List of death row inmates in the United States

Robert Gregory Bowers

Perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; an antisemitic terrorist attack in which eleven people were murdered.

2 years, 94 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.

8 years, 299 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 .45-caliber handgun. Among those people who were killed was the senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. Roof is the first person on death row for federal hate crimes.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Co-perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people and injured 264 runners and spectators.

10 years, 134 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 Court two years later.

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.

20 years, 188 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, 129 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, 69 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.

15 years, 204 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.S. Army at the time of the murders) under separate sovereignty (see Double jeopardy).

Nicholas Acklin

Shot and murdered four people in 1996 inside a house in Huntsville, Alabama.

26 years, 364 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 arrested and sentenced to life in prison for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend.

Joey Wilson

27 years, 49 days

Donald Broadnax

Murdered his wife, 42-year-old Hector Jan Stamps, and her grandson, 4-year-old DeAngelo Marquez Stamps.

28 years, 54 days

The crimes were committed while he was on work release from a previous murder conviction.

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

10 years, 301 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, 77 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, 58 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 life imprisonment. Two of the other co-accused were sentenced to life in prison while the final member was jailed for 15 years for robbery after he testified against the others.

Michael Craig Maxwell

27 years, 128 days

Westley Devon Harris

Murdered six members of his girlfriend's family in 2002.

20 years, 85 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.

24 years, 171 days

Toforest Johnson

Shot and murdered 49-year-old Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in 1995.

27 years, 6 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 innocent.

Jeremy Bryan Jones

Raped and murdered 43-year-old Lisa Marie Nichols.

20 years, 10 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, 25 days

Courtney Lockhart

Kidnapped and murdered 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk.

14 years, 248 days

Devin Moore

Murdered two police officers and a dispatcher.

20 years, 30 days

Cuhuatemoc Peraita

Killed a fellow inmate in 1999.

24 years, 4 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.

Kerry Spencer

Killed three Birmingham police officers in 2004.

20 years, 43 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, 92 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.

1 year, 204 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.

John Allen

Murder of his wife's cousin, Ame Deal.

7 years, 354 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-seek and locked herself in the trunk the night before, after the adults went to sleep. During interrogation, Sammantha and her husband John confessed to locking Ame in the trunk as a form of punishment, because she took a popsicle without permission.[citation needed]

Sammantha Allen

Murder of her cousin, Ame Deal.

8 years, 90 days

Wendi Andriano

Murder of her husband Joseph "Joe" Andriano.

20 years, 318 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 system.Approximately one hour before Joe's murder, his wife Wendi had called 911 at the behest of a co-worker, claiming that her terminally ill husband was dying. When paramedics arrived however, Wendi turned them away, stating that Joe had a do-not-resuscitate order, and that his wish was to die. Paramedics left the scene. One hour later, Wendi called 911 again, reporting that she had stabbed and beaten her husband to death in self-defense. She also made claims that her husband was physically and psychologically abusive toward her. However, being that Joe was weak from chemotherapy and the sodium azide poisoning, he was unable to defend himself.

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, 29 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.

14 years, 213 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

14 years, 256 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.S. 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 Forde and her associates entered the trailer disguised as government officials looking for fugitives. No drugs were found in the trailer. Albert Gaxiola, who participated in the May 30, 2009 murders, received life without parole plus 54 years.

Mark Goudeau

Series of rapes and murders.

13 years, 340 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 robberies.

Scott Lehr

Kidnapped, raped and murdered Margaret Christorf in 1991 as well as Belinda Cronin and Michelle Morales in 1992.

28 years, 89 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, 98 days

Both defendants, who are half-brothers, were sentenced to death

James Erin McKinney

32 years, 105 days

Bryan Patrick Miller

Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Angela Brosso in 1992 as well as Melanie Bernas in 1993.

2 years, 121 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, 109 days

Serial killer known as "The Crackhead Killer".

Scott Douglas Nordstrom

One of the two gunmen involved in the 1996 Tucson murders

27 years, 170 days (first sentence; overturned)16 years, 38 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. David Nordstrom, who was the get-away driver of the pair, was jailed for armed robbery after agreeing to testify against his brother and Jones in their respective murder trials.

Roger Mark Scott

Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke

34 years, 197 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.

Preston Strong

Murdered a family of six in 2005.

8 years, 183 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

34 years, 326 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.

32 years, 331 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

41 years, 196 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.

Randy William Gay

Shot and killed 49-year-old Connie Snow, a stranger with whom he had gotten into an argument.

10 years, 231 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, 162 days

Karl Roberts

Raped and murdered 12-year-old Andria “Andi” Brewer.

25 years, 170 days

Andria Brewer was the daughter of former Arkansas state representative Rebecca Petty.

Isauro Aguirre

Tortured and murdered his girlfriend's son, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez.

7 years, 337 days

Pearl Fernandez, Gabriel's mother, was sentenced to life without parole.

Rosie Alfaro

Murder of 9-year-old Autumn Wallace.

33 years, 114 days

Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty.

Alejandro Avila

Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion.

20 years, 173 days

Hector Ayala

Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop.

35 years, 340 days

Ronaldo Ayala

36 years, 269 days

Cimarron Bell

Shot his girlfriend Ineka Edmondson in La Habra on November 11, 2003, and three men at his house in South Whittier on January 27, 2004.

14 years, 80 days

The accomplice in the latter crime, Briaell Michael Lee, is serving a 40-years-to-life sentence.

Richard Delmer Boyer

Murdered elderly couple Francis and Eileen Harbitz in 1982.

40 years, 326 days

He was about to be released by the police when he admitted to committing the crime.

Luis Bracamontes

Shot and killed Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County detective Michael Davis Jr. in October 2014.

7 years, 194 days

Vincent Brothers

Murdered his wife, mother-in-law and three children.

