List of people executed in the United States in 2001

Sixty-six people, sixty-three male and three female, Wanda Jean Allen, Marilyn Kay Plantz, and Lois Nadean Smith, were executed in the United States in 2001, all by lethal injection. Oklahoma, eighteen executions, and Texas, seventeen executions, had the majority of executions carried out in 2001.^[1][2] One notable execution, Timothy McVeigh, was a convicted domestic terrorist who was responsible for carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. McVeigh's execution was the first to be carried out by the United States federal government since 1963.^[3] Only one execution occurred in September, as several were postponed due to the September 11 attacks.^[4][5][6] The attack on the Pentagon caused federal offices, including the United States Supreme Court, to shut down.^[7] The state of New Mexico carried out its last execution in 2001 before abolishing the death penalty in 2009.

List of people executed in the United States in 2001

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 9, 2001	Jack Wade Clark	37	26	11	Male	White	Texas	Lethal injection	[8]
2		Eddie Leroy Trice	48	34	14		Black	Oklahoma		[9]
3	January 11, 2001	Robert Dewey Glock II	39	22	17		White	Florida		[10]
4		Wanda Jean Allen	41	29	12	Female	Black	Oklahoma		[11]
5	January 16, 2001	Floyd Allen Medlock	30	20	10	Male	White			[12]
6	January 18, 2001	Alvin Urial Goodwin III	37	22	15			Texas		[13]
7		Dion Athanasius Smallwood	31		9		Hispanic	Oklahoma		[14]
8	January 23, 2001	Mark Andrew Fowler	35	20	15		White			[15]
9	January 25, 2001	Billy Ray Fox		19	16					[16]
10	January 29, 2001	Caruthers "Gus" Alexander	52	32	20		Black	Texas		[17]
11	January 30, 2001	Loyd Winford Lafevers	35	19	16		White	Oklahoma		[18]
12	February 1, 2001	Dorsie Leslie "Wayne" Jones Jr.	61	39	22					[19]
13	February 7, 2001	Stanley Dewaine Lingar	37	21	16			Missouri		[20]
14	February 8, 2001	Adolph Gil Hernandez	50	38	12		Hispanic	Texas		[21]
15	March 1, 2001	Thomas Wayne Akers	31	29	2		White	Virginia		[22]
16		Robert William Clayton	40	24	16			Oklahoma		[23]
17	March 7, 2001	Dennis Thurl Dowthitt	55	44	11			Texas		[24]
18	March 9, 2001	Willie Ervin Fisher	39	30	9		Black	North Carolina		[25]
19	March 14, 2001	Gerald Wayne Bivins	41	31	10		White	Indiana		[26]
20	March 27, 2001	Robert Lee Massie	59	37	22			California		[27]
21		Ronald Dunaway Fluke	52	48	4			Oklahoma		[28]
22	March 28, 2001	Tomas Grant Ervin	50	37	13			Missouri		[29]
23	April 3, 2001	Jason Eric Massey	28	20	8			Texas		[30]
24	April 21, 2001	Sebastian Stephanous Bridges	37	34	3			Nevada		[31]
25	April 25, 2001	Mose Young Jr.	45	27	18		Black	Missouri		[32]
26		David Lee Goff	32	21	11			Texas		[33]
27	April 26, 2001	David F. Dawson	46	31	15		White	Delaware		[34]
28	May 1, 2001	Marilyn Kay Plantz	40	27	13	Female		Oklahoma		[35]
29	May 8, 2001	Clay King Smith	30		3	Male		Arkansas		[36]
30	May 22, 2001	Terrance Anthony James	41	22	19			Oklahoma		[37]
31	May 23, 2001	Samuel D. Smith	40	26	14		Black	Missouri		[38]
32	May 25, 2001	Abdullah Tanzil Hameen	37	27	10			Delaware		[39]
33	May 29, 2001	Vincent Allen Johnson	42	32				Oklahoma		[40]
