List of people executed in the United States in 2021
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2021. A total of eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection.[1] With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988.[2]
List of people executed in the United States in 2021
[edit]| No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
| 1 | January 13, 2021 | Lisa Marie Montgomery | 52 | 36 | 16 | Female | White | Federal government | Lethal injection | [3] |
| 2 | January 14, 2021 | Corey Johnson | 23 | 29 | Male | Black | [4] | |||
| 3 | January 16, 2021 | Dustin John Higgs | 48 | 25 | [5] | |||||
| 4 | May 19, 2021 | Quintin Phillippe Jones | 41 | 20 | 21 | Texas | [6] | |||
| 5 | June 30, 2021 | John William Hummel | 45 | 34 | 11 | White | [7] | |||
| 6 | September 28, 2021 | Rick Allan Rhoades | 57 | 27 | 30 | [8] | ||||
| 7 | October 5, 2021 | Ernest Lee Johnson | 61 | 33 | 28 | Black | Missouri | [9] | ||
| 8 | October 21, 2021 | Willie B. Smith III | 52 | 22 | 30 | Alabama | [10] | |||
| 9 | October 28, 2021 | John Marion Grant | 60 | 37 | 23 | Oklahoma | [11] | |||
| 10 | November 17, 2021 | David Neal Cox Sr. | 50 | 39 | 11 | White | Mississippi | [12] | ||
| 11 | December 9, 2021 | Bigler Jobe Stouffer II | 79 | 42 | 37 | Oklahoma | [13] | |||
| Average: | 54 years | 31 years | 24 years | |||||||
Demographics
[edit]| Gender | ||
|---|---|---|
| Male | 10 | 91% |
| Female | 1 | 9% |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Black | 6 | 55% |
| White | 5 | 45% |
| State | ||
| Federal government | 3 | 27% |
| Texas | 3 | 27% |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 18% |
| Alabama | 1 | 9% |
| Mississippi | 1 | 9% |
| Missouri | 1 | 9% |
| Method | ||
| Lethal injection | 11 | 100% |
| Month | ||
| January | 3 | 27% |
| February | 0 | 0% |
| March | 0 | 0% |
| April | 0 | 0% |
| May | 1 | 9% |
| June | 1 | 9% |
| July | 0 | 0% |
| August | 0 | 0% |
| September | 1 | 9% |
| October | 3 | 27% |
| November | 1 | 9% |
| December | 1 | 9% |
| Age | ||
| 40–49 | 3 | 27% |
| 50–59 | 5 | 45% |
| 60–69 | 2 | 18% |
| 70–79 | 1 | 9% |
| Total | 11 | 100% |
Executions in recent years
[edit]| Number of executions | |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| Total | 46 |
Canceled executions
[edit]A number of executions were canceled in 2021. Two executions in Tennessee were stayed indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[14][15] Three executions in Texas were also stayed to review intellectual disability claims.[16][17][18] Five more executions in Texas were reprieved due to the state not allowing the inmate's pastors to lay their hands on them during the execution.[19][20][21][22] Three executions in Ohio were reprieved due to the unofficial moratorium in place on capital punishment in Ohio by Governor Mike DeWine, due to problems in securing the drugs needed for lethal injections.[23] All three of these executions were rescheduled for 2024.[24][25] An execution in Pennsylvania was also reprieved due to the moratorium in place on capital punishment in Pennsylvania by Governor Tom Wolf. An execution in Idaho was stayed by the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole after they granted a request for a commutation hearing. Attorneys from both sides agreed to the stay of execution until the hearing concluded in November 2021.[26]
Two executions in South Carolina were stayed by the South Carolina Supreme Court because the state did not have a way of carrying out execution by firing squad at the time. The new capital punishment law in the state requires inmates to pick between the electric chair or firing squad. At the time, South Carolina had no way of executing inmates via firing squad, meaning the inmates had no choice but to be executed via electrocution. The court ruled the inmates must have the choice available to them before they can be executed.[27][28] The execution of Zane Floyd in Nevada was stayed by a federal judge, who ruled that the state needed more time to determine the constitutionality of the lethal injection drugs that would be used for his execution.[29][30] The execution of Julius Jones in Oklahoma was halted hours before he was due to be executed after his death sentence was commuted to life without the possibility of parole by Governor Kevin Stitt.[31]
See also
[edit]- List of death row inmates in the United States
- List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976
- List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
- List of people executed by the United States federal government
- List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present
- List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
- List of women executed in the United States since 1976
References
[edit]- ^ "Execution List 2021". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ^ Tarm, Michael (December 16, 2021). "Report: 11 executions in 2021 mark three-decade low". Associated Press. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
