Execution Database

Instructions and Usage Notes

To watch an explain­er video on how to use the Execution Database, click here.

* Searches for exe­cu­tions in states or regions will also retrieve fed­er­al death sen­tences that were imposed in those areas. To lim­it your search only to state-court death sen­tences, click the ​“MORE FILTERS” but­ton, select the ​“FEDERAL” fil­ter, check the ​“No” box, and click the ​“APPLY” tab.

• Results will dis­play in chrono­log­i­cal order by default. To sort by oth­er cri­te­ria, click on the head­ings for those fields in the search results.
• Search results are dis­played below the search options.
• If no options are checked, the search will dis­play all executions.
• To down­load the data­base as a spread­sheet (csv for­mat), click here.
• To find the numer­i­cal rank of an exe­cu­tion since 1976, click on the inmate’s name. The num­ber is list­ed as ​“DPIC ID.”
• This list includes all exe­cu­tions since 1976. For a his­tor­i­cal data­base of exe­cu­tions, vis­it our Espy Database page.
• Geographical regions are list­ed as deter­mined by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Executions are includ­ed in the region in which the crime occurred.
• For Federal Executions sort by the fed­er­al yes/​no column.
• The ​“Race of Victim” fil­ter will dis­play all exe­cu­tions involv­ing any vic­tim of the select­ed race, includ­ing cas­es that involved mul­ti­ple vic­tims of different races.
• Information in this data­base is obtained from news reports, state Departments of Corrections and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Older coun­ty and vic­tim-gen­der infor­ma­tion was pro­vid­ed by Professor Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina. Victim infor­ma­tion list­ed is for the death sen­tence which was car­ried out; defen­dants may have been giv­en addi­tion­al death sen­tences or less­er prison terms for other victims.