List of people executed in the United States in 2011

Last updated January 05, 2025

Forty-three people were executed in the United States in 2011, all by lethal injection. Fifteen of them were in the state of Texas. One (Humberto Leal Garcia) was a foreign national from Mexico, while another (Manuel Valle) was a foreign national from Cuba.^[1]^[2]

List of people executed in the United States in 2011

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, 2011	Billy Don Alverson	39	24	15	Male	Black	Oklahoma	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	January 11, 2011	Jeffrey David Matthews	38	21	17		White	Oklahoma		^[4]
3	January 13, 2011	Leroy White	52	29	23		Black	Alabama		^[5]
4	January 25, 2011	Emmanuel Fitzgerald Hammond	45	23	22		Black	Georgia		^[6]
5	February 9, 2011	Martin Link	47	27	20		White	Missouri		^[7]
6	February 15, 2011	Michael Wayne Hall	31	18	13			Texas		^[8]
7	February 17, 2011	Frank G. Spisak Jr.	59	31	28			Ohio		^[9]
8	February 22, 2011	Timothy Wayne Adams	42	33	9		Black	Texas		^[10]
9	March 10, 2011	Johnnie Roy Baston	37	20	17			Ohio		^[11]
10	March 29, 2011	Eric John King	47	26	21			Arizona		^[12]
11	March 31, 2011	William Glenn Boyd	45	20	25		White	Alabama		^[13]
12	April 12, 2011	Clarence Carter	49	26	23		Black	Ohio		^[14]
13	May 3, 2011	Cary D. Kerr	46	36	10		White	Texas		^[15]
14	May 6, 2011	Jeffrey Brian Motts	36	30	6			South Carolina		^[16]
15	May 10, 2011	Benny Joe Stevens	52	40	12			Mississippi		^[17]
16	May 17, 2011	Rodney Gray	38	42	17		Black	Mississippi		^[18]
17	May 17, 2011	Daniel Lee Bedford	63	36	27		White	Ohio		^[19]
18	May 19, 2011	Jason Oric Williams	43	23	20			Alabama		^[20]
19	May 25, 2011	Donald Edward Beaty	56	29	27			Arizona		^[21]
20	June 1, 2011	Gayland Charles Bradford	42	20	22		Black	Texas		^[22]
21	June 16, 2011	Lee Andrew Taylor	32	20	12		White	Texas		^[23]
22	June 16, 2011	Eddie Duvall Powell III	41	25	16		Black	Alabama		^[24]
23	June 21, 2011	Milton Wuzael Mathis	32	19	13		Black	Texas		^[25]
24	June 23, 2011	Roy Willard Blankenship	55	22	33		White	Georgia		^[26]
25	June 30, 2011	Richard Lynn Bible	49	26	23		White	Arizona		^[27]
26	July 7, 2011	Humberto Leal Garcia	38	21	17		Hispanic	Texas		^[28]
27	July 19, 2011	Thomas Paul West	52	28	24		White	Arizona		^[29]
28	July 20, 2011	Mark Anthony Stroman	41	31	10			Texas		^[30]
29	July 21, 2011	Andrew Grant DeYoung	37	19	18			Georgia		^[31]
30	July 29, 2011	Robert W. Jackson III	38	18	20			Delaware		^[32]
31	August 10, 2011	Martin Robles	33	24	9		Hispanic	Texas		^[33]
32	August 18, 2011	Jerry Terrell Jackson	30	20	10		Black	Virginia		^[34]
33	September 13, 2011	Steven Michael Woods Jr.	31	21	10		White	Texas		^[35]
34	September 21, 2011	Lawrence Russell Brewer	44	31	13		White	Texas		^[36]
35	September 21, 2011	Troy Anthony Davis	42	20	22		Black	Georgia		^[37]
36	September 22, 2011	Derrick O'Neal Mason	37	19	17		Black	Alabama		^[38]
37	September 28, 2011	Manuel Valle	61	27	34		Hispanic	Florida		^[39]
38	October 20, 2011	Christopher Thomas Johnson	38	32	6		White	Alabama		^[40]
39	October 27, 2011	Frank Martinez Garcia	39	28	10		Hispanic	Texas		^[41]
40	November 15, 2011	Reginald Brooks	66	36	29		Black	Ohio		^[42]
41	November 15, 2011	Oba Chandler	65	43	22		White	Florida		^[43]
42	November 16, 2011	Guadalupe Esparza	46	34	12		Hispanic	Texas		^[44]
43	November 18, 2011	Paul Ezra Rhoades	54	28–30	24–26		White	Idaho		^[45]
		Average:	44 years	27 years	18 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	43	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	23	53%
Black	15	35%
Hispanic	5	12%
State
Texas	13	30%
Alabama	6	14%
Ohio	5	12%
Arizona	4	9%
Georgia	4	9%
Florida	2	5%
Mississippi	2	5%
Oklahoma	2	5%
Delaware	1	2%
Idaho	1	2%
Missouri	1	2%
South Carolina	1	2%
Virginia	1	2%
Method
Lethal injection	43	100%
Month
January	4	9%
February	4	9%
March	3	7%
April	1	2%
May	7	16%
June	6	14%
July	5	12%
August	2	5%
September	5	12%
October	2	5%
November	4	9%
December	0	0%
Age
30–39	17	40%
40–49	15	35%
50–59	7	16%
60–69	4	9%
Total	43	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2012	43
2011	43
2010	46
Total	132

