document_title: List of death row inmates in the United States

question_text: how many inmates are on death row in nevada

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text: List of death row inmates in the United States

text: Demographics[edit]

text: Ethnicity of defendants on death row[edit]

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White: 1,211 (40.03%)
Black: 902 (29.83%)
Latino/Latina: 911 (30.11%)
Asian: 4 (0.02%)
Native American: 1 (0.01%)
Unknown: 0 (0%)[1]

text: Comparatively, the U.S. population is 66.9% non-Hispanic white, 9% black, 16.3% Hispanic or Latino, 4.7% Asian, 0.9% Native American, and 2.1% mixed or other.

text: Gender of defendants on death row[edit]

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Male: 2,648 (96.54%)
Female: 94 (3.46%)[1]

text: Comparatively, 50.79% of the U.S. population is female, and 49.21% is male (2014).

text: Education[edit]

text: 69.75% have less than a high school diploma or GED.[3]

text: Comparatively, 12.19% of U.S. adults have less than a high school diploma or GED.[3]

text: Mental illness[edit]

text: 4% of death row inmates have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness.[4]

text: Comparatively, it is estimated that 0.95% of American adults have a serious mental illness.[5]

text: Time on death row[edit]

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Median time, in years, a death row prisoner has been awaiting execution: 7[3]
Average time, in years, between imposition of a death sentence and execution: 12[3]

For 2016: 20 years on average between offense and execution.

text: Guilt[edit]

text: 1.6% of death row prisoners since 1972 have been exonerated.[6]

text: Prior prison sentence[edit]

text:
80% of male death row inmates has
65% of female death row inmates has

text: List of death row inmates by jurisdiction[edit]

text: Federal[edit]

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Currently on death row: 61 (as of December 2017)
Total number executed: 37 (1927–2003)

text: Due to the high number of federal death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed on this page. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of federal death row inmates

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Name
Crime
Time on death row
Notes

Joseph E. Duncan III
Murders of the Groene family in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
7003345900000000000♠9 years, 172 days
Duncan was convicted of the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family and sentenced to three death sentences and three life sentences. He is also serving 11 life sentences in conjunction with the same crimes as well as the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California.[7] Duncan has confessed to, but not been charged, with the 1996 murder of two girls in Seattle, Washington.[8]

Marvin Gabrion
Kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman of Cedar Springs, Michigan
7003581500000000000♠15 years, 336 days
The murder took place in Michigan, which does not have the death penalty, but the body was found in Manistee National Forest, which is federal land. On appeal, his defense team argued that they should consider any reasonable doubt they have that the murder took place outside of the forest before being moved into the forest after death, which would make him ineligible for the death penalty.

Jurijus Kadamovas
Ransom-related kidnapping and murder of five people.
7003399300000000000♠10 years, 340 days
Jurijus Kadamovas and Iouri Mikhel are sentenced to death row for ransom related kidnapping and murder of five people. The men allegedly demanded a total of more than $5.5 million from relatives and associates, and received more than $1 million from victim's relatives.[9][10] Prosecutors said the victims were killed regardless of whether the ransoms were paid. The bodies were tied with weights and dumped in a reservoir near Yosemite National Park.[11]

Iouri Mikhel
Ransom-related kidnapping and murder of five people
7003399300000000000♠10 years, 340 days
See above entry for Jurijus Kadamovas, Mikhel's accomplice.

Lisa M. Montgomery
2004 murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was pregnant, and stealing her unborn child.
7003360400000000000♠9 years, 317 days
As of February 9, 2018 Montgomery is the only woman on federal death row.

Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr.
Rape and murder of Dru Sjodin in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
7003416400000000000♠11 years, 146 days
Crossed state lines into Minnesota, making this a federal case.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Terrorism
7002967000000000000♠2 years, 236 days
Boston Marathon bombing

Dylann Roof
Charleston church shooting
7002401000000000000♠1 year, 36 days
American mass murderer and white supremacist convicted of perpetrating the June 17, 2015 Charleston church shooting. During a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans. Roof is the first person on death row for federal hate crimes.

Gary Lee Sampson
3 counts of murder during the course of a carjacking or kidnapping in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
7003516800000000000♠14 years, 54 days (Since initial death sentence)
7002402000000000000♠1 year, 37 days (since re-sentencing after appeal)
Prosecuted under federal law that allows for the death penalty in the course of a carjacking or kidnapping. Sampson plead guilty and during the trial for sentencing, received a death sentence for the two murders in Massachusetts and life for New Hampshire killing. The initial sentence was thrown out due to jury misconduct.

Kaboni Savage
12 counts of murder in aid of racketeering and one count of retaliating against a witness by murder.
7003171800000000000♠4 years, 257 days

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text: Military[edit]

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Currently on death row: 5[12]
Total number executed: 135 (1916 to present)[12]

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Name
Crime
Time on death row
Notes

Nidal Malik Hasan[13]
Perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting on November 5, 2009. 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.
7003163200000000000♠4 years, 171 days

Hasan Karim Akbar[14] (born Mark Fidel Kools)
Multiple murders by hand grenade and shooting of two commissioned officers and 11 other servicemen in Kuwait on March 23, 2003
7003467300000000000♠12 years, 290 days

Ronald Arthur Gray
Multiple rape and murders of women at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from December 15, 1986, to January 6, 1987
7004108230000000000♠29 years, 231 days
Longest time on the military's death row

Timothy B. Hennis[15]
Triple murder by stabbing of a North Carolina woman and two of her children in 1985
7003286300000000000♠7 years, 306 days
Previously convicted in 1986 by the State of North Carolina, retried and acquitted in 1989, and widely reported as exonerated; recalled to active duty for military court martial (as he had been in the U.S. Army at the time of the murders) under separate sovereignty (see Double jeopardy)

Andrew Paul Witt[16]
Double murder by stabbing of Senior Airman, Andy Schliepsiek, and his wife, Jamie Schliepsiek.
7003450800000000000♠12 years, 125 days
Currently the only airman to sit on death row at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

text: Alabama[edit]

text: Currently on death row: 182 (as of December 2017)

text: Due to the high number of death row inmates in Alabama, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of death row inmates in Alabama

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Shonelle Jackson
Murder during the commission of a robbery
7003611700000000000♠16 years, 273 days

text: Arizona[edit]

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Currently on death row: 117[17]
Total number executed: 126 (1800–2002)[18]

text: Due to the high number of death row inmates in Arizona, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of death row inmates in Arizona

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Sammantha Allen
Murder of her cousin, Ame Deal
6 months and 8 days
On July 12, 2011, police officers were called to Ame Deal's home, where she was found dead in a small foot locker, having suffocated. Ame lived with a number of relatives, including her aunt and legal guardian, Cynthia Stoltzmann. Allen was Stoltzmann's daughter. The family first told the police officers that Ame was playing hide-n-seek and locked herself in the trunk the night before, after the adults went to sleep. During interrogation, Sammantha and her husband John confessed to locking Ame in the trunk as a form of punishment, because she took a popsicle without permission.
Ame, who was 4 feet, 2 inches and 59 pounds had to be squeezed into the trunk since its dimensions were only 3 feet by 1 foot 2 inches and a foot deep. Before Ame was squeezed into the trunk, she was forced to do jumping jacks, backbends and run around in 103 degree heat for over an hour. Then the trunk was padlocked. The state alleges that Ame Deal suffered horriffic abuse throughout her life.[19]

