This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2023. A total of twenty-four people, twenty-three male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2023, all by lethal injection. [1]
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 3, 2023 | Amber McLaughlin [a] | 49 | 30 | 19 | Female | White | Missouri | Lethal injection | [6] |
2 | January 10, 2023 | Robert Alan Fratta | 65 | 37 | 28 | Male | Texas | [7] | ||
3 | January 12, 2023 | Scott James Eizember | 62 | 42 | 20 | Oklahoma | [8] | |||
4 | February 1, 2023 | Wesley Lynn Ruiz | 43 | 27 | 16 | Hispanic | Texas | [9] | ||
5 | February 7, 2023 | Leonard Sheldon Taylor | 58 | 40 | 18 | Black | Missouri | [10] | ||
6 | February 8, 2023 | John Lezell Balentine | 54 | 28 | 26 | Texas | [11] | |||
7 | February 23, 2023 | Donald David Dillbeck | 59 | 27 | 32 | White | Florida | [12] | ||
8 | March 7, 2023 | Gary Green | 51 | 38 | 13 | Black | Texas | [13] | ||
9 | March 9, 2023 | Arthur Brown Jr. | 52 | 21 | 31 | [14] | ||||
10 | April 12, 2023 | Louis Bernard Gaskin | 56 | 22 | 34 | Florida | [15] | |||
11 | May 3, 2023 | Darryl Brian Barwick | 19 | 37 | White | [16] | ||||
12 | June 6, 2023 | Michael Andrew Tisius | 42 | 23 | Missouri | [17] | ||||
13 | June 15, 2023 | Duane Eugene Owen | 62 | 23 | 39 | Florida | [18] | |||
14 | July 20, 2023 | Jemaine Monteil Cannon | 51 | 28 | Black | Oklahoma | [19] | |||
15 | July 21, 2023 | James Edward Barber | 64 | 42 | 22 | White | Alabama | [20] | ||
16 | August 1, 2023 | Johnny Allen Johnson | 45 | 24 | 21 | Missouri | [21] | |||
17 | August 3, 2023 | James Phillip Barnes | 61 | 26 | 35 | Florida | [22] | |||
18 | September 21, 2023 | Anthony Castillo Sanchez | 44 | 18 | 26 | Hispanic | Oklahoma | [23] | ||
19 | October 3, 2023 | Michael Duane Zack III | 54 | 27 | 27 | White | Florida | [24] | ||
20 | October 10, 2023 | Jedidiah Isaac Murphy | 48 | 25 | 23 | Texas | [25] | |||
21 | November 9, 2023 | Brent Ray Brewer | 53 | 19 | 34 | [26] | ||||
22 | November 16, 2023 | Casey Allen McWhorter | 49 | 18 | 31 | Alabama | [27] | |||
23 | David Santiago Renteria | 53 | 31 | 22 | Native American | Texas | [28] | |||
24 | November 30, 2023 | Phillip Dean Hancock | 59 | 37 | White | Oklahoma | [29] | |||
Average: | 54 years | 28 years | 26 years |
Gender | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Male | 23 | 96% | ||
Female | 1 | 4% | ||
Ethnicity | ||||
White | 15 | 63% | ||
Black | 6 | 25% | ||
Hispanic | 2 | 8% | ||
Native American | 1 | 4% | ||
State | ||||
Texas | 8 | 33% | ||
Florida | 6 | 25% | ||
Missouri | 4 | 17% | ||
Oklahoma | 4 | 17% | ||
Alabama | 2 | 8% | ||
Method | ||||
Lethal injection | 24 | 100% | ||
Month | ||||
January | 3 | 13% | ||
February | 4 | 17% | ||
March | 2 | 8% | ||
April | 1 | 4% | ||
May | 1 | 4% | ||
June | 2 | 8% | ||
July | 2 | 8% | ||
August | 2 | 8% | ||
September | 1 | 4% | ||
October | 2 | 8% | ||
November | 4 | 17% | ||
December | 0 | 0% | ||
Age | ||||
40–49 | 7 | 29% | ||
50–59 | 12 | 50% | ||
60–69 | 5 | 21% | ||
Total | 24 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
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2024 | 25 |
2023 | 24 |
2022 | 18 |
Total | 67 |
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Amber McLaughlin was an American transgender woman executed in Missouri for the 2003 rape and murder of her ex-girlfriend, Beverly Guenther. At the time of the crime, McLaughlin was living as male; she transitioned from male to female while incarcerated. McLaughlin became the first openly transgender person to be executed in the United States. Her legal name remained her birth name, Scott A. McLaughlin, and she was identified as such in her death warrant and in prison records.
Preceded by 2022 | List of people executed in the United States in 2023 | Succeeded by 2024 |