List of death row inmates in the United States
Updated: 5/24/2026, 6:57:53 PM Wikipedia source
As of April 1, 2026, there were 1,993 death row inmates in the United States, including 44 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions, the information may become outdated.
Tables
· List of death row inmates by jurisdiction › Federal
Robert Gregory Bowers
Robert Gregory Bowers
Name
Robert Gregory Bowers
Crime
Perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; an antisemitic terrorist attack in which eleven people were murdered.
Time on death row
2 years, 294 days
Imprisoned at
USP Terre Haute
Register number
39188-068
Notes
The shooting was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.
Dylann Roof
Dylann Roof
Name
Dylann Roof
Crime
Perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, which killed nine African Americans.
Time on death row
9 years, 134 days
Imprisoned at
USP Terre Haute
Register number
28509-171
Notes
American mass murderer and white supremacist who, during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, sat down with his future victims for approximately 45 minutes before pulling out a Glock 41 handgun. Among those people who were killed was the senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Roof is the first p
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Name
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Crime
Co-perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people and injured 264 runners and spectators.
Time on death row
10 years, 334 days
Imprisoned at
ADX Florence
Register number
95079-038
Notes
Chechen-American, Islamic terrorism inspired lone wolf who, along with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrated the attack. Tamerlan later died due to critical injuries and massive blood loss during a shootout with police on April 19, 2013. On July 31, 2020, Tsarnaev's death sentence was overturned on appeal, but was reinstated by the US Supreme
| Name | Crime | Time on death row | Imprisoned at | Register number | Notes |
| Robert Gregory Bowers | Perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; an antisemitic terrorist attack in which eleven people were murdered. | 2 years, 294 days | USP Terre Haute | 39188-068 | The shooting was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States. |
| Dylann Roof | Perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, which killed nine African Americans. | 9 years, 134 days | USP Terre Haute | 28509-171 | American mass murderer and white supremacist who, during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, sat down with his future victims for approximately 45 minutes before pulling out a Glock 41 handgun. Among those people who were killed was the senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Roof is the first p |
| Dzhokhar Tsarnaev | Co-perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people and injured 264 runners and spectators. | 10 years, 334 days | ADX Florence | 95079-038 | Chechen-American, Islamic terrorism inspired lone wolf who, along with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrated the attack. Tamerlan later died due to critical injuries and massive blood loss during a shootout with police on April 19, 2013. On July 31, 2020, Tsarnaev's death sentence was overturned on appeal, but was reinstated by the US Supreme |
· List of death row inmates by jurisdiction › Military
Hasan Karim Akbar
(born as Mark Fidel Kools)
Hasan Karim Akbar
(born as Mark Fidel Kools)
Name
Hasan Karim Akbar
(born as Mark Fidel Kools)
Crime
Murdered two commissioned officers and wounded eleven other servicemen during an attack in Kuwait on March 23, 2003 after throwing a hand grenade and opening fire upon his fellow troops.
Time on death row
21 years, 23 days
Ronald Adrin Gray
Ronald Adrin Gray
Name
Ronald Adrin Gray
Crime
Raped and murdered multiple women at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from December 15, 1986, to January 6, 1987. His convictions include 4 counts of murder and 8 counts of rape
Time on death row
37 years, 329 days
Notes
On November 26, 2008, a federal judge issued a stay of execution stopping the planned December 10 execution. Gray is the military's longest-serving death row inmate and the only one to have his execution approved by the President.
Nidal Malik Hasan
Nidal Malik Hasan
Name
Nidal Malik Hasan
Crime
Perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
Time on death row
12 years, 269 days
Notes
Convicted on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
Timothy B. Hennis
Timothy B. Hennis
Name
Timothy B. Hennis
Crime
Raped and murdered Kathryn Eastburn, and murdered Kathryn's two daughters, Kara and Erin Eastburn in 1985.