Wendi Andriano
Murder of her husband Joe
7003480300000000000♠13 years, 55 days
During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33-year-old husband Joe to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a 13-inch knife in the couple's Ahwatukee, Arizona apartment. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull, and traces of sodium azide were also found in his system.[20]
Approximately one hour before Joe's murder, his wife Wendi had called 911 at the behest of a co-worker, claiming that her terminally ill husband was dying. When paramedics arrived however, Wendi turned them away, stating that Joe had a do-not-resuscitate order, and that his wish was to die. Paramedics left the scene. One hour later, Wendi called 911 again, reporting that she had stabbed and beaten her husband to death in self-defense. She also made claims that her husband was physically and psychologically abusive toward her. However, being that Joe was weak from chemotherapy and the sodium azide poisoning, he was unable to defend himself. Wendi was charged with murder.[20]

Richard Djerf
Murder of the Luna family
7003793800000000000♠21 years, 268 days
Djerf and Albert Luna, Jr. met and became friends while working at a Safeway supermarket. In January 1993, Luna burglarized Djerf's apartment. Djerf told police he suspected Luna, but they took no action. In September of that year, Djerf entered the Luna home and killed Luna's father, mother, and two siblings over the course of several hours.[21]

Shawna Forde
On May 30, 2009, 29-year-old Raul Flores and his daughter, Brisenia, 9, of Arivaca, Arizona, were killed during a home invasion by Forde, Jason Eugene Bush and Albert Gaxiola.[22]
6 years, 11 months and 24 days
Forde was active in the Minuteman movement, a grassroots anti-illegal immigration group that would station themselves along the U.S. southern border and keep watch for Mexicans crossing the border illegally and alert the Border Patrol. Forde allegedly boasted of robbing drug dealers to finance the movement. Prosecutors alleged Forde and her associates entered the trailer disguised as government officials looking for fugitives. No drugs were found in the trailer.[23]

Mark Goudeau
Series of rapes and murders
7003226900000000000♠6 years, 77 days
Goudeau is a serial killer and rapist, referred to as the Baseline Killer by law enforcement and media prior to his identification. Goudeau is believed to have committed nine counts of first degree murder (8 women, 1 man), in addition to 15 sexual assaults on women and young girls, 11 counts of kidnapping, and a number of armed robberies.[24][25]

text: Arkansas[edit]

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Currently on death row: 28 (as of October 10, 2017)[26]
Total number executed: 200 (1913–2017)[27]

text: Due to the high number of Arkansas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of death row inmates in Arkansas

text: California[edit]

text:
Currently on death row: 744 (as of December, 2017)[28]
Total number executed: 719 (1700–2002)[18][28]

text: Due to the high number of California death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of death row inmates in California

text:
Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Lawrence Bittaker
Serial killer in 1979, killed 5 teenage girls.
7004135120000000000♠36 years, 363 days
Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris are two American serial killers and rapists known as the Tool Box Killers. Together they committed the kidnap, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls over a period of five months in southern California in 1979. Norris was sentenced to 45 years to life, with possibility of parole after thirty years.

Rosie Alfaro
Murder of nine-year-old Autumn Wallace
7003934700000000000♠25 years, 216 days
Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California to get the death penalty.

Richard Allen Davis
Murder of Polly Klaas
7003786400000000000♠21 years, 194 days

Charles Ng
Serial killer in 1985
7003680500000000000♠18 years, 230 days
He is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.

Scott Peterson
Murder of his pregnant wife Laci Peterson and child, Conner.
7003471900000000000♠12 years, 336 days

Timothy Joseph McGhee
Serial killer from 1997 to 2003, killed 12 people
7003332400000000000♠9 years, 37 days
McGhee was a Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member of Scottish and Mexican descent from the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He is alleged to have been responsible for at least 12 homicides between 1997 and 2001, three of which led to convictions. McGhee is also suspected of at least 10 attempted murders, four of which led to convictions.

Ryan Hoyt
Murder of Nicholas Markowitz in 2000
7003592100000000000♠16 years, 77 days

Randy Steven Kraft
Rape, torture, mutilation and murder of a minimum of 16 young men in a series of killings spanning between 1972 and 1983, the majority of which had been committed in California.
7004103050000000000♠28 years, 78 days

Richard Farley
Shot and killed 7 people and wounded 4 others
7003952600000000000♠26 years, 29 days

Rodney Alcala
Five murders committed between 1977 and 1979.
7003287900000000000♠7 years, 322 days
Alcala's victim count is unknown. He has been convicted of 7 homicides. Some sources estimate the number to be as high as 130.[29][30]

Vincent Brothers
Murdered his wife, mother-in-law and three children.
7003379400000000000♠10 years, 141 days
In 2003, Vincent Brothers drove from Columbus, Ohio to Bakersfield, California nonstop to murder his family. He then drove back to Columbus and then flew back to California to find his family murdered. He was on trial 2 years later and convicted on all counts.

Albert Greenwood Brown
Brown was convicted for the abduction, rape, and murder of 15-year-old Susan Louise Jordan on her way to school. Brown posed as a jogger and dragged her into the woods, and then strangled her with her shoelace. Brown then made numerous calls to the Riverside Police Department and the Jordan residence. One of Brown's subsequent calls was recorded by a police officer. "Hello, Mrs. Jordan, Susie isn't home from school yet, is she? You will never see your daughter again. You can find her body on the corner of Victoria and Gibson." Brown was arrested after witnesses identified his license plate number. In his residence, police found Susan's books, a newspaper article about the case, and a Riverside telephone book bookmarked to the page of the Jordan home. Brown was late to work on the day she disappeared, a bloody jogging suit was found in his locker and Brown's shoes were matched to footprints from the crime scene.
7004131340000000000♠35 years, 350 days
Prior to his arrest for Jordan's murder, he was previously convicted of molesting an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old girl. The latter of which he was on parole for at the time of Jordan's murder.

David Carpenter
Carpenter was convicted of the murders of four women and one man in 1979-1980 on hiking trails near San Francisco, California. He is known as the Trailside Killer. He is suspected in the murders of at least two other women. In 2009, DNA evidence on evidence from another murder victim, Mary Frances Bennett, was identified as matching Carpenter's DNA.
7004122770000000000♠33 years, 224 days

Dean Carter
Carter was convicted of raping and strangling five women in April 1984.
1985

Steven David Catlin
Catlin was convicted of poisoning two of his wives and his adoptive mother.
7004100820000000000♠27 years, 220 days

Doug Clark
Rape, murder, necrophilia, seven female victims, six convictions.
7004127470000000000♠34 years, 328 days
Along with accomplice Carol M. Bundy known as the Sunset Strip Killers.

Cynthia Coffman
Convicted along with her boyfriend James Marlow of the murders of four women from October to November 1986
7004103950000000000♠28 years, 168 days
Coffman admits to committing the murders, but insists she suffered from battered-woman syndrome.

Kevin Cooper (inmate)
Cooper was convicted of axing and stabbing Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and their son Joshua's friend Christopher Hughes. 8-year-old Joshua survived the attack.
7004119580000000000♠32 years, 270 days

Tiequon Cox
Cox was convicted of shooting four relatives of former NFL player Kermit Alexander.
7004116070000000000♠31 years, 284 days

Kerry Lyn Dalton
Dalton beat, stabbed, and tortured her former roommate before injecting her with battery acid.
7003830400000000000♠22 years, 268 days

Scott Erskine
In 1989, Erskine raped and drowned a woman. Four years later, he raped and strangled two young boys.
7003490900000000000♠13 years, 161 days

Wayne Adam Ford
Confessed to killing four women in 1997 and 1998 but is thought to have killed others.
7003421600000000000♠11 years, 198 days
Ford was arrested after he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November 1998 with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He confessed to having killed four women in 1997 and 1998, and is thought to have killed others

Lonnie David Franklin Jr.
Committed ten murders between 1985 and 2007.
7002547000000000000♠1 year, 182 days
Serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper". Committed ten murders between 1985 and 2007.

