| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| Nicholas Acklin | Shot and murdered four people in 1996 inside a house in Huntsville, Alabama. | | Acklin, Wilson and a third man named Corey Johnson shot and killed the four victims and also injured two others over a dispute regarding a stolen cellphone. Acklin and Wilson were both sentenced to death in 1998. Johnson was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to 15 years' jail after reaching a plea bargain, and released in 2011, before he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend. |
| Joey Wilson | Shot and murdered four people in 1996 inside a house in Huntsville, Alabama. | | Acklin, Wilson and a third man named Corey Johnson shot and killed the four victims and also injured two others over a dispute regarding a stolen cellphone. Acklin and Wilson were both sentenced to death in 1998. Johnson was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to 15 years' jail after reaching a plea bargain, and released in 2011, before he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend. |
| Donald Broadnax | Murdered his wife, 42-year-old Hector Jan Stamps, and her grandson, 4-year-old DeAngelo Marquez Stamps. | | The crimes were committed while he was on work release from a previous murder conviction. |
| John Joseph DeBlase | Murdered four-year-old Natalie DeBlase and three-year-old Chase DeBlase, the biological children of John DeBlase and stepchildren of Leavell-Keaton | | On two separate occasions in March and June 2010 respectively, Natalie and Chase were being poisoned with antifreeze and also bound and gagged with tape, and died from the abuse. The children's bodies were found buried in Alabama and Mississippi.
Leavell-Keaton was the first woman to be given the death penalty in Mobile County. |
| Heather Leavell-Keaton | Murdered four-year-old Natalie DeBlase and three-year-old Chase DeBlase, the biological children of John DeBlase and stepchildren of Leavell-Keaton | | On two separate occasions in March and June 2010 respectively, Natalie and Chase were being poisoned with antifreeze and also bound and gagged with tape, and died from the abuse. The children's bodies were found buried in Alabama and Mississippi.
Leavell-Keaton was the first woman to be given the death penalty in Mobile County. |
| Thomas Dale Ferguson | Murdered 11-year-old Joey Pugh and his 41-year-old father Harold Pugh in Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve, Alabama. | | Ferguson and Maxwell and three other men intended to rob the Pughs of their truck in order to commit a bank robbery in Mississippi, and both Ferguson and Maxwell shot the father-son pair to death. Maxwell was sentenced to death by a 10–2 vote from the jury, while Ferguson was sentenced to death by the judge despite the jury's 11-1 majority vote for life imprisonment. Two of the other co-accused were sentenced to life in prison while the final member was jailed for 15 years for robbery after he testified against the others. |
| Michael Craig Maxwell | Murdered 11-year-old Joey Pugh and his 41-year-old father Harold Pugh in Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve, Alabama. | | Ferguson and Maxwell and three other men intended to rob the Pughs of their truck in order to commit a bank robbery in Mississippi, and both Ferguson and Maxwell shot the father-son pair to death. Maxwell was sentenced to death by a 10–2 vote from the jury, while Ferguson was sentenced to death by the judge despite the jury's 11-1 majority vote for life imprisonment. Two of the other co-accused were sentenced to life in prison while the final member was jailed for 15 years for robbery after he testified against the others. |
| Westley Devon Harris | Murdered six members of his girlfriend's family in 2002. | | Harris committed the murders out of anger towards his girlfriend's family for separating him and his girlfriend. Harris was originally sentenced to life without parole by the jury through a 7–5 vote, but the judge overrode the jury's recommendation and sentenced him to six death sentences for all six counts of capital murder. |
| Shonelle Jackson | Murdered LeFrick Moore during the commission of a robbery. | | |
| Toforest Johnson | Shot and murdered 49-year-old Jefferson County deputy sheriff William Hardy in 1995. | | Johnson's conviction was controversial as his guilty verdict as centered on the testimony of a single witness who overheard Johnson allegedly admitting to the murder in a prison phone call. There were several alibi witnesses who testified that Johnson was at another part of the town when Hardy was killed, giving rise to concerns that Johnson was innocent. |
| Jeremy Bryan Jones | Raped and murdered 43-year-old Lisa Marie Nichols. | | Jones also confessed to committing twenty additional murders across four other states in a 12-year span. These confessions are considered dubious and he has since recanted them. |
| Jeffrey Lee | Murdered singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis and Elaine Thompson during a robbery. | | |
| Courtney Lockhart | Kidnapped and murdered 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk. | | |
| Devin Moore | Murdered two police officers and a dispatcher. | | |
| Cuhuatemoc Peraita | Killed a fellow inmate in 1999. | | Peraita was originally serving life without parole for his role in the 1994 murders of three Popeyes restaurant workers. His accomplice was executed for these murders in 2017. |
| Ryan Clark Petersen | Killed three people during a nightclub shooting in 2012. | | Petersen committed the shooting in retaliation after he was driven out of the nightclub for unruly behavior. Petersen also shot and wounded a fourth person during the shooting. Petersen was convicted of three counts of capital murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to death. |
| Kerry Spencer | Killed three Birmingham police officers in 2004. | | Spencer shot all three officers and testified that he acted alone, but his alleged accomplice, Nathaniel Woods, was also sentenced to death. Woods was executed in 2020 in a highly publicized and controversial execution. |
| Christie Michelle Scott | Killed her six-year-old autistic son Mason Scott by arson in 2008. | | Scott intentionally engineered the murder of her son Mason by starting a fire and disguising it as an accident. Scott's motive was to collect insurance money amounting to $175,000 through the death of Mason. |
| Jeremy Tremaine Williams | Raped, sodomized and murdered five-year-old Kamarie Holland in December 2021. | | Williams was also charged for allegedly killing his one-month-old daughter in 2005 in Alaska. The victim's mother, Kristy Siple, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sex trafficking of her daughter and allowing Williams to rape her daughter. |
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| John Allen | Murder of his wife's cousin, Ame Deal. | | On July 12, 2011, police officers were called to ten-year-old Ame Deal's home, where she was found dead in a small foot locker, having suffocated. Ame lived with a number of relatives, including her aunt and legal guardian, Cynthia Stoltzmann. Allen was Stoltzmann's daughter. The family first told the police officers that Ame was playing hide-n-seek and locked herself in the trunk the night before, after the adults went to sleep. During interrogation, Sammantha and her husband John confessed to locking Ame in the trunk as a form of punishment, because she took a popsicle without permission. |
| Murder of her cousin, Ame Deal. | | On July 12, 2011, police officers were called to ten-year-old Ame Deal's home, where she was found dead in a small foot locker, having suffocated. Ame lived with a number of relatives, including her aunt and legal guardian, Cynthia Stoltzmann. Allen was Stoltzmann's daughter. The family first told the police officers that Ame was playing hide-n-seek and locked herself in the trunk the night before, after the adults went to sleep. During interrogation, Sammantha and her husband John confessed to locking Ame in the trunk as a form of punishment, because she took a popsicle without permission. |
| Wendi Andriano | Murder of her husband Joseph "Joe" Andriano. | | During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joseph to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a thirteen-inch knife in the couple's Ahwatukee, Arizona apartment. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull, and traces of sodium azide were also found in his system.
