List of people executed in the United States in 2005

Sixty people were executed in the United States in 2005. Nineteen of them were in the state of Texas. One (Frances Elaine Newton) was female.^[1][2] The states of Connecticut and Maryland carried out their last executions in 2005, as both states abolished the death penalty in the early 2010s.^[3]

List of people executed in the United States in 2005

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 4, 2005	James Scott Porter	33	28	5	Male	White	Texas	Lethal injection	[4]
2	January 19, 2005	Donald Jay Beardslee	61	37	24			California		[5]
3	January 25, 2005	Troy Albert Kunkle	38	18	20			Texas		[6]
4		Timothy Don Carr	34	22	12			Georgia		[7]
5	February 17, 2005	Dennis Wayne Bagwell	41	31	10			Texas		[8]
6	March 1, 2005	Stephen Anthony Mobley	39	25	14			Georgia		[9]
7	March 8, 2005	William Henry Smith	47	29	18		Black	Ohio		[10]
8		George Anderson Hopper	49	27	22		White	Texas		[11]
9	March 10, 2005	Donald Ray Wallace Jr.	47	22	25			Indiana		[12]
10	March 11, 2005	William Dillard Powell	58	45	13			North Carolina		[13]
11	March 15, 2005	Jimmie Ray Slaughter	57	44				Oklahoma		[14]
12	March 16, 2005	Stanley L. Hall	37	26	11		Black	Missouri		[15]
13	April 5, 2005	Glen James Ocha	47	41	6		White	Florida		[16]
14	April 15, 2005	Richard Longworth	37	22	15			South Carolina		[17]
15	April 20, 2005	Douglas Alan Roberts	42	33	9			Texas		[18]
16	April 21, 2005	Bill J. Benefiel	48	30	18			Indiana		[19]
17	April 27, 2005	Donald Jones	38	26	12		Black	Missouri		[20]
18	April 28, 2005	Mario Giovanni Centobie	39	32	7		White	Alabama		[21]
19	May 3, 2005	Lonnie Wayne Pursley	43	35	8			Texas		[22]
20	May 6, 2005	Earl J. Richmond Jr.		29	14		Black	North Carolina		[23]
21	May 12, 2005	George James Miller Jr.	37	27	10			Oklahoma		[24]
22	May 13, 2005	Michael Bruce Ross	45	24	21		White	Connecticut		[25]
23	May 18, 2005	Vernon Brown	51	33	18		Black	Missouri		[26]
24		Bryan Eric Wolfe	44	31	13			Texas		[27]
25	May 19, 2005	Richard Michael Cartwright	31	22	9		White			[28]
26	May 25, 2005	Gregory Scott Johnson	40	20	20			Indiana		[29]
27	June 2, 2005	Jerry Paul Henderson	58	37	21			Alabama		[30]
28	June 7, 2005	Alexander Rey Martinez	28	25	3		Hispanic	Texas		[31]
29	July 12, 2005	Robert Dale Conklin	44	23	21		White	Georgia		[32]
30	July 19, 2005	Michael Lannier Pennington	37		14		Black	Oklahoma		[33]
31	July 27, 2005	Kevin Aaron Conner	40	22	18		White	Indiana		[34]
32	July 28, 2005	David Aaron Martinez	29	21	8		Hispanic	Texas		[35]
33	August 4, 2005	George Everette Sibley Jr.	62	51	11		White	Alabama		[36]
34	August 10, 2005	Gary Lynn Sterling	38	20	18		Black	Texas		[37]
35	August 11, 2005	Kenneth Eugene Turrentine	52	41	11			Oklahoma		[38]
36	August 23, 2005	Robert Alan Shields Jr.	30	19			White	Texas		[39]
37	August 31, 2005	Timothy Johnston	44	28	16			Missouri		[40]
38	September 14, 2005	Frances Elaine Newton	40	21	19	Female	Black	Texas		[41]
39	September 22, 2005	John W. Peoples Jr.	48	26	22	Male	White	Alabama		[42]
40	September 27, 2005	Herman Dale Ashworth	32	23	9			Ohio		[43]
41	September 28, 2005	Alan Lehman Matheney	54	38	16			Indiana		[44]
42	October 6, 2005	Ronald Ray Howard	32	18	14		Black	Texas		[45]
43	October 20, 2005	Luis L. Ramirez	42	34	8		Hispanic			[46]
44	October 25, 2005	Willie J. "Flip" Williams Jr.	48		14		Black	Ohio		[47]
45	October 26, 2005	Marlin Gray	38	23	15			Missouri		[48]
46	November 3, 2005	Melvin Wayne White	55	47	8		White	Texas		[49]
47	November 4, 2005	Brian David Steckel	36	25	11			Delaware		[50]
48		Hastings Arthur Wise	51	43	8		Black	South Carolina		[51]
49	November 9, 2005	Charles Daniel Thacker	37	24	13		White	Texas		[52]
50	November 11, 2005	Steven Van McHone	35	20	15			North Carolina		[53]
51	November 15, 2005	Robert Dale Rowell	50	38	12			Texas		[54]
52	November 16, 2005	Shannon Charles Thomas	34	22			Black			[55]
53	November 18, 2005	Elias Hanna Syriani	67	52	15		Arab	North Carolina		[56]
54	November 28, 2005	Eric Randall Nance	45	33	12		White	Arkansas		[57]
55	November 29, 2005	John R. Hicks	49	29	20		Black	Ohio		[58]
56	December 2, 2005	Kenneth Lee Boyd	57	40	17		White	North Carolina		[59]
57		Shawn Paul Humphries	34	22	12			South Carolina		[60]
58	December 5, 2005	Wesley Eugene Baker	47	33	14		Black	Maryland		[61]
59	December 13, 2005	Stanley Tookie Williams III	51	25	26			California		[62]
60	December 14, 2005	John B. Nixon Sr.	77	56	21		White	Mississippi		[63]
		Average:	44 years	30 years	14 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	59	98%
Female	1	2%
Ethnicity
White	37	62%
Black	19	32%
Hispanic	3	5%
Arab	1	2%
State
Texas	19	32%
Indiana	5	8%
Missouri	5	8%
North Carolina	5	8%
Alabama	4	7%
Ohio	4	7%
Oklahoma	4	7%
Georgia	3	5%
South Carolina	3	5%
California	2	3%
Arkansas	1	2%
Connecticut	1	2%
Delaware	1	2%
Florida	1	2%
Maryland	1	2%
Mississippi	1	2%
Method
Lethal injection	60	100%
Month
January	4	7%
February	1	2%
March	7	12%
April	6	10%
May	8	13%
June	2	3%
July	4	7%
August	5	8%
September	4	7%
October	4	7%
November	10	17%
December	5	8%
Age
20–29	2	3%
30–39	21	35%
40–49	22	37%
50–59	11	18%
60–69	3	5%
70–79	1	2%
Total	60	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2006	53
2005	60
2004	59
Total	172

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