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[dpic-1] "Execution List 2011". Death Penalty Information Center . Retrieved October 17, 2021.

[tccp-2] "U.S. Executions Since 1976". The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney. Retrieved October 17, 2021.

[3] "Billy Don Alverson Executed January 6, 2011 06:10 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[4] "Jeffrey David Matthews Executed January 11, 2011 06:09 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma".

[5] "Leroy White Executed January 13, 2011 09:10 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Alabama".

[6] "Emmanuel Fitzgerald Hammond Executed January 25, 2011 11:39 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[7] "Martin Link Executed February 9, 2011 12:15 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Missouri".

[8] "Michael Wayne Hall Executed February 15, 2011 06:23 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[9] "Frank G. Spisak Jr. Executed February 17, 2011 10:34 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[10] "Timothy Wayne Adams Executed February 22, 2011 06:31 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[11] "Johnnie Roy Baston Executed March 10, 2011 10:30 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[12] "Eric John King Executed March 29, 2011 at 10:22 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Arizona".

[13] "William Glenn Boyd Executed March 31, 2011 06:23 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Alabama".

[14] "Clarence Carter Executed April 12, 2011 10:25 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[15] "Cary D. Kerr Executed May 3, 2011 06:19 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[16] "Jeffrey Motts Executed May 6, 2011 6:17 p.m. by Lethal Injection in South Carolina".

[17] "Benny Joe Stevens Executed May 10, 2011 at 6:22 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Mississippi".

[18] "Rodney Gray Executed May 17, 2011 at 6:12 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Mississippi".

[19] "Daniel Lee Bedford Executed May 17, 2011 11:18 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[20] "Jason Oric Williams Executed May 19, 2011 06:19 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Alabama".

[21] "Donald Edward Beaty Executed May 25, 2011 at 7:38 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Arizona".

[22] "Gayland Charles Bradford Executed June 1, 2011 06:25 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[23] "Lee Andrew Taylor Executed June 16, 2011 06:24 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[24] "Eddie Duvall Powell III Executed June 16, 2011 06:30 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Alabama".

[25] "Milton Wuzael Mathis Executed June 21, 2011 06:53 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[26] "Roy Willard Blankenship Executed June 23, 2011 08:37 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[27] "Richard Lynn Bible Executed June 30, 2011 at 11:11 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Arizona".

[28] "Humberto Leal Jr. a/k/a Humberto Leal Garcia Executed July 7, 2011 06:21 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[29] "Thomas Paul West Executed June 30, 2011 at 11:10 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Arizona".

[30] "Mark Anthony Stroman Executed July 20, 2011 08:53 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[31] "Andrew Grant DeYoung Executed July 21, 2011 08:04 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[32] "Robert W. Jackson III Executed July 29, 2011 12:12 a.m. by Lethal Injection in Delaware".

[33] "Martin Robles Executed August 10, 2011 06:21 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[34] "Jerry Terrell Jackson Executed August 18, 2011 9:14 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Virginia".

[35] "Steven Michael Woods Jr. Executed September 13, 2011 06:22 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[36] "Lawrence Russell Brewer Executed September 21, 2011 06:21 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[37] "Troy Anthony Davis Executed September 21, 2011 11:08 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Georgia".

[38] "Derrick O'Neal Mason Executed September 22, 2011 06:49 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Alabama".

[39] "Manuel Valle Executed September 28, 2011 07:14 p.m. EST by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[40] "Christopher Thomas Johnson Executed October 20, 2011 06:25 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Alabama".

[41] "Frank Martinez Garcia Executed October 27, 2011 07:02 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[42] "Reginald Brooks Executed November 15, 2011 2:04 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Ohio".

[43] "Oba Chandler Executed November 15, 2011 04:25 p.m. EST by Lethal Injection in Florida".

[44] "Guadalupe Esparza Executed November 16, 2011 06:21 p.m. CDT by Lethal Injection in Texas".

[45] "Paul Ezra Rhoades Executed November 18, 2011 9:15 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Idaho".

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