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.
List of people executed in the United States in 2014 Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method At execution At offense Age difference 1 January 7, 2014 Thomas Otis Knight 62 23 39MaleBlack FloridaLethal injection The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Thomas Knight 2 January 9, 2014 38 22 16 Oklahoma The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Michael Lee Wilson 3 January 16, 2014 53 29 24 White Ohio The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Dennis B. McGuire 4 January 22, 2014 46 26 20 Hispanic Texas The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Edgar Arias Tamayo 5 January 23, 2014 52 26 White Oklahoma The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Kenneth Eugene Hogan 6 January 29, 2014 56 33 23 Black Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Herbert L. Smulls 7 February 5, 2014 59 44 15 Female White Texas The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Suzanne Margaret Basso 8 February 12, 2014 46 28 18Male Hispanic Florida The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Juan Carlos Chavez 9February 26, 2014 47 22 25Black Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Michael Anthony Taylor 10 48 26 22 Florida The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Paul Augustus Howell 11 March 19, 2014 33 18 15 Texas The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Ray Jasper III 12 March 20, 2014 55 29 26 Florida The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Robert Laverne Henry 13 March 26, 2014 59 34 25 White Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Jeffrey R. Ferguson 14 March 27, 2014 29 18 11 BlackTexas The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Anthony Dewayne Doyle 15 April 3, 2014 49 35 14 White The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Tommy Lynn Sells 16 April 9, 2014 44 28 16Hispanic The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas 17 April 16, 2014 39 25 14 The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Jose Luis Villegas, Jr. 18 April 23, 2014 57 37 20White Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – William L. Rousan 19 47 23 24 Florida The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Robert Eugene Hendrix 20 April 29, 2014 38 15Black Oklahoma The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Clayton Derrell Lockett 21 June 17, 2014 58 34 24 Georgia The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Marcus A. Wellons 22June 18, 2014 43 26 17 Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – John E. Winfield 23 63 34 29Florida The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – John Ruthell Henry 24 July 10, 2014 45 25 20White The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Eddie Wayne Davis 25 July 16, 2014 54 35 19 Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – John C. Middleton 26 July 23, 2014 55 30 25 Arizona The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Joseph Rudolph Wood III 27 August 6, 2014 43 24 19Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Michael Shane Worthington 28September 10, 2014 40 16Black The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Earl Ringo, Jr. 29 45 23 22Texas The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Willie Tyrone Trottie 30 September 17, 2014 38 28 10 Female The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Lisa Ann Coleman 31 October 28, 2014 32 18 14Male Hispanic The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Miguel Angel Paredes 32 November 13, 2014 43 21 22Black Florida The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Chadwick Banks 33 November 19, 2014 56 36 20 Missouri The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney – Leon Vincent Taylor 34 December 9, 2014 49 30 19 Georgia 35 December 10, 2014 48 31 17 White Missouri 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
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
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