- ^ Tarm, Michael; Hollingsworth, Heather (January 12, 2021). "US carries out its 1st execution of female inmate since 1953". Associated Press. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ^ Tarm, Michael; Lavoie, Denise (January 15, 2021). "US executes Virginia gang killer despite COVID-19 infection". Associated Press. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- ^ Romero, Dennis (January 16, 2021). "Dustin Higgs, last convict scheduled to die under Trump, is executed". NBCNews.com. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- ^ Lozano, Juan A.; Graczyk, Michael (May 20, 2021). "Absent media, Texas executes inmate who killed great aunt". Associated Press. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
- ^ Lozano, Juan A.; Graczyk, Michael (July 1, 2021). "Texas inmate executed for killing wife, father-in-law". Associated Press. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
- ^ Lozano, Juan A.; Graczyk, Michael (September 29, 2021). "Texas inmate executed for fatally stabbing 2 brothers". Associated Press. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
- ^ Salter, Jim (October 6, 2021). "Missouri man executed for killing 3 workers in '94 robbery". Associated Press. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
- ^ Chandler, Kim (October 22, 2021). "Alabama man put to death for 1991 killing of woman". Associated Press. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
- ^ Murphy, Sean (October 29, 2021). "Oklahoma executes inmate who dies vomiting and convulsing". Associated Press. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
- ^ Pettus, Emily Wagster (November 18, 2021). "Mississippi executes man who killed wife, terrorized family". Associated Press. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
- ^ Murphy, Sean (December 9, 2021). "Oklahoma executes man for 1985 slaying of schoolteacher". Associated Press. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
- ^ Timms, Mariah (December 3, 2020). "Tennessee execution delayed a second time after attorneys catch COVID-19". The Tennessean. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ "Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Smith granted indefinite stay of execution due to COVID-19". WTVF. January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ^ "Appeals court stays Texas' first scheduled 2021 execution". San Francisco Chronicle. January 15, 2021. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
- ^ Haynes, Danielle (February 3, 2021). "Texas appeals court stays next week's execution". United Press International. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
- ^ Haynes, Danielle (February 25, 2021). "Texas court stays execution on intellectual disability grounds". United Press International. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
- ^ Lozano, Juan A.; Graczyk, Michael (September 9, 2021). "Texas man gets execution delay over pastor's touch request". Associated Press. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
- ^ Lozano, Juan A. (September 16, 2021). "Another Texas execution delayed on religious freedom claims". Associated Press. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
- ^ Haynes, Danielle (October 8, 2021). "Federal judge stays execution of Texas death row prisoner". United Press International. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ Lozano, Juan A. (October 26, 2021). "Texas executions delayed over religious rights claims". Associated Press. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ Smith, Julie Carr; Amiri, Farnoush; Welsh-Huggins, Andrew (December 8, 2020). "Ohio governor: Lethal injection no longer execution option". Associated Press. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ Ingles, Jo (April 9, 2021). "Governor Issues Reprieve For Three Ohio Death Row Inmates". The Statehouse News Bureau. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
- ^ Hofmann, Brian (April 9, 2021). "DeWine pushes back executions for three Ohio death row inmates to 2024". WCMH-TV. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
- ^ Boone, Rebecca (May 19, 2021). "Idaho inmate's execution canceled, pending clemency hearing". Post Register. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
- ^ Lynch, Jamiel; Caldwell, Travis (June 17, 2021). "South Carolina court halts executions until the state's new firing squad option is finalized". CNN. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
- ^ "South Carolina court blocks executions, saying inmates must have choice of firing squad". The Guardian. June 17, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
- ^ "First proposed Nevada execution in 15 years blocked by federal judge". KRNV-DT. June 29, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
- ^ Ferrara, David (June 28, 2021). "Judge issues stay of execution for quadruple killer Zane Floyd". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
- ^ Murphy, Sean (November 18, 2021). "EXPLAINER: How Julius Jones' execution was stopped". Associated Press. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
| Preceded by 2020 |
List of people executed in the United States in 2021 |
Succeeded by 2022 |