List of offenders executed in the United States in 2020

This is a list of offenders executed in the United States in 2020. As of August 18, 2020, ten inmates have been executed in the United States in 2020, nine by lethal injection and one by electrocution.[1] In addition, a total of six death row inmates are currently scheduled to be executed in the remainder of the year.[2]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of executions have been postponed and rescheduled. So far, Texas has postponed the executions of seven inmates who were due to be executed in March, April, May, June, and September.[3][4][5][6] Tennessee has also postponed the executions of three inmates who were due to be executed in June, August, and October.[7][8][9]

List of offenders executed in the United States in 2020
Number Date of execution Name Date of birth Age of offender Gender Ethnicity State Method Source
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 15, 2020 John Steven Gardner January 3, 1956 64 49 15 Male White Texas Lethal injection [10]
2 January 29, 2020 Donnie Cleveland Lance December 23, 1953 66 43 23 Georgia [11]
3 February 6, 2020 Abel Revill Ochoa January 23, 1973 47 29 18 Hispanic Texas [12]
4 February 20, 2020 Nicholas Todd Sutton July 15, 1961 58 23 35 White Tennessee Electrocution [13]
5 March 5, 2020 Nathaniel Woods October 24, 1976 43 27 16 Black Alabama Lethal injection [14]
6 May 19, 2020 Walter Barton January 24, 1956 64 35 29 White Missouri [15]
7 July 8, 2020 Billy Joe Wardlow November 25, 1974 45 18 27 Texas [16]
8 July 14, 2020 Daniel Lewis Lee January 13, 1973 47 22 25 Federal Government [17]
9 July 16, 2020 Wesley Ira Purkey January 6, 1952 68 46 22 [18][19]
10 July 17, 2020 Dustin Lee Honken March 22, 1968 52 25 27 [20]
 
 		 Average: 55 years 32 years 24 years  
 

List of offenders scheduled to be executed in the United States in 2020

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

Number Date of execution Name Date of birth Age of offender Gender Ethnicity State Method Source
At execution At offense Age difference
1 August 26, 2020 Lezmond Charles Mitchell September 17, 1981 38 20 18 Male Native American Federal Government Lethal injection Profile:
2 August 28, 2020 Keith Dwayne Nelson November 23, 1974 45 24 21 White Profile:
3 September 22, 2020 William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. 1970 50 31 19 Profile:
4 September 24, 2020 Christopher Andre Vialva May 10, 1980 40 19 21 Black
5 September 30, 2020 Carlos Trevino January 28, 1974 46 22 24 Hispanic Texas Profile:
6 December 3, 2020 Pervis Tyrone Payne March 1, 1967 53 20 33 Black Tennessee Profile:
 
 		 Average: 45 years 23 years 23 years  
 

Demographics
Gender
Male 10 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
White 8 80%
Black 1 10%
Hispanic 1 10%
Native American 0 0%
State
Federal Government 3 30%
Texas 3 30%
Alabama 1 10%
Georgia 1 10%
Missouri 1 10%
Tennessee 1 10%
Method
Lethal injection 9 90%
Electrocution 1 10%
Month
January 2 20%
February 2 20%
March 1 10%
April 0 0%
May 1 10%
June 0 0%
July 4 40%
August 0 0%
September 0 0%
October 0 0%
November 0 0%
December 0 0%
Age
20 - 29 0 0%
30 - 39 0 0%
40 - 49 4 40%
50 - 59 2 20%
60 - 69 4 40%
70 - 79 0 0%
80 - 89 0 0%
Day
Monday 0 0%
Tuesday 2 20%
Wednesday 3 30%
Thursday 4 40%
Friday 1 10%
Saturday 0 0%
Sunday 0 0%
Total 10 100%

Executions in recent years
Number of executions
2021 0
2020 10
2019 22
Total 32

See also

References
  1. "2020". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  2. "Upcoming Executions". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  3. "Fourth Texas Execution Postponed Because Of Coronavirus". WOAI (AM). 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  4. "Fifth Texas Execution Delayed in Midst of Virus Outbreak". KXAS-TV. 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  5. "Execution Delayed for Man Condemned in TCU Professor's Death". KXAS-TV. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  6. "7th Texas execution delayed as attorneys cite pandemic". KTEN. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  7. "Tennessee supreme court stays execution of death row inmate due to covid-19 pandemic". Newsweek. 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  8. "Second Tennessee execution stayed over coronavirus concerns; Byron Black's date set for April 2021". The Tennessean. 2020-06-12. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  9. "Harold Nichols: Governor delays August execution over coronavirus concerns". The Tennessean. 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  10. McCullough, Jolie (2020-01-15). "Texas carries out nation's first execution of 2020 for domestic violence slaying in Collin County". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  11. "Georgia man put to death for the 1997 killings of 2 people". AP NEWS. 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  12. "Texas executes Abel Ochoa, who killed five family members in Dallas shooting". The Texas Tribune. 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  13. "Tennessee execution: Nicholas Todd Sutton executed by electric chair". The Tennessean. 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  14. "Nathaniel Woods executed in Alabama after Supreme Court denies stay". ABC News. 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  15. "Missouri executes man convicted of murder despite calls to examine innocence claim". The Kansas City Star. 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  16. "Texas executes Billy Wardlow for 1993 murder". UPI. 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  17. "Daniel Lewis Lee executed after Supreme Court clears the way for first federal execution in 17 years". CNN. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  18. "Wesley I. Purkey, Plaintiff v. William P. Barr et al., Defendants" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United States. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  19. "Wesley Ira Purkey executed in Terre Haute, 2nd man put to death this week". Indy Star. 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  20. "Dustin Lee Honken: US government executes 3rd federal inmate this week". CNN. 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
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