List of people executed in the United States in 1994

Thirty-one people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1994, twenty-three by lethal injection, six by electrocution, one by gas chamber and one by hanging.^[1] Idaho, Maryland, and Nebraska both carried out their first post-Furman executions. Washington and Illinois both carried out their first involuntary executions since the 1960s.

Arkansas carried out a double execution and a triple execution, the first such executions in the United States since 1965 and 1962, respectively.

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 6, 1994	Keith Eugene Wells	31	28	3	Male	White	Idaho	Lethal injection	^[2]
2	February 2, 1994	Harold Amos Barnard	51	37	14		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[3]
3	March 3, 1994	Johnny Watkins Jr.	33	23	10		Black	Virginia	Electrocution	^[4]
4	March 31, 1994	Freddie Lee Webb Sr.	33	25	8			Texas	Lethal injection	^[5]
5	March 31, 1994	William Henry Hance	42	26	16			Georgia	Electrocution	^[6]
6	April 4, 1994	Richard Lee Beavers	38	30	8		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[7]
7	April 22, 1994	Roy Allen Stewart	38	22	16			Florida	Electrocution	^[8]
8	April 26, 1994	Larry Norman Anderson	41	29	12			Texas	Lethal injection	^[9]
9	April 27, 1994	Timothy Wilson Spencer	32	25	7		Black	Virginia	Electrocution	^[10]
10	May 3, 1994	Paul Rougeau	46	30	16		Black	Texas	Lethal injection	^[11]
11	May 10, 1994	John Wayne Gacy	52	29	23		White	Illinois		^[12]
12	May 11, 1994	Jonas Hoten Whitmore	50	42	8		White	Arkansas		^[13]
13	May 11, 1994	Edward Charles Pickens	39	21	18		Black	Arkansas		^[14]
14	May 17, 1994	John Frederick Thanos	45	41	4		White	Maryland		^[15]
15	May 27, 1994	Stephen Ray Nethery	33	20	13			Texas		^[16]
16	May 27, 1994	Charles Rodman Campbell	39	27	12			Washington	Hanging	^[17]
17	June 14, 1994	Denton Alan Crank	38	28	10			Texas	Lethal injection	^[18]
18	June 15, 1994	David Scarborough Lawson	38	25	13			North Carolina	Gas chamber	^[19]
19	June 23, 1994	Andre Stanley Deputy	45	30	15		Black	Delaware	Lethal injection	^[20]
20	August 2, 1994	Robert Nelson Drew Sr.	35	23	12		White	Texas		^[21]
21	August 3, 1994	Hoyt Franklin Clines	37	24	13			Arkansas		^[22]
22		Darryl V. Richley	43	29	14					^[23]
23		James William Holmes	37	24	13					^[24]
24	September 2, 1994	Harold Lamont Otey	43	26	17		Black	Nebraska	Electrocution	^[25]
25	September 16, 1994	Jessie Gutierrez	29	24	5		Hispanic	Texas	Lethal injection	^[26]
26	September 20, 1994	George Douglas Lott	47	45	2		White			^[27]
27	October 5, 1994	Walter Key Williams	32	19	13		Black			^[28]
28	November 22, 1994	Warren Eugene Bridge	34	19	15		White			^[29]
29	December 6, 1994	Herman Robert Charles Clark Jr.	48	34	14		Black			^[30]
30	December 8, 1994	Gregory Duane Resnover	43	29	14		Black	Indiana	Electrocution	^[31]
31	December 11, 1994	Raymond Carl Kinnamon	53	43	10		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[32]
		Average:	40 years	28 years	12 years

Gender
Male	31	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	19	61%
Black	11	35%
Hispanic	1	3%
State
Texas	14	45%
Arkansas	5	16%
Virginia	2	6%
Delaware	1	3%
Florida	1	3%
Georgia	1	3%
Idaho	1	3%
Illinois	1	3%
Indiana	1	3%
Maryland	1	3%
Nebraska	1	3%
North Carolina	1	3%
Washington	1	3%
Method
Lethal injection	23	74%
Electrocution	6	19%
Gas chamber	1	3%
Hanging	1	3%
Month
January	1	3%
February	1	3%
March	3	10%
April	4	13%
May	7	23%
June	3	10%
July	0	0%
August	4	13%
September	3	10%
October	1	3%
November	1	3%
December	3	10%
Age
20–29	1	3%
30–39	16	52%
40–49	10	32%
50–59	4	13%
Total	31	100%

Number of executions
1995	56
1994	31
1993	38
Total	125

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 (pre-1972) 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	1915 1916 1917 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 2026 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 1994

Demographics

Executions in recent years

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