U.S. capital punishment - executions by state 2022

As of December 31, 2022, Texas has executed a total of 578 people since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976. Oklahoma had the second highest number of executed inmates, with 119 executions carried out since 1976.

Total number of executions in the United States from 1976 to 2022, by state

Characteristic	Number of executions
Texas	578
Oklahoma	119
Virginia	113
Florida	99
Missouri	94
Georgia	76
Alabama	70
Ohio	56
North Carolina	43
South Carolina	43
Arizona	40
Arkansas	31
Louisiana	28
Mississippi	23
Indiana	20
U.S. Federal Gov't	16
Delaware	16
California	13
Tennessee	13
Illinois	12
Nevada	12
Utah	7
Maryland	5
Washington	5
South Dakota	5
Nebraska	4
Idaho	3
Kentucky	3
Montana	3
Pennsylvania	3
Oregon	2
Colorado	1
Connecticut	1
New Mexico	1
Wyoming	1

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December 2022

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United States

Survey time period

1976 to December 31, 2022

Supplementary notes

Figures as of December 6, 2021.
There were no executions in the United States between 1967 and 1977. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down capital punishment in 1972, but reinstated it in 1976. 30 states, the federal government, and the military use capital punishment in 2019.

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