Michael Hughes
Raped and strangled at least four women between 1986 and 1993.
7003205400000000000♠5 years, 228 days
In 1998, Hughes was originally sentenced to life without parole.

Phillip Carl Jablonski
Murdered five women (including two of his wives and his mother-in-law).
1994
In January 2006, the California Supreme Court upheld Jablonski's death sentence on appeal.

Gunner Lindberg
Stabbed a Vietnamese immigrant 22 times.
7003736000000000000♠20 years, 55 days

Andrew Mickel
Shot a police officer.
7003467600000000000♠12 years, 293 days

Michael Morales
Morales' cousin, Richard Ortega, hired him to murder Ortega's lover's girlfriend. She was raped, hammered and stabbed.
7004126490000000000♠34 years, 230 days
Richard Ortega was sentenced to life without parole.

Joseph Naso
Drugged, raped and strangled four women between 1977 and 1994.
7003154200000000000♠4 years, 81 days

Gerald Parker
Parker raped and murdered five women in their homes, as well as killing an unborn child of another woman.
7003695800000000000♠19 years, 18 days

Cleophus Prince Jr.
Burglarized several homes and murdered six women, one of which he raped.
7003886800000000000♠24 years, 102 days

Angelina Rodriguez
Convicted of murdering her fourth husband by antifreeze poisoning. In jail she attempted to hire a fellow inmate to murder a witness who tried to testify against her. She is also suspected of suffocating her infant daughter with a pacifier.
7003513800000000000♠14 years, 24 days

Ramon Salcido

7003992200000000000♠27 years, 60 days

Morris Solomon, Jr.
Raped and murdered 6 or 7 prostitutes between 1986 and 1987.
7003927600000000000♠25 years, 145 days

Cary Stayner
In 1999, Stayner strangled a woman and her daughter's friend from Argentina, and slit the daughter's throat. Five months later, he beheaded another woman.
7003554400000000000♠15 years, 65 days

William Suff
Raped, stabbed, strangled and/or mutilated at least 12 prostitutes between 1986 and 1991.
7003814200000000000♠22 years, 106 days
Suff and his ex-wife were previously convicted of beating their infant daughter to death.

Regis Deon Thomas
3 murders between 1992 and 1993.
7003822000000000000♠22 years, 184 days

Chester Turner
15 murders between 1987 and 1998.
7003387300000000000♠10 years, 220 days

Billy Ray Waldon
In December 1985, Waldon shot a woman during a robbery and set her home on fire, killing her daughter inside. Two weeks later, he shot a man who was working on a car.
7003947600000000000♠25 years, 345 days

Marcus Wesson

7003458000000000000♠12 years, 197 days

Daniel Wozniak

7002500000000000000♠1 year, 135 days

text: Colorado[edit]

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Currently on death row: 3 (as of 2013)[18]
Total number executed: 102 (1800–1997)[18][28]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Nathan Dunlap[31]
Murdered 4 people during a robbery at a Chuck E. Cheese.
7003794400000000000♠21 years, 274 days

Sir Mario Owens[31]
Murdered a witness and his fiancé who was going to testify against his friend for a murder.
7003353100000000000♠9 years, 244 days

Robert Ray[31]
Ordered the killing of witnesses in his pending murder trial, Co-defendant of Sir Mario Owens
7003284300000000000♠7 years, 286 days

text: Delaware[edit]

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Currently on death row: 0 (as of 2016)[32]
Total number executed: 75 (1800–2002)[18][28]

text: Florida[edit]

text:
Currently on death row: 348 (as of February 8, 2018)[33]
Total number executed: 367 (1800–2002)[18][28]

text: Due to the high number of Florida death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of death row inmates in Florida

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Gary Ray Bowles
Serial killer who beat and strangled six men and stole their credit cards.
7003673600000000000♠18 years, 161 days
Bowles was first sentenced to death on September 6, 1996.

Lucious Boyd
Kidnapped, raped and stabbed a 21-year-old woman with a screwdriver.
7003571800000000000♠15 years, 239 days

Tiffany Cole
Kidnapped and buried an elderly couple alive.
7003363300000000000♠9 years, 346 days
Two of Cole's companions, Michael Jackson and Alan Wade, were also sentenced to death. Another companion, Bruce Nixon, was sentenced to 45 years after testifying against Cole and leading police to the couple's bodies.

Daniel Conahan
Kidnapped, tortured, raped and strangled a 21-year-old man, tied him to a tree, then removed his genitals.
7003694500000000000♠19 years, 5 days
Conahan is also a suspect in the deaths of twelve other men.

Rory Enrique Conde
Strangled six prostitutes (including a male crossdresser), then had anal sex with their corpses.
7003655400000000000♠17 years, 345 days

Donald Dillbeck
In 1990, Dillbeck attempted to steal a car and stabbed the driver repeatedly.
7003983400000000000♠26 years, 337 days
Dillbeck was sentenced to life in prison in 1979 for shooting a deputy. He escaped from prison in June 1990.

Paul Durousseau
Raped and strangled seven women, two of whom were pregnant.
7003371700000000000♠10 years, 64 days

Franklin Delano Floyd
Murder of Cheryl Ann Commesso

Commesso was working as an exotic dancer in Florida when she disappeared in 1989. Floyd, whose wife worked with Commesso, was a prime suspect in her disappearance. Floyd's wife, Sharon Marshall (aka Suzanne Sevakis), died soon after in a mysterious hit-and-run incident and their son, Michael, was put into foster care. In September 1994, Floyd kidnapped and murdered Michael; his body has never been found and was presumably eaten by wild hogs on Interstate 35. Floyd is also the prime suspect in the death of Sharon. It was discovered that his wife Sharon was raised as his daughter and is herself a kidnap victim of Floyd's. Floyd was convicted of Commesso's murder after photos of her beaten body were found in Floyd's vehicle.

Kevin Foster
Shot a high school music teacher, with three members of his gang in attendance.
7003721400000000000♠19 years, 274 days
Two of Foster's accomplices were sentenced to life without parole. Another was sentenced to 32 years.

Eddie James
Strangled a girl and raped her corpse, and repeatedly stabbed her grandmother.
7003821700000000000♠22 years, 181 days

Bobby Joe Long
Serial killer who murdered 10 women in Tampa, Florida area. Also linked to dozens of rapes in Florida and California that were never prosecuted.
7004115580000000000♠31 years, 235 days
Also received numerous life sentences for some of his murders and rapes

Renaldo McGirth
Murder of Diana Miller and attempted murder of James Miller
7003357300000000000♠9 years, 286 days
Crime occurred in 2006 with McGirth being sentenced to death in 2008. He became the youngest person on death row in Florida at the time of his sentence.

Phillup Partin
Strangled a hitchhiker.
7003336300000000000♠9 years, 76 days

Glen Edward Rogers
Serial killer convicted of two murders

Randy Schoenwetter
Murders of Ronald and Virginia Friskey
7003518600000000000♠14 years, 72 days
At the time of his sentencing, he became the youngest person on death row.

