List of people executed in the United States in 2020

This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2020. A total of seventeen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2020, sixteen by lethal injection and one by electrocution.^[1] The federal government of the United States executed ten people in 2020, ending a hiatus on federal executions which had lasted for over 17 years. State executions dropped significantly in 2020 compared to previous years, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.^[2]

List of people executed in the United States in 2020

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 15, 2020	John Steven Gardner	64	49	15	Male	White	Texas	Lethal injection	^[3]
2	January 29, 2020	Donnie Cleveland Lance	66	43	23		White	Georgia		^[4]
3	February 6, 2020	Abel Revill Ochoa	47	29	18		Hispanic	Texas		^[5]
4	February 20, 2020	Nicholas Todd Sutton	58	23	35		White	Tennessee	Electrocution	^[6]
5	March 5, 2020	Nathaniel Woods	43	27	16		Black	Alabama	Lethal injection	^[7]
6	May 19, 2020	Walter Barton	64	35	29		White	Missouri		^[8]^[9]
7	July 8, 2020	Billy Joe Wardlow	45	18	27			Texas		^[10]
8	July 14, 2020	Daniel Lewis Lee	47	22	25			Federal government		^[11]
9	July 16, 2020	Wesley Ira Purkey	68	46	22					^[12]^[13]
10	July 17, 2020	Dustin Lee Honken	52	25	27					^[14]
11	August 26, 2020	Lezmond Charles Mitchell	38	20	18		Native American			^[15]
12	August 28, 2020	Keith Dwayne Nelson	45	24	21		White			^[16]
13	September 22, 2020	William Emmett LeCroy Jr.	50	31	19		White			^[17]
14	September 24, 2020	Christopher Andre Vialva	40	19	21		Black			^[18]
15	November 19, 2020	Orlando Cordia Hall	49	23	26					^[19]^[20]
16	December 10, 2020	Brandon Anthony Micah Bernard	40	18	22					^[21]
17	December 11, 2020	Alfred Bourgeois	56	38	18					^[22]
		Average:	51 years	29 years	22 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	17	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	10	59%
Black	5	29%
Hispanic	1	6%
Native American	1	6%
State
Federal government	10	59%
Texas	3	18%
Alabama	1	6%
Georgia	1	6%
Missouri	1	6%
Tennessee	1	6%
Method
Lethal injection	16	94%
Electrocution	1	6%
Month
January	2	12%
February	2	12%
March	1	6%
April	0	0%
May	1	6%
June	0	0%
July	4	24%
August	2	12%
September	2	12%
October	0	0%
November	1	6%
December	2	12%
Age
30–39	1	6%
40–49	8	47%
50–59	4	24%
60–69	4	24%
Total	17	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2021	11
2020	17
2019	22
Total	50

COVID-19-related problems with scheduling executions

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of executions that had been planned for 2020 were postponed and/or rescheduled. Texas postponed the executions of seven inmates who were due to be executed between March and September, beginning with Carlos Trevino, whose execution was postponed three times (first on March 11, then June 3, and finally September 30).^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26] Tennessee also postponed the executions of four inmates who were due to be executed between June and December.^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30] In addition, the December 8 execution of Lisa Montgomery by the federal government was postponed by the DC District Court after both of her defense attorneys caught COVID-19.^[31] She was executed the following year, on January 13, 2021.^[32]

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