List of people executed by lethal injection


Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person by a government for the express purpose of causing immediate death. While Nazi Germany was known to execute enemies of the state using an injection of lethal drugs, the first country to legalize and formally implement what is referred to today as lethal injection was the United States. The state of Texas adopted it as its form on capital punishment in 1977 and executed the first person by it, Charles Brooks Jr., in 1982. The practice was subsequently adopted by the other US states using capital punishment. As of 2025, the method is available for use by 27 US states, as well as by their federal government and military.
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. Opponents of lethal injection reject this argument, noting multiple cases where executions have been either painful, prolonged, or both. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, lethal injections have the highest rate of botched executions of any method used in the US, with 7.12% of executions using this method between 1982 and 2010 considered to have not gone according to plan. 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. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 7–2 in 2008, 5–4 in 2015, and 5–4 in 2019 that lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
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, the Maldives in 2014 and Nigeria in 2015. The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006. While the death penalty still exists in the Maldives and Guatemala, no executions have been carried out there since 1954 and 2000 respectively. Taiwan has never actually used the method, instead carrying out all executions by single gunshot. The US and China are the two biggest users of this method of execution. The US had executed 1,448 people via lethal injection as of August 2025. The number of people executed annually in China is thought to surpass all other countries combined, though the actual number is a state secret, and the percentage of people executed via lethal injection and the other method of execution used there, firing squad, is also unclear.
This alphabetical list features notable executions up to December 2025, and only those where lethal injection can be reliably sourced to be the method used. The criterion for notability is either an article on the individual, the crime they were executed for, or a court case related to their execution, in the English Wikipedia.

Executions

NameBornDiedAgeNationalityExecuted inExecuted for
1963200642AmericanTexasMurder
1937199558AmericanIllinoisMurder
1951200857AmericanGeorgia Murder
1975201034AmericanTexasMurder
1930200676AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1959200141AmericanOklahomaMurder
1956200650AmericanTennesseeMurder
1962200441AmericanTexasMurder
1960199534AmericanTexasMurder
1966200640AmericanTexasMurder
1953200248AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1914194328GermanNazi GermanyMaking "hostile statements"
1967201446MexicanTexasMurder
1955199843AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1964201753AmericanFloridaMurder
1973200532AmericanOhioMurder
1956202266AmericanArizonaMurder
1954198429AmericanTexasMurder
1949199950AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1958200547AmericanMarylandMurder
1972200330AmericanTexasMurder
1966200640ChineseChinaMurder
1932198452AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1962202361AmericanFloridaMurder
1968200031AmericanTexasMurder
1956200649AmericanOhioMurder
1954201459AmericanTexasMurder
1955201862AmericanTexasMurder
1943200561AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1976200225AmericanTexasMurder
