To date, twenty-nine people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2026, all by lethal injection.
Harold Gene Lucas, one of Florida's longest-serving prisoners on death row, was executed nearly 50 years after he was convicted of the 1976 murder of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend Jill Piper.
James Aren Duckett and Dominick Anthony Occhicone were executed five hours apart on the same date of July 28, 2026. This was the first double execution carried out in a single day in a U.S. death penalty state since Arkansas executed Jack Harold Jones and Marcel Wayne Williams in 2017 and the first in Florida since 1964. At the same time, Occhicone became the oldest person to be executed in Florida at the age of 80.
Charles Lee Burton was originally scheduled to be executed in Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia on March 12, 2026. His death sentence was commuted to life without parole by Governor Kay Ivey just two days before his scheduled execution.
Tony Von Carruthers, who was originally scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on May 21, 2026, received a one-year reprieve from Governor Bill Lee after complications with setting IV lines prior to the execution. Another Tennessee inmate, Christa Gail Pike, was originally scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026, failed to be executed after surviving two lethal injection attempts. As a result, the December 3, 2026 scheduled execution of Gary Wayne Sutton was put on hold.
Jeffery James Lee received a stay of his June 11, 2026, execution date after Lee succeeded in his lawsuit against nitrogen hypoxia, a secondary method of execution in Alabama that is available upon the request of the inmate. Attorney General Steve Marshall sought a new death warrant shortly thereafter that specified lethal injection, Alabama's primary method of execution, instead of nitrogen hypoxia. Lee was ultimately executed on September 17, 2026.
Carlos Cuesta‑Rodriguez, Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines, and Jeremy Tremaine Williams were executed on August 13, 2026 in the first triple execution since 2010.
List of people executed in the United States in 2026
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method At execution At offense Age difference 1 January 28, 2026 5527 28MaleWhite TexasLethal injection 2 February 10, 2026 64 37 Florida 3 February 12, 2026 4525 20Black Oklahoma 4 February 24, 2026 65 40Florida 5 March 3, 2026 53 18 35 6 March 11, 2026 51 38 13 Texas 7 March 17, 2026 54 36 18 WhiteFlorida 8 April 21, 2026 58 22 36 Black 9April 30, 2026 70 20 50 White 10 37 19 18 Black Texas 11May 14, 2026 52 33 19 Oklahoma 12 53 31 22 Texas 13 May 20, 2026 63 39 24 White Arizona 14 May 21, 2026 47 21 26 BlackFlorida 15 June 2, 2026 53 22 31 White 16 June 25, 2026 74 39 35 17 July 14, 2026 29 45 18July 28, 2026 68 39 19 80 40 40 20 August 13, 2026 70 47 23 Hispanic Oklahoma 21 66 24 42 White Tennessee 22 42 37 5 Black Alabama 23 August 18, 2026 61 41 20WhiteFlorida 24 September 1, 2026 74 24 50 25 September 10, 2026 72 41 31 26 September 16, 2026 40 19 21Black Texas 27 September 17, 2026 49 21 28 Alabama 28 September 23, 2026 41 20 21 Texas 29 September 29, 2026 77 46 31 White Florida Average: 59 years 30 years 29 years
Demographics Gender Male 29 Female 0 Ethnicity White 15 Black 13 Hispanic 1 State Florida 16 Texas 6 Oklahoma 3 Alabama 2 Arizona 1 Tennessee 1 Method Lethal injection 29 Month January 1 February 3 March 3 April 3 May 4 June 2 July 3 August 4 September 6 October 0 November 0 December 0 Age 30–39 1 40–49 6 50–59 8 60–69 6 70–79 7 80–89 1 Total 29 100%
Executions in recent years Number of executions 2027 — 2026 29 2025 47 Total 76
See also List of death row inmates in the United States List of most recent executions by jurisdiction List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
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