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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2019. A total of twenty-two people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2019, twenty by lethal injection and two, in Tennessee, by electrocution.[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 2019

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No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 30, 2019 Robert Mitchell Jennings 61 30 31 Male Black Texas Lethal injection [2][3]
2 February 7, 2019 Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray 42 19 23 Alabama [4][5]
3 February 28, 2019 Billie Wayne Coble 70 40 30 White Texas [6]
4 April 24, 2019 John William King 44 23 21 [7][8]
5 May 2, 2019 Scotty Garnell Morrow 52 27 25 Black Georgia [9]
6 May 16, 2019 Michael Brandon Samra 41 19 22 White Alabama [10]
7 Donnie Edward Johnson 68 33 35 Tennessee [11]
8 May 23, 2019 Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Long 65 30 Florida [12][13]
9 May 30, 2019 Christopher Lee Price 46 19 27 Alabama [14]
10 June 20, 2019 Marion Wilson Jr. 42 23 Black Georgia [15]
11 August 15, 2019 Stephen Michael West 56 23 33 White Tennessee Electrocution [16]
12 August 21, 2019 Larry Ray Swearingen 48 27 21 Texas Lethal injection [17][18]
13 August 22, 2019 Gary Ray Bowles 57 32 25 Florida [19]
14 September 4, 2019 Billy Jack Crutsinger 64 48 16 Texas [20][21]
15 September 10, 2019 Mark Anthony Soliz 37 28 9 Hispanic [22]
16 September 25, 2019 Robert Sparks 45 33 12 Black [23][24]
17 October 1, 2019 Russell Earl Bucklew 51 27 24 White Missouri [25]
18 November 4, 2019 Charles Russell Rhines 63 35 28 South Dakota [26]
19 November 6, 2019 Justen Grant Hall 38 21 17 Texas [27]
20 November 13, 2019 Ray Jefferson Cromartie 52 27 25 Black Georgia [28]
21 December 5, 2019 Leroy Hall Jr. 53 24 29 White Tennessee Electrocution [29][30][31]
22 December 11, 2019 Travis Trevino Runnels 46 30 16 Black Texas Lethal injection [32]
Average: 52 years 28 years 24 years

Demographics

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Gender
Male 22 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
White 14 64%
Black 7 31%
Hispanic 1 5%
State
Texas 9 41%
Alabama 3 14%
Georgia 3 14%
Tennessee 3 14%
Florida 2 9%
Missouri 1 5%
South Dakota 1 5%
Method
Lethal injection 20 91%
Electrocution 2 9%
Month
January 1 5%
February 2 9%
March 0 0%
April 1 5%
May 5 23%
June 1 5%
July 0 0%
August 3 14%
September 3 14%
October 1 5%
November 3 14%
December 2 9%
Age
30–39 2 9%
40–49 8 36%
50–59 6 27%
60–69 5 22%
70–79 1 5%
Total 22 100%

Executions in recent years

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Number of executions
2020 17
2019 22
2018 25
Total 64

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Execution List 2019". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  2. ^ The Texas Tribune. "Robert Mitchell Jennings – Texas Prison Inmates – The Texas Tribune". www.texastribune.org. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  3. ^ "Houston cop killer executed in Huntsville, three decades after officer slaying". Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  4. ^ "Alabama executes Domineque Ray for 1995 killing of Selma teen". Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  5. ^ Jacobs, Julia (February 6, 2019). "Muslim Inmate's Execution Is Blocked Over Denial of Request for Imam". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  6. ^ "Billie Wayne Coble executed for murder of three near Waco". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  7. ^ "Death Row Information". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 2019-04-25. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  8. ^ Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (2019-04-24). "Texas executes John William King in racist dragging death of James Byrd Jr". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  9. ^ "Georgia executes man convicted of 1994 killings of 2 women". Las Vegas Review Journal. 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
  10. ^ "Alabama executes Michael Brandon Samra in state's second lethal injection of 2019". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  11. ^ "Donnie Johnson of Memphis executed for 1984 murder of wife". Daily Memphian. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  12. ^ "Bobby Joe Long is executed in Florida for killing eight women in 1984". NBC News. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  13. ^ "Robert Joseph Long death warrant" (PDF). Florida Supreme Court. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  14. ^ "Alabama executes second man in two weeks". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  15. ^ "Georgia puts inmate to death for man's 1996 shotgun slaying". AP. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  16. ^ "Stephen Michael West executed: Death row inmate electrocuted for double murder". Daily Mirror. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  17. ^ "Texas executes man who killed college student in 1998". Los Angeles Times. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
  18. ^ McCullough, Jolie (2019-08-21). "Texas executed Larry Swearingen for a 1998 Texas slaying. His lawyer says bad science got him on death row". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
  19. ^ "Jacksonville serial killer Gary Ray Bowles executed by lethal injection". Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  20. ^ "Death Row Information". www.tdcj.texas.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  21. ^ Jolly, Bradley; Dresch, Matthew (2019-09-05). "Final words of murderer executed by lethal injection after 16 years on death row". mirror. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  22. ^ "Texas executes Mark Soliz for a 2010 Johnson County slaying. He said fetal alcohol disorder should have excluded him from death". texas tribune. 2019-09-10. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  23. ^ "Death Row Information". www.tdcj.texas.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  24. ^ Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (2019-09-25). "Texas set to execute Robert Sparks after brutal deaths of his stepsons, wife". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  25. ^ "Missouri executes Russell Bucklew despite concerns over rare medical condition". CBS News. October 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  26. ^ "Convicted killer Charles Rhines executed in South Dakota for stabbing co-worker in 1992". CBS News. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  27. ^ "The Latest: Texas man executed in 2002 strangulation". Archived from the original on November 7, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  28. ^ "Death Row inmate Ray Cromartie killed by lethal injection after humongous last meal". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  29. ^ Tamburin, Adam (November 7, 2019). "Death row inmate Lee Hall chooses the electric chair for his Dec. 5 execution". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Hall, previously known as Leroy Hall Jr., was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend Traci Crozier in Chattanooga. Hall threw a burning 2-gallon jug of gas at her while she was sitting in her car.
  30. ^ Timms, Mariah (November 16, 2019). "Who is Lee Hall? What to know about the next man scheduled for execution in Tennessee". Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Leroy Hall Jr., 52, was sentenced to death for the 1991 slaying of Traci Crozier, his ex-girlfriend.…On the night of April 16, 1991, Hall threw gasoline on Crozier and set her on fire as she sat in her car. She suffered burns over 95 percent of her body and died hours later of what emergency-room doctors… called the worst injuries they'd ever seen.
  31. ^ "Tennessee murderer Lee Hall put to death by electric chair". CNN. 5 December 2019. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  32. ^ "Texas executed Travis Runnels for a prison murder. His lawyers said false testimony put him on death row". Retrieved December 11, 2019.
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