List of people executed in the United States in 1992

Thirty-one people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1992, twenty-one by lethal injection, eight by electrocution, and two by gas chamber.^[1] Six particularly notable executions were those of Rickey Ray Rector, Robert Alton Harris (the first execution in California since 1967), Steven Brian Pennell (the first execution in Delaware since 1946), Donald Harding (the first execution in Arizona since 1963), Mark Allen Hopkinson (the first and currently the only execution in Wyoming since 1965), and Roger Keith Coleman. Coleman was controversially executed by Virginia despite serious doubts about his actual guilt. However, in 2004, posthumous DNA testing confirmed his guilt.^[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 22, 1992	Mark Allen Hopkinson	42	29	13	Male	White	Wyoming	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	January 22, 1992	Joe Angel Cordova	39	29	10		Hispanic	Texas		^[4]
3	January 24, 1992	Rickey Ray Rector	40	29	11		Black	Arkansas		^[5]
4	February 11, 1992	Johnny Frank Garrett	28	17	11		White	Texas		^[6]
5	February 28, 1992	David Michael Clark	32	27	5					^[7]
6	March 3, 1992	Edward Anthony Ellis	38	29	9					^[8]
7	March 10, 1992	Robyn Leroy Parks	37	23	14		Black	Oklahoma		^[9]
8	March 13, 1992	Olan Randle Robison	46	34	12		White	Oklahoma		^[10]
9	March 14, 1992	Steven Brian Pennell	34	30	4			Delaware		^[11]
10	March 20, 1992	Larry Gene Heath	40	29	11			Alabama	Electrocution	^[12]
11	April 6, 1992	Donald Eugene Harding	43	30	13			Arizona	Gas chamber	^[13]
12	April 21, 1992	Robert Alton Harris	39	25	14			California	Gas chamber	^[14]
13	April 23, 1992	Billy Wayne White	34	18	16		Black	Texas	Lethal injection	^[15]
14	May 7, 1992	Justin Lee May	46	32	14		White	Texas		^[16]
15	May 7, 1992	Steven Douglas Hill	25	18	7			Arkansas		^[17]
16	May 12, 1992	Nollie Lee Martin	43	28	15			Florida	Electrocution	^[18]
17	May 20, 1992	Jesus Romero Jr.	27	19	8		Hispanic	Texas	Lethal injection	^[19]
18	May 20, 1992	Roger Keith Coleman	33	22	11		White	Virginia	Electrocution	^[20]
19	May 22, 1992	Robert Vannoy Black Jr.	45	38	7		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[21]
20	July 21, 1992	Edward Dean Kennedy	47	35	12		Black	Florida	Electrocution	^[22]
21	July 23, 1992	Edward Benton Fitzgerald Sr.	34	23	11		White	Virginia	Electrocution	^[23]
22	July 30, 1992	William Andrews	37	19	18		Black	Utah	Lethal injection	^[24]
23	August 11, 1992	Curtis Lee Johnson	38	29	9			Texas	Lethal injection	^[25]
24	September 15, 1992	Willie Leroy Jones	34	25	9			Virginia	Electrocution	^[26]
25	September 22, 1992	James Demouchette	37	21	16			Texas	Lethal injection	^[27]
26	October 21, 1992	Ricky Lee Grubbs	33	25	8		White	Missouri		^[28]
27	October 23, 1992	John Sterling Gardner Jr.	34	24	10		White	North Carolina		^[29]
28	November 19, 1992	Jeffery Lee Griffin	37	24	13		Black	Texas		^[30]
29	November 20, 1992	Cornelius Singleton	36	21	15			Alabama	Electrocution	^[31]
30	December 10, 1992	Kavin Wayne Lincecum	29	22	7			Texas	Lethal injection	^[32]
31	December 10, 1992	Timothy Dale Bunch	33	23	10		White	Virginia	Electrocution	^[33]
		Average:	37 years	26 years	11 years

Gender
Male	31	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	18	58%
Black	11	35%
Hispanic	2	6%
State
Texas	12	39%
Virginia	4	13%
Alabama	2	6%
Arkansas	2	6%
Florida	2	6%
Oklahoma	2	6%
Arizona	1	3%
California	1	3%
Delaware	1	3%
Missouri	1	3%
North Carolina	1	3%
Utah	1	3%
Wyoming	1	3%
Method
Lethal injection	21	68%
Electrocution	8	26%
Gas chamber	2	6%
Month
January	3	10%
February	2	6%
March	5	16%
April	3	10%
May	6	19%
June	0	0%
July	3	10%
August	1	3%
September	2	6%
October	2	6%
November	2	6%
December	2	6%
Age
20–29	4	13%
30–39	18	58%
40–49	9	29%
Total	31	100%

Number of executions
1993	38
1992	31
1991	14
Total	83

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 1992

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