List of people executed in Indiana

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood.

A total of 22 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution. This was replaced with lethal injection in 1995. The executions on this list are of those executed by the state government of Indiana; this list does not include persons executed within Indiana by the Federal Government.^[1] Two other people, Alton Coleman and Michael Lee Lockhart, were sentenced to death in Indiana, but executed in other states.

List of people executed in Indiana since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Steven Timothy Judy	White	24	M	March 9, 1981	Morgan	Electrocution	4 murder victims[a]	Robert D. Orr
2	William Earl Vandiver	White	37	M	October 16, 1985	Lake		Paul Komyatti
3	Gregory Duane Resnover	Black	43	M	December 8, 1994	Marion		Indianapolis police Sergeant Jack R. Ohrberg	Evan Bayh
4	Tommie Joe Smith	Black	42	M	July 18, 1996		Lethal injection
5	Gary Burris	Black	40	M	November 20, 1997			Kenneth Chambers	Frank O'Bannon
6	Robert Allan Smith	White	47	M	January 29, 1998	Sullivan		Michael Wedmore
7	D. H. Fleenor	White	48	M	December 9, 1999	Johnson		Bill Harlow and Nyla Harlow
8	Gerald Wayne Bivins	White	41	M	March 14, 2001	Boone		William H. Radcliffe
9	James Lowery	White	54	M	June 27, 2001	Hendricks		Mark and Gertrude Thompson
10	Kevin Lee Hough	White	43	M	May 2, 2003	Allen		Ted Bosler and Gene Rubrake
11	Joseph L. Trueblood	White	46	M	June 13, 2003	Tippecanoe		Susan Bowsher, Ashlyn Bowsher, and William Bowsher
12	Donald Ray Wallace Jr.	White	47	M	March 10, 2005	Vigo		4 murder victims[b]	Mitch Daniels
13	William J. Benefiel Jr.	White	48	M	April 21, 2005			Delores Wells
14	Gregory Scott Johnson	White	40	M	May 25, 2005	Madison		Ruby Hutslar
15	Kevin Aaron Conner	White	40	M	July 27, 2005	Marion		Steven Wentland, Anthony Moore, and Bruce Voge
16	Alan Lehman Matheney	White	54	M	September 28, 2005	St. Joseph		Lisa Bianco
17	Marvin Bieghler	White	58	M	January 27, 2006	Howard		Tommy Miller and Kimberly Jane Miller
18	David Leon Woods	White	42	M	May 4, 2007	DeKalb		Juan Placencia
19	Michael Allen Lambert	White	36	M	June 15, 2007	Delaware		Muncie police officer Gregg William Winters
20	Matthew Eric Wrinkles	White	49	M	December 11, 2009	Vanderburgh		Debra Jean Wrinkles, Tony Fulkerson, and Natalie Fulkerson
21	Joseph Edward Corcoran	White	49	M	December 18, 2024	Allen		4 murder victims[c]	Eric Holcomb
22	Benjamin Donnie Ritchie	White	45	M	May 20, 2025	Marion		Beech Grove police officer William Ronald Toney	Mike Braun

Demographics

Race
White	19	86%
Black	3	14%
Age
20–29	1	5%
30–39	3	14%
40–49	15	68%
50–59	3	14%
Sex
Male	22	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	2	9%
1990–1999	5	23%
2000–2009	13	59%
2010–2019	0	0%
2020–2029	2	9%
Method
Lethal injection	19	86%
Electrocution	3	14%
Governor (Party)
Otis Bowen (R)	0	0%
Robert D. Orr (R)	2	9%
Evan Bayh (D)	2	9%
Frank O'Bannon (D)	7	32%
Joe Kernan (D)	0	0%
Mitch Daniels (R)	9	41%
Mike Pence (R)	0	0%
Eric Holcomb (R)	1	5%
Mike Braun (R)	1	5%
Total	22	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in Indiana
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. The 4 victims were: Terry Chasteen, Misty Zollers, Stephen Chasteen, and Mark Chasteen.
2. The 4 victims were: Patrick Gilligan, Teresa Gilligan, Lisa Gilligan, and Gregory Gilligan.
3. The 4 victims were: James Corcoran, Douglas A. Stillwell, Robert Scott Turner, and Timothy G. Bricker.