1937200062AmericanTexasMurder
1962201856AmericanSouth DakotaMurder
1962200643AmericanOhioMurder
1980202040AmericanIndiana Murder
1959200849AmericanMississippiMurder
1962199936AmericanOhioMurder
1951201866AmericanTexasMurder
1956201761AmericanTexasMurder
1958200951AmericanOhioMurder
1952198835AmericanUtahMurder
1965202569AmericanTennesseeMurder
1959200343AmericanTexasMurder
1960199332AmericanMissouriMurder
1962201653AmericanFloridaMurder
1947199649AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1962201047AmericanLouisianaMurder
1919194424FrenchNazi-occupied FranceBeing a Special Operations Executive member
1964202056AmericanIndiana Murder
1980202544AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1947201567AmericanTexasMurder
1962201957AmericanFloridaMurder
1959199939AmericanTexasMurder
1881194261DutchNazi GermanyOrdering Catholic newspapers not to print Nazi documents
1948201549AmericanGeorgia Murder
1967201144AmericanOhioMurder
1959200344AmericanOhioMurder
1942198240AmericanTexasMurder
1970202352AmericanTexasMurder
1958201052AmericanWashingtonMurder
1962199735AmericanLouisianaMurder
1953200551AmericanMissouriMurder
1968201951AmericanMissouriMurder
1940200262AmericanOhioMurder
1977201840AmericanGeorgia Murder
1944202278AmericanTexasMurder
1963200238AmericanOhioMurder
1954199843AmericanTexasMurder
1966200326AmericanTexasMurder
1975201035AmericanTexasMurder
1975199722AmericanOklahomaMurder
1967200235AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1974200531AmericanTexasMurder
1950200050AmericanFloridaMurder
1961c. 1961200039GuatemalanGuatemalaMurder
1965c. 1965200035GuatemalanGuatemalaMurder
1946201165AmericanFloridaMurder
1971200837AmericanKentuckyMurder
1968201446AmericanFloridaMurder
1968200334AmericanTexasMurder
1969201343AmericanTexasMurder
1957199639AmericanDelawareMurder
1968200738AmericanTexasMurder
1949200657AmericanOhioMurder
1956200145AmericanNew MexicoMurder
1968200335AmericanTexasMurder
1956199437AmericanArkansasMurder
1972202250AmericanOklahomaMurder
1956200044AmericanTennesseeMurder
1938198547AmericanNevadaMurder
1966202457AmericanFloridaMurder
1955200246AmericanOhioMurder
1947199043AmericanOklahomaMurder
1975201438AmericanTexasMurder
1961200544AmericanGeorgia Malice murder
1967200841AmericanOhioMurder
1975202449AmericanIndianaMurder
1954c. 1964199833GuatemalanGuatemalaMurder
1970202150AmericanMississippiMurder
1966202559AmericanMississippiMurder
1944199753AmericanColoradoMurder
1958199537AmericanIllinoisMurder
1968201142AmericanGeorgia Murder
1957200648AmericanMontanaMurder
1953200552ChineseChinaMurder
1962198927AmericanTexasMurder
1955199237AmericanTexasMurder
1976200428AmericanOhioMurder
1974201137AmericanGeorgia Murder
1951200655Puerto RicanFloridaMurder
1963202359AmericanFloridaMurder
1973200027AmericanTexasMurder
1955202266AmericanArizonaMurder
1969202555AmericanArizonaMurder
1955202266AmericanMissouriMurder
1972202452AmericanTexasMurder
1972200633AmericanTexasMurder
1952201058AmericanOklahomaMurder
1943199956AmericanTexasMurder
1960199938FilipinoPhilippinesRape of a minor
1942200158AmericanWashington StateMurder
1982c. 1982201533AmericanTexasMurder
1954199541AmericanArkansasMurder
1937199961CanadianTexasMurder
1963200946AmericanOhioMurder
1948201365AmericanFloridaMurder
1969200636AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1960202564AmericanFloridaMurder
1960201049AmericanGeorgia Murder
1956200347AmericanOhioMurder
1950201363AmericanMissouriMurder
1958202365AmericanTexasMurder
1980201635AmericanTexasMurder
1942199452AmericanIllinoisMurder
1972201643AmericanTexasMurder
1973201138MexicanTexasMurder
1971201847AmericanTexasMurder
1980201535AmericanTexasMurder
1970200838AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1956c. 1956199942–43AmericanArkansasMurder
