List of people executed in the United States in 1987

Twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1987, sixteen by electrocution, seven by lethal injection, and two by gas chamber.^[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 30, 1987	Ramon Pedro Hernandez	44	38	6	Male	Hispanic	Texas	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	March 4, 1987	Eliseo Hernandez Moreno	27	24	3		Hispanic	Texas	Lethal injection	^[4]
3	May 15, 1987	Joseph Holcombe Mulligan	35	22	13		Black	Georgia	Electrocution	^[5]
4	May 20, 1987	Edward Earl Johnson	26	18	8			Mississippi	Gas chamber	^[6]
5	May 22, 1987	Richard Tucker Jr.	44	35	9			Georgia	Electrocution	^[7]
6	May 28, 1987	Anthony Charles Williams	27	18	9			Texas	Lethal injection	^[8]
7	May 29, 1987	William Boyd Tucker	31	21	10		White	Georgia	Electrocution	^[9]
8	June 7, 1987	Benjamin A. Berry	31	22	9		White	Louisiana		^[10]
9	June 9, 1987	Alvin Rudolph Moore Jr.	27	20	7		Black			^[11]
10	June 12, 1987	Jimmy L. Glass	25	20	5		White			^[12]
11	June 16, 1987	Jimmy Charles Wingo	35	30			White			^[13]
12	June 24, 1987	Elliot Rod Johnson	28	23			Black	Texas	Lethal injection	^[14]
13	July 6, 1987	Richard Lee Whitley	41	34	7		White	Virginia	Electrocution	^[15]
14	July 8, 1987	John Russell Thompson	32	22	10		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[16]
15	July 8, 1987	Connie Ray Evans	27	21	6		Black	Mississippi	Gas chamber	^[16]
16	July 20, 1987	Willie Lawrence Celestine	30	24				Louisiana	Electrocution	^[17]
17	July 24, 1987	Willie Watson Jr.	31	25						^[18]
18	July 30, 1987	John E. Brogdon	25	19			White			^[19]
19	August 24, 1987	Sterling Richard Rault Jr.	36	30			White			^[20]
20	August 28, 1987	Beauford James White	41	28	13		Black	Florida		^[21]
21		Wayne Eugene Ritter	33	22	11		White	Alabama		^[21]
22		Dale Selby Pierre	34	21	13		Black	Utah	Lethal injection	^[21]
23	September 1, 1987	William Mitchell	35	22	13		Black	Georgia	Electrocution	^[22]
24	September 10, 1987	Joseph Blaine Starvaggi	34	24	10		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[23]
25	September 21, 1987	Timothy Wesley McCorquodale	35	21	14		White	Georgia	Electrocution	^[24]
		Average:	33 years	24 years	8 years

Gender
Male	25	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
Black	12	48%
White	11	44%
Hispanic	2	8%
State
Louisiana	8	32%
Texas	6	24%
Georgia	5	20%
Mississippi	2	8%
Alabama	1	4%
Florida	1	4%
Utah	1	4%
Virginia	1	4%
Method
Electrocution	16	64%
Lethal injection	7	28%
Gas chamber	2	8%
Month
January	1	4%
February	0	0%
March	1	4%
April	0	0%
May	5	20%
June	5	20%
July	6	24%
August	4	16%
September	3	12%
October	0	0%
November	0	0%
December	0	0%
Age
20–29	8	32%
30–39	13	52%
40–49	4	16%
Total	25	100%

Number of executions
1988	11
1987	25
1986	18
Total	54

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

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