18 years, 39 days

In 2003, Brothers drove from Columbus, Ohio to Bakersfield, California to murder his family. He then drove back to Columbus and flew back to California to find his family murdered. He was on trial two years later and convicted on all counts.

Albert Greenwood Brown

Abducted, raped and murdered 15-year-old Susan Louise Jordan.

43 years, 248 days

Brown posed as a jogger and dragged Jordan, who was on her way to school, into the woods, where he then strangled her with her shoelace. Brown then made numerous calls to the Riverside Police Department and the Jordan residence.

David Carpenter

Murdered six women and one man in 1979–1980 on hiking trails near San Francisco, California.

40 years, 354 days

Carpenter is known as the Trailside Killer. He is suspected in the murders of at least three other women and was found guilty of seven murders in two separate trials, one in 1984 and another in 1988. He is the oldest death row inmate in California.

Dean Carter

Raped and strangled four women in April 1984.

35 years, 271 days

Steven David Catlin

Poisoned two of his wives and his adoptive mother.

35 years, 118 days

Run Chhoun

Killed nine people during the summer of 1995, including a family of five.

23 years, 238 days

Was a member of the Tiny Rascal Gang. Co-defendant and fellow gang member Samreth Pan was also sentenced to death, but for only four of the murders.

Herbert Coddington

Murdered chaperones Maybelle Martin and Dorothy Walsh at his home in South Lake Tahoe in 1987.

36 years, 279 days

Killed the victims after kidnapping two teenage models who worked for Martin's modeling agency. Also considered a suspect in the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cynthia Coffman

Murders of four women from October to November 1986 during robberies.

36 years, 66 days

Coffman insisted that she suffered from battered-woman syndrome.

James Marlow

Marlow sexually assaulted two of their victims.

Kevin Cooper

Axing and stabbing of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and their son Joshua's friend Christopher Hughes.

40 years, 168 days

8-year-old Joshua had his throat cut but survived the attack.Cooper escaped several times from custody in Pennsylvania and from the minimum security section of California Institution for Men in Chino.

Michael Cox

Kidnapped and killed three teenage girls in Placerville, California, between June and August 1984.

39 years, 335 days

Tiequon Cox

Shot and killed four relatives of former NFL player Kermit Alexander.

39 years, 182 days

Cox was a noted member of the Rollin' 60 Crips.

Kerry Lyn Dalton

Tortured and murdered Irene 'Melanie' Louise in 1988.

30 years, 166 days

Irene Louise's body was never found.

Joseph Danks

Strangled his 67-year-old cellmate to death in 1990.

32 years, 217 days

Was serving a life sentence for the murders of six transients in Koreatown, Los Angeles in January 1987.

Richard Allen Davis

Kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas.

29 years, 92 days

His criminal record fueled support for passage of California's "three-strikes law".

Skylar Preciosa Deleon

Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks.

16 years, 209 days

Both defendants were judged separately, Deleon was also charged with the murder of John Jarvi, a resident of Anaheim, California.

John Kennedy

16 years, 188 days

Robert Mark Edwards

Sexually assaulted and murdered 55-year-old realtor Marjorie Deeble, the mother of his girlfriend, at her home in Los Alamitos in May 1986.

27 years, 52 days

Also convicted for a similar murder in Kihei, Hawaii on January 25, 1993, for which he was given five life terms.

Pedro Espinoza

Murder of Jamiel Shaw II.

13 years, 177 days

Richard Farley

Shot and killed seven people and wounded four others.

33 years, 292 days

Laura Black, a former coworker Farley had been stalking for four years prior to his rampage, was shot unconscious, but she survived.

Wayne Adam Ford

Confessed to killing four women in 1997 and 1998.

19 years, 96 days

Ford was arrested after he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He is believed to have killed others.

Rickie Lee Fowler

Perpetrator of the Old Fire which killed six people.

13 years, 281 days

The fire caused at least $1.2 billion in damages.

Michael Gargiulo

Murdered at least two women between 2001 and 2005.

4 years, 95 days

Believed to be responsible for other murders in different states, including his former neighbor, who was murdered in 1993 in Glenview, Illinois.

Steven Dean Gordon

Raped and strangled four sex workers in Santa Ana and Anaheim from 2013 to 2014.

8 years, 275 days

Gordon's accomplice, fellow sex offender Franc Cano, pleaded guilty to four murders and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Both men are also accused in the murder of a fifth victim, but neither has been charged.

Jose Guerrero

Murders of three women in Madera from 1995 to 1998.

16 years, 132 days

Guerrero was arrested six years after the last crime based on DNA evidence after he had been jailed for a DUI.

Kevin Haley

Rapes and murders of two women during burglaries in Los Angeles in 1984, both committed on separate occasions.

37 years, 33 days

Haley committed these crimes in the midst of a crime spree with the help of his older brother Reginald, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Haleys are prime suspects in six additional murders, but were never charged.

Glenn Helzer

Cult leader who murdered five people in 2000.

20 years, 237 days

His brother, Justin, was also sentenced to death, but committed suicide in 2013.

Ivan Hill

Committed nine murders between 1979 and 1994.

18 years, 229 days

Hill dumped his victims' corpses along California State Route 60, earning him the nickname The 60 Freeway Killer.

Eric Houston

Perpetrator of the Lindhurst school shooting which killed four people and injured ten others.

32 years, 45 days

Michael Hughes

Raped and strangled at least seven women between 1986 and 1993.

13 years, 126 days

In 1998, Hughes was originally sentenced to life without parole.

Michael Jackson

Shot and killed a police officer in August 1983.

41 years, 168 days

Was high on phencyclidine at the time of the killing.

Emrys John

Murder of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak.

12 years, 81 days

Tyrone Miller

12 years, 109 days

Kesaun Sykes

10 years, 363 days

Bryan Maurice Jones

Raped and murdered sex workers JoAnn Sweets and Sophia Glover in May and August 1986

31 years, 47 days

Known as "The Dumpster Killer" for leaving his victims' bodies in dumpsters, sometimes setting them alight. Also charged with two other murders dating back to 1985, but was never brought to trial due to his existing death sentence.

