List of people executed in Mississippi

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.

Since 1976, 24 people convicted of capital murder have been executed by the state of Mississippi. Of the 24 people executed, 4 were executed via gas chamber and 20 via lethal injection.^[1]

List of people executed in Mississippi since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Jimmy Lee Gray	White	34	M	September 2, 1983	Jackson	Gas chamber[a]	Deressa Jean Scales	William F. Winter
2	Edward Earl Johnson	Black	26	M	May 20, 1987	Leake		Walnut Grove police officer J. T. Trest	William Allain
3	Connie Ray Evans	Black	27	M	July 8, 1987	Hinds		Arun Pahwa
4	Leo E. Edwards Jr.	Black	36	M	June 21, 1989			Linzy Don Dixon	Ray Mabus
5	Tracy Alan Hansen	White	39	M	July 17, 2002	Harrison	Lethal injection	Mississippi Highway Patrol officer David Bruce Ladner	Ronnie Musgrove
6	Jessie Derrell Williams	White	51	M	December 11, 2002	Jackson		Karon Ann Pierce
7	John B. Nixon	White	77	M	December 14, 2005	Rankin		Virginia Tucker	Haley Barbour
8	Bobby Glen Wilcher	White	43	M	October 18, 2006	Scott		Katie Bell Moore and Velma Odell Noblin
9	Earl Wesley Berry	White	49	M	May 21, 2008	Chickasaw		Mary Bounds
10	Dale Leo Bishop	White	34	M	July 23, 2008	Lee		Marcus James Gentry
11	Paul Everette Woodward	White	62	M	May 19, 2010	Perry		Rhonda Crane
12	Gerald James Holland	White	72	M	May 20, 2010	Harrison		Krystal King
13	Joseph Daniel Burns	White	42	M	July 21, 2010	Lee		Floyd Melvin McBride
14	Benny Joe Stevens	White	52	M	May 10, 2011	Marion		4 murder victims[b]
15	Rodney Gray	Black	39	M	May 17, 2011	Newton		Grace Blackwell
16	Edwin Hart Turner	White	38	M	February 8, 2012	Carroll		Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry	Phil Bryant
17	Larry Matthew Puckett	White	35	M	March 20, 2012	Forrest		Rhonda Hatten Griffis
18	William Gerald Mitchell	Black	61	M	March 22, 2012	Harrison		Patty Milliken
19	Henry Curtis Jackson	Black	47	M	June 5, 2012	Leflore		4 murder victims[c]
20	Jan Michael Brawner	White	34	M	June 12, 2012	Tate		4 murder victims[d]
21	Gary Carl Simmons Jr.	White	49	M	June 20, 2012	Jackson		Jeffrey Wolfe
22	David Neal Cox Sr.	White	50	M	November 17, 2021	Union		Kim Kirk Cox[e]	Tate Reeves
23	Thomas Edwin Loden Jr.	White	58	M	December 14, 2022	Itawamba		Leesa Marie Gray
24	Richard Gerald Jordan	White	79	M	June 25, 2025	Harrison		Edwina Marter

Demographics

Race
White	18	75%
Black	6	25%
Age
20–29	2	8%
30–39	8	33%
40–49	5	21%
50–59	4	17%
60–69	2	8%
70–79	3	13%
Sex
Male	24	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	4	17%
1990–1999	0	0%
2000–2009	6	25%
2010–2019	11	46%
2020–2029	3	13%
Method
Lethal injection	20	83%
Gas chamber	4	17%
Governor (Party)
Cliff Finch (D)	0	0%
William F. Winter (D)	1	4%
William Allain (D)	2	8%
Ray Mabus (D)	1	4%
Kirk Fordice (R)	0	0%
Ronnie Musgrove (D)	2	8%
Haley Barbour (R)	9	38%
Phil Bryant (R)	6	25%
Tate Reeves (R)	3	13%
Total	24	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in Mississippi
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Mississippi is the state with the highest amount of executions via gas chamber.
2. The 4 victims were: Glenda Reid, Wesley Lee Reid, Dylan Lee, and Heath Pounds.
3. The 4 victims were: Shunterica Lonnett Jackson, Dominique Devro Jackson, Antonio Terrell Jackson, and Andrew Odutola Kuyoro Jr.
4. The 4 victims were: Candice Paige Brawner, Barbara Faye Brawner, Carl Albert Craft, and Martha Jane Craft.
5. Also murdered his sister-in-law, Felicia Cox, but was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder of Kim Kirk Cox.