List of people executed in the United States in 2025

To date, thirty people, all male, have been executed in the United States in 2025, twenty-five by lethal injection, three by nitrogen hypoxia, and two by firing squad. ^{[1] [2]}

The state of South Carolina carried out the executions of Brad Sigmon and Mikal Mahdi by firing squad, marking the first two executions by firing squad since 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed in Utah by firing squad (all three inmates chose the method). ^{[3] [4]}

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. ^[5] The state of Mississippi carried out the execution of the state's longest-serving death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan after nearly fifty years on death row. ^[6] 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. ^[7]

One person, Christopher Sepulvado, died of natural causes at age 81 before his execution could be carried out in Louisiana in March 2025. ^[8] Another person, Robin Dion Myers, received a commutation of his death sentence to life without parole from Alabama governor Kay Ivey, after the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the setting of an execution date. ^[9]

List of people executed in the United States in 2025

See also: List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States in 2025

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 31, 2025	Marion Bowman Jr.	44	20	24	Male	Black	South Carolina	Lethal injection	[10]
2	February 5, 2025	Steven Lawayne Nelson	37	24	13			Texas		[11]
3	February 6, 2025	Demetrius Terrence Frazier	52	19	33			Alabama	Nitrogen hypoxia	[12]
4	February 13, 2025	James Dennis Ford	64	36	28		White	Florida	Lethal injection	[13]
5		Richard Lee Tabler	46	25	21			Texas		[14]
6	March 7, 2025	Brad Keith Sigmon	67	43	24			South Carolina	Firing squad	[3]
7	March 18, 2025	Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr.	46	18	28		Black	Louisiana	Nitrogen hypoxia	[15]
8	March 19, 2025	Aaron Brian Gunches	53	31	22		White	Arizona	Lethal injection	[16]
9	March 20, 2025	Wendell Arden Grissom	56	37	19			Oklahoma		[17]
10		Edward Thomas James	63	32	31			Florida		[18]
11	April 8, 2025	Michael Anthony Tanzi	48	23	25					[19]
12	April 11, 2025	Mikal Deen Mahdi	42	21	21		Black	South Carolina	Firing squad	[20]
13	April 23, 2025	Moises Sandoval Mendoza	41	20			Hispanic	Texas	Lethal injection	[21]
14	April 24, 2025	James Lee Osgood	55	41	14		White	Alabama		[22]
15	May 1, 2025	Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson	62	35	27			Florida		[23]
16	May 15, 2025	Glen Edward Rogers		33	29					[24]
17	May 20, 2025	Benjamin Donnie Ritchie	45	20	25			Indiana		[25]
18		Matthew Lee Johnson	49	36	13		Black	Texas		[26]
19	May 22, 2025	Oscar Franklin Smith	75	39	36		White	Tennessee		[27]
20	June 10, 2025	Anthony Floyd Wainwright	54	23	31			Florida		[28]
21		Gregory Hunt	65	28	37			Alabama	Nitrogen hypoxia	[29]
22	June 12, 2025	John Fitzgerald Hanson	61	35	26		Black	Oklahoma	Lethal injection	[30]
23	June 13, 2025	Stephen Christopher Stanko	57	37	20		White	South Carolina		[31]
24	June 24, 2025	Thomas Lee Gudinas	51	20	31			Florida		[32]
25	June 25, 2025	Richard Gerald Jordan	79	29	50			Mississippi		[33]
26	July 15, 2025	Michael Bernard Bell	54	23	31		Black	Florida		[34]
27	July 31, 2025	Edward James Zakrzewski II	60	29			White			[35]
28	August 5, 2025	Byron Lewis Black	69	32	37		Black	Tennessee		[36]
29	August 19, 2025	Kayle Barrington Bates	67	24	43			Florida		[37]
30	August 28, 2025	Curtis Lee Windom	59	26	33					[38]
		Average:	56 years	29 years	27 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	30	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	18	60%
Black	11	37%
Hispanic	1	3%
State
Florida	11	37%
South Carolina	4	13%
Texas	4	13%
Alabama	3	10%
Oklahoma	2	7%
Tennessee	2	7%
Arizona	1	3%
Indiana	1	3%
Louisiana	1	3%
Mississippi	1	3%
Method
Lethal injection	25	83%
Nitrogen hypoxia	3	10%
Firing squad	2	7%
Month
January	1	3%
February	4	13%
March	5	17%
April	4	13%
May	5	17%
June	6	20%
July	2	7%
August	3	10%
September	0	0%
October	0	0%
November	0	0%
December	0	0%
Age
30–39	1	3%
40–49	8	27%
50–59	9	30%
60–69	10	33%
70–79	2	7%
Total	30	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2026	—
2025	30
2024	25
Total	55

See also

• List of death row inmates in the United States
• List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
• List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States

References

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Preceded by 2024

List of people executed       in the United States in    2025

Succeeded by 2026