Approximately one hour before Joe's murder, his wife Wendi had called 911 at the behest of a co-worker, claiming that her terminally ill husband was dying. When paramedics arrived however, Wendi turned them away, stating that Joe had a do-not-resuscitate order, and that his wish was to die. Paramedics left the scene. One hour later, Wendi called 911 again, reporting that she had stabbed and beaten her husband to death in self-defense. She also made claims that her husband was physically and psychologically abusive toward her. However, being that Joe was weak from chemotherapy and the sodium azide poisoning, he was unable to defend himself. |
| Trent Benson | Rapes and murders of two sex workers, 21-year-old Alisa Marie Beck and 44-year-old Karen Jane Campbell in Mesa, committed in 2004 and 2007, respectively. | | Benson is serving 135 years imprisonment for two unrelated sexual assaults, and police believe he might be responsible for further crimes. |
| Jason Eugene Bush | Murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in Arivaca, Arizona, during a home invasion. | | Had ties with the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group. Convicted for four murders in total, and two suspected killings in 1997, was sentenced to death and received 78 years for other crimes just one month after his death sentence. |
| Murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in Arivaca, Arizona, during a home invasion. | | On May 30, 2009, Forde was active in the Minuteman movement, a grassroots anti-illegal immigration group that would station themselves along the U.S. southern border and keep watch for Mexicans crossing the border illegally and alert the Border Patrol. Forde allegedly boasted of robbing drug dealers to finance the movement. Prosecutors alleged Forde and her associates entered the trailer disguised as government officials looking for fugitives. No drugs were found in the trailer. Albert Gaxiola, who participated in the May 30, 2009 murders, received life without parole plus 54 years. |
| Cleophus Cooksey Jr. | Series of 8 murders between November and December 2017. | | Suspected of a 9th killing in 2017. Convicted of a separate murder in 2001. |
| Mark Goudeau | Series of rapes and murders. | | Goudeau is a serial killer and rapist, referred to as the Baseline Killer by law enforcement and media prior to his identification. Goudeau is believed to have committed nine counts of first degree murder, in addition to fifteen sexual assaults on women and young girls, eleven counts of kidnapping, and a number of armed robberies. |
| Scott Lehr | Kidnapped, raped and murdered Margaret Christorf in 1991 as well as Belinda Cronin and Michelle Morales in 1992. | | Also known as the “Baby Seat Rapist”. Lehr had raped a total of 20 women, three of whom later died from fatal head injuries. |
| Charles Michael Hedlund | Murdered 40-year-old Christine Mertens and 65-year-old James McClain in separate burglaries. | | Both defendants, who are half-brothers, were sentenced to death |
| James Erin McKinney | Murdered 40-year-old Christine Mertens and 65-year-old James McClain in separate burglaries. | | Both defendants, who are half-brothers, were sentenced to death |
| Bryan Patrick Miller | Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Angela Brosso in 1992 as well as Melanie Bernas in 1993. | | Also known as the “Zombie Hunter” or “Canal Killer”. The murders were the first cold cases solved by genetic genealogy. |
| Cory Morris | Murdered five women between September 2002 and April 2003. | | Serial killer known as "The Crackhead Killer". |
| [1996 Tucson, Arizona|Tucson murders|Scott Douglas Nordstrom] | One of the two gunmen involved in the 1996 Tucson murders |
| Nordstrom was originally handed six death sentences in 1998, before his first death sentence was vacated for re-sentencing. Nordstrom was given two death sentences in his 2009 re-trial, in addition to four consecutive life terms without parole. Nordstrom's accomplice Robert Glen Jones Jr. was sentenced to death and executed on October 23, 2013. David Nordstrom, who was the get-away driver of the pair, was jailed for armed robbery after agreeing to testify against his brother and Jones in their respective murder trials. |
| Roger Mark Scott | Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke | | Co-defendants James Lynn Styers and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015. |
| Joseph Clarence Smith Jr. | Murders of Sandy Spencer and Neva Lee in 1975 and 1976 respectively | | Smith was also responsible for several rapes committed between 1973 and 1976. Smith was on probation for a 1973 rape case when he committed the murders. Smith is the state's longest-serving prisoner on death row. |
| Preston Strong | Murdered a family of six in 2005. | | Strong was already serving a life sentence for murdering a physician when he was sentenced to death. |
| James Lynn Styers | Shooting death of 4-year-old Christopher Milke | | Co-defendants Roger Mark Scott and the boy's mother Debra Milke were also sentenced to death. Milke's conviction was overturned in 2015. |
| Robert Lee Walden | Rape and murder of 31-year-old Miguela Burhans in her Tucson apartment on June 13, 1991. | | Walden is also serving five life terms for another murder and four rapes, all committed within the Tucson area from 1989 to 1991. He has also been linked to a third murder, for which he has never been charged. |
| Ronald Turney Williams | Murder of a man in 1981 | | Williams is currently serving two life terms in West Virginia for the murders of two police officers, who were killed four years apart. He killed one of them in 1979 while escaping prison and was later captured after he killed the man in Arizona. |
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Notes |
| Isauro Aguirre | Tortured and murdered his girlfriend's son, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez. | | Pearl Fernandez, Gabriel's mother, was sentenced to life without parole. |
| Rosie Alfaro | Murder of 9-year-old Autumn Wallace. | | Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty. |
| Alejandro Avila | Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. | | |
| Hector Ayala | Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. | | |
| Ronaldo Ayala | Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. | | |
