List of people executed in the United States in 1986

Eighteen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1986, eleven by lethal injection, and seven by electrocution.^[1]^[2]

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No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
No.	Date of execution	Name	At execution	At offense	Age difference	Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
1	January 10, 1986	James Terry Roach	25	17	8	Male	White	South Carolina	Electrocution	^[3]
2	March 12, 1986	Charles William Bass	29	22	7		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[4]
3	March 21, 1986	Arthur Lee Jones	47	43	4		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	^[5]
4	April 15, 1986	Daniel Morris Thomas	37	27	10		Black	Florida	Electrocution	^[6]
5	April 16, 1986	Jeffrey Allen Barney	28	23	5		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[7]
6	April 22, 1986	David Livingston Funchess	39	27	12		Black	Florida	Electrocution	^[8]
7	May 15, 1986	Jay Kelly Pinkerton	24	17	7		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[9]
8	May 20, 1986	Ronald John Michael Straight	42	33	9		White	Florida	Electrocution	^[10]
9	June 9, 1986	Rudy Ramos Esquivel	50	42	8		Hispanic	Texas	Lethal injection	^[11]
10	June 19, 1986	Kenneth Albert Brock	37	25	12		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[12]
11	June 24, 1986	Jerome Bowden	33	23	10		Black	Georgia	Electrocution	^[13]
12	July 31, 1986	Michael Marnell Smith	40	31	9		Black	Virginia	Electrocution	^[14]
13	August 20, 1986	Randy Lynn Woolls	36	29	7		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[15]
14	August 22, 1986	Larry Smith	30	22	8		Black			^[16]
15	August 26, 1986	Chester Lee Wicker	37	31	6		White			^[17]
16	September 19, 1986	John William Rook	27	21	6		White	North Carolina		^[18]
17	December 4, 1986	Michael Wayne Evans	30	20	10		Black	Texas		^[19]
18	December 18, 1986	Richard Andrade	25	22	3		Hispanic	Texas		^[20]
		Average:	34 years	26 years	8 years

Gender
Male	18	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	9	50%
Black	7	39%
Hispanic	2	11%
State
Texas	10	56%
Florida	3	17%
Alabama	1	6%
Georgia	1	6%
North Carolina	1	6%
South Carolina	1	6%
Virginia	1	6%
Method
Lethal injection	11	61%
Electrocution	7	39%
Month
January	1	6%
February	0	0%
March	2	11%
April	3	17%
May	2	11%
June	3	17%
July	1	6%
August	3	17%
September	1	6%
October	0	0%
November	0	0%
December	2	11%
Age
20–29	6	33%
30–39	8	44%
40–49	3	17%
50–59	1	6%
Total	18	100%

Number of executions
1987	25
1986	18
1985	18
Total	61

v t e Capital punishment in the United States
Jurisdictions	Federal government Military Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming American Samoa Guam Puerto Rico Washington, D.C.
People executed by state	Federal government Military Alabama (pre-1972) Arizona (pre-1972) Arkansas (pre-1972) California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida (pre-1972) Georgia (pre-1972) Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky (pre-1972) Louisiana (pre-1972) Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi (pre-1972) Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina (pre-1972) North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma (pre-1972) Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina (pre-1972) South Dakota Tennessee Texas 2020–present Utah Vermont Virginia (pre-1972) Washington (pre-1972) West Virginia Wyoming Washington, D.C.
People executed by year	1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965–1972 1976–1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Scheduled executions
Issues and ethics	Botched executions Death-qualified jury Debate Dual sovereignty doctrine Execution drug shortage Exonerations Juveniles Last meal Participation of medical professionals Race and capital punishment White defendants executed for killing a black victim Wrongful executions
Other	Death row inmates Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals Death Penalty Information Center Most recent executions by state National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment Women executed since 1976 Women on death row

List of people executed in the United States in 1986

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