Randy Kraft

Raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered a minimum of sixteen young men.

35 years, 341 days

In a series of killings spanning between 1972 and 1983, the majority of his crimes were committed in California. He is suspected of having raped and murdered 51 other boys and young men.

Cherie Lash-Rhoades

Shot six people at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office in Alturas, killing four on February 20, 2014.

8 years, 199 days

One of the injured was also attacked with a butcher knife after Lash-Rhoades ran out of ammunition.

Eric Leonard

Murdered 6 people in two separate robberies in Sacramento in 1991.

29 years, 145 days

Committed two robberies in February 1991, killing six employees of the stores in total. In May 2007, the Supreme Court of California upheld his death sentence.

Gunner Lindberg

Tortured and stabbed 24-year-old Thien Minh Ly, a Vietnamese-American, 22 times.

27 years, 318 days

Lindberg and his accomplice, 17-year-old Domenic Christopher, encountered Ly, who was around the tennis courts at Tustin High School. Lindberg and Christopher trapped Ly on the courts, beat him, kicked him, and then stabbed him.

Kendrick Loot

Killed three people during robberies from 1995 to 1996.

25 years, 255 days

Was the accomplice of Bruce Millsap, who committed five additional murders. He was sentenced to death for all eight.

David Allen Lucas

Murdered two women and one young boy in 1979 and 1984.

36 years, 47 days

Lucas was also suspected of three similar murders that occurred in the same time period, but was acquitted at trial.

Jarvis Jay Masters

Convicted of participating in the murder of Sergeant Howell Burchfield in 1985.

35 years, 98 days

Masters was originally sent to prison for armed robbery. He was convicted of fashioning the weapon that was used by Andre Johnson, another inmate in the murder of Sergeant Burchfield.

Robert Maury

Murdered at least three women in Shasta County in the late 1980s.

35 years, 364 days

Timothy Joseph McGhee

Serial killer from 1997 to 2003, killed twelve people.

16 years, 300 days

McGhee was a Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from Atwater Village, Los Angeles. He is believed to be responsible for at least 12 homicides, three of which led to convictions, and at least 10 attempted murders, four of which led to convictions. In 2025, McGhee's murder convictions and death penalty sentences were overturned by the California Supreme Court on grounds that juror was improperly dismissed during deliberations.

Charles "Chase" Merritt

Perpetrator of the McStay family murders.

5 years, 279 days

Merritt was convicted of torturing and murdering his business partner, Joseph McStay, Joseph's wife Summer, and their two young sons. The family went missing in February 2010, in a case that attracted national attention. Their remains were found in two shallow graves in November 2013 and Merritt was charged in November 2014. After numerous trial delays, a jury convicted Merritt in June 2019.

Andrew Mickel

Shot Red Bluff police officer David Mobilio.

20 years, 191 days

Bruce Millsap

Killed eight people during robberies from 1995 to 1996.

25 years, 249 days

Co-defendant Kendrick Loot was also sentenced to death, but for three of the murders.

Michael Morales

Raped, hammered and stabbed 17-year-old Terri Lynn Winchell.

42 years, 128 days

Morales's cousin, Richard Ortega, hired him to murder Winchell, Ortega's male lover's girlfriend. Richard Ortega was sentenced to life without parole. Morales's original execution date of February 21, 2006, was postponed as a result of two court-appointed anesthesiologists withdrawing from the procedure.

Joseph Naso

Drugged, raped and strangled four women between 1977 and 1994.

11 years, 344 days

Charles Ng

Serial killer in 1985.

26 years, 128 days

Ng is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice, Leonard Lake, at the latter's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.

Joseph Nissensohn

Raped and murdered 13-year-old Tammy Jarschke and 14-year-old Tanya Jones in 1981, and 15-year-old Kathy Graves in 1989

11 years, 153 days

Nissensohn was convicted following a cold case review of one case, and was implicated in the earlier murders by witness testimony. He had previously been convicted for the murder of a woman in Washington State and was serving a 25-year sentence.

Raymond Lee Oyler

Perpetrator of the Esperanza Fire which killed five firefighters.

16 years, 153 days

Samreth Pan

Killed four people in gang related shootings during the summer of 1995.

23 years, 237 days

Accomplice of Run Chhoun, who was sentenced to death for these crimes as well as the murder of five family members. Both were members of the Tiny Rascal Gang.

Gerald Parker

Raped and murdered five women in their homes.

26 years, 281 days

A sixth woman, who was pregnant, was also attacked by Parker. She survived, but her baby was delivered stillborn.

Cleophus Prince Jr.

Burglarized several homes and murdered six women, one of whom he raped.

32 years, 0 days

Ramon Rogers

Murdered his former roommate and two ex-girlfriends in San Diego from 1993 to 1996, dismembering their remains post-mortem.

28 years, 49 days

Additionally considered a suspect in the disappearance of a neighbor in Idaho in 1977, but never charged.

David Allen Rundle

Murdered two Placer County girls.

36 years, 45 days

Had also murdered a third woman in Sacramento for which he was sentenced to life.

Ramon Salcido

Murdered his wife, two of his three daughters, his mother in-law, her two daughters, and his work supervisor.

34 years, 323 days

Wesley Shermantine

Committed at least four murders from 1984 to 1999.

24 years, 168 days

One half of the Speed Freak Killers along with Loren Herzog, who committed suicide in 2012.

Mauricio Silva

Murdered three teenagers, including his half-sister, during a two-week killing spree in May 1984.

39 years, 77 days

The killings were committed less than a month after being paroled from a voluntary manslaughter conviction.

Gerald Frank Stanley

Murdered his fourth wife in 1980 after being paroled for the 1975 killing of his second wife.