| Cimarron Bell | Shot his girlfriend Ineka Edmondson in La Habra on November 11, 2003, and three men at his house in South Whittier on January 27, 2004. | | The accomplice in the latter crime, Briaell Michael Lee, is serving a 40-years-to-life sentence. |
| Richard Delmer Boyer | Murdered elderly couple Francis and Eileen Harbitz in 1982. | | He was about to be released by the police when he admitted to committing the crime. |
| Luis Bracamontes | Shot and killed Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County detective Michael Davis Jr. in October 2014. | | |
| Vincent Brothers | Murdered his wife, mother-in-law and three children. | | In 2003, Brothers drove from Columbus, Ohio to Bakersfield, California to murder his family. He then drove back to Columbus and flew back to California to find his family murdered. He was on trial two years later and convicted on all counts. |
| Albert Greenwood Brown | Abducted, raped and murdered 15-year-old Susan Louise Jordan. | | Brown posed as a jogger and dragged Jordan, who was on her way to school, into the woods, where he then strangled her with her shoelace. Brown then made numerous calls to the Riverside Police Department and the Jordan residence. |
| David Carpenter | Murdered six women and one man in 1979–1980 on hiking trails near San Francisco, California. | | Carpenter is known as the Trailside Killer. He is suspected in the murders of at least three other women and was found guilty of seven murders in two separate trials, one in 1984 and another in 1988. He is the oldest death row inmate in California. |
| Dean Carter | Raped and strangled four women in April 1984. | | |
| Steven David Catlin | Poisoned two of his wives and his adoptive mother. | | |
| Run Chhoun | Killed nine people during the summer of 1995, including a family of five. | | Was a member of the Tiny Rascal Gang. Co-defendant and fellow gang member Samreth Pan was also sentenced to death, but for only four of the murders. |
| Herbert Coddington | Murdered chaperones Maybelle Martin and Dorothy Walsh at his home in South Lake Tahoe in 1987. | | Killed the victims after kidnapping two teenage models who worked for Martin's modeling agency. Also considered a suspect in the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| Cynthia Coffman | Murders of four women from October to November 1986 during robberies. | | Coffman insisted that she suffered from battered-woman syndrome. |
| James Marlow | Murders of four women from October to November 1986 during robberies. | | Marlow sexually assaulted two of their victims. |
| Kevin Cooper | Axing and stabbing of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and their son Joshua's friend Christopher Hughes. | | 8-year-old Joshua had his throat cut but survived the attack.Cooper escaped several times from custody in Pennsylvania and from the minimum security section of California Institution for Men in Chino. |
| Michael Cox | Kidnapped and killed three teenage girls in Placerville, California, between June and August 1984. | | |
| Tiequon Cox | Shot and killed four relatives of former NFL player Kermit Alexander. | | Cox was a noted member of the Rollin' 60 Crips. |
| Kerry Lyn Dalton | Tortured and murdered Irene 'Melanie' Louise in 1988. | | Irene Louise's body was never found. |
| Joseph Danks | Strangled his 67-year-old cellmate to death in 1990. | | Was serving a life sentence for the murders of six transients in Koreatown, Los Angeles in January 1987. |
| Richard Allen Davis | Kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas. | | His criminal record fueled support for passage of California's "three-strikes law". |
| Skylar Preciosa Deleon | Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks. | | Both defendants were judged separately, Deleon was also charged with the murder of John Jarvi, a resident of Anaheim, California. |
| John Kennedy | Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks. | | Both defendants were judged separately, Deleon was also charged with the murder of John Jarvi, a resident of Anaheim, California. |
| Robert Mark Edwards | Sexually assaulted and murdered 55-year-old realtor Marjorie Deeble, the mother of his girlfriend, at her home in Los Alamitos in May 1986. | | Also convicted for a similar murder in Kihei, Hawaii on January 25, 1993, for which he was given five life terms. |
| Pedro Espinoza | Murder of Jamiel Shaw II. | | |
| Richard Farley | Shot and killed seven people and wounded four others. | | Laura Black, a former coworker Farley had been stalking for four years prior to his rampage, was shot unconscious, but she survived. |
| Wayne Adam Ford | Confessed to killing four women in 1997 and 1998. | | Ford was arrested after he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He is believed to have killed others. |
| Rickie Lee Fowler | Perpetrator of the Old Fire which killed six people. | | The fire caused at least $1.2 billion in damages. |
| Michael Gargiulo | Murdered at least two women between 2001 and 2005. | | Believed to be responsible for other murders in different states, including his former neighbor, who was murdered in 1993 in Glenview, Illinois. |
| Steven Dean Gordon | Raped and strangled four sex workers in Santa Ana and Anaheim from 2013 to 2014. | | Gordon's accomplice, fellow sex offender Franc Cano, pleaded guilty to four murders and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Both men are also accused in the murder of a fifth victim, but neither has been charged. |
| Jose Guerrero | Murders of three women in Madera from 1995 to 1998. | | Guerrero was arrested six years after the last crime based on DNA evidence after he had been jailed for a DUI. |
| Kevin Haley | Rapes and murders of two women during burglaries in Los Angeles in 1984, both committed on separate occasions. | | Haley committed these crimes in the midst of a crime spree with the help of his older brother Reginald, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Haleys are prime suspects in six additional murders, but were never charged. |
| Glenn Helzer | Cult leader who murdered five people in 2000. | | His brother, Justin, was also sentenced to death, but committed suicide in 2013. |
| Ivan Hill | Committed nine murders between 1979 and 1994. | | Hill dumped his victims' corpses along California State Route 60, earning him the nickname The 60 Freeway Killer. |
| Eric Houston | Perpetrator of the Lindhurst school shooting which killed four people and injured ten others. | | |
