List of people executed in the United States in 2019

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

List of people executed in the United States in 2019

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 30, 2019	Robert Mitchell Jennings	61	30	31	Male	Black	Texas	Lethal injection	[2] [3]
2	February 7, 2019	Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray	42	19	23			Alabama		[4] [5]
3	February 28, 2019	Billie Wayne Coble	70	40	30		White	Texas		[6]
4	April 24, 2019	John William King	44	23	21					[7] [8]
5	May 2, 2019	Scotty Garnell Morrow	52	27	25		Black	Georgia		[9]
6	May 16, 2019	Michael Brandon Samra	41	19	22		White	Alabama		[10]
7		Donnie Edward Johnson	68	33	35			Tennessee		[11]
8	May 23, 2019	Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long	65	30				Florida		[12] [13]
9	May 30, 2019	Christopher Lee Price	46	19	27			Alabama		[14]
10	June 20, 2019	Marion Wilson Jr.	42		23		Black	Georgia		[15]
11	August 15, 2019	Stephen Michael West	56	23	33		White	Tennessee	Electrocution	[16]
12	August 21, 2019	Larry Ray Swearingen	48	27	21			Texas	Lethal injection	[17] [18]
13	August 22, 2019	Gary Ray Bowles	57	32	25			Florida		[19]
14	September 4, 2019	Billy Jack Crutsinger	64	48	16			Texas		[20] [21]
15	September 10, 2019	Mark Anthony Soliz	37	28	9		Hispanic			[22]
16	September 25, 2019	Robert Sparks	45	33	12		Black			[23] [24]
17	October 1, 2019	Russell Earl Bucklew	51	27	24		White	Missouri		[25]
18	November 4, 2019	Charles Russell Rhines	63	35	28			South Dakota		[26]
19	November 6, 2019	Justen Grant Hall	38	21	17			Texas		[27]
20	November 13, 2019	Ray Jefferson Cromartie	52	27	25		Black	Georgia		[28]
21	December 5, 2019	Leroy Hall Jr.	53	24	29		White	Tennessee	Electrocution	[29] [30] [31]
22	December 11, 2019	Travis Trevino Runnels	46	30	16		Black	Texas	Lethal injection	[32]
		Average:	52 years	28 years	24 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	22	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	14	64%
Black	7	31%
Hispanic	1	5%
State
Texas	9	41%
Alabama	3	14%
Georgia	3	14%
Tennessee	3	14%
Florida	2	9%
Missouri	1	5%
South Dakota	1	5%
Method
Lethal injection	20	91%
Electrocution	2	9%
Month
January	1	5%
February	2	9%
March	0	0%
April	1	5%
May	5	23%
June	1	5%
July	0	0%
August	3	14%
September	3	14%
October	1	5%
November	3	14%
December	2	9%
Age
30–39	2	9%
40–49	8	36%
50–59	6	27%
60–69	5	22%
70–79	1	5%
Total	22	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2020	17
2019	22
2018	25
Total	64

See also

• List of death row inmates in the United States
• List of exonerated death row inmates § 2019
• List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976
• List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
• List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
• List of women executed in the United States since 1976

References

1. "Execution List 2019". Death Penalty Information Center . Retrieved October 17, 2021.
2. The Texas Tribune. "Robert Mitchell Jennings – Texas Prison Inmates – The Texas Tribune". www.texastribune.org. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
3. "Houston cop killer executed in Huntsville, three decades after officer slaying" . Retrieved January 30, 2019.
4. "Alabama executes Domineque Ray for 1995 killing of Selma teen" . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
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 February 28, 2019.
7. "Death Row Information". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. April 25, 2019. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
8. Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (April 24, 2019). "Texas executes John William King in racist dragging death of James Byrd Jr". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
9. "Georgia executes man convicted of 1994 killings of 2 women". Las Vegas Review Journal. May 2, 2019. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
10. "Alabama executes Michael Brandon Samra in state's second lethal injection of 2019". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
11. "Donnie Johnson of Memphis executed for 1984 murder of wife". Daily Memphian. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
12. "Bobby Joe Long is executed in Florida for killing eight women in 1984". NBC News. May 23, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
13. "Robert Joseph Long death warrant" (PDF). Florida Supreme Court. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
14. "Alabama executes second man in two weeks". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
15. "Georgia puts inmate to death for man's 1996 shotgun slaying". AP. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
16. "Stephen Michael West executed: Death row inmate electrocuted for double murder". Daily Mirror . August 16, 2019. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
17. "Texas executes man who killed college student in 1998". Los Angeles Times . August 22, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
18. McCullough, Jolie (August 21, 2019). "Texas executed Larry Swearingen for a 1998 Texas slaying. His lawyer says bad science got him on death row". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 30, 2024.
19. "Jacksonville serial killer Gary Ray Bowles executed by lethal injection" . Retrieved August 22, 2019.
20. "Death Row Information". www.tdcj.texas.gov. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
21. Jolly, Bradley; Dresch, Matthew (September 5, 2019). "Final words of murderer executed by lethal injection after 16 years on death row". mirror. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
22. "Texas executes Mark Soliz for a 2010 Johnson County slaying. He said fetal alcohol disorder should have excluded him from death". texas tribune. September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
23. "Death Row Information". www.tdcj.texas.gov. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
24. Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (September 25, 2019). "Texas set to execute Robert Sparks after brutal deaths of his stepsons, wife". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
25. "Missouri executes Russell Bucklew despite concerns over rare medical condition". CBS News . October 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
26. "Convicted killer Charles Rhines executed in South Dakota for stabbing co-worker in 1992". CBS News . November 4, 2019. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
27. "The Latest: Texas man executed in 2002 strangulation". Archived from the original on November 7, 2019. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
28. "Death Row inmate Ray Cromartie killed by lethal injection after humongous last meal". Daily Mirror . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
29. Tamburin, Adam (November 7, 2019). "Death row inmate Lee Hall chooses the electric chair for his Dec. 5 execution". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Hall, previously known as Leroy Hall Jr., was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend Traci Crozier in Chattanooga. Hall threw a burning 2-gallon jug of gas at her while she was sitting in her car.
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 . December 5, 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.

Preceded by 2018

List of people executed       in the United States in    2019

Succeeded by 2020