Time on death row
16 years, 39 days
Notes
Previously convicted in 1986 by the State of North Carolina, retried and acquitted in 1989, and widely reported as exonerated; recalled to active duty for military court martial (as he had been in the U . Army at the time of the murders) under separate sovereignty (see Double jeopardy).
| Name | Crime | Time on death row | Notes |
| Hasan Karim Akbar (born as Mark Fidel Kools) | Murdered two commissioned officers and wounded eleven other servicemen during an attack in Kuwait on March 23, 2003 after throwing a hand grenade and opening fire upon his fellow troops. | 21 years, 23 days | |
| Ronald Adrin Gray | Raped and murdered multiple women at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from December 15, 1986, to January 6, 1987. His convictions include 4 counts of murder and 8 counts of rape | 37 years, 329 days | On November 26, 2008, a federal judge issued a stay of execution stopping the planned December 10 execution. Gray is the military's longest-serving death row inmate and the only one to have his execution approved by the President. |
| Nidal Malik Hasan | Perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. | 12 years, 269 days | Convicted on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. |
| Timothy B. Hennis | Raped and murdered Kathryn Eastburn, and murdered Kathryn's two daughters, Kara and Erin Eastburn in 1985. | 16 years, 39 days | Previously convicted in 1986 by the State of North Carolina, retried and acquitted in 1989, and widely reported as exonerated; recalled to active duty for military court martial (as he had been in the U . Army at the time of the murders) under separate sovereignty (see Double jeopardy). |
· List of death row inmates by jurisdiction › Alabama
Nicholas Acklin
Nicholas Acklin
Name
Nicholas Acklin
Description of crime
Shot and murdered four people in 1996 inside a house in Huntsville, Alabama.
Time on death row
27 years, 199 days
Other
Acklin, Wilson and a third man named Corey Johnson shot and killed the four victims and also injured two others over a dispute regarding a stolen cellphone. Acklin and Wilson were both sentenced to death in 1998. Johnson was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to 15 years' jail after reaching a plea bargain, and released in 2011, before he was
Joey Wilson
Joey Wilson
Name
Joey Wilson
Description of crime
27 years, 249 days
Donald Broadnax
Donald Broadnax
Name
Donald Broadnax
Description of crime
Murdered his wife, 42-year-old Hector Jan Stamps, and her grandson, 4-year-old DeAngelo Marquez Stamps.
Time on death row
28 years, 254 days
Other
The crimes were committed while he was on work release from a previous murder conviction.
Jimmy Lee Brooks Jr.
Jimmy Lee Brooks Jr.
Name
Jimmy Lee Brooks Jr.
Description of crime
Kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Brett Bowyer in February 2002.
Time on death row
22 years, 45 days
Other
Both Brooks and Carruth posed as narcotics officers and entered the home of Bowyer and his father Butch, kidnapping and robbing them before they shot Bowyer and slit Butch's throat and buried them both in a shallow grave. Butch survived his wound and dug himself out of the grave to seek help, leading to the men's arrests. The pair were also involve
Michael David Carruth
Michael David Carruth
Name
Michael David Carruth
Description of crime
22 years, 170 days
John Joseph DeBlase
John Joseph DeBlase
Name
John Joseph DeBlase
Description of crime
Murdered four-year-old Natalie DeBlase and three-year-old Chase DeBlase, the biological children of John DeBlase and stepchildren of Leavell-Keaton
Time on death row
11 years, 136 days
Other
On two separate occasions in March and June 2010 respectively, Natalie and Chase were being poisoned with antifreeze and also bound and gagged with tape, and died from the abuse. The children's bodies were found buried in Alabama and Mississippi.
Leavell-Keaton was the first woman to be given the death penalty in Mobile County.
Heather Leavell-Keaton
Heather Leavell-Keaton
Name
Heather Leavell-Keaton
Description of crime
10 years, 277 days
Thomas Dale Ferguson
Thomas Dale Ferguson
Name
Thomas Dale Ferguson
Description of crime
Murdered 11-year-old Joey Pugh and his 41-year-old father Harold Pugh in Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve, Alabama.