| Michael Hughes | Raped and strangled at least seven women between 1986 and 1993. | | In 1998, Hughes was originally sentenced to life without parole. |
| Michael Jackson | Shot and killed a police officer in August 1983. | | Was high on phencyclidine at the time of the killing. |
| Emrys John | Murder of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak. | | |
| Tyrone Miller | Murder of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak. | | |
| Kesaun Sykes | Murder of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak. | | |
| Bryan Maurice Jones | Raped and murdered sex workers JoAnn Sweets and Sophia Glover in May and August 1986 | | Known as "The Dumpster Killer" for leaving his victims' bodies in dumpsters, sometimes setting them alight. Also charged with two other murders dating back to 1985, but was never brought to trial due to his existing death sentence. |
| Randy Kraft | Raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered a minimum of sixteen young men. | | In a series of killings spanning between 1972 and 1983, the majority of his crimes were committed in California. He is suspected of having raped and murdered 51 other boys and young men. |
| Cherie Lash-Rhoades | Shot six people at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office in Alturas, killing four on February 20, 2014. | | One of the injured was also attacked with a butcher knife after Lash-Rhoades ran out of ammunition. |
| Eric Leonard | Murdered 6 people in two separate robberies in Sacramento in 1991. | | Committed two robberies in February 1991, killing six employees of the stores in total. In May 2007, the Supreme Court of California upheld his death sentence. |
| Gunner Lindberg | Tortured and stabbed 24-year-old Thien Minh Ly, a Vietnamese-American, 22 times. | | Lindberg and his accomplice, 17-year-old Domenic Christopher, encountered Ly, who was around the tennis courts at Tustin High School. Lindberg and Christopher trapped Ly on the courts, beat him, kicked him, and then stabbed him. |
| Kendrick Loot | Killed three people during robberies from 1995 to 1996. | | Was the accomplice of Bruce Millsap, who committed five additional murders. He was sentenced to death for all eight. |
| David Allen Lucas | Murdered two women and one young boy in 1979 and 1984. | | Lucas was also suspected of three similar murders that occurred in the same time period, but was acquitted at trial. |
| Jarvis Jay Masters | Convicted of participating in the murder of Sergeant Howell Burchfield in 1985. | | Masters was originally sent to prison for armed robbery. He was convicted of fashioning the weapon that was used by Andre Johnson, another inmate in the murder of Sergeant Burchfield. |
| Robert Maury | Murdered at least three women in Shasta County in the late 1980s. | | |
| Timothy Joseph McGhee | Serial killer from 1997 to 2003, killed twelve people. | | McGhee was a Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from Atwater Village, Los Angeles. He is believed to be responsible for at least 12 homicides, three of which led to convictions, and at least 10 attempted murders, four of which led to convictions. In 2025, McGhee's murder convictions and death penalty sentences were overturned by the California Supreme Court on grounds that juror was improperly dismissed during deliberations. |
| Charles "Chase" Merritt | Perpetrator of the McStay family murders. | | Merritt was convicted of torturing and murdering his business partner, Joseph McStay, Joseph's wife Summer, and their two young sons. The family went missing in February 2010, in a case that attracted national attention. Their remains were found in two shallow graves in November 2013 and Merritt was charged in November 2014. After numerous trial delays, a jury convicted Merritt in June 2019. |
| Andrew Mickel | Shot Red Bluff police officer David Mobilio. | | |
| Bruce Millsap | Killed eight people during robberies from 1995 to 1996. | | Co-defendant Kendrick Loot was also sentenced to death, but for three of the murders. |
| Michael Morales | Raped, hammered and stabbed 17-year-old Terri Lynn Winchell. | | Morales's cousin, Richard Ortega, hired him to murder Winchell, Ortega's male lover's girlfriend. Richard Ortega was sentenced to life without parole. Morales's original execution date of February 21, 2006, was postponed as a result of two court-appointed anesthesiologists withdrawing from the procedure. |
| Joseph Naso | Drugged, raped and strangled four women between 1977 and 1994. | | |
| Charles Ng | Serial killer in 1985. | | Ng is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice, Leonard Lake, at the latter's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco. |
| Joseph Nissensohn | Raped and murdered 13-year-old Tammy Jarschke and 14-year-old Tanya Jones in 1981, and 15-year-old Kathy Graves in 1989 | | Nissensohn was convicted following a cold case review of one case, and was implicated in the earlier murders by witness testimony. He had previously been convicted for the murder of a woman in Washington State and was serving a 25-year sentence. |
| Raymond Lee Oyler | Perpetrator of the Esperanza Fire which killed five firefighters. | | |
| Samreth Pan | Killed four people in gang related shootings during the summer of 1995. | | Accomplice of Run Chhoun, who was sentenced to death for these crimes as well as the murder of five family members. Both were members of the Tiny Rascal Gang. |
| Gerald Parker | Raped and murdered five women in their homes. | | A sixth woman, who was pregnant, was also attacked by Parker. She survived, but her baby was delivered stillborn. |
| Cleophus Prince Jr. | Burglarized several homes and murdered six women, one of whom he raped. | | |
| Ramon Rogers | Murdered his former roommate and two ex-girlfriends in San Diego from 1993 to 1996, dismembering their remains post-mortem. | | Additionally considered a suspect in the disappearance of a neighbor in Idaho in 1977, but never charged. |
| David Allen Rundle | Murdered two Placer County girls. | | Had also murdered a third woman in Sacramento for which he was sentenced to life. |
| Ramon Salcido | Murdered his wife, two of his three daughters, his mother in-law, her two daughters, and his work supervisor. | | |
| Wesley Shermantine | Committed at least four murders from 1984 to 1999. | | One half of the Speed Freak Killers along with Loren Herzog, who committed suicide in 2012. |
