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List of people executed in the United States in 2025

To date, twenty-nine people, all male, have been executed in the United States in 2025, twenty-four 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

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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]
Average: 56 years 29 years 27 years

Demographics

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Gender
Male 29 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
White 18 62%
Black 10 34%
Hispanic 1 4%
State
Florida 10 34%
South Carolina 4 14%
Texas 4 14%
Alabama 3 10%
Oklahoma 2 7%
Tennessee 2 7%
Arizona 1 3%
Indiana 1 3%
Louisiana 1 3%
Mississippi 1 3%
Method
Lethal injection 24 79%
Nitrogen hypoxia 3 10%
Firing squad 2 7%
Month
January 1 3%
February 4 14%
March 5 17%
April 4 14%
May 5 17%
June 6 21%
July 2 7%
August 2 7%
September 0 0%
October 0 0%
November 0 0%
December 0 0%
Age
30–39 1 3%
40–49 8 28%
50–59 8 28%
60–69 10 34%
70–79 2 7%
Total 29 100%

Executions in recent years

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Number of executions
2026 —
2025 29
2024 25
Total 54

See also

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References

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  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. ^ a b Collins, Jeffrey (March 8, 2025). "A South Carolina man executed by firing squad is the first US prisoner killed this way in 15 years". Associated Press. Retrieved March 8, 2025.
  4. ^ "South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer is executed by firing squad". NBC News. April 11, 2025.
  5. ^ Pilkington, Ed (March 18, 2025). "Louisiana uses nitrogen gas for first time in death row execution". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for 1976 killing". Associated Press. June 29, 2025.
  7. ^ "Florida executes man convicted of killing his wife and children in 1994". The Guardian. July 31, 2025.
  8. ^ Simerman, John (February 23, 2025). "Elderly Louisiana death row prisoner dies ahead of scheduled execution date at Angola". The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. Archived from the original on February 23, 2025. Retrieved February 23, 2025.
  9. ^ "Alabama governor commutes death sentence of man convicted for 1991 murder". The Guardian. February 28, 2025.
  10. ^ Collins, Jeffrey (February 1, 2025). "South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state's third execution since September". Associated Press. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
  11. ^ Vertuno, Jim; Graczyk, Michael (February 6, 2025). "A Texas man is executed for the killing of a pastor during a robbery at a church". Associated Press. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
  12. ^ Chandler, Kim (February 7, 2025). "Alabama puts man to death for a 1991 murder in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas". Associated Press. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
  13. ^ Anderson, Curt (February 13, 2025). "Florida man is executed for the 1997 killing of a couple whose toddler witnessed the attack". Associated Press.
  14. ^ "Texas executes man for 2004 double killing in a dispute with his strip club manager". Associated Press. February 13, 2025.
  15. ^ McCall, Jonathan (March 19, 2025). "Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman executed". KTBS. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
  16. ^ Kiefer, Emily Holshouser, Michael (March 19, 2025). "Arizona executes Aaron Gunches for 2002 murder after lengthy legal battle". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved March 19, 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Murphy, Sean (March 20, 2025). "Oklahoma executes a man who killed a woman 20 years ago in a random home invasion and robbery". AP. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
  18. ^ "Florida man executed for killing eight-year-old girl and her grandmother". The Guardian. March 20, 2025.
  19. ^ Cervantes Jr., Fernando (April 8, 2025). "'Fledgling serial killer' Michael Tanzi executed in Florida for woman's brutal murder". USA Today.
  20. ^ Collins, Jeffrey (April 11, 2025). "South Carolina kills executes second man by firing squad in 5 weeks". Associated Press.
  21. ^ Lozano, Juan A.; Graczyk, Michael (April 23, 2025). "Texas man is executed for the 2004 strangling and stabbing death of a young mother". AP News. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  22. ^ "Alabama executes a man who said he was guilty of rape and murder and deserved to die". Lethbridge News Now. The Canadian Press. Retrieved April 25, 2025.
  23. ^ Star, Toronto (May 2025). "Florida executes a man for the shotgun killings of his girlfriend and her 3 young children". Toronto Star. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  24. ^ Daily Herald, Killeen. "Florida executes suspected serial killer once eyed for possible link to the OJ Simpson case". Killeen Daily Herald. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  25. ^ Tareen, Sophia; White, Ed (May 20, 2025). "Man executed for the 2000 killing of a police officer in Indiana's second execution in 15 years". AP News. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
  26. ^ Lozano, Juan A.; Graczyk, Michael (May 20, 2025). "Texas man is executed 13 years to the day of a store robbery in which he set a clerk on fire". Sudbury.com. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
  27. ^ Mealins, Kirsten Fiscus and Evan. "Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, dies by lethal injection in first Tennessee execution since 2020". The Tennessean. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
  28. ^ Brumback, Kate. "Florida executes man convicted of raping and killing a woman 3 decades ago". AP. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
  29. ^ Chandler, Kim (June 10, 2025). "Alabama executes a man by nitrogen gas for the beating death of a woman in 1988". AP News. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
  30. ^ "Hanson put to death". McAlester News-Capital. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  31. ^ Augostino, Isabella; Carter, Tatiana. "Stephen Stanko executed in South Carolina, sixth inmate since September". WPDE. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
  32. ^ "Florida executes a man convicted of raping and killing a woman outside of a bar". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on June 25, 2025. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
  33. ^ Dedeaux, Flora; Polston, Will; Noble, Noah. "Mississippi executes state's longest-tenured death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan". WLOX. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
  34. ^ "Florida puts a man to death for killing 2 outside a bar, the 26th US execution this year". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on July 16, 2025. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
  35. ^ "Florida carries out record 9th execution of 2025 on man convicted of killing his wife and 2 children". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  36. ^ Garcia, Tony. "Byron Black executed in Tennessee". WSMV. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  37. ^ Fischer, David (August 19, 2025). "Man put to death for a 1982 killing in record 10th execution this year in Florida". Associated Press. Retrieved August 19, 2025.
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