Nelson Serrano
Murder in the first degree (four counts)
7003388700000000000♠10 years, 234 days

Tommy Zeigler
Quadruple murder of Eunice Zeigler, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and Charlie Mays.
7004104090000000000♠28 years, 182 days
Zeigler was first sentenced to death in 1976. In 1989, Zeigler received the death penalty for a second time in a re-sentencing.

text: Georgia[edit]

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Currently on death row: 55 (as of January 1, 2018)[34]
Total number executed: 976 (1700–2002)[18][28]

text: Due to the high number of Georgia death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of death row inmates in Georgia

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Carlton Gary
Raped and/or strangled at least eight elderly women in the 1970s.
7004114950000000000♠31 years, 172 days
In 2007, Gary was also proven to have murdered a 40-year-old woman.

text: Idaho[edit]

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Currently on death row: 9[35]
Total number executed: 29 (since 1864)[35][36]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Azad Haji Abdullah[35][37]
Murder by arson of his wife and attempted murder of their four children in Boise on October 5, 2002.
7003483200000000000♠13 years, 84 days

David Leslie Card[35][38]
Murder by shooting of a Nampa newscarrier couple on June 5, 1988
7004103940000000000♠28 years, 167 days
Denied retrial in 2010.[39][40]

Thomas Eugene Creech[35][41]
Murder by beating of a fellow inmate on May 13, 1981
7004128290000000000♠35 years, 45 days
Previously on Idaho's death row; in 1977 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Idaho's previous death penalty on his appeal.

Timothy Alan Dunlap[35][42]
Murder by shooting of a Soda Springs bank teller during a robbery on October 16, 1991
7003943200000000000♠25 years, 301 days
Also sentenced by Ohio for murdering his girlfriend.[43]

James Harvey Hairston[35][44]
Murder by shooting and robbery of an elderly Downey couple on January 6, 1996
7003777600000000000♠21 years, 106 days
Denied retrial in 2010.[39][40]

Erick Virgil Hall[35][45]
Murder and rape of two women on September 24, 2000 and one in 2003
7003494600000000000♠13 years, 198 days

Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr.[35][46]
Murder by beating of a Marsing woman and her nephew in July 1985
7004116130000000000♠31 years, 290 days
Denied retrial in 2010.[39][40]

Jonathan Daniel Renfro[35][47]

Robin Lee Row[35][48]
Murder by arson of her husband and their two children in February 1992
7003884200000000000♠24 years, 76 days
Only woman on Idaho's death row; housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center.

text: Indiana[edit]

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Currently on death row: 12 (January 13, 2018)[49]
Total number executed: 151 (1800–2009)[18]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

William Gibson
Gibson pleaded guilty in 2013 for the sexual assault and bludgeoning death of Christine Whitis, a family friend who had come to his New Albany home to console Gibson after his mother's death.[50]
7003155700000000000♠4 years, 96 days
Gibson has pleaded guilty to three murders. After he was arrested for Whitis' murder, police excavated Gibson's yard to recover the body of Stephanie Kirk, a 35-year-old Charlestown woman who disappeared in 2012. He also admitted to fatally stabbing Karen Hodella of Port Orange, Florida, in October 2002. At sentencing, in response to being sentenced to death, he replied "I deserve what I’m getting. It ain’t no big deal." He is known for his signature handlebar mustache.[51][52]

Frederick M. Baer
Convicted of the murder of 26-year-old Cory Clark and her 4-year-old daughter. Baer later admitted that he intended to rape Clark, but decided not to go through with it in fear of disease. He decided to go through with the murders to avoid being identified.[50]
7003463400000000000♠12 years, 251 days
Baer appealed the verdict on the basis that he suffers from multiple serious mental illnesses, cognitive impairments, substance induced psychotic disorder, and schizotypal, paranoid, and borderline personality disorders. Dr. Philip Harvey, a neuropsychologist with a specialty in psychosis, diagnosed Baer with persisting dementia, most likely the result of his substance abuse as well as substance induced psychosis. Baer contends the combination of these illnesses meant he was under an extreme mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the crime which affected his ability to conform his conduct. Dr. George Savarese concluded that Baer could understand his conduct, but had no ability to control his behavior.[50][53]

Debra Brown
Along with Alton Coleman, Brown was convicted of several murders as part of a midwestern crime spree. Coleman was executed in 2002.[50]
7004115600000000000♠31 years, 237 days
Despite being on death row in Indiana, Brown is being held in Ohio on unrelated murder charges.[50]

Joseph Edward Corcoran
Corcoran was living with his brother, sister, and his sister's fiancé. He became enraged when he heard his brother, future brother in law, and two of his brother's friends talking about him. After putting his 7-year-old niece in an upstairs bedroom to protect her, he loaded his semiautomatic rifle and fatally shot the four men. He then went to a neighbor's house and asked them to call police.[50]
7003674800000000000♠18 years, 173 days
Corcoran suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has had ongoing issues with delusions and auditory hallucination. When asked why he was not pursuing post conviction relief, he stated: "I want to waive my appeals because I am guilty of murder. I think that I should be executed for what I have done...I am guilty of murder. I should be executed. That is all there is to it. That is what I believe. I believe the death penalty is a just punishment for four counts of murder, and I believe that I should be executed since I am guilty of four counts of murder."[54]

Eric D. Holmes
Holmes was fired from his job at a restaurant after an argument with co-worker Amy Foshee. At closing on the day of his firing, Holmes waited in the parking lot with Michael Vance. Holmes and Vance attacked Foshee and 2 managers as they exited the building, stabbing them multiple times, and stealing the bank deposit money. The restaurant managers (Theresa Blosl and Charles Ervin) died; Foshee survived. Vance was tried separately and sentenced to 190 years.[50]
7003909200000000000♠24 years, 326 days

Kevin Isom
In response to learning his wife was planning to leave him, Isom shot his wife and his two stepchildren. He then barricaded himself in the family's apartment and shot at police officers attempting to take him into custody.[50]
7003180500000000000♠4 years, 344 days
Isom's defense attorney argued that a death sentence was inappropriate given the emotional state of his client, who suffered an extreme emotional disturbance from losing his job and then being left by his wife. He also pointed out that Isom had a stressful upbringing growing up in the gang-ridden projects in Chicago. Despite this, Isom had no significant criminal history and lived a productive life.[55]

Wayne D. Kubsch
Kubsch's wife, Elizabeth, was found stabbed to death in the basement of the family home along with the bodies of her ex-husband and one of her sons. Kubsch took out a $575,000 life insurance policy on Elizabeth two months before the murders. Prosecutors found that Kubsch had more than $400,000 in debt and alleged that this was a motive for the murders.[50]
7003638000000000000♠17 years, 171 days

Michael Dean Overstreet
Kelly Eckart, an 18-year-old freshman at Franklin College, was last seen on September 27, 1997 after leaving work. The next morning, her car was found abandoned in a rural area, with its lights on and keys in the ignition. She was found in a ravine in Brown County four days later. She had been shot and strangled. Semen found on the body was matched to Overstreet.
7003640800000000000♠17 years, 199 days
Overstreet suffers from schizoaffective disorder and suffered from hallucination as a child including "demons". He was discharged from the marines on the basis of mental illness.[50] A judge determined Overstreet was not competent to be executed in November 2014. The Indiana Attorney General chose not to appeal the decision. He remains on death row indefinitely.[56]

Benjamin Ritchie
Ritchie was involved in a police chase after he was spotted driving a stolen vehicle. The chase ended when he wrecked the vehicle and proceeded on foot before shooting officer William Toney in the chest.[50]
7003560200000000000♠15 years, 123 days
Ritchie suffers from a number of cognitive and emotional disorders. He has bipolar disorder and a non-specified cognitive disorder. The cause of the physiological defect was not identified, but experts speculated that several past serious head injuries, his mother's heavy use of drugs and alcohol during pregnancy, his own history of drug use, and a history of abuse throughout his childhood were to blame.[57]