| Mauricio Silva | Murdered three teenagers, including his half-sister, during a two-week killing spree in May 1984. | | The killings were committed less than a month after being paroled from a voluntary manslaughter conviction. |
| Gerald Frank Stanley | Murdered his fourth wife in 1980 after being paroled for the 1975 killing of his second wife. | | He is also suspected in the disappearance of his third wife in 1980. |
| Cary Stayner | Murdered 42-year-old Carole Sund and her daughter's friend, 16-year-old Argentine exchange student Silvina Pelosso, later he raped and slit the throat of Sund's daughter, 15-year-old Juliana Sund in 1999. He also murdered and beheaded 26-year-old Joie Ruth Armstrong, five months later. | | He is the older brother of kidnapping victim Steven Stayner, abducted by child molester Kenneth Parnell. |
| Charles Stevens | Murdered four people on Interstate 580 in 1989. | | Worked with an accomplice named Richard James Clark in some of the attacks. |
| William Suff | Raped, stabbed, strangled and/or mutilated at least twelve sex workers between 1986 and 1991. | | Suff and his ex-wife were previously convicted of beating their infant daughter to death. |
| Regis Deon Thomas | Three murders between 1992 and 1993. | | Bloods gang member. Two of the victims were officers in the Compton Police Department. |
| Chester Turner | Fifteen murders between 1987 and 1998. | | First sentenced for the murders of ten women and the unborn child of one of them. Then sentenced again for the other four murders. |
| Billy Ray Waldon | Murdered 42-year old Dawn Ellerman and her daughter, 13-year-old Erin Ellerman, during a robbery in which he also set the home of the victims on fire. Two weeks later he shot 59-year-old Charles Wells, who was working on a car. | | Creator of the constructed language Poliespo. In 2023, Waldon's convictions were overturned by the California Supreme Court on grounds that he was denied representation by competent counsel. |
| Darnell Keith Washington | Murdered 55-year-old Susie Ko during a home invasion. | | Washington committed the murder as well as numerous other serious crimes across southern California with his wife Tania. |
| Marcus Wesson | Mass shooting of nine of his children. | | Wesson's victims were his own children, fathered by incestuous relationships with his daughters and nieces, as well as the children by his wife. |
| David Alan Westerfield | Kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. | | |
| Daniel Wozniak | Murder of PFC Samuel Eliezer Herr and his friend, Juri Kibuishi. | | Killed two people in an attempt to fund his 2010 wedding and honeymoon. A jury deliberated for 1 hour 14 minutes before recommending the death penalty, one of the shortest death penalty deliberations in Orange County history. |
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| Michael Shane Bargo Jr. | 2011 murder of Seath Jackson in Summerfield, Florida. | | Bargo was the ringleader and one of the five youths involved in the murder of Jackson. The 5 youths beat, shot, dismembered and burned Seath Jackson. later they dumped his burnt body into a quarry. Three of Bargo' s accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree murder, while the fourth was convicted of second-degree murder and released after spending close to ten years in jail. |
| Leo Boatman | Murdered a fellow prisoner, William Chapman, in 2019 | | Boatman was serving two life sentences without parole for the 2006 murders of Amber Peck and John Parker, and 15 years for the 2010 murder of Ricky Morris in prison. |
| William Edward Wells | Murdered a fellow prisoner, William Chapman, in 2019 | | Wells, infamously dubbed the "Monster of Mayport", was serving multiple life sentences without parole for the 2003 murders of his wife and four other people, and the 2011 murder of another inmate in prison. |
| Kidnapped, raped and stabbed 21-year-old Dawnia Dacosta with a screwdriver. | | He is a suspect in at least ten other homicides, rapes, and disappearances. |
| Tina Lasonya Brown | Kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Audreanna Zimmerman by beating and burning her alive in 2010. | | Brown's 16-year-old daughter Britnee Miller was sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder, while Brown's neighbour Heather Lee accepted a plea deal and thus given 25 years' jail for second-degree murder. Brown is presently the sole woman incarcerated on Florida's death row since 2023. |
| Daniel Conahan | Kidnapped, raped, tortured and strangled a 21-year-old man, tied him to a tree, then removed his genitals. | | Conahan is also a suspect in the deaths of twelve other men. |
| Rory Enrique Conde | Strangled six sex workers, including a male crossdresser, then had anal sex with their corpses. | | |
| Steven Anthony Cozzie | Kidnapped, raped and murdered 15-year-old Courtney Wilkes in 2011. | | Cozzie was sentenced to death for first-degree murder, in addition to double life sentences for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and for kidnapping, plus 30 years' jail for aggravated. |
| Willie Crain Jr. | Kidnapped and murdered seven-year-old Amanda Brown in 1998. | | Prior to the murder, Crain had raped at least eight young girls from the 1960s to the 1980s, and sentenced to 20 years' jail in 1984 for five related charges, but he served only six years before being released. In the case of Brown's murder, the body was never found. |
| Mesac Damas | Murder of his wife and five children at their home. | | He was given six death sentences for each murder. |
| Leon Davis Jr. | Murders of four people. | | He was given an additional life sentence for killing the unborn child of one of the victims |
| Wayne C. Doty | Murder of fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez in 2013. |
| Before killing Rodriguez, Doty was already serving life without parole for the murder of Harvey Horne II in 1996. Has selected electrocution as his method of execution. William Wells was also convicted as an accomplice in Rodriguez's murder and sentenced to life without parole, but later received a death sentence for another inmate's murder in 2019. |
| James Aren Duckett | Convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of Teresa McAbee in Mascotte, Florida. | | Duckett, a former Mascotte police officer, was also named a suspect in two more unsolved murders: the 1987 murder of 14-year-old Jeanifer Weldon and the 1986 murder of an unidentified woman in Lakeland. Duckett was convicted and sentenced to death based on circumstantial evidence, but there were some who believed he was innocent due to the disputed validity of certain parts of the evidence in his case. |
