List of people executed in the United States in 2019

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Twenty-two people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2019, twenty by lethal injection and two, in Tennessee, by electrocution. [1]

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List of people executed in the United States in 2019

No.Date of executionNameAge of personGenderEthnicityStateMethodRef.
At executionAt offenseAge difference
1January 30, 2019Robert Mitchell Jennings613031MaleBlack Texas Lethal injection [2] [3]
2February 7, 2019 Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray 421923 Alabama [4] [5]
3February 28, 2019Billie Wayne Coble704030WhiteTexas [6]
4April 24, 2019 John William King 442321 [7] [8]
5May 2, 2019Scotty Garnell Morrow522725Black Georgia [9]
6May 16, 2019Michael Brandon Samra411922WhiteAlabama [10]
7Donnie Edward Johnson683335 Tennessee [11]
8May 23, 2019 Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long 6530 Florida [12] [13]
9May 30, 2019Christopher Lee Price461927Alabama [14]
10June 20, 2019 Marion Wilson Jr. 4223BlackGeorgia [15]
11August 15, 2019 Stephen Michael West 562333WhiteTennessee Electrocution [16]
12August 21, 2019Larry Ray Swearingen482721TexasLethal injection [17] [18]
13August 22, 2019 Gary Ray Bowles 573225Florida [19]
14September 4, 2019Billy Jack Crutsinger644816Texas [20] [21]
15September 10, 2019Mark Anthony Soliz37289Hispanic [22]
16September 25, 2019Robert Sparks453312Black [23] [24]
17October 1, 2019 Russell Earl Bucklew 512724White Missouri [25]
18November 4, 2019 Charles Russell Rhines 633528 South Dakota [26]
19November 6, 2019Justen Grant Hall382117Texas [27]
20November 13, 2019Ray Jefferson Cromartie522725BlackGeorgia [28]
21December 5, 2019 Leroy Hall Jr. 532429WhiteTennesseeElectrocution [29] [30] [31]
22December 11, 2019Travis Trevino Runnels463016BlackTexasLethal injection [32]
Average:52 years28 years24 years

Demographics

Gender
Male22100%
Female00%
Ethnicity
White1464%
Black731%
Hispanic15%
State
Texas 941%
Alabama 314%
Georgia 314%
Tennessee 314%
Florida 29%
Missouri 15%
South Dakota 15%
Method
Lethal injection 2091%
Electrocution 29%
Month
January15%
February29%
March00%
April15%
May523%
June15%
July00%
August314%
September314%
October15%
November314%
December29%
Age
30–3929%
40–49836%
50–59627%
60–69522%
70–7915%
Total22100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2020 17
201922
2018 25
Total64

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  2. ↑ The Texas Tribune. "Robert Mitchell Jennings – Texas Prison Inmates – The Texas Tribune". www.texastribune.org. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  3. ↑ "Houston cop killer executed in Huntsville, three decades after officer slaying" . Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  4. ↑ "Alabama executes Domineque Ray for 1995 killing of Selma teen" . Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  5. ↑ Jacobs, Julia (February 6, 2019). "Muslim Inmate's Execution Is Blocked Over Denial of Request for Imam". The New York Times . Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Billie Wayne Coble executed for murder of three near Waco" . Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  7. ↑ "Death Row Information". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 2019-04-25. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  8. ↑ Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (2019-04-24). "Texas executes John William King in racist dragging death of James Byrd Jr". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
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  30. ↑ Timms, Mariah (November 16, 2019). "Who is Lee Hall? What to know about the next man scheduled for execution in Tennessee". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Leroy Hall Jr., 52, was sentenced to death for the 1991 slaying of Traci Crozier, his ex-girlfriend.…On the night of April 16, 1991, Hall threw gasoline on Crozier and set her on fire as she sat in her car. She suffered burns over 95 percent of her body and died hours later of what emergency-room doctors… called the worst injuries they'd ever seen.
  31. ↑ "Tennessee murderer Lee Hall put to death by electric chair". CNN . 5 December 2019. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  32. ↑ "Texas executed Travis Runnels for a prison murder. His lawyers said false testimony put him on death row" . Retrieved December 11, 2019.
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