List of people executed in the United States in 1995

Fifty-six people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1995, forty-nine by lethal injection and seven by electrocution.^[1] Pennsylvania carried out its first execution since 1962.^[2] The execution of Kermit Smith Jr. marked only the second time since 1976 that a white defendant was executed for killing a black victim.^[3] Several others followed later in the year.^[4]^[5]^[6]

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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 4, 1995	Jesse Dewayne Jacobs	44	36	8	Male	White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[7]
2	January 17, 1995	Mario S. Marquez	36	25	11		Hispanic	Texas		^[8]
3	January 24, 1995	Kermit Smith Jr.	37	23	14		White	North Carolina		^[9]
4	January 24, 1995	Dana Ray Edmonds	32	21	11		Black	Virginia		^[10]
5	January 31, 1995	Clifton Charles Russell Jr.	33	18	15		White	Texas		^[11]
6	January 31, 1995	Willie Ray Williams	38	24	14		Black			^[12]
7	February 7, 1995	Jeffrey Dean Motley	29	18	11		White			^[13]
8	February 16, 1995	Billy Conn Gardner	51	39	12		White			^[14]
9	February 21, 1995	Samuel Christopher Hawkins	52	34	18		Black			^[15]
10	March 17, 1995	Nelson Walter Shelton	27	24	3		White	Delaware		^[16]
11	March 20, 1995	Thomas Joseph Grasso	32	28	4			Oklahoma		^[17]
12	March 22, 1995	James Preston Free Jr.	36	19	17			Illinois		^[18]
13	March 22, 1995	Hernando Williams	39	23	17		Black	Illinois		^[19]
14	April 6, 1995	Noble D. Mays Jr.	41	25	16		White	Texas		^[20]
15	April 7, 1995	Nicholas Lee Ingram	31	19	12			Georgia	Electrocution	^[21]
16	April 19, 1995	Richard Wayne Snell	64	53	11			Arkansas	Lethal injection	^[22]
17	April 28, 1995	Willie Clisby Jr.	47	31	16		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	^[23]
18	May 2, 1995	Keith William Zettlemoyer	39	25	14		White	Pennsylvania	Lethal injection	^[2]
19	May 3, 1995	Emmitt Foster	43	32	11		Black	Missouri		^[24]
20	May 10, 1995	Duncan Peder McKenzie Jr.		22	21		White	Montana		^[25]
21	May 12, 1995	Varnell Weeks		29	14		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	^[26]
22	May 16, 1995	Thomas Lee Ward	59	47	12			Louisiana	Lethal injection	^[27]
23	May 17, 1995	Girvies L. Davis	37	20	17			Illinois	Lethal injection	^[28]
24	May 17, 1995	Darrell Gene Devier Sr.	39	24	15		White	Georgia	Electrocution	^[29]
25	May 25, 1995	Willie Lloyd Turner	49	32	17		Black	Virginia	Lethal injection	^[30]
26	June 1, 1995	Fletcher Thomas Mann	34	19	15		White	Texas		^[31]
27	June 8, 1995	Ronald Keith Allridge	34	24	10		Black			^[32]
28	June 20, 1995	John W. Fearance Jr.	40	23	17					^[33]
29	June 21, 1995	Karl Hammond	30	22	8					^[34]
30	June 21, 1995	Larry Griffin	40	25	15			Missouri		^[35]
31	July 1, 1995	Roger Dale Stafford	43	26	17		White	Oklahoma		^[36]
32	July 18, 1995	Bernard John Bolender	42	27	15		White	Florida	Electrocution	^[37]
33	July 26, 1995	Robert Anthony Murray	32	22	10		Black	Missouri	Lethal injection	^[38]
34	August 11, 1995	Robert Allen Brecheen	40	27	13		White	Oklahoma		^[39]
35	August 15, 1995	Vernon Lamar Sattiewhite	39	30	9		Black	Texas		^[40]
36	August 16, 1995	Leon Jerome Moser	52	42	10		White	Pennsylvania		^[41]
37	August 18, 1995	Sylvester Lewis Adams	39	23	16		Black	South Carolina		^[42]
38	August 31, 1995	Barry Lee Fairchild	41	28	13		Black	Arkansas		^[43]
39	September 13, 1995	Jimmie Wayne Jeffers	49	30	19		White	Arizona		^[44]
40	September 19, 1995	Carl Johnson Jr.	40	23	17		Black	Texas		^[45]
41	September 20, 1995	Charles Michael Albanese	58	43	15		White	Illinois		^[46]
42	September 22, 1995	Phillip Lee Ingle	34	29	5			North Carolina		^[47]
43	September 27, 1995	Dennis Waldon Stockton	54	37	17			Virginia		^[48]
44	October 4, 1995	Harold Joe Lane	50	37	13			Texas		^[49]
45	October 19, 1995	Mickey Wayne Davidson	38	33	5			Virginia		^[50]
46	November 13, 1995	Herman Charles Barnes	31	21	10		Black	Virginia		^[51]
47	November 15, 1995	Robert T. Sidebottom	33	23	10		White	Missouri		^[52]
48	November 22, 1995	George W. Del Vecchio	47	29	18			Illinois		^[53]
49	November 29, 1995	Anthony Joe LaRette Jr.	44	28	16			Missouri		^[54]
50	December 4, 1995	Jerry White	47	33	14		Black	Florida	Electrocution	^[55]
51	December 5, 1995	Phillip Alexander Atkins	40	26	14		White	Florida	Electrocution	^[56]
52	December 6, 1995	Robert Earl O'Neal Jr.	34	22	12		White	Missouri	Lethal injection	^[57]
53	December 6, 1995	Bernard Eugene Amos	33	26	7		Black	Texas		^[58]
54	December 7, 1995	Hai Hai Vuong	40	31	9		Asian			^[59]
55	December 11, 1995	Esequel Banda	31	22	9		Hispanic			^[60]
56	December 12, 1995	James Michael Briddle	40	24	16		White			^[61]
		Average:	41 years	28 years	13 years

Gender
Male	56	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	31	55%
Black	22	39%
Hispanic	2	4%
Asian	1	2%
State
Texas	19	34%
Missouri	6	11%
Illinois	5	9%
Virginia	5	9%
Florida	3	5%
Oklahoma	3	5%
Alabama	2	4%
Arkansas	2	4%
Georgia	2	4%
North Carolina	2	4%
Pennsylvania	2	4%
Arizona	1	2%
Delaware	1	2%
Louisiana	1	2%
Montana	1	2%
South Carolina	1	2%
Method
Lethal injection	49	88%
Electrocution	7	13%
Month
January	6	11%
February	3	5%
March	4	7%
April	4	7%
May	8	14%
June	5	9%
July	3	5%
August	5	9%
September	5	9%
October	2	4%
November	4	7%
December	7	13%
Age
20–29	2	4%
30–39	24	43%
40–49	22	39%
50–59	7	13%
60–69	1	2%
Total	56	100%

Number of executions
1996	45
1995	56
1994	31
Total	132

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 1995

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