41 years, 270 days

He is also suspected in the disappearance of his third wife in 1980.

Cary Stayner

Murdered 42-year-old Carole Sund and her daughter's friend, 16-year-old Argentine exchange student Silvina Pelosso, later he raped and slit the throat of Sund's daughter, 15-year-old Juliana Sund in 1999. He also murdered and beheaded 26-year-old Joie Ruth Armstrong, five months later.

22 years, 328 days

He is the older brother of kidnapping victim Steven Stayner, abducted by child molester Kenneth Parnell.

Charles Stevens

Murdered four people on Interstate 580 in 1989.

32 years, 98 days

Worked with an accomplice named Richard James Clark in some of the attacks.

William Suff

Raped, stabbed, strangled and/or mutilated at least twelve sex workers between 1986 and 1991.

30 years, 4 days

Suff and his ex-wife were previously convicted of beating their infant daughter to death.

Regis Deon Thomas

Three murders between 1992 and 1993.

30 years, 82 days

Bloods gang member. Two of the victims were officers in the Compton Police Department.

Chester Turner

Fifteen murders between 1987 and 1998.

18 years, 119 days

First sentenced for the murders of ten women and the unborn child of one of them. Then sentenced again for the other four murders.

Billy Ray Waldon

Murdered 42-year old Dawn Ellerman and her daughter, 13-year-old Erin Ellerman, during a robbery in which he also set the home of the victims on fire. Two weeks later he shot 59-year-old Charles Wells, who was working on a car.

33 years, 243 days

Creator of the constructed language Poliespo. In 2023, Waldon's convictions were overturned by the California Supreme Court on grounds that he was denied representation by competent counsel.

Darnell Keith Washington

Murdered 55-year-old Susie Ko during a home invasion.

8 years, 292 days

Washington committed the murder as well as numerous other serious crimes across southern California with his wife Tania.

Marcus Wesson

Mass shooting of nine of his children.

20 years, 95 days

Wesson's victims were his own children, fathered by incestuous relationships with his daughters and nieces, as well as the children by his wife.

David Alan Westerfield

Kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.

22 years, 293 days

Daniel Wozniak

Murder of PFC Samuel Eliezer Herr and his friend, Juri Kibuishi.

9 years, 33 days

Killed two people in an attempt to fund his 2010 wedding and honeymoon. A jury deliberated for 1 hour 14 minutes before recommending the death penalty, one of the shortest death penalty deliberations in Orange County history.

Lucious Boyd

Kidnapped, raped and stabbed 21-year-old Dawnia Dacosta with a screwdriver.

23 years, 137 days

He is a suspect in at least ten other homicides, rapes, and disappearances.

Tina Lasonya Brown

Kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Audreanna Zimmerman by beating and burning her alive in 2010.

13 years, 38 days

Brown's 16-year-old daughter Britnee Miller was sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder, while Brown's neighbour Heather Lee accepted a plea deal and thus given 25 years' jail for second-degree murder. Brown is presently the sole woman incarcerated on Florida's death row since 2023.

Daniel Conahan

Kidnapped, raped, tortured and strangled a 21-year-old man, tied him to a tree, then removed his genitals.

26 years, 268 days

Conahan is also a suspect in the deaths of twelve other men.

Rory Enrique Conde

Strangled six sex workers, including a male crossdresser, then had anal sex with their corpses.

25 years, 243 days

Mesac Damas

Murder of his wife and five children at their home.

8 years, 9 days

He was given six death sentences for each murder.

Leon Davis Jr.

Murders of four people.

14 years, 190 days

He was given an additional life sentence for killing the unborn child of one of the victims

Labrant Dennis

Murder of University of Miami football player Marlin Barnes and his girlfriend Timwanika Lumpkins.

26 years, 252 days

Dennis’ death sentence was reversed in 2020 and is awaiting a new sentencing hearing.

Wayne C. Doty

Murder of fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez in 2013.

12 years, 154 days (first sentence; overthrown)7 years, 174 days (second sentence)

Originally sentenced to death for the murder of Harvey Horne II in 1996, the Florida Supreme Court threw out Doty's sentence in 2016, but he was retried and received a new one in 2018. Has selected electrocution as his method of execution.

Kevin Foster

Shot high school music teacher Mark Schwebes.

27 years, 172 days

Two of Foster's accomplices were sentenced to life without parole. Another was sentenced to 32 years.

Leonard Gonzalez

Murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings.

14 years, 261 days

Gary Hilton

Kidnapped, robbed, murdered and dismembered Cheryl Dunlap at Apalachicola National Forest.

14 years, 198 days

He was also sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for the murder of Meredith Emerson, and was sentenced in North Carolina to four life sentences for the murders of John and Irene Bryant. Hilton is also suspected in the killing of Judy Smith.

Michael James Jackson

Kidnapped, robbed and buried alive his girlfriend's former neighbors, married couple James "Reggie" and Carol Sumner, both 61-year-old.

18 years, 68 days

Alan Wade, who help in the murders was sentenced to death. His girlfriend, Tiffany Cole was also sentenced to death, but retrial and sentenced to life on August 23, 2023. Bruce Nixon, who also participed in the murders was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Bryan Frederick Jennings

Kidnapped, raped and murdered six-year-old Rebecca Kunash in 1979 at Merritt Island, Florida.

45 years, 182 days

Jennings was first sentenced to death in 1980, before he was granted a re-trial twice due to procedural errors, and was once again sentenced to death in 1982 and 1986 respectively, with his latest death sentence being repeatedly upheld on appeal. Jennings is currently scheduled to be executed on November 13, 2025.

Michael King

Kidnapped, raped and murdered 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee.

16 years, 62 days

Markeith Loyd

Shot and killed Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton.

3 years, 247 days

Loyd was previously sentenced to life for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon.

Dontae Morris

Killed five people, including two police officers, in Tampa between May and June 2010.