Time on death row
27 years, 258 days
Other
Ferguson and Maxwell and three other men intended to rob the Pughs of their truck in order to commit a bank robbery in Mississippi, and both Ferguson and Maxwell shot the father-son pair to death. Maxwell was sentenced to death by a 10–2 vote from the jury, while Ferguson was sentenced to death by the judge despite the jury's 11-1 majority vote for
Michael Craig Maxwell
Michael Craig Maxwell
Name
Michael Craig Maxwell
Description of crime
27 years, 328 days
Westley Devon Harris
Westley Devon Harris
Name
Westley Devon Harris
Description of crime
Murdered six members of his girlfriend's family in 2002.
Time on death row
20 years, 285 days
Other
Harris committed the murders out of anger towards his girlfriend's family for separating him and his girlfriend. Harris was originally sentenced to life without parole by the jury through a 7–5 vote, but the judge overrode the jury's recommendation and sentenced him to six death sentences for all six counts of capital murder.
Shonelle Jackson
Shonelle Jackson
Name
Shonelle Jackson
Description of crime
Murdered LeFrick Moore during the commission of a robbery.
Time on death row
25 years, 6 days
Toforest Johnson
Toforest Johnson
Name
Toforest Johnson
Description of crime
Shot and murdered 49-year-old Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in 1995.
Time on death row
27 years, 206 days
Other
Johnson's conviction was controversial as his guilty verdict as centered on the testimony of a single witness who overheard Johnson allegedly admitting to the murder in a prison phone call. There were several alibi witnesses who testified that Johnson was at another part of the town when Hardy was killed, giving rise to concerns that Johnson was in
Jeremy Bryan Jones
Jeremy Bryan Jones
Name
Jeremy Bryan Jones
Description of crime
Raped and murdered 43-year-old Lisa Marie Nichols.
Time on death row
20 years, 210 days
Other
Jones also confessed to committing twenty additional murders across four other states in a 12-year span. These confessions are considered dubious and he has since recanted them.
Jeffrey Lee
Jeffrey Lee
Name
Jeffrey Lee
Description of crime
Murdered singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis and Elaine Thompson (Jimmy's ex-wife) during a robbery.
Time on death row
25 years, 225 days
Other
Scheduled to be executed on June 11, 2026.
Courtney Lockhart
Courtney Lockhart
Name
Courtney Lockhart
Description of crime
Kidnapped and murdered 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk.
Time on death row
15 years, 83 days
Devin Moore
Devin Moore
Name
Devin Moore
Description of crime
Murdered two police officers and a dispatcher.
Time on death row
20 years, 230 days
Cuhuatemoc Peraita
Cuhuatemoc Peraita
Name
Cuhuatemoc Peraita
Description of crime
Killed a fellow inmate in 1999.
Time on death row
24 years, 204 days
Other
Peraita was originally serving life without parole for his role in the 1994 murders of three Popeyes restaurant workers. His accomplice was executed for these murders in 2017.
Ryan Clark Petersen
Ryan Clark Petersen
Name
Ryan Clark Petersen
Description of crime
Killed three people during a nightclub shooting in 2012.
Time on death row
9 years, 61 days
Other
Petersen committed the shooting in retaliation after he was driven out of the nightclub for unruly behavior. Petersen also shot and wounded a fourth person during the shooting. Petersen was convicted of three counts of capital murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to death.
Jimmy O'Neal Spencer
Jimmy O'Neal Spencer
Name
Jimmy O'Neal Spencer
Description of crime
Killed two elderly women and a seven-year-old boy during a robbery spree in July 2018.
Time on death row
3 years, 191 days
Other
At the time of the triple murder, Spencer was out on parole since November 2017 after serving two life sentences for multiple convictions of burglary, assault and escape. Spencer's case also led to the drastic decrease in the rate of parole approvals for prisoners in Alabama.
Kerry Spencer
Kerry Spencer
Name
Kerry Spencer
Description of crime
Killed three Birmingham police officers in 2004.
