List of people executed in the United States in 2021

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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2021. A total of eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection. [1] With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988. [2]

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List of people executed in the United States in 2021

No.Date of executionNameAge of personGenderEthnicityStateMethodRef.
At executionAt offenseAge difference
1January 13, 2021 Lisa Marie Montgomery 523616FemaleWhite Federal government Lethal injection [3]
2January 14, 2021 Corey Johnson 2329MaleBlack [4]
3January 16, 2021 Dustin John Higgs 4825 [5]
4May 19, 2021 Quintin Phillippe Jones 412021 Texas [6]
5June 30, 2021John William Hummel453411White [7]
6September 28, 2021Rick Allan Rhoades572730 [8]
7October 5, 2021 Ernest Lee Johnson 613328Black Missouri [9]
8October 21, 2021Willie B. Smith III522230 Alabama [10]
9October 28, 2021 John Marion Grant 603723 Oklahoma [11]
10November 17, 2021 David Neal Cox Sr. 503911White Mississippi [12]
11December 9, 2021 Bigler Jobe Stouffer II 794237Oklahoma [13]
Average:54 years31 years24 years

Demographics

Gender
Male1091%
Female19%
Ethnicity
Black655%
White545%
State
Federal government 327%
Texas 327%
Oklahoma 218%
Alabama 19%
Mississippi 19%
Missouri 19%
Method
Lethal injection 11100%
Month
January327%
February00%
March00%
April00%
May19%
June19%
July00%
August00%
September19%
October327%
November19%
December19%
Age
40–49327%
50–59545%
60–69218%
70–7919%
Total11100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2022 18
202111
2020 17
Total46

Canceled executions

A number of executions were canceled in 2021. Two executions in Tennessee were stayed indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] [15] Three executions in Texas were also stayed to review intellectual disability claims. [16] [17] [18] Five more executions in Texas were reprieved due to the state not allowing the inmate's pastors to lay their hands on them during the execution. [19] [20] [21] [22] Three executions in Ohio were reprieved due to the unofficial moratorium in place on capital punishment in Ohio by Governor Mike DeWine, due to problems in securing the drugs needed for lethal injections. [23] All three of these executions were rescheduled for 2024. [24] [25] An execution in Pennsylvania was also reprieved due to the moratorium in place on capital punishment in Pennsylvania by Governor Tom Wolf. An execution in Idaho was stayed by the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole after they granted a request for a commutation hearing. Attorneys from both sides agreed to the stay of execution until the hearing concluded in November 2021. [26]

Two executions in South Carolina were stayed by the South Carolina Supreme Court because the state did not have a way of carrying out execution by firing squad at the time. The new capital punishment law in the state requires inmates to pick between the electric chair or firing squad. At the time, South Carolina had no way of executing inmates via firing squad, meaning the inmates had no choice but to be executed via electrocution. The court ruled the inmates must have the choice available to them before they can be executed. [27] [28] The execution of Zane Floyd in Nevada was stayed by a federal judge, who ruled that the state needed more time to determine the constitutionality of the lethal injection drugs that would be used for his execution. [29] [30] The execution of Julius Jones in Oklahoma was halted hours before he was due to be executed after his death sentence was commuted to life without the possibility of parole by Governor Kevin Stitt. [31]

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