11 years, 159 days

Mark Sievers

Orchestrated the murder of his wife, 46-year-old Teresa Sievers.

5 years, 306 days

Donald James Smith

Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.

7 years, 187 days

In April 2021, the Supreme Court of Florida upheld Smith's conviction and death sentence.

George Trepal

Poisoned and murdered his neighbor, 41-year-old Peggy Carr.

34 years, 244 days

Troy Victorino

Bludgeoned six people to death.

19 years, 45 days

Victorino and accomplice Jerone Hunter were both sentenced to death for the crime. The crime was the bloodiest mass murder in Volusia County history.

Frank A. Walls

Robbery and murder of five people in Ocean City from 1985 to 1987

33 years, 99 days

Granted a new trial in 1994, but was found guilty and was resentenced to death

Wade Wilson

Strangled two women to death then ran over the second victim multiple times.

1 year, 69 days

Called the Deadpool killer due to sharing the same name as the fictional character. His trial also occurred around the same time as the release of Deadpool & Wolverine.

Zephen Xaver

Perpetrated the 2019 Sebring shooting.

324 days

Tommy Zeigler

Quadruple murder of Eunice Zeigler, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and Charlie Mays.

49 years, 112 days

Zeigler's case has been the focus of controversy since he was denied bloodstain DNA analysis in 2013 and 2016, and touch DNA analysis in April 2017.Zeigler was scheduled to be executed on October 22, 1982. However, the U.S. District Court stayed the execution due to new evidence. Zeigler was then scheduled to be executed on May 20, 1986, but it was again stayed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals due to inadequate representation. Zeigler is Florida's longest-serving death row inmate.

David Edenfield

Raped and murdered 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr.

16 years, 30 days

Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia.

Tiffany Moss

Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss.

6 years, 189 days

Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia.

Jerry Scott Heidler

Murdered four members of the Daniels family in 1997.

26 years, 62 days

Heidler, who received four death sentences for the killings, had also kidnapped three other children from the same household where he committed the murders.

Michael Nance

Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking.

28 years, 40 days

Dorian Frank O'Kelley

Murdered 41-year-old Susan Pittman and her 13-year-old daughter Kimberly Pittman during a robbery in 2002.

19 years, 362 days

The men assaulted and tortured both the victims before Susan was stabbed to death while Kimberly died in a fire started by both men to burn the house and destroy evidence of their crime.

Darryl Scott Stinski

18 years, 145 days

Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace

Robbed and killed at least four elderly women between 1988 and 1989.

29 years, 243 days

Virgil Delano Presnell Jr.

Abducted, raped, and killed eight-year-old Lori Ann Smith in 1976.

49 years, 71 days

Presnell is the state's longest-serving death row inmate.

Reinaldo Rivera

Abducted, raped, and killed four women between 1999 and 2000.

21 years, 258 days

Azad Haji Abdullah

Murder by arson of his wife and attempted murder of their four children in Boise on October 5, 2002.

20 years, 347 days

Thomas Eugene Creech

Murder by beating of a fellow inmate on May 13, 1981.

49 years, 225 days(first sentence)42 years, 308 days(second sentence)

Previously on Idaho's death row; in 1977 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Idaho's previous death penalty on his appeal.

Chad Guy Daybell

Co-perpetrator of the murders of his wife and his lover's children in 2019.

1 year, 157 days

His co-defendant Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Timothy Alan Dunlap

Fatally shot a Soda Springs bank teller during a robbery on October 16, 1991.

33 years, 199 days

Also sentenced in Ohio for murdering his girlfriend.

James Harvey Hairston

Robbed and shot an elderly Downey couple on January 6, 1996.

29 years, 4 days

Denied retrial in 2010.

Erick Virgil Hall

Rape and murder of two women on September 24, 2000, and one in 2003.

21 years, 96 days

Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr.

Killed a Marsing woman and her nephew in July 1985.

39 years, 188 days

Denied retrial in 2010.

Jonathan Daniel Renfro

Shot dead Coeur d'Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore on May 5, 2015.

8 years, 23 days

Robin Lee Row

Murder by arson of her husband and their two children in February 1992.

31 years, 339 days

Only woman on Idaho's death row; housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center.

William Clyde Gibson

Rape and bludgeoning of 75-year-old Christine Whitis.

11 years, 359 days

Whitis was a family friend who had come to his New Albany home to console Gibson after his mother's death. Gibson has pleaded guilty to three murders. After he was arrested for Whitis' murder, police excavated Gibson's yard to recover the body of Stephanie Kirk, a 35-year-old Charlestown woman who disappeared in 2012. He also admitted to fatally stabbing Karen Hodella of Port Orange, Florida, in October 2002.

Eric Darnell Holmes

Stabbed to death 20-year-old Theresa Blosl and 30-year-old Charles Ervin.

32 years, 224 days

Holmes was fired from his job at Shoney's Restaurant after an argument with co-worker Amy Foshee. At closing on the day of his firing, Holmes waited in the parking lot with Michael Vance. Holmes and Vance attacked Foshee and two managers as they exited the building, stabbing them multiple times, and stealing the bank deposit money. The restaurant managers, Theresa Blosl and Charles Ervin, died; Foshee survived. Vance was tried separately and sentenced to 190 years.

Kevin Charles Isom

Shot his wife, 40-year-old Cassandra Isom and his two stepchildren, 16-year-old Michael Moore and 13-year-old Ci'Andria Cole.

12 years, 242 days

The crime was in response to learning his wife was planning to leave him. He then barricaded himself in the family's apartment and shot at police officers attempting to take him into custody.Isom's defense attorney argued that a death sentence was inappropriate given the emotional state of his client, who suffered an extreme emotional disturbance from losing his job and then being left by his wife. However, the prosecution pointed out that he was extremely abusive and unfaithful to his wife and drove her away.

Michael Dean Overstreet

Raped, strangled and shot 18-year-old Kelly Eckart.

