This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2020. A total of seventeen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2020, sixteen by lethal injection and one by electrocution. [1] The federal government of the United States executed ten people in 2020, ending a hiatus on federal executions which had lasted for over 17 years. State executions dropped significantly in 2020 compared to previous years, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [2]
No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
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At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
1 | January 15, 2020 | John Steven Gardner | 64 | 49 | 15 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | [3] |
2 | January 29, 2020 | Donnie Cleveland Lance | 66 | 43 | 23 | Georgia | [4] | |||
3 | February 6, 2020 | Abel Revill Ochoa | 47 | 29 | 18 | Hispanic | Texas | [5] | ||
4 | February 20, 2020 | Nicholas Todd Sutton | 58 | 23 | 35 | White | Tennessee | Electrocution | [6] | |
5 | March 5, 2020 | Nathaniel Woods | 43 | 27 | 16 | Black | Alabama | Lethal injection | [7] | |
6 | May 19, 2020 | Walter Barton | 64 | 35 | 29 | White | Missouri | [8] [9] | ||
7 | July 8, 2020 | Billy Joe Wardlow | 45 | 18 | 27 | Texas | [10] | |||
8 | July 14, 2020 | Daniel Lewis Lee | 47 | 22 | 25 | Federal government | [11] | |||
9 | July 16, 2020 | Wesley Ira Purkey | 68 | 46 | 22 | [12] [13] | ||||
10 | July 17, 2020 | Dustin Lee Honken | 52 | 25 | 27 | [14] | ||||
11 | August 26, 2020 | Lezmond Charles Mitchell | 38 | 20 | 18 | Native American | [15] | |||
12 | August 28, 2020 | Keith Dwayne Nelson | 45 | 24 | 21 | White | [16] | |||
13 | September 22, 2020 | William Emmett LeCroy Jr. | 50 | 31 | 19 | [17] | ||||
14 | September 24, 2020 | Christopher Andre Vialva | 40 | 19 | 21 | Black | [18] | |||
15 | November 19, 2020 | Orlando Cordia Hall | 49 | 23 | 26 | [19] [20] | ||||
16 | December 10, 2020 | Brandon Bernard | 40 | 18 | 22 | [21] | ||||
17 | December 11, 2020 | Alfred Bourgeois | 56 | 38 | 18 | [22] | ||||
Average: | 51 years | 29 years | 22 years | |||||||
Gender | ||
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Male | 17 | 100% |
Female | 0 | 0% |
Ethnicity | ||
White | 10 | 59% |
Black | 5 | 29% |
Hispanic | 1 | 6% |
Native American | 1 | 6% |
State | ||
Federal government | 10 | 59% |
Texas | 3 | 18% |
Alabama | 1 | 6% |
Georgia | 1 | 6% |
Missouri | 1 | 6% |
Tennessee | 1 | 6% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 16 | 94% |
Electrocution | 1 | 6% |
Month | ||
January | 2 | 12% |
February | 2 | 12% |
March | 1 | 6% |
April | 0 | 0% |
May | 1 | 6% |
June | 0 | 0% |
July | 4 | 24% |
August | 2 | 12% |
September | 2 | 12% |
October | 0 | 0% |
November | 1 | 6% |
December | 2 | 12% |
Age | ||
30–39 | 1 | 6% |
40–49 | 8 | 47% |
50–59 | 4 | 24% |
60–69 | 4 | 24% |
Total | 17 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
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2021 | 11 |
2020 | 17 |
2019 | 22 |
Total | 50 |
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of executions that had been planned for 2020 were postponed and/or rescheduled. Texas postponed the executions of seven inmates who were due to be executed between March and September, beginning with Carlos Trevino, whose execution was postponed three times (first on March 11, then June 3, and finally September 30). [23] [24] [25] [26] Tennessee also postponed the executions of four inmates who were due to be executed between June and December. [27] [28] [29] [30] In addition, the December 8 execution of Lisa Montgomery by the federal government was postponed by the DC District Court after both of her defense attorneys caught COVID-19. [31] She was executed the following year, on January 13, 2021. [32]
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