| Kevin Foster | Shot high school music teacher Mark Schwebes. | | Two of Foster's accomplices were sentenced to life without parole. A third was sentenced to 32 years' jail. |
| Leonard Gonzalez | Murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings. | | |
| James Herard | Solicited the fatal shooting of Eric Jean-Pierre. | | Herard was also sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Kiem Huynh, as well as multiple other life terms for three Dunkin' Donuts robberies. |
| Gary Hilton | Kidnapped, robbed, murdered and dismembered Cheryl Dunlap at Apalachicola National Forest. | | He was also sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for the murder of Meredith Emerson, and was sentenced in North Carolina to four life sentences for the murders of John and Irene Bryant. Hilton is also suspected in the killing of Judy Smith. |
| Jerone Hunter | Bludgeoned and stabbed six people to death. | | The crime was the bloodiest mass murder in Volusia County history. |
| Troy Victorino | Bludgeoned and stabbed six people to death. | | The crime was the bloodiest mass murder in Volusia County history. |
| Michael James Jackson | Kidnapped, robbed and buried alive his girlfriend's former neighbors, married couple James "Reggie" and Carol Sumner, both 61-year-old. | | Alan Wade, who helped in the murders, was also sentenced to death but later had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. His girlfriend, Tiffany Cole was also sentenced to death, but after a retrial, she was re-sentenced to life on August 23, 2023. Bruce Nixon, who also participated in the murders was sentenced to 45 years in prison. |
| Billy Leon Kearse | Shot and murdered 29-year-old Fort Pierce police sergeant Danny Parrish. | | Kearse was out on probation at the time of the crime Scheduled to be executed on March 3, 2026. |
| Michael King | Kidnapped, raped and murdered 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee. | | |
| Steven Lorenzo | Raped and murdered two homosexual men, Michael Wachholtz and Jason Galehouse, in 2003. | | Lorenzo was also involved in the rapes of seven other homosexual men, who survived the encounters. Lorenzo was convicted under federal law for drugging and raping all his victims and sentenced to 200 years in federal prison after his 2005 arrest by the federal authorities, before he was sentenced to death for state murder charges in 2023. Lorenzo's accomplice Scott Paul Schweickert was sentenced to life imprisonment for state murder charges, as well as 40 years in federal prison for the drug-related offences. Lorenzo had since expressed his wish to be executed and forgo his appeals. |
| Markeith Loyd | Shot and killed Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton. | | Loyd was previously sentenced to life for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon. |
| Patrick McDowell | Killed Nassau County Sheriff's Deputy Joshua Moyers in September 2021. | | McDowell killed the officer in order to avoid arrest for outstanding charges of felony misdemeanors from Georgia. |
| Dontae Morris | Killed five people, including two police officers, in Tampa between May and June 2010. | | |
| William Reaves | Killed Indian River County sheriff's deputy Richard Raczkoski in September 1986. |
| Reaves's original death sentence was overturned because one of the trial's prosecutors had previously defended him in a robbery case, and during his 1992 re-trial, a second death sentence was issued to Reaves. |
| Mark Sievers | Orchestrated the murder of his wife, 46-year-old Teresa Sievers. | | |
| Donald James Smith | Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle. | | In April 2021, the Supreme Court of Florida upheld Smith's conviction and death sentence. |
| George Trepal | Poisoned and murdered his neighbor, 41-year-old Peggy Carr. | | |
| Quentin Marcus Truehill | Kidnapped and murdered a 29-year-old Florida State University student Vincent Binder. | | Truehill, who was previously jailed 30 years in Louisiana for manslaughter, committed the murder after he escaped from jail with his two accomplices. Truehill's two accomplices, Peter Marcus Hughes and Kentrell Feronti Johnson, were both sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. |
| Wade Wilson | Strangled two women to death then ran over the second victim multiple times. | | Called the Deadpool killer due to sharing the same name as the fictional character. His trial also occurred around the same time as the release of Deadpool & Wolverine. |
| Zephen Xaver | Perpetrated the 2019 Sebring shooting. | | |
| Tommy Zeigler | Quadruple murder of Eunice Zeigler, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and Charlie Mays. | | Zeigler's case has been the focus of controversy since he was denied bloodstain DNA analysis in 2013 and 2016, and touch DNA analysis in April 2017.Zeigler was scheduled to be executed on October 22, 1982. However, the U.S. District Court stayed the execution due to new evidence. Zeigler was then scheduled to be executed on May 20, 1986, but it was again stayed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals due to inadequate representation. Zeigler is Florida's longest-serving death row inmate. |
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| Anthony Bell | Convicted of murdering his wife and four in-laws during a church shooting in 2006. | | Bell was sentenced to five consecutive death sentences for the first-degree murders of all five victims. He also received a 50-year prison term for the attempted murder of his mother-in-law, who was the sole survivor of the shooting. |
| Daniel Blank | Convicted of the 1997 murder of 71-year-old Lillian Philippe. | | Dubbed the "River Parishes serial killer", Blank had murdered a total of six people, including Philippe. Blank was sentenced to death only for Philippe's murder, in addition to four sentences of life without parole for another four of the killings, but never stood trial for the sixth murder. |
| Henri Broadway | Involved in the murder of 36-year-old police officer Betty Smothers. | | The murdered police officer was the mother of Warrick Dunn, a former NFL running back. Broadway's accomplice, Kevan Brumfield, was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life on July 20, 2016, as he was ruled too intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution. |
