List of people executed in the United States in 1988

Eleven people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1988, seven by electrocution, and four by lethal injection.^[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 7, 1988	Robert L. Streetman	27	22	5	Male	White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	March 15, 1988	Willie Jasper Darden Jr.	54	40	14		Black	Florida	Electrocution	^[4]
3	March 15, 1988	Wayne Robert Felde	38	29	9		White	Louisiana		^[5]
4	April 13, 1988	Leslie Oliver Lowenfield	34	28	6		Black	Louisiana		^[6]
5	April 14, 1988	Earl Clanton Jr.	33	25	8		Black	Virginia		^[7]
6	June 10, 1988	Arthur Gary Bishop	35	27	8		White	Utah	Lethal injection	^[8]
7	June 14, 1988	Edward Robert Byrne Jr.	28	24	4			Louisiana	Electrocution	^[9]
8	July 28, 1988	James Norbon Messer Jr.	34	25	9			Georgia	Electrocution	^[10]
9	November 3, 1988	Donald Gene Franklin	37	23	14		Black	Texas	Lethal injection	^[11]
10	November 7, 1988	Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty	33	20	13		White	Florida	Electrocution	^[12]
11	December 13, 1988	Raymond Landry Sr.	39	33	6		Black	Texas	Lethal injection	^[13]
		Average:	36 years	27 years	9 years

Gender
Male	11	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	6	55%
Black	5	45%
State
Louisiana	3	27%
Texas	3	27%
Florida	2	18%
Georgia	1	9%
Utah	1	9%
Virginia	1	9%
Method
Electrocution	7	64%
Lethal injection	4	36%
Month
January	1	9%
February	0	0%
March	2	18%
April	2	18%
May	0	0%
June	2	18%
July	1	9%
August	0	0%
September	0	0%
October	0	0%
November	2	18%
December	1	9%
Age
20–29	2	18%
30–39	8	73%
40–49	0	0%
50–59	1	9%
Total	11	100%

Number of executions
1989	16
1988	11
1987	25
Total	52

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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