Time on death row
20 years, 243 days
Other
Spencer shot all three officers and testified that he acted alone, but his alleged accomplice, Nathaniel Woods, was also sentenced to death. Woods was executed in 2020 in a highly publicized and controversial execution.
Christie Michelle Scott
Christie Michelle Scott
Name
Christie Michelle Scott
Description of crime
Killed her six-year-old autistic son Mason Scott by arson in 2008.
Time on death row
16 years, 292 days
Other
Scott intentionally engineered the murder of her son Mason by starting a fire and disguising it as an accident. Scott's motive was to collect insurance money amounting to $175,000 through the death of Mason.
Jeremy Tremaine Williams
Jeremy Tremaine Williams
Name
Jeremy Tremaine Williams
Description of crime
Raped, sodomized and murdered five-year-old Kamarie Holland in December 2021.
Time on death row
2 years, 39 days
Other
Williams was also charged for allegedly killing his one-month-old daughter in 2005 in Alaska. The victim's mother, Kristy Siple, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sex trafficking of her daughter and allowing Williams to rape her daughter.
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| Nicholas Acklin | Shot and murdered four people in 1996 inside a house in Huntsville, Alabama. | 27 years, 199 days | Acklin, Wilson and a third man named Corey Johnson shot and killed the four victims and also injured two others over a dispute regarding a stolen cellphone. Acklin and Wilson were both sentenced to death in 1998. Johnson was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to 15 years' jail after reaching a plea bargain, and released in 2011, before he was |
| Joey Wilson | 27 years, 249 days | ||
| Donald Broadnax | Murdered his wife, 42-year-old Hector Jan Stamps, and her grandson, 4-year-old DeAngelo Marquez Stamps. | 28 years, 254 days | The crimes were committed while he was on work release from a previous murder conviction. |
| Jimmy Lee Brooks Jr. | Kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Brett Bowyer in February 2002. | 22 years, 45 days | Both Brooks and Carruth posed as narcotics officers and entered the home of Bowyer and his father Butch, kidnapping and robbing them before they shot Bowyer and slit Butch's throat and buried them both in a shallow grave. Butch survived his wound and dug himself out of the grave to seek help, leading to the men's arrests. The pair were also involve |
| Michael David Carruth | 22 years, 170 days | ||
| John Joseph DeBlase | Murdered four-year-old Natalie DeBlase and three-year-old Chase DeBlase, the biological children of John DeBlase and stepchildren of Leavell-Keaton | 11 years, 136 days | On two separate occasions in March and June 2010 respectively, Natalie and Chase were being poisoned with antifreeze and also bound and gagged with tape, and died from the abuse. The children's bodies were found buried in Alabama and Mississippi. Leavell-Keaton was the first woman to be given the death penalty in Mobile County. |
| Heather Leavell-Keaton | 10 years, 277 days | ||
| Thomas Dale Ferguson | Murdered 11-year-old Joey Pugh and his 41-year-old father Harold Pugh in Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve, Alabama. | 27 years, 258 days | Ferguson and Maxwell and three other men intended to rob the Pughs of their truck in order to commit a bank robbery in Mississippi, and both Ferguson and Maxwell shot the father-son pair to death. Maxwell was sentenced to death by a 10–2 vote from the jury, while Ferguson was sentenced to death by the judge despite the jury's 11-1 majority vote for |
| Michael Craig Maxwell | 27 years, 328 days | ||
| Westley Devon Harris | Murdered six members of his girlfriend's family in 2002. | 20 years, 285 days | Harris committed the murders out of anger towards his girlfriend's family for separating him and his girlfriend. Harris was originally sentenced to life without parole by the jury through a 7–5 vote, but the judge overrode the jury's recommendation and sentenced him to six death sentences for all six counts of capital murder. |
| Shonelle Jackson | Murdered LeFrick Moore during the commission of a robbery. | 25 years, 6 days | |
