List of people executed in the United States in 2017
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Twenty-three people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2017, all by lethal injection. The state of Arkansas executed four people in April, ending a hiatus on executions in the state which had lasted for over 11 years. Virginia conducted its final two executions in 2017, with the state having since abolished capital punishment in 2021.[1]
List of people executed in the United States in 2017
| No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
| 1 | January 11, 2017 | Christopher Chubasco Wilkins | 48 | 37 | 11 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | [2][3] |
| 2 | January 18, 2017 | Ricky Javon Gray | 39 | 28 | Black | Virginia | [4] | |||
| 3 | January 26, 2017 | Terry Darnell Edwards | 43 | 15 | Texas | [5][6] | ||||
| 4 | January 31, 2017 | Mark Anthony Christeson | 37 | 18 | 19 | White | Missouri | [7] | ||
| 5 | March 7, 2017 | Rolando Ruiz Jr. | 44 | 20 | 24 | Hispanic | Texas | [8][9] | ||
| 6 | March 14, 2017 | James Eugene Bigby | 61 | 32 | 29 | White | [10][11] | |||
| 7 | April 20, 2017 | Ledell T. Lee | 51 | 27 | 24 | Black | Arkansas | [12] | ||
| 8 | April 24, 2017 | Jack Harold Jones Jr. | 52 | 30 | 22 | White | [13][14] | |||
| 9 | Marcel Wayne Williams | 46 | 24 | Black | ||||||
| 10 | April 27, 2017 | Kenneth Dewayne Williams | 38 | 20 | 18 | [15] | ||||
| 11 | May 17, 2017 | John W. Ledford III | 45 | 25 | White | Georgia | [16] | |||
| 12 | May 26, 2017 | Thomas Douglas "Tommy" Arthur | 75 | 40 | 35 | Alabama | [17] | |||
| 13 | June 8, 2017 | Robert Bryant Melson | 46 | 22 | 24 | Black | [18] | |||
| 14 | July 6, 2017 | William Charles Morva | 35 | 24 | 11 | White | Virginia | [19] | ||
| 15 | July 26, 2017 | Ronald Ray Phillips | 43 | 19 | 24 | Ohio | [20] | |||
| 16 | July 27, 2017 | Taichin Preyor | 46 | 33 | 13 | Black | Texas | [21][22] | ||
| 17 | August 24, 2017 | Mark James Asay | 53 | 23 | 30 | White | Florida | [23] | ||
| 18 | September 13, 2017 | Gary Wayne Otte | 45 | 20 | 25 | Ohio | [24] | |||
| 19 | October 5, 2017 | Michael Ray Lambrix | 57 | 22 | 35 | Florida | [25] | |||
| 20 | October 12, 2017 | Robert Lynn Pruett | 38 | 20 | 18 | Texas | [26] | |||
| 21 | October 19, 2017 | Torrey Twane McNabb | 40 | 20 | Black | Alabama | [27] | |||
| 22 | November 8, 2017 | Patrick Charles Hannon | 53 | 26 | 27 | White | Florida | [28] | ||
| 23 | Ruben Douglas Ramirez Cardenas | 47 | 21 | Hispanic | Texas | [29][30] | ||||
| Average: | 47 years | 25 years | 22 years | |||||||
Demographics
| Gender | ||
|---|---|---|
| Male | 23 | 100% |
| Female | 0 | 0% |
| Ethnicity | ||
| White | 13 | 56% |
| Black | 8 | 35% |
| Hispanic | 2 | 9% |
| State | ||
| Texas | 7 | 30% |
| Arkansas | 4 | 17% |
| Alabama | 3 | 13% |
| Florida | 3 | 13% |
| Ohio | 2 | 9% |
| Virginia | 2 | 9% |
| Georgia | 1 | 4% |
| Missouri | 1 | 4% |
| Method | ||
| Lethal injection | 23 | 100% |
| Month | ||
| January | 4 | 17% |
| February | 0 | 0% |
| March | 2 | 9% |
| April | 4 | 17% |
| May | 2 | 9% |
| June | 1 | 4% |
| July | 3 | 13% |
| August | 1 | 4% |
| September | 1 | 4% |
| October | 3 | 13% |
| November | 2 | 9% |
| December | 0 | 0% |
| Age | ||
| 30–39 | 5 | 22% |
| 40–49 | 11 | 48% |
| 50–59 | 5 | 22% |
| 60–69 | 1 | 4% |
| 70–79 | 1 | 4% |
| Total | 23 | 100% |
Executions in recent years
Double execution in Arkansas
On April 24, 2017, Arkansas carried out back-to-back executions. Convicted rapist and serial killer Jack Harold Jones, age 52, was pronounced dead at 7:20 pm Monday. Approximately three hours later, convicted rapist and murderer Marcel Williams, age 46, was pronounced dead at 10:33 pm. Jones was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of Mary Phillips (August 18, 1959 – June 6, 1995) and the near-fatal assault of her then-10-year-old daughter, Lacy Phillips (born July 9, 1984), during a botched robbery in Bald Knob, Arkansas. Williams was sent to death row for the 1994 rape and murder of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson, whom he kidnapped from a gas station in central Arkansas.
The last double execution in Arkansas was on September 8, 1999.[31] By conducting the double execution in 2017, Arkansas became the first U.S. state to put more than one inmate to death on the same day in 17 years. The last state to do so was Texas, which executed two murderers in August 2000. Oklahoma planned a double execution in 2014 but scrapped plans for the second one after the first (the execution of Clayton Lockett) went awry.[32]
Arkansas executed four men in an eight-day period in 1960. The only quicker pace included quadruple executions in 1926 and 1930.[32]