List of people executed in the United States in 2017

Twenty-three people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2017, all by lethal injection. The state of Arkansas executed four people in April, ending a hiatus on executions in the state which had lasted for over 11 years. Virginia conducted its final two executions in 2017, with the state having since abolished capital punishment in 2021.^[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 2017

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 11, 2017	Christopher Chubasco Wilkins	48	37	11	Male	White	Texas	Lethal injection	[2][3]
2	January 18, 2017	Ricky Javon Gray	39	28			Black	Virginia		[4]
3	January 26, 2017	Terry Darnell Edwards	43		15			Texas		[5][6]
4	January 31, 2017	Mark Anthony Christeson	37	18	19		White	Missouri		[7]
5	March 7, 2017	Rolando Ruiz Jr.	44	20	24		Hispanic	Texas		[8][9]
6	March 14, 2017	James Eugene Bigby	61	32	29		White			[10][11]
7	April 20, 2017	Ledell T. Lee	51	27	24		Black	Arkansas		[12]
8	April 24, 2017	Jack Harold Jones Jr.	52	30	22		White			[13][14]
9		Marcel Wayne Williams	46	24			Black
10	April 27, 2017	Kenneth Dewayne Williams	38	20	18					[15]
11	May 17, 2017	John W. Ledford III	45		25		White	Georgia		[16]
12	May 26, 2017	Thomas Douglas "Tommy" Arthur	75	40	35			Alabama		[17]
13	June 8, 2017	Robert Bryant Melson	46	22	24		Black			[18]
14	July 6, 2017	William Charles Morva	35	24	11		White	Virginia		[19]
15	July 26, 2017	Ronald Ray Phillips	43	19	24			Ohio		[20]
16	July 27, 2017	Taichin Preyor	46	33	13		Black	Texas		[21][22]
17	August 24, 2017	Mark James Asay	53	23	30		White	Florida		[23]
18	September 13, 2017	Gary Wayne Otte	45	20	25			Ohio		[24]
19	October 5, 2017	Michael Ray Lambrix	57	22	35			Florida		[25]
20	October 12, 2017	Robert Lynn Pruett	38	20	18			Texas		[26]
21	October 19, 2017	Torrey Twane McNabb	40		20		Black	Alabama		[27]
22	November 8, 2017	Patrick Charles Hannon	53	26	27		White	Florida		[28]
23		Ruben Cardenas Ramirez	47		21		Hispanic	Texas		[29][30]
		Average:	47 years	25 years	22 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	23	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	13	56%
Black	8	35%
Hispanic	2	9%
State
Texas	7	30%
Arkansas	4	17%
Alabama	3	13%
Florida	3	13%
Ohio	2	9%
Virginia	2	9%
Georgia	1	4%
Missouri	1	4%
Method
Lethal injection	23	100%
Month
January	4	17%
February	0	0%
March	2	9%
April	4	17%
May	2	9%
June	1	4%
July	3	13%
August	1	4%
September	1	4%
October	3	13%
November	2	9%
December	0	0%
Age
30–39	5	22%
40–49	11	48%
50–59	5	22%
60–69	1	4%
70–79	1	4%
Total	23	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2018	25
2017	23
2016	20
Total	68

Double execution in Arkansas

See also: Capital punishment in Arkansas and List of people executed in Arkansas

On April 24, 2017, Arkansas carried out back-to-back executions. Convicted rapist and murderer Jack Harold Jones, age 52, was pronounced dead at 7:20 pm Monday. Approximately three hours later, convicted rapist and murderer Marcel Williams, age 46, was pronounced dead at 10:33 pm. Jones was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of Mary Phillips (August 18, 1959 – June 6, 1995) and the near-fatal assault of her then-10-year-old daughter, Lacy Phillips (born July 9, 1984), during a botched robbery in Bald Knob, Arkansas. Williams was sent to death row for the 1994 rape and murder of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson, whom he kidnapped from a gas station in central Arkansas.

The last double execution in Arkansas was on September 8, 1999.^[31] By conducting the double execution in 2017, Arkansas became the first U.S. state to put more than one inmate to death on the same day in 17 years. The last state to do so was Texas, which executed two murderers in August 2000. Oklahoma planned a double execution in 2014 but scrapped plans for the second one after the first (the execution of Clayton Lockett) went awry.^[32]

Arkansas executed four men in an eight-day period in 1960. The only quicker pace included quadruple executions in 1926 and 1930.^[32]

See also

• List of death row inmates in the United States
• List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976
• 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