List of people executed by lethal injection

[3] Lethal injection was also adopted as a method of execution by Guatemala in 1996, China in 1997, the Philippines in 1999, Thailand in 2003, Taiwan in 2005, Vietnam in 2013,[4] the Maldives in 2014[5] and Nigeria in 2015.

[12] This alphabetical list features notable individuals up to January 2025, and only those where lethal injection can be reliably sourced to be the method of execution.

Lethal injection was proposed and adopted on the grounds it was more humane than the methods of execution in place at the time, such as the electric chair and gas chamber.

[16][17] A study published in The Lancet in 2005 found that in 43% of cases of lethal injection, the blood level of hypnotics was insufficient to guarantee unconsciousness.

[18] However, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 7–2 in 2008 (Baze v. Rees) and 5–4 in 2015 (Glossip v. Gross) that lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

A lethal execution room in the San Quentin State Prison in California
In December 2020, Brandon Bernard became the 9th federal prisoner to be executed in the US, following the Trump administration 's reinstatement of federal executions six-months earlier, after a 17-year hiatus. [ 20 ]
The execution of Dustin Higgs was controversial. Higgs was sentenced for coercing someone to commit murder; the man who committed the murders later denied Higgs had influenced him. [ 21 ]
At 76, Clarence Ray Allen is one of the oldest people to be executed in the US. [ 22 ]
Stephen Wayne Anderson was executed in California in 2002 for murder.
Alojs Andritzki , a Catholic priest, was executed by the Nazi regime at Dachau concentration camp . [ 23 ]
Andrée Borrel , a member of Britain's Special Operations Executive , was executed by the Nazis with an injection of phenol . [ 24 ]
Gary Ray Bowles , also known as the I-95 Killer, was executed in 2019 for the murders of six men in 1994. [ 25 ]
Titus Brandsma , a Catholic priest, was executed for opposing the Nazi regime.
Richard Cartwright was the main contributor to Uncensored from Texas Death Row until his execution.
Oba Chandler , executed in 2011 for three murders, maintained his innocence. [ 26 ]
Both the Vatican and Jewish groups asked for Martin Grossman to be spared the death penalty. [ 27 ]
Bobby Joe Long was executed in 2019 for the 1984 murder of Michelle Denise Simms. [ 28 ]
Serial killer David Alan Gore was executed in 2012.
In 2021, Lisa Marie Montgomery became the first female federal prisoner executed in the US in 67 years, and only the fourth overall. [ 29 ]
Thai national Jaturun Siripongs was executed in 1999 in California for two murders. He always maintained he was involved in the crime but was not the actual killer.
Terry Melvin Sims was the first person executed by lethal injection in the state of Florida.
Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate .
Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001.
Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty.
Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder.
James Barnes was Florida's 60th execution via lethal injection.