John M. Stephenson
Stephenson was convicted of the murders of Jay Tyler, 29, his wife Kathy, 29, and another woman named Brandy Southard, 21. Prosecutors allege that the trio were chased in their car to an intersection in rural Warrick County, where they were shot and then stabbed. Stephenson also was convicted of an earlier burglary at Southard's residence. His 8-month trial was, at the time, the longest and most expensive in Indiana history. Sister Helen Prejean, who was portrayed in the movie "Dead Man Walking", testified at his sentencing hearing.
7003754800000000000♠20 years, 243 days
Stephenson maintains his innocence, alleging that the witnesses who testified against him are lying and that a surveillance tape proving he was at a convenience store was hidden by police. In his statement to police, Stephenson claimed that he spoke to the victims at a convenience store, went to another residence, and then went home. The investigating officer visited the Circle S to view surveillance footage to corroborate his statement. The officer testified at trial that the footage had been erased by the time he arrived. Lisa Huddleston, the clerk at Circle S, claims she indeed reviewed the footage with a police officer and saw both Stephenson and one of the victims on the tape. His appeal was denied.[58]

Roy Lee Ward
Ward was convicted of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in her home. Her 14-year-old sister was sleeping upstairs when she heard the screams of her sister. She called 911. Police found Ward still in the home when they arrived.
7003553800000000000♠15 years, 59 days
Ward's first conviction was overturned in 2004 on the basis that pretrial publicity tainted the jury pool. He was again convicted and sentenced to death. Ward has been diagnosed with a number of psychiatric disorders including exhibitionism, antisocial personality disorder, and ADHD.[59]

Jeffrey A. Weisheit
Weisheit was convicted for setting a fire that killed the two children of his girlfriend. After his arrest, Weisheit admitted stuffing a dish towel in Caleb's mouth and using duct tape to bind his arms behind his back. Two flares were found near the boy's body. Autopsies revealed the children were alive when the fire was set. He told police he did it because Caleb was misbehaving on the night before the fire.[60]
7003168000000000000♠4 years, 219 days
Weisheit suffers from bipolar disorder.[50]

text: Kansas[edit]

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Currently on death row: 10[61]
Total number executed: unknown (1800–1965)[18]
List of death row inmates in Kansas

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Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Reginald Carr
2000 murders of Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, and Aaron Sander as well as Ann Walenta four days earlier
7003557100000000000♠15 years, 92 days
After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.

Jonathan Carr
Convicted of the same five murders as his brother Reginald
7003557100000000000♠15 years, 92 days
After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.

John E. Robinson, Sr.
Capital murder convictions in the deaths of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten, first degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985
7003550400000000000♠15 years, 25 days

Sidney Gleason
Deaths of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004
7003418900000000000♠11 years, 171 days
After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016.

Scott Cheever
Murder of Sheriff Matt Samuels in January 2005
7003367600000000000♠10 years, 23 days

Gary Kleypas
1996 rape-murder of Carrie Williams in Pittsburg, Kansas
7003336100000000000♠9 years, 74 days
The Kansas Supreme Court, in its review of his case, found serious errors with the state's death penalty statute and ordered that the penalty phase of his trial be redone. The sentence was overturned in 2001. In 2008, he was sentenced to death again.

Justin Thurber
2007 killing of 19-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm
7003325400000000000♠8 years, 332 days

James Kraig Kahler
Murders of his wife, Karen Kahler, his two daughters, Lauren and Emily Kahler, and his wife's grandmother, Dorothy Wight
7003231900000000000♠6 years, 127 days

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
Convicted of killing three people at a Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas.
7002859000000000000♠2 years, 128 days

Kyle Trevor Flack
Shot two men, and a mother and daughter in spring 2013.
7002638000000000000♠1 year, 273 days

text: Kentucky[edit]

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Currently on death row: 33[62]
Total number executed: 426 (as of 2002)[18]

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Description of crime
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Other

Ralph Baze
Convicted of shooting two police officers at his home.
7003877700000000000♠24 years, 11 days
He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The United States Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees

Shawn Windsor
Convicted in the stabbing deaths of his estranged wife and their son.
7003410800000000000♠11 years, 90 days

text: Louisiana[edit]

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Currently on death row: 73 (2017)
Total number executed: 658 (1700–2002)[18]

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Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Antoinette Frank
Murdered 3 people at a restaurant where she worked as a security guard
7003815400000000000♠22 years, 118 days
Was a police officer

text: Mississippi[edit]

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Currently on death row: 45[63]
Total number executed: 357 (1800–2002)[18]

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text: List of death row inmates in Mississippi

text: Missouri[edit]

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Currently on death row: 29 (2017)[64]
Total number executed: 340 (1800–2002)[18]

text: Due to the high number of death row inmates in Missouri, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

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text: Montana[edit]

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Currently on death row: 2[65]
Total number executed: 74 (1800–2006)[18]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

William Jay Gollehon[65]
Murder by bludgeoning of an inmate during a riot in 1991
1992

Ronald Allen Smith[65]
Kidnap and murder by shooting of two Native American men in the fall of 1982
March 1983
Only Canadian on death row in the United States[66]

text: Nebraska[edit]

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Currently on death row: 11[67]
Total number executed: 40 (1862–1997)[18]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Carey Dean Moore
Murdered two cab drivers in the course of two separate robberies
7004137540000000000♠37 years, 240 days

John Lotter
Triple murder of a prior sexual assault victim (Brandon Teena) and two innocent bystanders
7003803000000000000♠21 years, 359 days

Raymond Mata
Murdered and dismembered his ex-girlfriend's son.
7003646800000000000♠17 years, 259 days

Arthur Gales
Beat a woman (who survived), strangled and drowned her son, and raped and strangled her daughter.
7003594500000000000♠16 years, 101 days

Jeffrey Hessler
Kidnapped, raped and murdered a teenage girl.
7003465600000000000♠12 years, 273 days

Jose Sandoval
For his involvement in the shooting of four people in a failed bank robbery.
7003476300000000000♠13 years, 15 days
Convicted alongside Erick Vela and Jorge Galindo.

Erick Fernando Vela
For his involvement in the shooting of four people in a failed bank robbery.
7003405200000000000♠11 years, 34 days
Convicted alongside Jose Sandoval and Jorge Galindo.

Jorge Galindo
For his involvement in the shooting of four people in a failed bank robbery.
7003484500000000000♠13 years, 97 days
Convicted alongside Vela and Sandoval.

Marco Torres
Shot two men, with one of the victims also being strangled and bound.
7003293900000000000♠8 years, 17 days

Roy Ellis
Abducted a girl, beat her to death, and threw her body into a ravine.
7003329600000000000♠9 years, 9 days

Nikko Jenkins
Shot four people in August 2013.
7002261000000000000♠261 days

text: Nevada[edit]

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Currently on death row: 78-82[68]
Total number executed: 74+[69]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Scott Dozier
Murder by shooting of Jeremiah Miller in on April 18, 2002
Convicted in December 2007
This is the first execution scheduled in Nevada since the scheduled execution of Tamir Hamilton in August 2010 (which was stayed). Assuming Dozier does not reverse his decision to waive his appeals and is executed, his execution will be the first in Nevada since that of Daryl Linnie Mack in April 2006.

text: New Hampshire[edit]

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Currently on death row: 1 (2014)
Total number executed: 24 (1700–1939)[18]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Michael "Stix" Kiser Addison[70]
Murder by shooting of an on-duty police officer on October 16, 2006
7003334600000000000♠9 years, 59 days
Only death row inmate in New Hampshire

text: New Mexico[edit]

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Currently on death row: 2 (2014)
Total number executed: 73 (1800–2001)[18]

text: Note: On March 18, 2009, New Mexico became the 15th state without a death penalty when then-Governor Bill Richardson signed the law replacing New Mexico's death penalty with life without parole.[71] The law was not made retroactive; the two inmates on death row at the time remain there.

