This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2014. Thirty-five people were executed in the United States in 2014. Ten of them were in the state of Missouri, and another ten were in the state of Texas. Two ( Edgar Tamayo Arias and Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas) were foreign nationals from Mexico. One ( Juan Carlos Chavez) was a foreign national from Cuba. Two ( Suzanne Margaret Basso and Lisa Ann Coleman) were female. [1] [2]
While there were a total of 35 executions in 2014, there were 39 executions in the previous year ( 2013) and 28 executions in the subsequent year ( 2015).
No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
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At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
1 | January 7, 2014 | Thomas Knight | 62 | 23 | 39 | Male | Black | Florida | Lethal injection | [3] |
2 | January 9, 2014 | Michael Lee Wilson | 38 | 22 | 16 | Oklahoma | [4] | |||
3 | January 16, 2014 | Dennis B. McGuire | 53 | 29 | 24 | White | Ohio | [5] | ||
4 | January 22, 2014 | Edgar Tamayo Arias | 46 | 26 | 20 | Hispanic | Texas | [6] | ||
5 | January 23, 2014 | Kenneth Eugene Hogan | 52 | 26 | White | Oklahoma | [7] | |||
6 | January 29, 2014 | Herbert L. Smulls | 56 | 33 | 23 | Black | Missouri | [8] | ||
7 | February 5, 2014 | Suzanne Margaret Basso | 59 | 44 | 15 | Female | White | Texas | [9] | |
8 | February 12, 2014 | Juan Carlos Chavez | 46 | 28 | 18 | Male | Hispanic | Florida | [10] | |
9 | February 26, 2014 | Michael Anthony Taylor | 47 | 22 | 25 | Black | Missouri | [11] | ||
10 | Paul Augustus Howell | 48 | 26 | 22 | Florida | [12] | ||||
11 | March 19, 2014 | Ray Jasper III | 33 | 18 | 15 | Texas | [13] | |||
12 | March 20, 2014 | Robert Laverne Henry | 55 | 29 | 26 | Florida | [14] | |||
13 | March 26, 2014 | Jeffrey R. Ferguson | 59 | 34 | 25 | White | Missouri | [15] | ||
14 | March 27, 2014 | Anthony Dewayne Doyle | 29 | 18 | 11 | Black | Texas | [16] | ||
15 | April 3, 2014 | Tommy Lynn Sells | 49 | 35 | 14 | White | [17] | |||
16 | April 9, 2014 | Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas | 44 | 28 | 16 | Hispanic | [18] | |||
17 | April 16, 2014 | Jose Luis Villegas Jr. | 39 | 25 | 14 | [19] | ||||
18 | April 23, 2014 | William Lewis Rousan | 57 | 37 | 20 | White | Missouri | [20] | ||
19 | Robert Eugene Hendrix | 47 | 23 | 24 | Florida | [21] | ||||
20 | April 29, 2014 | Clayton Derrell Lockett | 38 | 15 | Black | Oklahoma | [22] | |||
21 | June 17, 2014 | Marcus Alfonso Wellons | 58 | 34 | 24 | Georgia | [23] | |||
22 | June 18, 2014 | John E. Winfield | 43 | 26 | 17 | Missouri | [24] | |||
23 | John Ruthell Henry | 63 | 34 | 29 | Florida | [25] | ||||
24 | July 10, 2014 | Eddie Wayne Davis | 45 | 25 | 20 | White | [26] | |||
25 | July 16, 2014 | John C. Middleton | 54 | 35 | 19 | Missouri | [27] | |||
26 | July 23, 2014 | Joseph Rudolph Wood III | 55 | 30 | 25 | Arizona | [28] | |||
27 | August 6, 2014 | Michael Shane Worthington | 43 | 24 | 19 | Missouri | [29] | |||
28 | September 10, 2014 | Earl Ringo Jr. | 40 | 16 | Black | [30] | ||||
29 | Willie Tyrone Trottie | 45 | 23 | 22 | Texas | [31] | ||||
30 | September 17, 2014 | Lisa Ann Coleman | 38 | 28 | 10 | Female | [32] | |||
31 | October 28, 2014 | Miguel Angel Paredes | 32 | 18 | 14 | Male | Hispanic | [33] | ||
32 | November 13, 2014 | Chadwick Dewellyn Banks | 43 | 21 | 22 | Black | Florida | [34] | ||
33 | November 19, 2014 | Leon Vincent Taylor | 56 | 36 | 20 | Missouri | [35] | |||
34 | December 9, 2014 | Robert Wayne Holsey | 49 | 30 | 19 | Georgia | [36] | |||
35 | December 10, 2014 | Paul Terrence Goodwin | 48 | 31 | 17 | White | Missouri | [37] | ||
Average: | 48 years | 28 years | 20 years |
Gender | ||
---|---|---|
Male | 33 | 94% |
Female | 2 | 6% |
Ethnicity | ||
Black | 18 | 51% |
White | 12 | 34% |
Hispanic | 5 | 15% |
State | ||
Missouri | 10 | 29% |
Texas | 10 | 29% |
Florida | 8 | 23% |
Oklahoma | 3 | 9% |
Georgia | 2 | 6% |
Arizona | 1 | 3% |
Ohio | 1 | 3% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 35 | 100% |
Month | ||
January | 6 | 17% |
February | 4 | 12% |
March | 4 | 12% |
April | 6 | 14% |
May | 0 | 0% |
June | 3 | 9% |
July | 3 | 9% |
August | 1 | 3% |
September | 3 | 9% |
October | 1 | 3% |
November | 2 | 6% |
December | 2 | 6% |
Age | ||
20–29 | 1 | 3% |
30–39 | 5 | 14% |
40–49 | 16 | 46% |
50–59 | 11 | 31% |
60–69 | 2 | 6% |
Total | 35 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
---|---|
2015 | 28 |
2014 | 35 |
2013 | 39 |
Total | 102 |
2014 was a notable year for executions. A total of ten death row inmates were executed in Missouri throughout the year, the most carried out by Missouri in a single year since capital punishment resumed in 1976. [38] 2014 also marked the first time since 2002 in which two women were executed during a single year. Suzanne Margaret Basso and Lisa Ann Coleman, who were both sentenced to death in Texas, were executed just seven months apart. [39] One notable execution was of convicted murderer Thomas Knight, who was executed in Florida. Knight spent thirty-nine years on death row before his execution was carried out. [40]
There were also three botched executions in 2014:
Preceded by 2013 |
List of people executed in the United States in 2014 |
Succeeded by 2015 |