| Toforest Johnson | Shot and murdered 49-year-old Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in 1995. | 27 years, 206 days | Johnson's conviction was controversial as his guilty verdict as centered on the testimony of a single witness who overheard Johnson allegedly admitting to the murder in a prison phone call. There were several alibi witnesses who testified that Johnson was at another part of the town when Hardy was killed, giving rise to concerns that Johnson was in |
| Jeremy Bryan Jones | Raped and murdered 43-year-old Lisa Marie Nichols. | 20 years, 210 days | Jones also confessed to committing twenty additional murders across four other states in a 12-year span. These confessions are considered dubious and he has since recanted them. |
| Jeffrey Lee | Murdered singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis and Elaine Thompson (Jimmy's ex-wife) during a robbery. | 25 years, 225 days | Scheduled to be executed on June 11, 2026. |
| Courtney Lockhart | Kidnapped and murdered 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk. | 15 years, 83 days | |
| Devin Moore | Murdered two police officers and a dispatcher. | 20 years, 230 days | |
| Cuhuatemoc Peraita | Killed a fellow inmate in 1999. | 24 years, 204 days | Peraita was originally serving life without parole for his role in the 1994 murders of three Popeyes restaurant workers. His accomplice was executed for these murders in 2017. |
| Ryan Clark Petersen | Killed three people during a nightclub shooting in 2012. | 9 years, 61 days | Petersen committed the shooting in retaliation after he was driven out of the nightclub for unruly behavior. Petersen also shot and wounded a fourth person during the shooting. Petersen was convicted of three counts of capital murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to death. |
| Jimmy O'Neal Spencer | Killed two elderly women and a seven-year-old boy during a robbery spree in July 2018. | 3 years, 191 days | At the time of the triple murder, Spencer was out on parole since November 2017 after serving two life sentences for multiple convictions of burglary, assault and escape. Spencer's case also led to the drastic decrease in the rate of parole approvals for prisoners in Alabama. |
| Kerry Spencer | Killed three Birmingham police officers in 2004. | 20 years, 243 days | Spencer shot all three officers and testified that he acted alone, but his alleged accomplice, Nathaniel Woods, was also sentenced to death. Woods was executed in 2020 in a highly publicized and controversial execution. |
| Christie Michelle Scott | Killed her six-year-old autistic son Mason Scott by arson in 2008. | 16 years, 292 days | Scott intentionally engineered the murder of her son Mason by starting a fire and disguising it as an accident. Scott's motive was to collect insurance money amounting to $175,000 through the death of Mason. |
| Jeremy Tremaine Williams | Raped, sodomized and murdered five-year-old Kamarie Holland in December 2021. | 2 years, 39 days | Williams was also charged for allegedly killing his one-month-old daughter in 2005 in Alaska. The victim's mother, Kristy Siple, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sex trafficking of her daughter and allowing Williams to rape her daughter. |
· List of death row inmates by jurisdiction › Arizona
John Allen
John Allen
Name
John Allen
Description of crime
Murder of his wife's cousin, Ame Deal.
Time on death row
8 years, 189 days
Other
On July 12, 2011, police officers were called to ten-year-old Ame Deal's home, where she was found dead in a small foot locker, having suffocated. Ame lived with a number of relatives, including her aunt and legal guardian, Cynthia Stoltzmann. Allen was Stoltzmann's daughter. The family first told the police officers that Ame was playing hide-n-see
Sammantha Allen
Sammantha Allen
Name
Sammantha Allen
Description of crime
Murder of her cousin, Ame Deal.
Time on death row
8 years, 290 days
Wendi Andriano
Wendi Andriano
Name
Wendi Andriano
Description of crime
Murder of her husband Joseph "Joe" Andriano.
Time on death row
21 years, 153 days
Other
During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joseph to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a thirteen-inch knife in the couple's Ahwatukee, Arizona apartment. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull, and traces of sodium azide were also found in his
Trent Benson
Trent Benson
Name
Trent Benson
Description of crime
Rapes and murders of two sex workers, 21-year-old Alisa Marie Beck and 44-year-old Karen Jane Campbell in Mesa, committed in 2004 and 2007, respectively.
