List of people executed in the United States in 2014

Thirty-five people, thirty-three male and two female, were executed in the United States in 2014, all by lethal injection. Ten of them were in the state of Missouri, and another ten were in the state of Texas. Two (Edgar Tamayo Arias and Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas) were foreign nationals from Mexico. One (Juan Carlos Chavez) was a foreign national from Cuba.^[1][2]

List of people executed in the United States in 2014

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 7, 2014	Thomas Knight	62	23	39	Male	Black	Florida	Lethal injection	[3]
2	January 9, 2014	Michael Lee Wilson	38	22	16			Oklahoma		[4]
3	January 16, 2014	Dennis B. McGuire	53	29	24		White	Ohio		[5]
4	January 22, 2014	Edgar Tamayo Arias	46	26	20		Hispanic	Texas		[6]
5	January 23, 2014	Kenneth Eugene Hogan	52		26		White	Oklahoma		[7]
6	January 29, 2014	Herbert L. Smulls	56	33	23		Black	Missouri		[8]
7	February 5, 2014	Suzanne Margaret Basso	59	44	15	Female	White	Texas		[9]
8	February 12, 2014	Juan Carlos Chavez	46	28	18	Male	Hispanic	Florida		[10]
9	February 26, 2014	Michael Anthony Taylor	47	22	25		Black	Missouri		[11]
10		Paul Augustus Howell	48	26	22			Florida		[12]
11	March 19, 2014	Ray Jasper III	33	18	15			Texas		[13]
12	March 20, 2014	Robert Laverne Henry	55	29	26			Florida		[14]
13	March 26, 2014	Jeffrey R. Ferguson	59	34	25		White	Missouri		[15]
14	March 27, 2014	Anthony Dewayne Doyle	29	18	11		Black	Texas		[16]
15	April 3, 2014	Tommy Lynn Sells	49	35	14		White			[17]
16	April 9, 2014	Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas	44	28	16		Hispanic			[18]
17	April 16, 2014	Jose Luis Villegas Jr.	39	25	14					[19]
18	April 23, 2014	William Lewis Rousan	57	37	20		White	Missouri		[20]
19		Robert Eugene Hendrix	47	23	24			Florida		[21]
20	April 29, 2014	Clayton Derrell Lockett	38		15		Black	Oklahoma		[22]
21	June 17, 2014	Marcus Alfonso Wellons	58	34	24			Georgia		[23]
22	June 18, 2014	John E. Winfield	43	26	17			Missouri		[24]
23		John Ruthell Henry	63	34	29			Florida		[25]
24	July 10, 2014	Eddie Wayne Davis	45	25	20		White			[26]
25	July 16, 2014	John C. Middleton	54	35	19			Missouri		[27]
26	July 23, 2014	Joseph Rudolph Wood III	55	30	25			Arizona		[28]
27	August 6, 2014	Michael Shane Worthington	43	24	19			Missouri		[29]
28	September 10, 2014	Earl Ringo Jr.	40		16		Black			[30]
29		Willie Tyrone Trottie	45	23	22			Texas		[31]
30	September 17, 2014	Lisa Ann Coleman	38	28	10	Female				[32]
31	October 28, 2014	Miguel Angel Paredes	32	18	14	Male	Hispanic			[33]
32	November 13, 2014	Chadwick Dewellyn Banks	43	21	22		Black	Florida		[34]
33	November 19, 2014	Leon Vincent Taylor	56	36	20			Missouri		[35]
34	December 9, 2014	Robert Wayne Holsey	49	30	19			Georgia		[36]
35	December 10, 2014	Paul Terrence Goodwin	48	31	17		White	Missouri		[37]
		Average:	48 years	28 years	20 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	33	94%
Female	2	6%
Ethnicity
Black	18	51%
White	12	34%
Hispanic	5	15%
State
Missouri	10	29%
Texas	10	29%
Florida	8	23%
Oklahoma	3	9%
Georgia	2	6%
Arizona	1	3%
Ohio	1	3%
Method
Lethal injection	35	100%
Month
January	6	17%
February	4	12%
March	4	12%
April	6	14%
May	0	0%
June	3	9%
July	3	9%
August	1	3%
September	3	9%
October	1	3%
November	2	6%
December	2	6%
Age
20–29	1	3%
30–39	5	14%
40–49	16	46%
50–59	11	31%
60–69	2	6%
Total	35	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2015	28
2014	35
2013	39
Total	102

Notable executions

2014 was a notable year for executions. A total of ten death row inmates were executed in Missouri throughout the year, the most carried out by Missouri in a single year since capital punishment resumed in 1976.^[38] 2014 also marked the first time since 2002 in which two women were executed during a single year. Suzanne Margaret Basso and Lisa Ann Coleman, who were both sentenced to death in Texas, were executed just seven months apart.^[39] One notable execution was of convicted murderer Thomas Knight, who was executed in Florida. Knight spent thirty-nine years on death row before his execution was carried out.^[40]

There were also three botched executions in 2014:

• Convicted killer Dennis McGuire, age 53, took nearly 30 minutes to die – the longest execution ever recorded of the 56 carried out in Ohio since capital punishment resumed in 1999.^[41][42] His execution led to a three year delay on executions being carried out in Ohio. The state did not execute any more inmates until July 2017.^[43]
• Convicted rapist and murderer Clayton Lockett suffered a heart attack during his execution in Oklahoma – he was pronounced dead 43 minutes after being sedated and reportedly writhed, groaned, convulsed, and spoke during the process. He also attempted to rise from the execution table 14 minutes into the procedure.^[44]
• Convicted murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III, who was executed in Arizona, was pronounced dead 1 hour and 57 minutes after the drugs were injected into his system – the entire procedure took almost 2 hours when it should have taken about 10 minutes.^[45]

See also

• Capital punishment in the United States
• List of botched executions
• List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976
• List of women executed in the United States since 1976
• List of United States Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment