermarr Carlos Arnold Executed January 16, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[6] "Ronald Keith Spivey Executed January 24, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[7] "Stephen Wayne Anderson Executed January 29, 2002 by Lethal Injection in California".

[8] "John Joseph Romano Executed January 29, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[9] "Windell Broussard Executed January 30, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[10] "Randall Wayne Hafdahl Sr. Executed January 31, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[11] "David Wayne Woodruff Executed January 31, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[12] "Michael Owsley Executed February 6, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[13] "John William Byrd Jr. Executed February 19, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[14] "Monty Allen Delk Executed February 28, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[15] "Jeffrey Lane Tokar Executed March 6, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[16] "Gerald Wayne Tigner Jr. Executed March 7, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[17] "Tracy Lee Housel Executed March 12, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[18] "James Earl Patterson Executed March 14, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[19] "Daniel Lee Zirkle Executed April 2, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[20] "Paul W. Kreutzer Executed April 10, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[21] "Jose Santellan Sr. Executed April 10, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[22] "William Kendrick Burns Executed April 11, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[23] "Gerald Dwight Casey Executed April 18, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[24] "Alton Coleman Executed April 26, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[25] "Rodolpho Baiza Hernandez Executed April 30, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[26] "Richard Charles Johnson Executed May 3, 2002 by Lethal Injection in South Carolina".

[27] "Reginald Lenard Reeves Executed May 9, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[28] "Lynda Lyon Block Executed May 10, 2002 by Electric Chair in Alabama".

[29] "Leslie Dale Martin Executed May 10, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Louisiana".

[30] "Ronford Lee Styron Jr. Executed May 16, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[31] "Johnny Joe Martinez Executed May 22, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[32] "Napoleon Beazley Executed May 28, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[33] "Stanley Allison Baker Jr. Executed May 30, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[34] "Walter Mickens Jr. Executed June 12, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[35] "Daniel Earl Reneau Executed June 13, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[36] "Robert Otis Coulson Executed June 25, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[37] "Jeffery Lynn Williams Executed June 26, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[38] "Tracy Alan Hansen Executed July 17, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Mississippi".

[39] "Randall Eugene Cannon Executed July 23, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[40] "Earl Alexander Frederick Sr. Executed July 30, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[41] "Richard William Kutzner Executed August 7, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[42] "T. J. Jones Executed August 8, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[43] "Javier Suarez Medina Executed August 14, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[44] "Daniel Anthony Basile Executed August 14, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[45] "Wallace Marvin Fugate III Executed August 16, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[46] "Gary Wayne Etheridge Executed August 20, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[47] "Anthony Green Executed August 23, 2002 by Lethal Injection in South Carolina".

[48] "Toronto Markkey Patterson Executed August 28, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[49] "Tony Lee Walker Executed September 10, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[50] "Michael Joseph Passaro Executed September 13, 2002 by Lethal Injection in South Carolina".

[51] "Jessie Joe Patrick Executed September 17, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[52] "Ron Scott Shamburger Executed September 18, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[53] "Rex Warren Mays Executed September 24, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[54] "Robert Anthony Buell Executed September 25, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[55] "Calvin Eugene King Executed September 25, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[56] "James Rexford Powell Executed October 1, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[57] "Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco Executed October 2, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[58] "Aileen Carol Wuornos Executed October 9, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[59] "William Howard Putman Executed November 13, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[60] "Mir Aimal Kasi Executed November 14, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[61] "Craig Neil Ogan Jr. Executed November 19, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[62] "William Robert Jones Jr. Executed November 20, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[63] "William Wesley Chappell Executed November 20, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[64] "Leonard Uresti Rojas Executed December 4, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[65] "Ernest West Basden Executed December 6, 2002 by Lethal Injection in North Carolina".

[66] "Linroy Bottoson Executed December 9, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[67] "Desmond Keith Carter Executed December 10, 2002 by Lethal Injection in North Carolina".

[68] "Jerry Lynn McCracken Executed December 10, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[69] "James Paul Collier Executed December 11, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[70] "Jessie Derrell Williams Executed December 11, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Mississippi".

[71] "Jay Wesley Neill Executed December 12, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[72] "Anthony Keith Johnson Executed December 12, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Alabama".

[73] "Ernest Marvin Carter Jr. Executed December 17, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

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By year	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Scheduled executions
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Other	Death row inmates Death Penalty Information Center Most recent executions by state National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment Women executed since 1976 Women on death row

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