Time on death row
14 years, 229 days
Other
Benson is serving 135 years imprisonment for two unrelated sexual assaults, and police believe he might be responsible for further crimes.
Jason Eugene Bush
Jason Eugene Bush
Name
Jason Eugene Bush
Description of crime
Murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in Arivaca, Arizona, during a home invasion.
Time on death row
15 years, 48 days
Other
Had ties with the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group. Convicted for four murders in total, and two suspected killings in 1997, was sentenced to death and received 78 years for other crimes just one month after his death sentence.
Shawna Forde
Shawna Forde
Name
Shawna Forde
Description of crime
15 years, 91 days
Time on death row
On May 30, 2009, Forde was active in the Minuteman movement, a grassroots anti-illegal immigration group that would station themselves along the U . southern border and keep watch for Mexicans crossing the border illegally and alert the Border Patrol. Forde allegedly boasted of robbing drug dealers to finance the movement. Prosecutors alleged Ford
Cleophus Cooksey Jr.
Cleophus Cooksey Jr.
Name
Cleophus Cooksey Jr.
Description of crime
Series of 8 murders between November and December 2017.
Time on death row
157 days
Other
Suspected of a 9th killing in 2017. Convicted of a separate murder in 2001.
Mark Goudeau
Mark Goudeau
Name
Mark Goudeau
Description of crime
Series of rapes and murders.
Time on death row
14 years, 175 days
Other
Goudeau is a serial killer and rapist, referred to as the Baseline Killer by law enforcement and media prior to his identification. Goudeau is believed to have committed nine counts of first degree murder (eight women and one man), in addition to fifteen sexual assaults on women and young girls, eleven counts of kidnapping, and a number of armed ro
Scott Lehr
Scott Lehr
Name
Scott Lehr
Description of crime
Kidnapped, raped and murdered Margaret Christorf in 1991 as well as Belinda Cronin and Michelle Morales in 1992.
Time on death row
28 years, 289 days
Other
Also known as the “Baby Seat Rapist”. Lehr had raped a total of 20 women, three of whom later died from fatal head injuries.
Charles Michael Hedlund
Charles Michael Hedlund
Name
Charles Michael Hedlund
Description of crime
Murdered 40-year-old Christine Mertens and 65-year-old James McClain in separate burglaries.
Time on death row
32 years, 298 days
Other
Both defendants, who are half-brothers, were sentenced to death
James Erin McKinney
James Erin McKinney
Name
James Erin McKinney
Description of crime
32 years, 305 days
Bryan Patrick Miller
Bryan Patrick Miller
Name
Bryan Patrick Miller
Description of crime
Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Angela Brosso in 1992 as well as Melanie Bernas in 1993.
Time on death row
2 years, 321 days
Other
Also known as the “Zombie Hunter” or “Canal Killer”. The murders were the first cold cases solved by genetic genealogy.
Cory Morris
Cory Morris
Name
Cory Morris
Description of crime
Murdered five women between September 2002 and April 2003.
Time on death row
20 years, 309 days
Other
Serial killer known as "The Crackhead Killer".
Scott Douglas Nordstrom
Scott Douglas Nordstrom
Name
Scott Douglas Nordstrom
Description of crime
One of the two gunmen involved in the 1996 Tucson murders
Time on death row
28 years, 5 days (first sentence; overturned)
16 years, 238 days (second sentence)
Other
Nordstrom was originally handed six death sentences in 1998, before his first death sentence was vacated for re-sentencing. Nordstrom was given two death sentences in his 2009 re-trial, in addition to four consecutive life terms without parole. Nordstrom's accomplice Robert Glen Jones Jr. was sentenced to death and executed on October 23, 2013. Dav
Roger Mark Scott
Roger Mark Scott
Name
Roger Mark Scott
Description of crime
Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke
Time on death row
35 years, 32 days
Other
Co-defendants James Lynn Styers and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015.
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr.
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr.
Name
Joseph Clarence Smith Jr.
