List of people executed in the United States in 1996

Forty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1996, thirty-six by lethal injection, seven by electrocution, one by hanging and one by firing squad.^[1] The last execution by hanging in the United States occurred this year. The state of Nevada carried out its first and currently only involuntary execution since 1961, that of Richard Allen Moran.

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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, 1996	Walter Milton Correll Jr.	34	24	10	Male	White	Virginia	Lethal injection	^[2]
2	January 23, 1996	Richard Townes Jr.	45	34	11		Black	Virginia	Lethal injection	^[3]
3	January 25, 1996	Billy Bailey	49	32	17		White	Delaware	Hanging	^[4]
4	January 26, 1996	John Albert Taylor	36	30	6		White	Utah	Firing squad	^[5]
5	January 30, 1996	William Henry Flamer	41	24	17		Black	Delaware	Lethal injection	^[6]
6	February 9, 1996	Leo Ernest Jenkins Jr.	37	29	8		White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[7]
7	February 16, 1996	Edward Dean Horsley Jr.	38	19	19		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	^[8]
8	February 21, 1996	Jeffery Paul Sloan	29	19	10		White	Missouri	Lethal injection	^[9]
9	February 23, 1996	William George Bonin	49	33	16		White	California		^[10]
10	February 27, 1996	Kenneth Granviel	45	24	21		Black	Texas		^[11]
11	March 1, 1996	Antonio G. James	42	24	18		Black	Louisiana		^[12]
12	March 30, 1996	Richard Allen Moran	42	30	12		White	Nevada		^[13]
13	April 10, 1996	Doyle James Williams	48	32	16			Missouri		^[14]
14	April 19, 1996	James B. Clark Jr.	39	37	2			Delaware		^[15]
15	April 26, 1996	Benjamin Brewer	38	20	18			Oklahoma		^[16]
16	May 3, 1996	Keith Daniel Williams	48	31	17			California		^[17]
17	May 31, 1996	Robert W. South	51	38	13			South Carolina		^[18]
18	June 19, 1996	Daren Lee Bolton	29	19	10			Arizona		^[19]
19	July 17, 1996	John Joseph Joubert IV	33	20	13			Nebraska	Electrocution	^[20]
20	July 17, 1996	Joseph John Savino III	37	30	7			Virginia	Lethal injection	^[21]
21	July 18, 1996	Tommie Joe Smith	42	26	16		Black	Indiana		^[22]
22	July 19, 1996	Frederick Herman Kornahrens III	47	36	11		White	South Carolina		^[23]
23	July 31, 1996	Emmett Clifton Nave	55	43	12		Native American	Missouri		^[24]
24	August 7, 1996	Thomas Henry Battle	34	18	16		Black	Missouri		^[25]
25	August 8, 1996	William Frank Parker	41	30	11		White	Arkansas		^[26]
26	August 9, 1996	Steven Keith Hatch	42	26	16			Oklahoma		^[27]
27	August 21, 1996	Richard Dennis Oxford	39	30	9			Missouri		^[28]
28	August 22, 1996	Luis Morine Mata	45	25	20		Hispanic	Arizona		^[29]
29	September 6, 1996	Michael Rian Torrence	35	25	10		White	South Carolina		^[30]
30	September 6, 1996	Douglas Franklin Wright	56	51	5		White	Oregon		^[31]
31	September 18, 1996	Raymond Lee Stewart	44	29	15		Black	Illinois		^[32]
32	September 18, 1996	Joe Fedelfido Gonzales Jr.	35	31	4		Hispanic	Texas		^[33]
33	October 4, 1996	Larry Gene Bell	46	35	11		White	South Carolina	Electrocution	^[34]
34	October 21, 1996	John Earl Bush	38	23	15		Black	Florida		^[35]
35	November 14, 1996	Larry Grant Lonchar	45	35	10		White	Georgia		^[36]
36	November 15, 1996	Doyle Cecil Lucas	41	28	13			South Carolina	Lethal injection	^[37]
37	November 15, 1996	Ellis Wayne Felker	48	33	15			Georgia	Electrocution	^[38]
38	November 21, 1996	Ronald Bernard Bennett	42	31	11		Black	Virginia	Lethal injection	^[39]
39	November 22, 1996	Frank Middleton Jr.	33	21	12		Black	South Carolina		^[40]
40	December 3, 1996	Gregory Warren Beaver	30	19	11		White	Virginia		^[41]
41	December 6, 1996	John Mills Jr.	41	27	14		Black	Florida	Electrocution	^[42]
42	December 10, 1996	Larry Allen Stout	33	23	10		Black	Virginia	Lethal injection	^[43]
43	December 11, 1996	Richard Steven Zeitvogel	40	27	13		White	Missouri		^[44]
44	December 12, 1996	Lem Davis Tuggle Jr.	44	31	13			Virginia		^[45]
45	December 16, 1996	Ronald Lee Hoke Sr.	39	28	11			Virginia		^[46]
		Average:	41 years	28 years	13 years

Gender
Male	45	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	29	64%
Black	13	29%
Hispanic	2	4%
Native American	1	2%
State
Virginia	8	18%
Missouri	6	13%
South Carolina	6	13%
Delaware	3	7%
Texas	3	7%
Arizona	2	4%
California	2	4%
Florida	2	4%
Georgia	2	4%
Oklahoma	2	4%
Alabama	1	2%
Arkansas	1	2%
Illinois	1	2%
Indiana	1	2%
Louisiana	1	2%
Nebraska	1	2%
Nevada	1	2%
Oregon	1	2%
Utah	1	2%
Method
Lethal injection	36	80%
Electrocution	7	16%
Firing squad	1	2%
Hanging	1	2%
Month
January	5	11%
February	5	11%
March	2	4%
April	3	7%
May	2	4%
June	1	2%
July	5	11%
August	5	11%
September	4	9%
October	2	4%
November	5	11%
December	6	13%
Age
20–29	2	4%
30–39	17	38%
40–49	23	51%
50–59	3	7%
Total	45	100%

Number of executions
1997	74
1996	45
1995	56
Total	175

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	1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 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 1996

Demographics

Executions in recent years

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