1963199228AmericanTexasMurder
1950201867AmericanGeorgia Murder
1956200144AmericanIndiana Murder
1967202356AmericanFloridaMurder
1960202464AmericanAlabamaCapital murder
1957199739AmericanVirginiaMurder
1975200933AmericanOhioMurder
1971200331AmericanOklahomaMurder
1966199832AmericanMarylandMurder
1968201547AmericanGeorgia Murder
1905194539ItalianNazi GermanyAiding Jews
1982202441AmericanTexasMurder
1953201258AmericanFloridaMurder
1963201350AmericanFloridaMurder
1961202160AmericanOklahomaMurder
1950199645AmericanTexasMurder
1962199532AmericanOklahomaMurder
1967200538AmericanMissouriMurder
1989201739AmericanVirginiaMurder
1949199747AmericanArizonaMurder
1951199847AmericanArizonaMurder
1963200036AmericanTexasMurder
1955199237AmericanTexasMurder
1954199540AmericanMissouriMurder
1968202556AmericanMissouriMurder
1965201045AmericanFloridaMurder
1971202545AmericanArizonaMurder
1970200332AmericanOklahomaMurder
1971202049AmericanIndiana Murder
1964202359AmericanOklahomaMurder
1974200934AmericanTexasMurder
1964202561AmericanTexasMurder
1972201240AmericanTexasMurder
1949199950AmericanKentuckyMurder
1964200339AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1943199552AmericanTexasMurder
1948200354AmericanTexasMurder
1943199955AmericanPennsylvaniaMurder
1951201463AmericanFloridaMurder
1974200834AmericanFloridaMurder
1971201241AmericanTexasMurder
1956200549AmericanOhioMurder
1972202148AmericanIndiana Murder
1957200648AmericanFloridaMurder
1960200848AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1954200349AmericanFloridaMurder
1960201554AmericanGeorgia Murder
1950200050AmericanTexasMurder
1956199437AmericanArkansasMurder
1975202448AmericanUtahMurder
1968202052AmericanIndiana Murder
1953200349AmericanOklahomaMurder
1945202276AmericanArizonaMurder
1949199242AmericanWyomingMurder
1955202469AmericanMissouriMurde
1958200243British/AmericanGeorgia Murder
1973200532AmericanTexasMurder
1930200474AmericanAlabamaMurder
1971200534AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1959199738AmericanMarylandMurder
1947200053AmericanMissouriMurder
1929198454AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1962202562AmericanFloridaMurder
1961199534AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1958201859AmericanTennesseeMurder
1954199642AmericanLouisianaMurder
1972202250AmericanAlabamaMurder
1958202566AmericanFloridaMurder
1971199928AmericanTexasMurder
1954199339AmericanTexasMurder
1980200828ChineseChinaMurder
1968202152AmericanIndiana Murder
1963200037AmericanArkansasMurder
1960202161AmericanMissouriMurder
1985202237AmericanMissouriMurder
1978202345AmericanMissouriMurder
1975202549AmericanTexasMurder
1963200239AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1983201228AmericanDelawareMurder
1943201672AmericanGeorgia Murder
1964201752AmericanArkansasMurder
1950200353AmericanIndiana Murder
1979202141AmericanTexasMurder
1946202579AmericanMississippiMurder
1972200937ChineseChinaMurder
1964200238PakistaniVirginiaMurder
1973200936AmericanOhioMurder
1933200066ChineseChinaAccepting bribes
1951200857AmericanTexasMurder
1969201343BurmeseChinaMurder
1974201944AmericanTexasMurder
1960c. 1963199935AmericanIllinoisMurder
1951201462AmericanFloridaMurder
1941200362AmericanOklahomaMurder
1893194349PolishNazi GermanyRefusing to preach in German
1983201329AmericanAlabamaMurder
1957201557AmericanTexasMurder
1957200446AmericanTexasMurder
1953202066AmericanGeorgia Murder
1960c. 1960201050AmericanArizonaMurder
1966199831AmericanMontanaMurder
1951199544AmericanMissouriMurder
1959201253AmericanIdahoMurder
1970202050AmericanIndiana Murder
1973202047AmericanIndiana Murder
1965201751AmericanArkansasMurder
1903194441BritishNazi-occupied FranceBeing a French Resistance fighter
1969201041AmericanVirginiaMurder
