List of people executed in the United States in 2025

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Forty-seven people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2025, thirty-nine by lethal injection, five by nitrogen hypoxia, and three by firing squad. [1] [2] The number of executions in 2025 became the highest number to be carried out in the United States in 16 years. [3]

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The state of South Carolina carried out the executions of three inmates by firing squad, marking the first three executions by firing squad since 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed in Utah by firing squad (all three inmates chose the method). [4] [5] [6]

The state of Louisiana conducted its first execution in 15 years since 2010; the person executed, Jessie Hoffman Jr., was additionally the first to be executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana, which became the second state after Alabama to conduct nitrogen gas executions. [7] The state of Mississippi carried out the execution of the state's longest-serving death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan after he spent 49 years on death row. [8] Edward Zakrzewski II was the ninth person put to death in Florida, marking a post-Furman record year of executions for the state since 2014 [9] ; while the execution of serial killer Frank A. Walls (the 19th in Florida in 2025) marked the state's overall record for the number of executions in a single year. [10] Furthermore, Walls was also the nation's final execution in 2025.

Christopher Sepulvado and Ralph Menzies, who received March and September execution dates, respectively, died of natural causes at ages 81 and 67 before their executions could be carried out. Sepulvado was scheduled to be executed in Louisiana, and Menzies in Utah. [11] [12] Menzies, as well as David Lee Roberts in Alabama, received stays of execution to allow for competency evaluations. Robin Dion Myers and Tremane Wood received commutations of their death sentences to life without parole from Alabama governor Kay Ivey and Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt respectively in 2025. [13] [14] [15]

List of people executed in the United States in 2025

No.Date of executionNameAge of personGenderEthnicityStateMethodRef.
At executionAt offenseAge difference
1January 31, 2025 Marion Bowman Jr. 442024MaleBlack South Carolina Lethal injection [16]
2February 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson 372413 Texas [17]
3February 6, 2025 Demetrius Terrence Frazier 521933 Alabama Nitrogen hypoxia [18]
4February 13, 2025 James Dennis Ford 643628White Florida Lethal injection [19]
5 Richard Lee Tabler 462521Texas [20]
6March 7, 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon 674324South Carolina Firing squad [4]
7March 18, 2025 Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. 461828Black Louisiana Nitrogen hypoxia [21]
8March 19, 2025 Aaron Brian Gunches 533122White Arizona Lethal injection [22]
9March 20, 2025 Wendell Arden Grissom 563719 Oklahoma [23]
10 Edward Thomas James 633231Florida [24]
11April 8, 2025 Michael Anthony Tanzi 482325 [25]
12April 11, 2025 Mikal Deen Mahdi 422121BlackSouth CarolinaFiring squad [26]
13April 23, 2025 Moises Sandoval Mendoza 4120HispanicTexasLethal injection [27]
14April 24, 2025James Lee Osgood554114WhiteAlabama [28]
15May 1, 2025 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson 623527Florida [29]
16May 15, 2025 Glen Edward Rogers 3329 [30]
17May 20, 2025 Benjamin Donnie Ritchie 452025 Indiana [31]
18 Matthew Lee Johnson 493613BlackTexas [32]
19May 22, 2025 Oscar Franklin Smith 753936White Tennessee [33]
20June 10, 2025 Anthony Floyd Wainwright 542331Florida [34]
21Gregory Hunt652837AlabamaNitrogen hypoxia [35]
22June 12, 2025 John Fitzgerald Hanson 613526BlackOklahomaLethal injection [36]
23June 13, 2025 Stephen Christopher Stanko 573720WhiteSouth Carolina [37]
24June 24, 2025Thomas Lee Gudinas512031Florida [38]
25June 25, 2025 Richard Gerald Jordan 792950 Mississippi [8]
26July 15, 2025Michael Bernard Bell542331BlackFlorida [39]
27July 31, 2025 Edward James Zakrzewski II 6029White [40]
28August 5, 2025 Byron Lewis Black 693237BlackTennessee [41]
29August 19, 2025Kayle Barrington Bates672443Florida [42]
30August 28, 2025Curtis Lee Windom592633 [43]
31September 17, 2025David Joseph Pittman632835White [44]
32September 25, 2025Geoffrey Todd West502129AlabamaNitrogen hypoxia [45]
33 Blaine Keith Milam 351817TexasLethal injection [46]
34September 30, 2025Victor Tony Jones642935BlackFlorida [47]
35October 10, 2025 Roy Lee Ward 532825WhiteIndiana [48]
36October 14, 2025 Samuel Lee Smithers 724329Florida [49]
37 Lance Collin Shockley 482820 Missouri [50]
38October 15, 2025 Charles Ray Crawford 592633Mississippi [51]
39October 17, 2025 Richard Kenneth Djerf 552332Arizona [52]
40October 23, 2025Anthony Todd Boyd542133BlackAlabamaNitrogen hypoxia [53]
41October 28, 2025Norman Mearle Grim Jr.653827WhiteFloridaLethal injection [54]
42November 13, 2025 Bryan Frederick Jennings 662046 [55]
43November 14, 2025 Stephen Corey Bryant 442321South CarolinaFiring squad [56]
44November 20, 2025Richard Barry Randolph632637BlackFloridaLethal injection [57]
45December 9, 2025Mark Allen Geralds5821White [58]
46December 11, 2025 Harold Wayne Nichols 6427Tennessee [59]
47December 18, 2025 Frank Athen Walls 581939Florida [60]
Average:56 years28 years28 years

Demographics

Gender
Male47
Female0
Ethnicity
White32
Black14
Hispanic1
State
Florida 19
Alabama 5
South Carolina 5
Texas 5
Tennessee 3
Arizona 2
Indiana 2
Mississippi 2
Oklahoma 2
Louisiana 1
Missouri 1
Method
Lethal injection 39
Nitrogen hypoxia 5
Firing squad 3
Month
January1
February4
March5
April4
May5
June6
July2
August3
September4
October7
November3
December3
Age
30–392
40–4910
50–5916
60–6916
70–793
Total47100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2026 —
202547
2024 25
Total72

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Execution List 2025". Death Penalty Information Center . Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Execution of SC inmate convicted 23 years ago marks first execution in the US for 2025". South Carolina Daily Gazette. January 31, 2025.
  3. ↑ "US executions surged in 2025 to highest level in 16 years". The Guardian . December 31, 2025.
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  7. ↑ Pilkington, Ed (March 18, 2025). "Louisiana uses nitrogen gas for first time in death row execution". The Guardian .
  8. 1 2 Bates, Sophie (June 25, 2025). "Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for 1976 killing". Associated Press. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
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