25 years, 97 days

Kelly Eckart, an 18-year-old freshman at Franklin College, was last seen on September 27, 1997, after leaving work. The next morning, her car was found abandoned in a rural area, with its lights on and keys in the ignition. She was found in a ravine in Brown County four days later. She had been shot and strangled. Semen found on the body was matched to Overstreet.He has schizoaffective disorder and had hallucinations as a child. He was discharged from the marines on the basis of mental illness. A judge determined Overstreet was not competent to be executed in November 2014. The Indiana Attorney General chose not to appeal the decision. He remains on death row indefinitely.

Jeffrey Alan Weisheit

Murder by arson of the two children of his girlfriend, 8-year-old Alyssa and 5-year-old Caleb Lynch.

12 years, 117 days

After his arrest, Weisheit admitted stuffing a dish towel in Caleb's mouth and using duct tape to bind his arms behind his back. Two flares were found near the boy's body. Autopsies revealed the children were alive when the fire was set. He told police he did it because Caleb was misbehaving on the night before the fire. Weisheit allegedly has bipolar disorder.

Reginald Carr

Five random brutal crimes committed from December 7 to 14, 2000.

22 years, 355 days (first sentence; overturned)9 years, 289 days (second sentence)

After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned their death sentences, the United States Supreme Court reinstated them on January 20, 2016.

Jonathan Carr

Scott Cheever

Murder of Sheriff Matt Samuels in January 2005.

17 years, 286 days

Kyle Trevor Flack

Shot two men, and a mother and daughter on May 1, 2013.

9 years, 171 days

Sidney Gleason

Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wornkey in February 2004.

19 years, 69 days (first sentence; overturned)9 years, 289 days (second sentence)

After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.

James Kraig Kahler

Murders of his wife Karen, his two daughters, Lauren and Emily, and his wife's grandmother, Dorothy Wight.

14 years, 25 days

Gary Kleypas

1996 rape and murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg, Kansas.

27 years, 239 days (first sentence; overturned)16 years, 337 days (second sentence)

The Kansas Supreme Court, in its review of his case, found serious errors with the state's death penalty statute and ordered that the penalty phase of his trial be redone. The sentence was overturned in 2001. In 2008, he was sentenced to death again.

John E. Robinson Sr.

Capital murder convictions for the murders of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten and first degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985.

22 years, 288 days

In 2005, he admitted responsibility for five additional homicides across the river, at trial in Kansas City, Missouri, in a deal to receive multiple life sentences without possibility of parole and avoid more death sentences. In 2015 the Kansas Supreme Court overturned Robinson's convictions for the murders of Suzette Trouten and Lisa Stasi on technicalities but his death sentence for the murder of Izabel Lewicka was upheld.

Justin Thurber

Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm in 2007.

16 years, 230 days

In October 2017, he appealed death sentence with arguments whether he is developmentally disabled. The judge rejected the defense's request for a hearing on whether Thurber is developmentally disabled, ruling that the defense had not presented enough evidence to warrant a hearing.

Ralph Baze

Shot two police officers at his home.

31 years, 274 days

He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees

Virginia Susan Caudill

Murdered 73-year-old Lonetta White during a robbery in 1998 and later burned her body.

25 years, 226 days

Caudill is the only woman on Kentucky's death row. Caudill, along with co-defendant Jonathan Goforth (1960-2025), were the first two people sentenced to death in modern-era Kentucky for murdering an African-American person.

Victor Dewayne Taylor

Kidnapped, robbed and shot two 17-year-old Trinity High School students.

39 years, 166 days

Taylor's cousin, George Wade, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Larry Lamont White

Robbery and shooting of 22-year-old Pamela Armstrong in Louisville on June 4, 1983.

40 years, 235 days (first sentence; overturned)19 years, 103 days (second sentence)

White was initially convicted and sentenced to death for two other murders committed between June and July 1983, but his sentence was overturned and he was resentenced to 29 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 2001 and rearrested for violating his parole in 2006, when he was linked via DNA to Armstrong's killing.

Anthony Bell

Convicted of murdering his wife and four in-laws during a church shooting in 2006.

17 years, 54 days

Bell was sentenced to five consecutive death sentences for the first-degree murders of all five victims. He also received a 50-year prison term for the attempted murder of his mother-in-law, who was the sole survivor of the shooting.

Daniel Blank

Convicted of the 1997 murder of 71-year-old Lillian Philippe.

25 years, 331 days

Dubbed the "River Parishes serial killer", Blank had murdered a total of six people, including Philippe. Blank was sentenced to death only for Philippe's murder, in addition to four sentences of life without parole for another four of the killings, but never stood trial for the sixth murder.

Henri Broadway

Involved in the murder of 36-year-old police officer Betty Smothers.

29 years, 273 days

The murdered police officer was the mother of Warrick Dunn, a former NFL running back. Broadway's accomplice, Kevan Brumfield, was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life on July 20, 2016, as he was ruled too intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution.

David Brown

Murdered 49-year-old Corrections Captain David Knapps at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1999.

14 years, 6 days

Brown and Clark were both members of the "Angola 5", a group of five inmates involved in an escape attempt that led to the murder of Knapps. Brown was serving a life sentence for a 1992 second-degree murder case while Clark was originally sentenced to death for a 1984 murder case before the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The remaining three Angola 5 members – David Mathis, Barry Edge and Robert Carley – were all sentenced to life without parole for their participation in the murder.

Jeffrey Cameron Clark

14 years, 165 days

Nathaniel Code

Mass murder of four people.

34 years, 284 days

Code had also been responsible for at least four other murders, and investigators believe his murder count could be as high as twelve.

Antoinette Frank

Murdered 25-year-old police officer Ronald Williams and 17-year-old Cuong Vu and 24-year-old Ha Vu, a brother and a sister owners of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard.