1933199966ChineseChinaTreason
1963200137AmericanMissouriMurder
1975201438AmericanOklahomaMurder
1964202258AmericanMississippiMurder
1953199946AmericanTexasMurder
1953201965AmericanFloridaMurder
1992201826ThaiThailandMurder
1968200537AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1978201637AmericanGeorgia Murder
1950200656AmericanOhioMurder
1955200853AmericanGeorgia Murder
1972200331AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1958200647AmericanNevadaMurder
1961199938AmericanMissouriMurder
1961200947AmericanFloridaMurder
1960200342AmericanOhioMurder
1967200235AmericanLouisianaMurder
1973200128AmericanTexasMurder
1941200159AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1950200554AmericanIndianaMurder
1961201352AmericanTexasMurder
1973202349AmericanMissouriMurder
1948198940AmericanTexasMurder
1946199852AmericanTexasMurder
1960201453AmericanOhioMurder
1970200535AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1951199543AmericanMontanaMurder
1968200133AmericanIndiana 11 federal charges, including 8 counts of murder
1975200833MexicanTexasMurder
1971201746AmericanAlabamaMurder
1984202541AmericanTexasMurder
1944198944AmericanMissouriMurder
1989202535AmericanTexasMurder
1974202450AmericanAlabamaMurder
1981202038Native AmericanIndiana Murder
1952201361AmericanOhioAggravated murder
1965200539AmericanGeorgia Murder
1952201260AmericanSouth DakotaMurder
1968202152AmericanIndiana Murder
1935201883AmericanAlabamaMurder
1957201860AmericanNebraskaMurder
1965202459AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1941199756AmericanOregonMurder
1959198727AmericanTexasMurder
1951198534AmericanTexasMurder
1982201735AmericanVirginiaMurder
1942199552AmericanPennsylvaniaMurder
1960200948AmericanVirginiaMurder
1953199744AmericanVirginiaMurder
1960200545AmericanArkansasMurder
1965200237AmericanOklahomaMurder
1974202045AmericanIndiana Murder
1987202545AmericanTexasMurder
1961200747AmericanTexasMurder
1963201552AmericanTexasMurder
1969200740AmericanTexasMurder
1965200537AmericanOhioMurder
1960202564AmericanTennesseeMurder
1928200577AmericanMississippiMurder
1972200331AmericanArkansasMurder
1965201550AmericanMissouriMurder
1975200631AmericanTexasMurder
1944198439AmericanTexasMurder
1961199534AmericanMissouriMurder
1962200442AmericanMarylandMurder
1923194420GermanNazi-occupied FranceBeing a Special Operations Executive member
1970200837AmericanGeorgia Murder
1971201745AmericanOhioMurder
1961202362AmericanFloridaMurder
1978202446AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1981200725AmericanSouth DakotaMurder
1956201256AmericanFloridaMurder
1964199935AmericanUtahMurder
1945198944AmericanTexasMurder
1954200450AmericanTexasMurder
1957199234AmericanDelawareMurder
1955200953AmericanTexasMurder
1982201028AmericanTexasMurder
1973201743AmericanOhioMurder
1954199843AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1940199949AmericanArizonaMurder
1950200049AmericanArizonaMurder
1986202235AmericanOklahomaMurder
1965201549SalvadoranVirginiaMurder
1949200051AmericanFloridaMurder
1949199949AmericanArkansasMurder
1979201738AmericanTexasMurder
1952202068AmericanIndiana Murder
1965202459AmericanGeorgia Murder
1956201054ChineseChinaAccepting bribes, rape
1963200542AmericanTexasMurder
1984202238AmericanTexasMurder
1977201942AmericanAlabamaMurder
1950199242AmericanArkansasMurder
1954199339AmericanDelawareMurder
1977202244AmericanAlabamaMurder
1970202353AmericanTexasMurder
1960200645MexicanTexasMurder
1956201963AmericanSouth DakotaMurder
1979201031AmericanGeorgia Murder
1957201154AmericanIdahoMurder
1955200045AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1959200747AmericanTexasMurder
1951199443AmericanArkansasMurder
1961200543AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1971200028AmericanArkansasMurder