34	June 11, 2001	Timothy James McVeigh	33	26	7		White	Federal government		[41]
35	June 13, 2001	John Leslie Wheat	57	51	6			Texas		[42]
36	June 14, 2001	Jay D. Scott	48	30	18		Black	Ohio		[43]
37	June 19, 2001	Juan Raul Garza	44	33	11		Hispanic	Federal government		[44]
38	June 26, 2001	Miguel Richardson	46	24	22		Black	Texas		[45]
39	June 27, 2001	James Lowery	54	32			White	Indiana		[46]
40	July 11, 2001	Jerome Mallett	42	26	16		Black	Missouri		[47]
41		James Joseph Wilkens Jr.	39	25	14		White	Texas		[48]
42	July 17, 2001	Jerald Wayne Harjo	40	26			Native American	Oklahoma		[49]
43	August 8, 2001	Mack Oran Hill	47	33			White	Texas		[50]
44	August 16, 2001	Jeffrey Carlton Doughtie	39	31	8					[51]
45	August 24, 2001	Clifton Allen White	43	30	13			North Carolina		[52]
46	August 28, 2001	James Homer Elledge	58	55	3			Washington		[53]
47		Jack Dale Walker	35	22	13			Oklahoma		[54]
48	August 31, 2001	Ronald Wayne Frye	42	34	8			North Carolina		[55]
49	September 18, 2001	James Roy Knox	50	31	19			Texas		[56]
50	October 3, 2001	Michael S. Roberts	27	19	8			Missouri		[57]
51	October 12, 2001	David Junior Ward	39	29	10		Black	North Carolina		[58]
52	October 18, 2001	Christopher James Beck	26	20	6		White	Virginia		[59]
53		Alvie James Hale Jr.	53	35	18			Oklahoma		[60]
54	October 22, 2001	Gerald Lee Mitchell	33	17	16		Black	Texas		[61]
55	October 24, 2001	Stephen K. Johns	55	35	20		White	Missouri		[62]
56	October 25, 2001	Terry Michael Mincey	41	22	19			Georgia		[63]
57	November 6, 2001	Jose Martinez High	45	19	26		Black			[64]
58		Terry Douglas Clark		30	15		White	New Mexico		[65]
59	November 14, 2001	Jeffery Eugene Tucker	41	28	13			Texas		[66]
60	November 15, 2001	Fred Marion Gilreath Jr.	63	41	22			Georgia		[67]
61		Emerson Edward Rudd	31	18	13		Black	Texas		[68]
62	November 30, 2001	John Hardy Rose	43	32	11		White	North Carolina		[69]
63	December 4, 2001	Lois Nadean Smith	61	41	20	Female		Oklahoma		[70]
64	December 6, 2001	Sahib Lateef Al-Mosawi	53	44	9	Male	Arab			[71]
65	December 11, 2001	Byron Ashley Parker	41	23	18		White	Georgia	[72]
66	December 12, 2001	Vincent Edward Cooks	37		14		Black	Texas	[73]
		Average:	42 years	29 years	13 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	63	95%
Female	3	5%
Ethnicity
White	44	67%
Black	17	26%
Hispanic	3	5%
Arab	1	2%
Native American	1	2%
State
Oklahoma	18	27%
Texas	17	26%
Missouri	7	11%
North Carolina	5	8%
Georgia	4	6%
Delaware	2	3%
Federal government	2	3%
Indiana	2	3%
Virginia	2	3%
Arkansas	1	2%
California	1	2%
Florida	1	2%
Nevada	1	2%
New Mexico	1	2%
Ohio	1	2%
Washington	1	2%
Method
Lethal injection	66	100%
Month
January	11	17%
February	3	5%
March	8	12%
April	5	8%
May	6	9%
June	6	9%
July	3	5%
August	6	9%
September	1	2%
October	7	11%
November	6	9%
December	4	6%
Age
20–29	3	5%
30–39	23	35%
40–49	24	36%
50–59	13	20%
60–69	3	5%
Total	66	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2002	71
2001	66
2000	85
Total	222

See also

• List of death row inmates in the United States
• List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
• List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
• List of women executed in the United States since 1976