Description of crime
Murders of Sandy Spencer and Neva Lee in 1975 and 1976 respectively
Time on death row
48 years, 266 days
Other
Smith was also responsible for several rapes committed between 1973 and 1976. Smith was on probation for a 1973 rape case when he committed the murders. Smith is the state's longest-serving prisoner on death row.
Preston Strong
Preston Strong
Name
Preston Strong
Description of crime
Murdered a family of six in 2005.
Time on death row
9 years, 18 days
Other
Strong was already serving a life sentence for murdering a physician when he was sentenced to death.
James Lynn Styers
James Lynn Styers
Name
James Lynn Styers
Description of crime
Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke
Time on death row
35 years, 161 days
Other
Co-defendants Roger Mark Scott and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015.
Robert Lee Walden
Robert Lee Walden
Name
Robert Lee Walden
Description of crime
Rape and murder of 31-year-old Miguela Burhans in her Tucson apartment on June 13, 1991.
Time on death row
33 years, 166 days
Other
Walden is also serving five life terms for another murder and four rapes, all committed within the Tucson area from 1989 to 1991. He has also been linked to a third murder, for which he has never been charged.
Ronald Turney Williams
Ronald Turney Williams
Name
Ronald Turney Williams
Description of crime
Murder of a man in 1981
Time on death row
42 years, 31 days
Other
Williams is currently serving two life terms in West Virginia for the murders of two police officers, who were killed four years apart. He killed one of them in 1979 while escaping prison and was later captured after he killed the man in Arizona.
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| John Allen | Murder of his wife's cousin, Ame Deal. | 8 years, 189 days | On July 12, 2011, police officers were called to ten-year-old Ame Deal's home, where she was found dead in a small foot locker, having suffocated. Ame lived with a number of relatives, including her aunt and legal guardian, Cynthia Stoltzmann. Allen was Stoltzmann's daughter. The family first told the police officers that Ame was playing hide-n-see |
| Sammantha Allen | Murder of her cousin, Ame Deal. | 8 years, 290 days | |
| Wendi Andriano | Murder of her husband Joseph "Joe" Andriano. | 21 years, 153 days | During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joseph to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a thirteen-inch knife in the couple's Ahwatukee, Arizona apartment. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull, and traces of sodium azide were also found in his |
| Trent Benson | Rapes and murders of two sex workers, 21-year-old Alisa Marie Beck and 44-year-old Karen Jane Campbell in Mesa, committed in 2004 and 2007, respectively. | 14 years, 229 days | Benson is serving 135 years imprisonment for two unrelated sexual assaults, and police believe he might be responsible for further crimes. |
| Jason Eugene Bush | Murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in Arivaca, Arizona, during a home invasion. | 15 years, 48 days | Had ties with the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group. Convicted for four murders in total, and two suspected killings in 1997, was sentenced to death and received 78 years for other crimes just one month after his death sentence. |
| Shawna Forde | 15 years, 91 days | On May 30, 2009, Forde was active in the Minuteman movement, a grassroots anti-illegal immigration group that would station themselves along the U . southern border and keep watch for Mexicans crossing the border illegally and alert the Border Patrol. Forde allegedly boasted of robbing drug dealers to finance the movement. Prosecutors alleged Ford | |
| Cleophus Cooksey Jr. | Series of 8 murders between November and December 2017. | 157 days | Suspected of a 9th killing in 2017. Convicted of a separate murder in 2001. |
| Mark Goudeau | Series of rapes and murders. | 14 years, 175 days | Goudeau is a serial killer and rapist, referred to as the Baseline Killer by law enforcement and media prior to his identification. Goudeau is believed to have committed nine counts of first degree murder (eight women and one man), in addition to fifteen sexual assaults on women and young girls, eleven counts of kidnapping, and a number of armed ro |