30 years, 16 days

Frank was a New Orleans police officer. Her accomplice, Roger Lacaze was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life.

Kyle David Joekel

Shot and murdered two police officers, 34-year-old Brandon Nielsen and 27-year-old Jeremy Triche, in a mass shooting in 2012.

2 years, 268 days

Joekel was one of the two shooters involved in the shooting, which also left another two policemen injured. The other shooter, Brian Lyn Smith, was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial and detained in a mental facility. Three members of Smith's family and his girlfriend were arrested for lesser charges of being an accessory to attempted first-degree murder.

Jesse Montejo

Shot and killed a business owner inside a home.

20 years, 176 days

Larry Roy

Slashed five people in 1993 at Cheneyville, Louisiana, which led to the deaths of 33-year-old Freddie Richard Jr. and 75-year-old Rosetta Silas.

31 years, 67 days

Dubbed the "Cheneyville Slasher" by the media, Roy attacked Richard's ex-wife, who was his former girlfriend, after she broke off their relationship, resulting in the slashings.

Todd Wessinger

Shot and killed two restaurant employees, 27-year-old Stephanie Guzzardo and 46-year-old David Breakwell, during a robbery in 1995

28 years, 49 days

Wessinger used to work as a dishwasher at the restaurant where he robbed and later shot his three former co-workers, which led to the deaths of Breakwell and Guzzardo and a third victim injured.

Martez Terrell Abram

Fatally shot two colleagues at a Walmart store and wounded a police officer during a gunfight near the store.

2 years, 338 days

Abram was given two death sentences for two counts of first-degree murder and life imprisonment for one count of attempted murder.

Anthony Carr

Tortured and murdered four members of the Parker family.

35 years, 47 days

Carr was sentenced to death for all four of the murders, while Simon was sentenced to death for three, receiving a life sentence for the fourth.

Robert Simon Jr.

35 years, 23 days

Willie Cory Godbolt

Fatally shot eight people in a killing spree in Lincoln County, Mississippi, including police officer William Durr.

5 years, 251 days

Godbolt was given four death sentences and six life sentences plus 40 years.

Lisa Jo Chamberlin

Murdered 34-year-old Vernon Hulett and 38-year-old Linda Heinztelman in 2004

19 years, 93 days

Chamberlin, who received two death sentences for both counts of capital murder, is the only woman on Mississippi's death row. Chamberlin's boyfriend, Roger Lee Gillett, was originally sentenced to death in 2007 for the murders, but his death sentences were commuted to life without parole in 2018.

Willie Jerome Manning

Murdered 19-year-old Jon Steckler and 22-year-old Tiffany Miller.

30 years, 362 days

Manning was sentenced to death for two separate double murders. One of these convictions was overturned but he remains on death row for the other one.

Terrance Anderson

Murdered Stephen and Debbie Rainwater, his ex-girlfriend's parents.

24 years, 173 days

William Theodore Boliek Jr.

Murdered 18-year-old Jody Harless in Kansas City in 1983.

40 years, 329 days

In 1997, Boliek was granted a stay of execution by Governor Mel Carnahan. Carnahan died in a plane crash in 2000 and Boliek's case was not resolved. A court determined only Carnahan could overturn the stay, effectively leaving Boliek's case in permanent limbo. Governor Jay Nixon's office determined Boliek would not be executed and he will spend the remainder of his life in prison. Boliek is Missouri's longest-serving death row inmate.

Richard Emery

Murdered his girlfriend and her family in their home.

3 years, 2 days

Charles Lee Mathenia

Murdered elderly sisters, 72-year-old Daisy Nash and 70-year-old Louanna Bailey in 1984.

40 years, 301 days

In 1994, he was declared mentally disabled.

Vincent McFadden

Fatally shot his girlfriend's sister, 18-year-old Leslie Addison.

20 years, 194 days

McFadden also committed another fatal shooting in 2002.

Roosevelt Pollard

Murdered Richard Alford, an Arkansas businessman.

39 years, 282 days

Pollard has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. In 1999, he was ruled incompetent.

Joshua Rocha

Murdered North Kansas City Police Officer, Daniel Vasquez.

28 days

Craig Michael Wood

Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 10-year-old Hailey Owens.

7 years, 298 days

William Jay Gollehon

Murder by bludgeoning of Gerald Pileggi, an inmate during a riot in 1991.

33 years, 234 days

At that moment, Gollehon was serving a 130-year sentence for murdering a woman.

Ronald Allen Smith

Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982.

42 years, 228 days

Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.

Roy Ellis

Abducted, sexually assaulted, and beat 12-year-old Amber Harris to death with a hammer, later he threw her body into a ravine.

16 years, 272 days

Ellis was a registered sex offender at the time of the murder

Jorge Galindo

Shooting of five people in a failed bank robbery.

20 years, 360 days

Gabriel Rodriguez, who participed in the failed robbery was sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment.

Jose Sandoval

20 years, 278 days

Erick Fernando Vela

18 years, 297 days

Anthony Garcia

Committed two separate double murders in March 2008 and May 2013.

7 years, 52 days

Jeffrey Hessler

Kidnapped, raped and murdered 15-year-old Heather Guerrero.

20 years, 171 days

Nikko Allen Jenkins

Killed four people in 2013 over the course of 10 days in a killing spree.

8 years, 159 days

John Lotter

Murdered 19-year-old Phillip DeVine, 24-year-old Lisa Lambert and 21-year-old Brandon Teena.

29 years, 257 days

Days prior, Teena had reported to police that Lotter and his accomplice Tom Nissen had beat and raped him upon discovering he was transgender. Nissen was sentenced to life.

Raymond Mata Jr.

Kidnapped, murdered and dismembered 3-year-old Adam Gomez, his ex-girlfriend's son.

25 years, 157 days

Marco Torres

Execution style shooting of two men, with one of the victims being strangled and bound.

