List of people executed in Arizona

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arizona since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 41 people, all male, have been executed in Arizona. All of them were convicted of murder and were executed at the Florence State Prison in Florence, Arizona.^[1]

List of people executed in Arizona since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Donald Eugene Harding	White	43	M	April 6, 1992	Pima	Gas chamber	Allen Gage, Robert Wise, and Martin Concannon	Fife Symington
2	John George Brewer	White	27	M	March 3, 1993	Coconino	Lethal injection	Rita Brier
3	James Dean Clark	White	35	M	April 14, 1993	Cochise		4 murder victims[a]
4	Jimmie Wayne Jeffers	White	49	M	September 13, 1995	Maricopa		Penelope Cheney
5	Daren Lee Bolton	White	29	M	June 19, 1996	Pima		Zosha Lee Picket
6	Luis Morine Mata	Hispanic	45	M	August 22, 1996	Maricopa		Debra Lee Lopez
7	Randy Greenawalt	White	47	M	January 23, 1997	Yuma		4 murder victims[b]
8	William Lyle Woratzeck	White	51	M	June 25, 1997	Pinal		Linda Leslie
9	Jose Jesus Ceja	Hispanic	42	M	January 21, 1998	Maricopa		Linda Leon and Randy Leon	Jane Dee Hull
10	Jose Roberto Villafuerte	Hispanic	45	M	April 22, 1998			Amelia Shoville
11	Arthur Martin Ross	White	43	M	April 29, 1998	Pima		James Ruble
12	Douglas Edward Gretzler	White	47	M	June 3, 1998			Michael Sandsberg and Patricia Sandsberg
13	Jess James Gillies	White	38	M	January 13, 1999	Maricopa		Suzanne Rossetti
14	Darrick Leonard Gerlaugh	Native American	38	M	February 3, 1999			Scott Schwartz
15	Karl-Heinz LaGrand	White	35	M	February 24, 1999	Pima		Kenneth Hartsock
16	Walter Bernhard LaGrand	White	37	M	March 3, 1999		Gas chamber
17	Robert Wayne Vickers	White	41	M	May 5, 1999	Pinal	Lethal injection	Frank Ponciano and Wilmar Holsinger
18	Michael Kent Poland	White	59	M	June 16, 1999	Yavapai		Cecil Newkirk and Russell Dempsey
19	Ignacio Alberto Ortiz	Hispanic	57	M	October 27, 1999	Pima		Manuelita McCormack
20	Anthony Lee Chaney	White	45	M	February 16, 2000	Coconino		Coconino County reserve deputy John B. Jamison
21	Patrick Gene Poland	White	50	M	March 15, 2000	Yavapai		Cecil Newkirk and Russell Dempsey
22	Donald Jay Miller	White	36	M	November 8, 2000	Pima		Jennifer Geuder
23	Robert Charles Comer	White	50	M	May 22, 2007	Maricopa		Larry Pritchard and Tracy Andrews	Janet Napolitano
24	Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan	Native American	50	M	October 26, 2010			Chester Dean Dyer	Jan Brewer
25	Eric John King	Black	47	M	March 29, 2011			Ron Barman and Richard Butts
26	Donald Edward Beaty	White	56	M	May 25, 2011			Christy Ann Fornoff
27	Richard Lynn Bible	White	49	M	June 30, 2011	Coconino		Jennifer Wilson
28	Thomas Paul West	White	52	M	July 19, 2011	Pima		Don Bortle
29	Robert Henry Moorman	White	63	M	February 29, 2012	Pinal		Roberta Maude Moorman
30	Robert Charles Towery	White	47	M	March 8, 2012	Maricopa		Mark Jones
31	Thomas Arnold Kemp	White	63	M	April 25, 2012	Pima		Hector Juarez
32	Samuel Villegas Lopez	Hispanic	49	M	June 27, 2012	Maricopa		Estafana Holmes
33	Daniel Wayne Cook	White	51	M	August 8, 2012	Mohave		Carlos Cruz-Ramos and Kevin Swaney
34	Richard Dale Stokley	White	60	M	December 5, 2012	Cochise		Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder
35	Edward Harold Schad Jr.	White	71	M	October 9, 2013	Yavapai		Lorimer Grove
36	Robert Glen Jones Jr.	White	43	M	October 23, 2013	Pima		6 murder victims[c]
37	Joseph Rudolph Wood III	White	55	M	July 23, 2014			Debbie Dietz and Eugene Dietz
38	Clarence Wayne Dixon	Native American	66	M	May 11, 2022	Maricopa		Deana Lynne Bowdoin	Doug Ducey
39	Frank Jarvis Atwood	White	66	M	June 8, 2022	Pima		Vicki Lynne Hoskinson
40	Murray Hooper	Black	76	M	November 16, 2022	Maricopa		William Patrick Redmond and Helen Genevieve Phelps
41	Aaron Brian Gunches	White	53	M	March 19, 2025			Ted Price	Katie Hobbs

Demographics

Race
White	31	76%
Hispanic	5	12%
Native American	3	7%
Black	2	5%
Age
20–29	2	5%
30–39	6	15%
40–49	15	37%
50–59	11	27%
60–69	5	12%
70–79	2	5%
Sex
Male	41	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	19	46%
2000–2009	4	10%
2010–2019	14	34%
2020–2029	4	10%
Method
Lethal injection	39	95%
Gas chamber	2	5%
Governor (Party)
Raúl Héctor Castro (D)	0	0%
Wesley Bolin (D)	0	0%
Bruce Babbitt (D)	0	0%
Evan Mecham (R)	0	0%
Rose Mofford (D)	0	0%
Fife Symington (R)	8	20%
Jane Dee Hull (R)	14	34%
Janet Napolitano (D)	1	3%
Jan Brewer (R)	14	35%
Doug Ducey (R)	3	7%
Katie Hobbs (D)	1	2%
Total	41	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in Arizona
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. The 4 victims were: Charles Thumm, Mildred Thumm, Gerald McFerron, and George Martin.
2. The 4 victims were: John Lyons, Donnelda Lyons, Christopher Lyons, and Theresa Tyson.
3. The 6 victims were: Chip O'Dell, Tom Hardman, Maribeth Munn, Carol Noel, Judy Bell, and Arthur 'Taco' Bell.