| David Brown | Murdered 49-year-old Corrections Captain David Knapps at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1999. | | Brown and Clark were both members of the "Angola 5", a group of five inmates involved in an escape attempt that led to the murder of Knapps. Brown was serving a life sentence for a 1992 second-degree murder case while Clark was originally sentenced to death for a 1984 murder case before the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The remaining three Angola 5 members – David Mathis, Barry Edge and Robert Carley – were all sentenced to life without parole for their participation in the murder. |
| Jeffrey Cameron Clark | Murdered 49-year-old Corrections Captain David Knapps at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1999. | | Brown and Clark were both members of the "Angola 5", a group of five inmates involved in an escape attempt that led to the murder of Knapps. Brown was serving a life sentence for a 1992 second-degree murder case while Clark was originally sentenced to death for a 1984 murder case before the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The remaining three Angola 5 members – David Mathis, Barry Edge and Robert Carley – were all sentenced to life without parole for their participation in the murder. |
| Nathaniel Code | Mass murder of four people. | | Code had also been responsible for at least four other murders, and investigators believe his murder count could be as high as twelve. |
| Antoinette Frank | Murdered 25-year-old police officer Ronald Williams and 17-year-old Cuong Vu and 24-year-old Ha Vu, a brother and a sister owners of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard. | | Frank was a New Orleans police officer. Her accomplice, Roger Lacaze was also sentenced to death, but was resentenced to life. |
| Kyle David Joekel | Shot and murdered two police officers, 34-year-old Brandon Nielsen and 27-year-old Jeremy Triche, in a mass shooting in 2012. | | Joekel was one of the two shooters involved in the shooting, which also left another two policemen injured. The other shooter, Brian Lyn Smith, was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial and detained in a mental facility. Three members of Smith's family and his girlfriend were arrested for lesser charges of being an accessory to attempted first-degree murder. |
| Jesse Montejo | Shot and killed a business owner inside a home. | | - |
| Larry Roy | Slashed five people in 1993 at Cheneyville, Louisiana, which led to the deaths of 33-year-old Freddie Richard Jr. and 75-year-old Rosetta Silas. | | Dubbed the "Cheneyville Slasher" by the media, Roy attacked Richard's ex-wife, who was his former girlfriend, after she broke off their relationship, resulting in the slashing-deaths. |
| Todd Wessinger | Shot and killed two restaurant employees, 27-year-old Stephanie Guzzardo and 46-year-old David Breakwell, during a robbery-turned mass shooting in 1995. | | Wessinger used to work as a dishwasher at the restaurant where he robbed and later shot four of his former co-workers, which led to the deaths of Breakwell and Guzzardo. |
| Name | Description of crime | Time on death row | Other |
| Eugene Broxton | Shot newlyweds Waylon and Sheila Dockens during a robbery of their motel room in Channelview, killing Sheila. | | Broxton is also the prime suspect for a series of robbery-murders in Houston between March and May 1991, for which he has never been charged. |
| Kimberly Cargill | Murdered her son's 39-year-old babysitter Cherry Walker in 2010. | | Cargill killed Walker after luring her out for dinner with a purpose of preventing the victim from testifying against her in a child protective case; Cargill had dumped Walker's body, doused it in lighter fluid and set it on fire. |
| Linda Carty | Abducted and murdered 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez to steal her newborn son. | | Prosecutors alleged that Carty orchestrated the crime, which was committed by three masked men who abducted Rodriguez and her son. Rodriguez was later found dead in the trunk of a car. Her 3-day-old son was rescued from a car parked nearby. The other three men were arrested, but only Carty was prosecuted for capital murder.Carty claims she was framed by drug dealers in response to her work as an informant and has appealed her conviction. Her appeals have been unsuccessful and the appeal procedure has been exhausted. Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century. |
| Raul Cortez | Shot dead Rosa Barbosa, her nephew and two of his friends. | | Eddie Williams is serving 20 years, and Javier Cortez, Raul's brother, was sentenced to four years in prison. |
| Edgardo Rafael Cubas | Murdered two women and a 15-year-old girl, who had been kidnapped and raped. | | Eduardo Navarro, an accomplice, was 15 at the time of the crimes but was tried as an adult. |
| Walter Alexander Sorto | Murdered two women and a 15-year-old girl, who had been kidnapped and raped. | | Eduardo Navarro, an accomplice, was 15 at the time of the crimes but was tried as an adult. |
| William George Davis | Murdered four patients at a hospital in Tyler from 2017 to 2018, where he worked as a nurse, introducing air into patients’ arterial systems. | | In a call to his ex-wife in jail, Davis claimed he wanted to lengthen patients' time in the intensive care unit so he could earn more overtime. |
| Paul Devoe | Murdered his ex-girlfriend Paula Griffith, her teenage daughter Haylie Faulkner, Griffith's boyfriend Jay Feltner and Faulkner's 17-year-old friend Danielle Hensley | | Devoe had also murdered a bartender in Texas and an elderly woman in Pennsylvania. He was convicted of killing both Hensley and Faulkner and sentenced to death, but did not face trial for the other four homicides. |
| Michael Dean Gonzales | Robbed and murdered his elderly neighbors in Odessa, Texas. | | |
| Howard Paul Guidry | Murdered 33-year-old Farah Fratta under the orders of her estranged husband Robert Fratta. | | Robert Fratta, the mastermind of his wife's murder, was sentenced to death and executed in 2023. Fratta recruited Joseph Prystash as a middleman to help him find a gunman, therefore hiring Guidry as the assassin to shoot and kill his wife. Prystash was also sentenced to death but he died of natural causes in 2025 while on death row. |
