The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arizona since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 40 people, all male, have been executed in Arizona. All of them were convicted of murder and were executed at the Florence State Prison in Florence, Arizona.[1]
List of people executed in Arizona since 1976
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No.
|
Name
|
Race
|
Age
|
Sex
|
Date of execution
|
County
|
Method
|
Victim(s)
|
Governor
|
1
|
Donald Eugene Harding
|
White
|
43
|
M
|
April 6, 1992
|
Pima
|
Gas chamber
|
Allen Gage, Robert Wise, and Martin Concannon
|
Fife Symington
|
2
|
John George Brewer
|
White
|
27
|
M
|
March 3, 1993
|
Coconino
|
Lethal injection
|
Rita Brier
|
3
|
James Dean Clark
|
White
|
35
|
M
|
April 14, 1993
|
Cochise
|
4 murder victims[a]
|
4
|
Jimmie Wayne Jeffers
|
White
|
49
|
M
|
September 13, 1995
|
Maricopa
|
Penelope Cheney
|
5
|
Daren Lee Bolton
|
White
|
29
|
M
|
June 19, 1996
|
Pima
|
Zosha Lee Picket
|
6
|
Luis Morine Mata
|
Hispanic
|
45
|
M
|
August 22, 1996
|
Maricopa
|
Debra Lee Lopez
|
7
|
Randy Greenawalt
|
White
|
47
|
M
|
January 23, 1997
|
Yuma
|
4 murder victims[b]
|
8
|
William Lyle Woratzeck
|
White
|
51
|
M
|
June 25, 1997
|
Pinal
|
Linda Leslie
|
9
|
Jose Jesus Ceja
|
Hispanic
|
42
|
M
|
January 21, 1998
|
Maricopa
|
Linda Leon and Randy Leon
|
Jane Dee Hull
|
10
|
Jose Roberto Villafuerte
|
Hispanic
|
45
|
M
|
April 22, 1998
|
Amelia Shoville
|
11
|
Arthur Martin Ross
|
White
|
43
|
M
|
April 29, 1998
|
Pima
|
James Ruble
|
12
|
Douglas Edward Gretzler
|
White
|
47
|
M
|
June 3, 1998
|
Michael Sandsberg and Patricia Sandsberg
|
13
|
Jess James Gillies
|
White
|
38
|
M
|
January 13, 1999
|
Maricopa
|
Suzanne Rossetti
|
14
|
Darrick Leonard Gerlaugh
|
Native American
|
38
|
M
|
February 3, 1999
|
Scott Schwartz
|
15
|
Karl-Heinz LaGrand
|
White
|
35
|
M
|
February 24, 1999
|
Pima
|
Kenneth Hartsock
|
16
|
Walter Bernhard LaGrand
|
White
|
37
|
M
|
March 3, 1999
|
Gas chamber
|
17
|
Robert Wayne Vickers
|
White
|
41
|
M
|
May 5, 1999
|
Pinal
|
Lethal injection
|
Wilmar Holsinger
|
18
|
Michael Kent Poland
|
White
|
59
|
M
|
June 16, 1999
|
Yavapai
|
Cecil Newkirk and Russell Dempsey
|
19
|
Ignacio Alberto Ortiz
|
Hispanic
|
57
|
M
|
October 27, 1999
|
Pima
|
Manuelita McCormack
|
20
|
Anthony Lee Chaney
|
White
|
45
|
M
|
February 16, 2000
|
Coconino
|
Coconino County reserve deputy John B. Jamison
|
21
|
Patrick Gene Poland
|
White
|
50
|
M
|
March 15, 2000
|
Yavapai
|
Cecil Newkirk and Russell Dempsey
|
22
|
Donald Jay Miller
|
White
|
36
|
M
|
November 8, 2000
|
Pima
|
Jennifer Geuder
|
23
|
Robert Charles Comer
|
White
|
50
|
M
|
May 22, 2007
|
Maricopa
|
Larry Pritchard and Tracy Andrews
|
Janet Napolitano
|
24
|
Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan
|
Native American
|
50
|
M
|
October 26, 2010
|
Chester Dean Dyer
|
Jan Brewer
|
25
|
Eric John King
|
Black
|
47
|
M
|
March 29, 2011
|
Ron Barman and Richard Butts
|
26
|
Donald Edward Beaty
|
White
|
56
|
M
|
May 25, 2011
|
Christy Ann Fornoff
|
27
|
Richard Lynn Bible
|
White
|
49
|
M
|
June 30, 2011
|
Coconino
|
Jennifer Wilson
|
28
|
Thomas Paul West
|
White
|
52
|
M
|
July 19, 2011
|
Pima
|
Don Bortle
|
29
|
Robert Henry Moorman
|
White
|
63
|
M
|
February 29, 2012
|
Pinal
|
Roberta Maude Moorman
|
30
|
Robert Charles Towery
|
White
|
47
|
M
|
March 8, 2012
|
Maricopa
|
Mark Jones
|
31
|
Thomas Arnold Kemp
|
White
|
63
|
M
|
April 25, 2012
|
Pima
|
Hector Juarez
|
32
|
Samuel Villegas Lopez
|
Hispanic
|
49
|
M
|
June 27, 2012
|
Maricopa
|
Estafana Holmes
|
33
|
Daniel Wayne Cook
|
White
|
51
|
M
|
August 8, 2012
|
Mohave
|
Carlos Cruz-Ramos and Kevin Swaney
|
34
|
Richard Dale Stokley
|
White
|
60
|
M
|
December 5, 2012
|
Cochise
|
Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder
|
35
|
Edward Harold Schad Jr.
|
White
|
71
|
M
|
October 9, 2013
|
Yavapai
|
Lorimer Grove
|
36
|
Robert Glen Jones Jr.
|
White
|
43
|
M
|
October 23, 2013
|
Pima
|
6 murder victims[c]
|
37
|
Joseph Rudolph Wood III
|
White
|
55
|
M
|
July 23, 2014
|
Debbie Dietz and Eugene Dietz
|
38
|
Clarence Wayne Dixon
|
Native American
|
66
|
M
|
May 11, 2022
|
Maricopa
|
Deana Lynne Bowdoin
|
Doug Ducey
|
39
|
Frank Jarvis Atwood
|
White
|
66
|
M
|
June 8, 2022
|
Pima
|
Vicki Lynne Hoskinson
|
40
|
Murray Hooper
|
Black
|
76
|
M
|
November 16, 2022
|
Maricopa
|
William Patrick Redmond and Helen Genevieve Phelps
|
- ^ The 4 victims were: Charles Thumm, Mildred Thumm, Gerald McFerron, and George Martin.
- ^ The 4 victims were: John Lyons, Donnelda Lyons, Christopher Lyons, and Theresa Tyson.
- ^ The 6 victims were: Chip O'Dell, Tom Hardman, Maribeth Munn, Carol Noel, Judy Bell, and Arthur 'Taco' Bell.