List of people executed in Arizona explained

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

	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1		White	43	M	April 6, 1992	Pima	Gas chamber	Allen Gage, Robert Wise, and Martin Concannon	Fife Symington
2		White	27	M	March 3, 1993	Coconino	Lethal injection	Rita Brier
3		White	35	M	April 14, 1993	Cochise		4 murder victims
4		White	49	M	September 13, 1995	Maricopa		Penelope Cheney
5		White	29	M	June 19, 1996	Pima		Zosha Lee Picket
6		Hispanic	45	M	August 22, 1996	Maricopa		Debra Lee Lopez
7		White	47	M	January 23, 1997	Yuma		4 murder victims
8		White	51	M	June 25, 1997	Pinal		Linda Leslie
9		Hispanic	42	M	January 21, 1998	Maricopa		Linda Leon and Randy Leon	Jane Dee Hull
10		Hispanic	45	M	April 22, 1998			Amelia Shoville
11		White	43	M	April 29, 1998	Pima		James Ruble
12		White	47	M	June 3, 1998			Michael Sandsberg and Patricia Sandsberg
13		White	38	M	January 13, 1999	Maricopa		Suzanne Rossetti
14		Native American	38	M	February 3, 1999			Scott Schwartz
15		White	35	M	February 24, 1999	Pima		Kenneth Hartsock
16		White	37	M	March 3, 1999		Gas chamber
17		White	41	M	May 5, 1999	Pinal	Lethal injection	Wilmar Holsinger^[2] ^[3]
18		White	59	M	June 16, 1999	Yavapai		Cecil Newkirk and Russell Dempsey
19		Hispanic	57	M	October 27, 1999	Pima		Manuelita McCormack
20		White	45	M	February 16, 2000	Coconino		Coconino County reserve deputy John B. Jamison
21		White	50	M	March 15, 2000	Yavapai		Cecil Newkirk and Russell Dempsey
22		White	36	M	November 8, 2000	Pima		Jennifer Geuder
23		White	50	M	May 22, 2007	Maricopa		Larry Pritchard and Tracy Andrews	Janet Napolitano
24		Native American	50	M	October 26, 2010			Chester Dean Dyer	Jan Brewer
25		Black	47	M	March 29, 2011			Ron Barman and Richard Butts
26		White	56	M	May 25, 2011			Christy Ann Fornoff
27		White	49	M	June 30, 2011	Coconino		Jennifer Wilson
28		White	52	M	July 19, 2011	Pima		Don Bortle
29		White	63	M	February 29, 2012	Pinal		Roberta Maude Moorman
30		White	47	M	March 8, 2012	Maricopa		Mark Jones
31		White	63	M	April 25, 2012	Pima		Hector Juarez
32		Hispanic	49	M	June 27, 2012	Maricopa		Estafana Holmes
33		White	51	M	August 8, 2012	Mohave		Carlos Cruz-Ramos and Kevin Swaney
34		White	60	M	December 5, 2012	Cochise		Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder
35		White	71	M	October 9, 2013	Yavapai		Lorimer Grove
36		White	43	M	October 23, 2013	Pima		6 murder victims
37		White	55	M	July 23, 2014			Debbie Dietz and Eugene Dietz
38		Native American	66	M	May 11, 2022	Maricopa		Deana Lynne Bowdoin	Doug Ducey
39		White	66	M	June 8, 2022	Pima		Vicki Lynne Hoskinson
40		Black	76	M	November 16, 2022	Maricopa		William Patrick Redmond and Helen Genevieve Phelps

Demographics

Race
White	30	75%
Hispanic	5	13%
Native American	3	8%
Black	2	5%
Age
20–29	2	5%
30–39	6	15%
40–49	15	38%
50–59	10	25%
60–69	5	13%
70–79	2	5%
Sex
Male	40	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	19	48%
2000–2009	4	10%
2010–2019	14	35%
2020–2029	3	8%
Method
Lethal injection	38	95%
Gas chamber	2	5%
Governor (Party)
	0	0%
	0	0%
	0	0%
Evan Mecham (R)	0	0%
	0	0%
Fife Symington (R)	8	20%
Jane Dee Hull (R)	14	35%
	1	3%
Jan Brewer (R)	14	35%
Doug Ducey (R)	3	8%
	0	0%
Total	40	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in Arizona
• Capital punishment in the United States

External links

• Arizona Department of Corrections -- Death Row and Executions

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Notes and References

1. https://corrections.az.gov/death-row/last-meals-request Inmates Executed Since 1992
2. Web site: State v. Vickers. casetext.
3. Web site: State v. Holsinger. Justia.