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Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Timothy Allen[71]
Kidnapping, rape, and murder by strangulation of a teenage girl in 1994
7003809500000000000♠22 years, 59 days
Confined at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Robert Ray Fry[71]
Murder by bludgeoning and stabbing of a Shiprock mother in 2000
2002
Confined at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe. He has also three other murder convictions.

text: North Carolina[edit]

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Currently on death row: 143[72]
Total number executed: 802 (1608–2002)[18]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Blanche Taylor Moore
Poisoned her boyfriend with arsenic.
7003989000000000000♠27 years, 28 days
Moore has also been linked to the deaths of her father, mother in law, and first husband.

Henry Louis Wallace

text: Ohio[edit]

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Currently on death row: 138 (January 8, 2018)[73]
Total number executed: 443 (1700–2002)[18][28]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Romell Broom
Kidnapped, raped and strangled a teenage girl, and attempted to kidnap two of her friends.
7004118020000000000♠32 years, 114 days[74]
Broom was originally scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2009, but he survived the lethal injection after the executioners failed to find a suitable vein.

Anthony Sowell
Committed 11 murders between 2007 and 2009.
7003234600000000000♠6 years, 154 days[75]

Anthony Kirkland
Between 2006 and 2009, Kirkland strangled, raped, and burned the bodies of four females.
7003287700000000000♠7 years, 320 days[76]
Kirkland previously served 16 years for the beating, choking and burning murder of his girlfriend. For the 2006-2009 murders, Kirkland was handed two death sentences, plus two sentences of 70 years to life.

Michael Madison
Madison kidnapped, raped and strangled three women in 2012-2013.
7002612000000000000♠1 year, 247 days[77]

Donna Roberts

7003534800000000000♠14 years, 234 days[78]

text: Oklahoma[edit]

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Currently on death row: 48 (As of December 31, 2017)[79]
Total number executed: 183 (1800–2002)[18]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Kevin Ray Underwood

text: Oregon[edit]

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Currently on death row: 33 (August 10, 2017)[80]
Total number executed: 124 (1800–1997)[18]

text: Due to the high number of Oregon death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Gary Haugen
Murder of fellow prison inmate, David Polin, while serving a previous life sentence for murder of Mary Archer, his former girlfriend's mother
7003228100000000000♠6 years, 89 days[81]
Confined at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem
Former Oregon Governor, John Kitzhaber, placed a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term as 37th governor,[82] which has upset the victims of Haugen,[83] Gary Haugen himself,[84] as well as Oregonians who voted in favor of Ballot Measures 6 and 7 in the 1984 General Elections.[85] It is estimated that the case of Gary Haugen cost Oregon tax payers over $1.2 million, according to the Statesman Journal.[86]

Christian Longo
Murder of his wife and three children.
7003541900000000000♠14 years, 305 days

Bruce Turnidge (Father)
Woodburn bank bombing which killed Oregon State Trooper Bill Hakim and Woodburn Police Captain Tom Tennant
7003261200000000000♠7 years, 55 days[87]

Joshua Turnidge (Son)
Woodburn bank bombing which killed Oregon State Trooper Bill Hakim and Woodburn Police Captain Tom Tennant
7003261200000000000♠7 years, 55 days[87]

Dayton Leroy Rogers
Rogers was convicted in May 1989 for the murders of 23-year-old Lisa Marie Mock, 26-year-old Maureen Ann Hodges, 35-old Christine Lotus Adams, 20- year-old Cynthia Devore, 26-year-old Nondace "Noni" Cervantes, and 16-year-old Riatha Gyles.
7004104780000000000♠28 years, 251 days[87]

text: Pennsylvania[edit]

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Currently on death row: 154 (February 1, 2018)[88]
Total number executed: 1043 (1608–1999)[18]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

George Banks
killed 15 and wounded 1 in 1982.
7004126570000000000♠34 years, 238 days
On May 12, 2010, Banks was declared incompetent to be executed.

Richard Baumhammers
Former attorney who began a racially motivated crime spree on April 28, 2000 in Pittsburgh, killing five and paralyzing one
7003612400000000000♠16 years, 280 days
Baumhammers was given five death sentences plus 112 years.

Eric Frein
State police attack and manhunt —September 2014
7002286000000000000♠286 days

Richard Andrew Poplawski
Shot and killed three Pittsburgh Police officers on April 4, 2009.
7003242400000000000♠6 years, 232 days

Harvey Miguel Robinson
Serial killer who killed three women
7003847900000000000♠23 years, 78 days
Initially sentenced to death for all three murders. The death sentences for the first two murders were later changed to life sentences.

Christopher Roney
First-degree murder for the shooting death of police officer Lauretha Vaird
7003773400000000000♠21 years, 64 days

text: South Carolina[edit]

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Currently on death row: 36 (2018)[89][90]
Total number executed: 668 (1700–2002)[18]

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text: List of death row inmates in South Carolina

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Stephen Stanko

text: South Dakota[edit]

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Currently on death row: 3 [91]
Total number executed: 18 [91]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Charles Russell Rhines[91]
Murder by torture of store clerk Donnivan Schaeffer during a robbery in 1992
7003915100000000000♠25 years, 20 days

Briley Piper
Torture and murder of Chester Allan Poage[92]
7003239200000000000♠6 years, 200 days, in addition to time served before an initial conviction was overturned[93]

Rodney Berget
Murder of correctional officer Ronald "RJ" Johnson during a prison escape attempt, assisted by Eric Robert[92]
7003220100000000000♠6 years, 9 days[92]

text: Tennessee[edit]

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Currently on death row: 60[94]
Total number executed: 335[18]

text: Due to the high number of Tennessee death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked:

text: List of death row inmates in Tennessee

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Christa Pike
Conspiracy to commit murder, Murder — March 22, 1996
7003800000000000000♠21 years, 330 days

text: Texas[edit]

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Currently on death row: 274 [95]
Total number executed: 1,040 (1800-2002)[18]

text: Due to the high number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article.The full list is externally linked:

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Faces of Death Row: The Texas Tribune
List of death row inmates in Texas

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Linda Carty
Carty was convicted for the abduction and murder of 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez to steal her newborn son. Prosecutors alleged that Carty orchestrated the crime, which was committed by three masked men who abducted Rodriguez and her son. Rodriguez was later found dead in the trunk of a car. Her 3-day-old son was rescued from a car parked nearby. The other three men were arrested, but only Carty was prosecuted for capital murder.
7003582400000000000♠15 years, 345 days
Carty claims she was framed by drug dealers in response to her work as an informant and has appealed her conviction. Her appeals have been unsuccessful and the appeal procedure has been exhausted. Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century.

Gabriel Hall
Shot an elderly man, and stabbed his wife in the throat (who survived).
7002860000000000000♠2 years, 129 days

Brittany Holberg
Holberg robbed and murdered an 80-year-old white male in his home. The victim was struck with a hammer and stabbed nearly 60 times. The weapons used were a paring knife, a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, and a fork. A lamp pole had been shoved more than 5 inches down the victim's throat.
7003722900000000000♠19 years, 289 days

Rodney Reed
On April 23, 1996, during the nighttime, Reed strangled and killed 19-year-old Stacey Stites during an aggravated sexual assault. Reed was identified by DNA taken from the crime scene.
7003720200000000000♠19 years, 262 days

Raymond Riles
Murder and robbery of a Houston used-car salesman in 1974
7004153520000000000♠42 years, 11 days
Riles has been on death row longer than anyone in Texas. Because of mental illness, he is considered ineligible to be executed. In 1985, Riles attempted suicide by setting his prison cell on fire.