1980202545AmericanIndianaMurder
1981201241MexicanTexasMurder
1952199946AmericanMissouriMurder
1952200451AmericanFloridaMurder
1968199931AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1957202466AmericanOklahomaMurder
1963200845AmericanTexasMurder
1980201838AmericanTexasMurder
1962202562AmericanFloridaMurder
1954200652AmericanFloridaMurder
1974202338ChineseChinaMurder
1959200545AmericanConnecticutMurder
1971201341AmericanTexasMurder
1915194429BritishNazi-occupied FranceBeing a Special Operations Executive member
1955200550AmericanTexasMurder
1973201037ChineseChinaMurder
1970199827AmericanWashington StateMurder
1978202345AmericanOklahomaMurder
1963200036AmericanTexasMurder
1951c. 1951199342AmericanLouisianaMurder
1968200839AmericanFloridaMurder
1952200148AmericanOhioMurder
1969199929AmericanOklahomaMurder
1964201449AmericanTexasMurder
1956200953BritishChinaDrug trafficking
1954199743AmericanTexasMurder
1977202548AmericanMissouriMurder
1962201855AmericanTexasMurder
1940199049AmericanArkansasMurder
1942200058AmericanFloridaMurder
1959200444AmericanArkansasMurder
1951199947ThaiCaliforniaMurder
1965199732AmericanMissouriMurder
1959200949AmericanMissouriMurder
1960199838AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1982202441AmericanOklahomaMurder
1970200130AmericanArkansasMurder
1952199037AmericanTexasMurder
1950202575AmericanTennesseeMurder
1957199537AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1957200547AmericanOhioMurder
1953202572AmericanFloridaMurder
1951201159AmericanOklahomaMurder
1930199564AmericanArkansasMurder
1951199543AmericanOklahomaMurder
1968202557AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1968200536AmericanDelawareMurder
1952199644AmericanIllinoisMurder
1951199039AmericanMissouriMurder
1942202179AmericanOklahomaMurder
1965199933AmericanVirginiaMurder
1969201141AmericanTexasMurder
1938200567AmericanNorth CarolinaMurder
1979202546AmericanTexasMurder
1962200038AmericanLouisianaMurder
1967201447AmericanMissouriMurder
1977202548AmericanFloridaMurder
1970201342AmericanOklahomaMurder
1949199445AmericanMarylandMurder
1971200534AmericanTexasMurder
1955199843AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1938198951AmericanNevadaMurder
1961199635AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1979202445AmericanOklahomaMurder
1959199838AmericanTexasMurder
1960201858AmericanOhioMurder
1977201638AmericanTexasMurder
1980202040AmericanIndiana Murder
1970202554AmericanFloridaMurder
1940199050AmericanIllinoisMurder
1967202558AmericanFloridaMurder
1982201633AmericanTexasMurder
1972202553AmericanIndianaMurder
1936199559AmericanLouisianaMurder
1969201545ChineseChinaMurder
1962199431AmericanIdahoMurder
1958201658AmericanTexasMurder
1947201063AmericanAlabamaMurder
1963202461AmericanTexasMurder
1952200452AmericanOhioMurder
1971200028AmericanTexasMurder
1968201748AmericanTexasMurder
1947199952AmericanArkansasMurder
1961199937AmericanLouisianaMurder
1947199648AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1979201738AmericanArkansasMurder
1970201746AmericanArkansasMurder
1968202455AmericanMissouriMurder
1953200551AmericanCaliforniaMurder
1956200648AmericanOhioMurder
1968200436AmericanTexasMurder
1976201942AmericanGeorgia Murder
1958201254AmericanTexasMurder
1954200551AmericanSouth CarolinaMurder
1958201455AmericanArizonaMurder
1965200944AmericanTexasMurder
1976202043AmericanAlabamaMurder
1980201131AmericanTexasMurder
1953200753AmericanTennesseeMurder
1940199656AmericanOregonMurder
1960200949AmericanIndianaMurder
1956200246AmericanFloridaMurder
1944200762ChineseChinaCorruption
1994202429ChineseChinaMurder
1968202354AmericanFloridaMurder
1965202560AmericanFloridaMurder
1955199539AmericanPennsylvaniaMurder
1958200445AmericanOhioMurder