| Ruben Gutierrez | Robbed and murdered 85-year-old retired schoolteacher Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Texas. | | Gutierrez committed the crime with two others; one of them, Rene Garcia, was sentenced to life in prison while the other, Pedro Gracia, remains at large for the murder. |
| Randy Halprin | Murdered Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a robbery. | | Halprin was convicted under the Texas law of parties. |
| Patrick Murphy | Murdered Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a robbery. | | Murphy was the last member of the Texas Seven to be brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to death. Murphy was also convicted under the Texas law of parties. |
| Ronald Lee Haskell | Murdered his ex-wife's sister, her husband and four of their children in Harris County. | | Cassidy Stay was the lone survivor. She was shot, but played dead and informed police about Haskell. |
| Brittany Holberg | Robbed and murdered 80-year-old A. B. Towery Sr. in his home. | | The victim was struck with a hammer and stabbed nearly sixty times. The weapons used were a paring knife, a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, and a fork. A lamp pole had been shoved more than five inches down the victim's throat. Holberg's conviction was overturned in 2025 after a federal court found that evidence had been withheld during her original trial. |
| William Mitchell Hudson | Murdered six members of a family at a camp site. | | Hudson's motive behind the shooting was purportedly due to his rage of losing his family's land, which was sold to one of the victims he killed. A seventh member of the family escaped unharmed during the attack. |
| Ali Irsan | 2012 killings of his son-in-law, Coty Beavers, and Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a friend of his daughter. | | |
| Willie Roy Jenkins | Sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Sheryl Norris at her apartment in San Marcos. | | Jenkins, who was detained at a mental hospital in California for four rapes committed during the 1970s, was linked to the crime via DNA. He is also a suspect in three additional murders committed from 1975 to 1977, but has not been charged. |
| Kristopher Love | Shot and killed Dr. Kendra Hatcher in a murder-for-hire scheme. | | His co-defendant, Brenda Delgado, who hired him to carry out the murder, was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list after fleeing to Mexico. She was later captured and spared the death penalty. |
| Melissa Lucio | Murdered her 2-years-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez. | | Lucio was the first woman of Hispanic descent in Texas to be sentenced to death. A problematic conviction and rejected appeals led to her case being covered in the 2020 documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa. |
| Otis McKane | Shooting of Benjamin Marconi. | | |
| Rodney Reed | Abducted, raped and murdered 19-year-old Stacie Stites. | | |
| Robert Leslie Roberson III | Murder of his two-year-old daughter Nikki Michelle Curtis. | | |
| Darlie Routier | Stabbed her two sons in 1996. | | Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA. |
| Víctor Saldaño | Kidnapped and shot dead Paul Ray King. | | Saldaño is the sole Argentine on death row in the United States. Jorge Chávez, his co-defendant, is serving life imprisonment. |
| Erica Sheppard | Robbed and murdered 43-year-old Marilyn Meagher in 1993 | | Sheppard and a male accomplice, James Dickerson, robbed Meagher of her car and killed her by stabbing and beating with a statue. Dickerson was also sentenced to death, but he died on death row in 1999 due to AIDS. Sheppard is the longest-serving female prisoner on Texas's death row. |
| Andre Thomas | Murdered his estranged wife, 4-year-old son, and 13-month-old daughter on March 27, 2004. | | Residing in a psychiatric unit because of doubts about his mental health, since he removed his right eye on April 1, 2004, and then removed and consumed his left eye on December 9, 2008. |
| Jason Thornburg | Serial killer who murdered and dismembered three people at Fort Worth, Texas in 2021. | | Thornburg had also engaged in cannibalism by eating some of the victim's body parts and organs. Thornburg additionally confessed to murdering his girlfriend at Arizona in 2017, and also killed a roommate in May 2021 in Texas. |
| Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval | Shot United States Border Patrol agent Javier Vega Jr. | | Ismael Hernandez Vallejo was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Both men were undocumented Mexican citizens. |
| Lucky Ward | Strangled two people in September 2010 in Houston, during separate incidents | | Ward is considered the prime suspect in a series of at least four similar murders dating back to 1985, but was not charged with them due to lack of sufficient evidence for a conviction. |
| Faryion Wardrip | Raped and murdered five women in the 1980s. | | Wardrip was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 1986. He was released on December 11, 1997, but was sentenced to death on November 9, 1999, after he confessed to murdering Terry Sims. In December 2014, Wardrip's appeal was dismissed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. |
| Eric Lyle Williams | Shot and killed three people in Kaufman County, including Criminal District Attorney Michael McLelland. | | Williams's wife and accomplice, Kimberly Irene Williams, was tried separately, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. |
| David Leonard Wood | Rapes and murders of six women in El Paso from May to August 1987, whose bodies were later found buried in the desert. | | Wood is also a suspect in the disappearances of three other young girls and women. He has denied responsibility for the crimes and has repeatedly attempted to have his sentence overturned, but so far has been unsuccessful. |
| Jeffery Lee Wood | Party to the shooting of gas station clerk Kriss Lee Keeran. | | On January 2, 1996, Wood and Daniel Earl Reneau robbed a Kerrville gas station. While Wood waited outside, Reneau shot the clerk because he did not cooperate. Wood was convicted under the Texas law of parties and his death row conviction has been regarded as controversial, as he was not present during the murder. Reneau was executed on June 13, 2002. |