Darlie Routier
Murder of her two sons in 1996
7003768000000000000♠21 years, 10 days
Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is currently in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA.[96][97]

Víctor Saldaño

Hank Skinner
Beat his girlfriend with an ax handle, then stabbed her two sons.
7003835700000000000♠22 years, 321 days

Andre Thomas
Murdered his estranged wife, four-year-old son, and 13-month-old daughter on March 27, 2004
7003467300000000000♠12 years, 290 days
He removed his right eye on April 1, 2004. He removed and consumed his left eye on December 9, 2008.

Charles Victor Thompson
Murdered his girlfriend Dennise Hayslip, and her lover, Darren Cain. Thompson made headlines in 2005 by escaping from Harris County Jail in Houston after a parole meeting using a forged ID badge. He was captured three days later.
7003686100000000000♠18 years, 286 days
Thompson alleges that his death penalty conviction is unsafe as he acted in self-defense as he had been shot by Cain. The killings could be viewed as a crime of passion which would exclude the Capital Murder sentence. Thompson alleges that Dennise Hayslip died a week later due to medical malpractice, not the actual shooting.

Faryion Wardrip

7003667300000000000♠18 years, 98 days

Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
Plotted the murders of his mother, father and brother. His mother and brother were shot dead by a hitman Chris Brashear on December 10, 2003
7003398200000000000♠10 years, 329 days
Whitaker and others, filed a class action lawsuit against Texas Governor Rick Perry, Senator John Whitmire, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice against their solitary confinement and the unconstitutional conditions under which they must live. This was unsuccessful.

Jeffery Lee Wood

7003728900000000000♠19 years, 349 days

text: Utah[edit]

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Currently on death row: 8
Total number executed: 50 (1800–2010),[18][98]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Michael Anthony Archuleta[90]
Torture, rape, and murder of a Cedar City man on November 21, 1988. Assigned Lethal Injection.[99]

Douglas Stewart Carter[90]
Murder by stabbing and shooting of an elderly woman during a burglary of her Provo home on February 27, 1985, Assigned Lethal Injection.
7004117380000000000♠32 years, 50 days

Taberone Dave Honie[90]
Murder and sexual assault of his ex-girlfriend's mother on July 9, 1998.
7003684600000000000♠18 years, 271 days
Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.[100]

Troy Kell[90]
Murder by stabbing of an inmate on July 6, 1994
7003786100000000000♠21 years, 191 days
Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.[100]

Ronald Watson Lafferty[90]
Murder by stabbing of his sister-in-law and infant niece in American Fork on July 24, 1984. Overturned in 1996. Resentenced to Death the same year.
7004119720000000000♠32 years, 284 days

Floyd Eugene Maestas[90]
Sexual assault and murder by stabbing, strangulation, beating, and stomping of an elderly woman on September 28, 2004. Mandated Lethal Injection.
7003366200000000000♠10 years, 9 days

Ralph Leroy Menzies[90]
Kidnapping and murder by strangulation of a female gas station attendant in Kearns on February 23, 1986.
7004109210000000000♠29 years, 329 days
Has selected firing squad as his method of execution.[100]

Von Lester Taylor[90]
Murder of a woman and her mother near Beaver Springs, attempted murder by shooting and arson of the younger woman's husband, and kidnapping of the two daughters of the man and younger woman on December 22, 1990, choice of Lethal Injection.
7003976400000000000♠26 years, 267 days

Douglas Anderson Lovell
Aggravated kidnapping and murder of a woman, in order to prevent her from testifying against him in a rape case.
7003105100000000000♠2 years, 320 days
Lovell was originally sentenced to death for this murder in 1993, but on appeal was allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and was granted a new trial. He was again convicted of the murder and sentenced to death in 2015.[101]

text: Virginia[edit]

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Currently on death row: 3[102]
Total number executed: 1363 (1608–2017)[18]

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Crime
Time on death row
Notes

Anthony Juniper
Murdered his ex-girlfriend, her brother and her two daughters
7003514400000000000♠14 years, 30 days

Thomas A. Porter
Capital murder (two counts)
7003386700000000000♠10 years, 214 days

Mark E. Lawlor
Capital murder
7003242900000000000♠6 years, 237 days

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Currently on death row: 8 (as of 2017)[103]
Total number executed: 78 (since 1904)[104][105]

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Name
Description of crime
Time on death row
Other

Dayva Michael Cross[103]
Triple murder by stabbing of his wife and two teen stepdaughters on March 6, 1999
7003608200000000000♠16 years, 238 days

Cecil Emile Davis[103]
Rape and murder by asphyxiation and suffocation of an elderly woman during a burglary of her home on January 25, 1997
7003731400000000000♠20 years, 9 days

Clark Richard Elmore[103]
Rape and murder of his girlfriend's teen daughter on April 17, 1995
7003826000000000000♠22 years, 224 days

Jonathan Lee Gentry[103]
Murder by bludgeoning of a 12-year-old female on June 13, 1988
7003973100000000000♠26 years, 234 days

Allen Eugene Gregory[103]
Rape and murder of a 43-year-old woman on July 26, 1996
7003207300000000000♠5 years, 247 days
Originally convicted and sentenced to death on May 25, 2001, Gregory’s case was overturned by the Washington Supreme Court on November 30, 2006. The original charge was upheld in a retrial and the death sentence was reissued on June 13, 2012.

Byron Eugene Scherf[103]
Murdered a correctional officer on January 29, 2011
7003174300000000000♠4 years, 282 days

Conner Michael Schierman[103]
Murders of a mother and her two young children, and the woman's sister on July 16, 2006
7003286600000000000♠7 years, 309 days

Robert Lee Yates, Jr.[103]
Murders of two women in 1997 and 1998
7003561400000000000♠15 years, 135 days
Concurrently serving 408 years for the murders of 13 other women[106]

text: Wyoming[edit]

text:
Currently on death row: 1 (2015)[107]
Total number executed: 23 (1866–1992)

text: Jurisdictions without the death penalty[edit]

text: Nineteen states have abolished capital punishment. Crimes committed in these states are still eligible for the death penalty if they are convicted in federal court for violation of certain federal crimes. Capital punishment has been abolished in New Mexico but only for new sentences. Prisoners who are already sentenced to death in that state remain on death row.

text: States and the date of abolition for murder:

text:
Michigan (1846)
Wisconsin (1853)
Maine (1887)
Minnesota (1911)
Hawaii (1948; prior to statehood)
Alaska (1957; prior to statehood)
Vermont (1964)
Iowa (1965)
West Virginia (1965)
North Dakota (1973)
Massachusetts (1984)
Rhode Island (1984)
New Jersey (2007)
New York (2007)
New Mexico (2009)
Illinois (2011)
Connecticut (2012)
Maryland (2013)

text: Territories:

text:
Washington, D.C. (1981)
Puerto Rico (1929)[108]
Guam (1978) [109]
Northern Mariana Islands (before 1970; prior to Commonwealth status) [110]
United States Virgin Islands (1991)


document_title: 40-yard dash

question_text: who has the fastest 40 yard dash time at the nfl combine

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text: 40-yard dash

text: Timing method and track comparisons[edit]

text: In terms of judging a person's speed, the best method of timing is through lasers which start and stop the times when passed through. A laser start (from a stationary position) is more accurate for measuring pure speed as it does not register a runner's reaction time. However, the method of timing a 40-yard dash can affect the accuracy by as much 0.5 seconds (with the manual stopwatch method). The National Football League (NFL) did not begin using partial electronic timing (started by hand, stopped electronically) at the NFL Scouting Combine until 1999.[2] [3] For purposes of measurement at the Combine, the run is made along the lower sideline from the 40 yard-line to the end zone, which has built-in rundown space.

