List of people executed in the United States in 2012

Forty-three people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2012, all by lethal injection. Fifteen of them were in the state of Texas.^[1][2] Delaware conducted its final execution in 2012 before the state abolished the death penalty in 2024.^[3]

List of people executed in the United States in 2012

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 5, 2012	Gary Roland Welch	49	32	17	Male	White	Oklahoma	Lethal injection	[4]
2	January 26, 2012	Rodrigo Hernandez	38	20	18		Hispanic	Texas		[5]
3	February 8, 2012	Edwin Hart Turner	38	22	16		White	Mississippi		[6]
4	February 15, 2012	Robert Brian Waterhouse	65	33	32			Florida		[7]
5	February 29, 2012	Robert Henry Moormann	63	35	28			Arizona		[8]
6		George Angel Rivas Jr.	41	30	11		Hispanic	Texas		[9]
7	March 7, 2012	Keith Steven Thurmond	52	41			White			[10]
8	March 8, 2012	Robert Charles Towery	47	27	20			Arizona		[11]
9	March 15, 2012	Timothy Shaun Stemple	46	34	12			Oklahoma		[12]
10	March 20, 2012	Larry Matthew Puckett	35	18	17			Mississippi		[13]
11	March 22, 2012	William Gerald Mitchell	61	46	15		Black			[14]
12	March 28, 2012	Jesse Joe Hernandez	47	36	11		Hispanic	Texas		[15]
13	April 12, 2012	David Alan Gore	58	29	29		White	Florida		[16]
14	April 18, 2012	Mark Wayne Wiles	49	22	27			Ohio		[17]
15	April 20, 2012	Shannon M. Johnson	28		6		Black	Delaware		[18]
16	April 25, 2012	Thomas Arnold Kemp	63	44	19		White	Arizona		[19]
17	April 26, 2012	Beunka Adams	29	19	10		Black	Texas		[20]
18	May 1, 2012	Michael Bascum Selsor	57	20	37		White	Oklahoma		[21]
19	June 5, 2012	Henry Curtis Jackson Jr.	47	26	21		Black	Mississippi		[22]
20	June 12, 2012	Richard Albert Leavitt	53	25	28		White	Idaho		[23]
21		Jan Michael Brawner	34	23	11			Mississippi		[24]
22	June 20, 2012	Gary Carl Simmons Jr.	49	33	16					[25]
23	June 27, 2012	Samuel Villegas Lopez		24	25		Hispanic	Arizona		[26]
24	July 18, 2012	Yokamon Laneal Hearn	33	19	14		Black	Texas		[27]
25	August 7, 2012	Marvin Lee Wilson	54	34	20					[28]
26	August 8, 2012	Daniel Wayne Cook	51	25	26		White	Arizona		[29]
27	August 14, 2012	Michael Edward Hooper	40	21	19			Oklahoma		[30]
28	September 20, 2012	Donald L. Palmer	47	24	23			Ohio		[31]
29		Robert Wayne Harris	40	28	12		Black	Texas		[32]
30	September 25, 2012	Cleve Foster	48	38	10		White			[33]
31	October 10, 2012	Jonathan Marcus Green	44	32	12		Black			[34]
32	October 15, 2012	Eric Donald Robert	50	48	2		White	South Dakota		[35]
33	October 24, 2012	Bobby Lee Hines	40	19	21			Texas		[36]
34	October 30, 2012	Donald Eugene Moeller	60	37	23			South Dakota		[37]
35	October 31, 2012	Donnie Lee Roberts	41	32	9			Texas		[38]
36	November 6, 2012	Garry Thomas Allen	56	30	26		Black	Oklahoma		[39]
37	November 8, 2012	Mario Rashad Swain	33	23	10			Texas		[40]
38	November 13, 2012	Brett Xavier Hartman	38		15		White	Ohio		[41]
39	November 14, 2012	Ramon Torres Hernandez	41	30	11		Hispanic	Texas		[42]
40	November 15, 2012	Preston Craig Hughes III	46	22	24		Black			[43]
41	December 4, 2012	George Ochoa	38	18	20		Hispanic	Oklahoma		[44]
42	December 5, 2012	Richard Dale Stokley	60	38	22		White	Arizona		[45]
43	December 11, 2012	Manuel Pardo Jr.	56	29	27		Hispanic	Florida		[46]
		Average:	47 years	29 years	18 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	43	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	25	58%
Black	11	26%
Hispanic	7	16%
State
Texas	15	35%
Arizona	6	14%
Mississippi	6	14%
Oklahoma	6	14%
Florida	3	7%
Ohio	3	7%
South Dakota	2	5%
Delaware	1	2%
Idaho	1	2%
Method
Lethal injection	43	100%
Month
January	2	5%
February	4	9%
March	6	14%
April	5	12%
May	1	2%
June	5	12%
July	1	2%
August	3	7%
September	5	12%
October	3	7%
November	5	12%
December	3	7%
Age
20–29	2	5%
30–39	9	21%
40–49	17	40%
50–59	9	21%
60–69	6	14%
Total	43	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2013	39
2012	43
2011	43
Total	125

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