15 years, 280 days

Aubrey Clifton Trail

Killed and dismembered 24-year-old Sydney Loofe.

4 years, 149 days

His accomplice, Bailey Boswell, was sentenced to life in prison.

James Biela

Kidnapped, raped and murdered 19-year-old Brianna Denison.

15 years, 162 days

Zane Michael Floyd

Shot four employees during a mass shooting in a supermarket.

25 years, 116 days

David Stephen Middleton

Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 42-year-old Thelma Davila and 45-year-old Katherine Powell in 1994 and 1995, respectively.

28 years, 48 days

Middleton was an ex-police officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department, Middleton is a suspect in a third murder committed in Colorado in 1993 and rapes done during his tenure with the Miami-Dade PD.

Michael Kiser Addison

Murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer, on October 16, 2006.

16 years, 322 days

Only death row inmate in New Hampshire due to the subsequent abolition of state capital punishment.

Mikel Edward Brady II

Murdered four prison employees during a foiled prison escape attempt in 2017.

6 years, 8 days

The fourth accomplice, Seth Jameson Frazier, was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without parole for his role in the murders. Brady was the leader of the four in the prison attack. Prior to the murders, Brady and Monk were incarcerated for attempted murder in unrelated cases, while Buckman was convicted and detained for second-degree murder in another case.

Wisezah Datawn Buckman

2 years, 2 days

Jonathan Michael Monk

223 days

Linwood Forte

Murders of three elderly Goldsboro residents in their homes committed between May and October 1990.

22 years, 28 days

Also serving four consecutive life sentences for rapes related to the crimes. Additionally suspected of a murder in 1994, but never charged.

Terry Hyatt

Kidnappings, rapes and murders of Harriet Simmons and Betty McConnell, committed four months apart in 1979.

25 years, 271 days

Also serving six life sentences for the same murders, and a seventh for a third murder committed in 1987.

Blanche Taylor Moore

Poisoned her boyfriend, Raymond Reid, with arsenic.

34 years, 291 days

Moore has also been linked to the deaths of her father, mother in law, and first husband.

Michael McGay Reeves

Murdered 27-year-old Susan Toler during a home invasion in 1989.

33 years, 175 days

Reeves, a convicted rapist, is suspected in two similar murders in Virginia and multiple sexual assaults across North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

Henry Louis Wallace

Raped and killed nine women between 1990 and 1994.

28 years, 280 days

Known as "The Taco Bell Strangler". Wallace confessed to the murders of eleven women.

Lesley Eugene Warren

Raped and murdered his girlfriend Jayme Hurley and student Katherine Johnson on separate occasions in 1990.

30 years, 30 days

Known as "The Babyface Killer". Warren was also sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a woman in South Carolina, and was never charged for a murder in New York. He confessed to four murders additional murders committed in the Carolinas, but these victims have never been identified.

John Williams Jr.

Raped and killed two women in 1996.

27 years, 246 days

Williams was the believed prime suspect in multiple murders across the Raleigh area.

Richard Beasley

Lured three men using a Craigslist ad for a non-existent job and shot them in 2011.

12 years, 230 days

His accomplice, Brogan Rafferty, was sentenced to life in prison.

George Brinkman

Killed a female friend, her two daughters, and an elderly couple who he was friends with in June 2017.

6 years, 312 days

First sentenced when he admitted to committing the Royalton murders, then sentenced again for the Lake Township murders. Scheduled to be executed on September 23, 2026.

Quisi Bryan

Killed a Cleveland police officer during a traffic stop in 2000.

24 years, 251 days

Scheduled to be executed on November 15, 2028.

Shawn Grate

Murdered five women from 2006 to 2016.

7 years, 157 days

An initial execution date was set upon conviction for September 13, 2018, but the execution was stayed due to a pending appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.

Danny Lee Hill

Raped and murdered a 12-year-old boy in 1985.

39 years, 245 days

Hill was one of two men convicted of the murder of Raymond Fife, but only Hill, who was 18 when the murder happened, was sentenced to death. Hill's accomplice, Timothy Combs, was sentenced to life in prison as he was 17 when the crime occurred and hence ineligible for the death sentence. Combs had since died in prison in 2018. Hill is scheduled to be executed on July 22, 2026.

Nathaniel E. Jackson

Shot his lover's ex-husband in order to collect his life insurance.

22 years, 329 days

Anthony Kirkland

Raped, strangled and burned the bodies of four females between 2006 and 2009.

15 years, 218 days

Kirkland previously served sixteen years for the beating, choking and burning murder of his girlfriend. He was handed two death sentences, plus two sentences of seventy years to life.

Michael Madison

Kidnapped, raped, strangled and mutilated three women in 2012 and 2013.

9 years, 145 days

Gregory McKnight

Kidnapped and murdered 20-year-old Emily Murray and hid her body in his trailer in 2000.

23 years, 6 days

McKnight had previously served seven years in a juvenile detention center for shooting and killing a man in 1992. The body of a different man was also found on McKnight's property in 2000.

Austin Myers

Orchestrated the murder of 18-year-old Justin Back.

11 years, 19 days

Timothy Mosley, Myers's accomplice, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence.

Donna Roberts

Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance.

22 years, 132 days

Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio.

William Kessler Sapp

Raped and murdered 11-year-old Martha Leach and 12-year-old Phree Morrow in 1992. One year later, he murdered 31-year-old Belinda Anderson.

26 years, 15 days

Raymond A. Twyford III

Murdered 37-year-old Richard Franks, who he suspected of raping his girlfriend's daughter.

32 years, 207 days

Christopher Whitaker

Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze.

7 years, 222 days

Scheduled to be executed in July 2026.

James D. Worley

Abducted and murdered 20-year-old Sierah Joughin.

7 years, 200 days

The murder prompted the creation of Ohio Senate Bill 231 'Sierah's Law', a statute that provides for a searchable database of convicted violent felons living in the state.