| Scott Lehr | Kidnapped, raped and murdered Margaret Christorf in 1991 as well as Belinda Cronin and Michelle Morales in 1992. | 28 years, 289 days | Also known as the “Baby Seat Rapist”. Lehr had raped a total of 20 women, three of whom later died from fatal head injuries. |
| Charles Michael Hedlund | Murdered 40-year-old Christine Mertens and 65-year-old James McClain in separate burglaries. | 32 years, 298 days | Both defendants, who are half-brothers, were sentenced to death |
| James Erin McKinney | 32 years, 305 days | ||
| Bryan Patrick Miller | Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Angela Brosso in 1992 as well as Melanie Bernas in 1993. | 2 years, 321 days | Also known as the “Zombie Hunter” or “Canal Killer”. The murders were the first cold cases solved by genetic genealogy. |
| Cory Morris | Murdered five women between September 2002 and April 2003. | 20 years, 309 days | Serial killer known as "The Crackhead Killer". |
| Scott Douglas Nordstrom | One of the two gunmen involved in the 1996 Tucson murders | 28 years, 5 days (first sentence; overturned) 16 years, 238 days (second sentence) | Nordstrom was originally handed six death sentences in 1998, before his first death sentence was vacated for re-sentencing. Nordstrom was given two death sentences in his 2009 re-trial, in addition to four consecutive life terms without parole. Nordstrom's accomplice Robert Glen Jones Jr. was sentenced to death and executed on October 23, 2013. Dav |
| Roger Mark Scott | Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke | 35 years, 32 days | Co-defendants James Lynn Styers and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015. |
| Joseph Clarence Smith Jr. | Murders of Sandy Spencer and Neva Lee in 1975 and 1976 respectively | 48 years, 266 days | Smith was also responsible for several rapes committed between 1973 and 1976. Smith was on probation for a 1973 rape case when he committed the murders. Smith is the state's longest-serving prisoner on death row. |
| Preston Strong | Murdered a family of six in 2005. | 9 years, 18 days | Strong was already serving a life sentence for murdering a physician when he was sentenced to death. |
| James Lynn Styers | Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke | 35 years, 161 days | Co-defendants Roger Mark Scott and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015. |
| Robert Lee Walden | Rape and murder of 31-year-old Miguela Burhans in her Tucson apartment on June 13, 1991. | 33 years, 166 days | Walden is also serving five life terms for another murder and four rapes, all committed within the Tucson area from 1989 to 1991. He has also been linked to a third murder, for which he has never been charged. |
| Ronald Turney Williams | Murder of a man in 1981 | 42 years, 31 days | Williams is currently serving two life terms in West Virginia for the murders of two police officers, who were killed four years apart. He killed one of them in 1979 while escaping prison and was later captured after he killed the man in Arizona. |
· List of death row inmates by jurisdiction › Arkansas
Randy William Gay
Randy William Gay
Name
Randy William Gay
Description of crime
Shot and killed 49-year-old Connie Snow, a stranger with whom he had gotten into an argument.
Time on death row
11 years, 66 days
Other
Had previously murdered his father-in-law and biological father in two separate incidents, in 1978 and 1991, respectively.
Zachary Holly
Zachary Holly
Name
Zachary Holly
Description of crime
Abducted, raped and strangled 6-year-old Jersey Bridgeman.
Time on death row
10 years, 362 days
Karl Douglas Roberts
Karl Douglas Roberts
Name
Karl Douglas Roberts
Description of crime
Raped and murdered 12-year-old Andria “Andi” Brewer.
Time on death row
26 years, 5 days
Other
Andria Brewer was the daughter of former Arkansas state representative Rebecca Petty. Brewer was also the niece of Roberts.
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| Randy William Gay | Shot and killed 49-year-old Connie Snow, a stranger with whom he had gotten into an argument. | 11 years, 66 days | Had previously murdered his father-in-law and biological father in two separate incidents, in 1978 and 1991, respectively. |
| Zachary Holly | Abducted, raped and strangled 6-year-old Jersey Bridgeman. | 10 years, 362 days | |
| Karl Douglas Roberts | Raped and murdered 12-year-old Andria “Andi” Brewer. | 26 years, 5 days | Andria Brewer was the daughter of former Arkansas state representative Rebecca Petty. Brewer was also the niece of Roberts. |
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