tag: p

text: In track and field races, the runner must react to the starting gun, which takes approximately 0.24 seconds, based on FAT timing. A runner with a reaction time less than .100 is subject to disqualification as that is deemed too fast of a reaction time. For electronically timed 40-yard dashes, the runner is allowed to start when he wishes, and a timer hand-starts the clock. This aspect means that comparisons with track times are impossible given that a reaction time is not factored in. Furthermore, the use of hand-timing in the 40-yard dash can considerably alter a runner's time; the methods are not comparable to the rigorous electronic timing used in track and field.

text: Jacoby Ford, who ran a 4.28 s in the 2010 NFL Combine, had a collegiate best of 6.51 s in the 60-meter dash (outside the top-40 of the all-time lists).[4] This highlights the difficulties in comparing track running times to football 40-yard times due to the different timing methods.[5]

text: Records[edit]

text: Auburn's Bo Jackson claims to have run a 40-yard dash with a time of 4.12 s.[6][7] A time of 4.18 run by Jackson within the same week added some support to the legitimacy of the times.[8][9] Texas Tech's Jakeem Grant was hand-timed by a New Orleans Saints scout as running a 4.10 in 2016, potentially beating Jackson's record.[10] Deion Sanders ran a 4.27-second 40-yard dash in 1989.[11]

text: In 2013, Carlin Isles recorded a time of 4.22 at a Detroit Lions facility during a workout.[12]

text: In 2017 Olympic sprinter Christian Coleman ran a time of 4.12 seconds on turf in response to claims that NFL players are as fast as Usain Bolt.[13]

text: Records at the NFL Scouting Combine[edit]

text: This is a list of the official 40-yard dash results of 4.30 seconds or better recorded at the NFL Scouting combine since 1999, the first year electronic timing was implemented at the NFL Scouting Combine.[14][15]

text:
Time
Name
Height
Weight
Position
College
Year
Draft

4.22[16]
John Ross
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
190 lb (86 kg)
Wide receiver
Washington
2017
No. 9 overall by Cincinnati Bengals

4.24
Rondel Menendez
5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
192 lb (87 kg)
Wide receiver
Eastern Kentucky
1999
No. 247 overall by Atlanta Falcons

4.24
Chris Johnson
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
192 lb (87 kg)
Running back
East Carolina
2008
No. 24 overall by Tennessee Titans

4.26
Jerome Mathis
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
184 lb (83 kg)
Wide receiver
Hampton
2005
No. 114 overall by Houston Texans

4.26
Dri Archer
5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
173 lb (78 kg)
Running back
Kent State
2014
No. 97 overall by Pittsburgh Steelers

4.27
Stanford Routt
6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
193 lb (88 kg)
Cornerback
Houston
2005
No. 38 overall by Oakland Raiders

4.27
Marquise Goodwin
5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
181 lb (82 kg)
Wide receiver
Texas
2013
No. 78 overall by Buffalo Bills

4.28
Champ Bailey
6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
192 lb (87 kg)
Cornerback
Georgia
1999
No. 7 overall by Washington Redskins

4.28
Jacoby Ford
5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
190 lb (86 kg)
Wide receiver
Clemson
2010
No. 108 overall by Oakland Raiders

4.28[17]
Jalen Myrick
5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
200 lb (91 kg)
Cornerback
Minnesota
2017
No. 222 overall by Jacksonville Jaguars

4.28[18]
J. J. Nelson
5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
156 lb (71 kg)
Wide receiver
UAB
2015
No. 159 overall by Arizona Cardinals

4.28
DeMarcus Van Dyke
6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
187 lb (85 kg)
Cornerback
Miami
2011
No. 81 overall by Oakland Raiders

4.29
Fabian Washington
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
188 lb (85 kg)
Cornerback
Nebraska
2005
No. 23 overall by Oakland Raiders

4.29
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie
6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
184 lb (83 kg)
Cornerback
Tennessee State
2008
No. 16 overall by the Arizona Cardinals

4.29
Josh Robinson
5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
199 lb (90 kg)
Cornerback
UCF
2012
No. 66 overall by Minnesota Vikings

4.30
Darrent Williams
5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
176 lb (80 kg)
Cornerback
Oklahoma State
2005
No. 56 overall by Denver Broncos

4.30
Tye Hill
5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
185 lb (84 kg)
Cornerback
Clemson
2006
No. 15 overall by St. Louis Rams

4.30
Yamon Figurs
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
174 lb (79 kg)
Wide receiver
Kansas State
2007
No. 74 overall by Baltimore Ravens

4.30
Darrius Heyward-Bey[19]
6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
210 lb (95 kg)
Wide receiver
Maryland
2009
No. 7 overall by Oakland Raiders

text: Average time by position[edit]

text: According to a five-year NFL combine report, wide receivers and cornerbacks had the fastest average times at 4.55, followed by running backs at 4.59. The following average times were measured between 2008 and 2012 at the NFL combine.[20]

text:
Position
Time

Wide receiver
4.55

Cornerback
4.55

Running back
4.59

Safety
4.62

Outside linebacker
4.74

Tight end
4.77

Fullback
4.80

Inside linebacker
4.80

Quarterback
4.87

Defensive end
4.88

Defensive tackle
5.13

Center
5.30

Offensive tackle
5.32

Offensive guard
5.36


document_title: Killswitch Engage

question_text: what happened to the lead singer of killswitch engage

text: Killswitch Engage

text: History[edit]

text: Early years and debut album (1999–2001)[edit]

text: Killswitch Engage formed following the disbandment of metalcore bands Overcast and Aftershock in 1999.[5] After Overcast broke up in 1998, bassist Mike D'Antonio jammed with Aftershock guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz. Dutkiewicz, now playing drums, recruited guitarist Joel Stroetzel from Aftershock and vocalist Jesse Leach of the band Nothing Stays Gold (who were signed to a record label owned by Dutkiewicz's brother Tobias, who was also the vocalist in Aftershock) to form a new band, Killswitch Engage.[5] The band's name is derived from an episode of the television series The X-Files entitled "Kill Switch", written by William Gibson, who gave the episode this title after meeting the industrial band Kill Switch...Klick.[6]

text: In 1999, Killswitch Engage recorded a demo containing four tracks, including "Soilborn", the first song written by the band.[7] The demo was first released at the band's first show, opening for melodic death metal act In Flames, in November 1999.[5][7] They released their self-titled debut album the following year. Although initially the album was not a financial success and did not land on any charts, it attracted the interest of Carl Severson, who worked at Roadrunner Records at the time. Severson handed Killswitch Engage to several Roadrunner representatives. Mike Gitter, a talent agent of the company, contacted D'Antonio, attended several of the band's shows, and offered the band a recording contract with Roadrunner. Realizing that Roadrunner had the resources to promote and distribute Killswitch Engage releases, the band accepted his offer, declining several offers from smaller labels.[8]

text: Alive or Just Breathing (2001–2004)[edit]

text: For a brief time in 2000 and 2001, ex-Overcast guitarist Pete Cortese joined Killswitch Engage, but left when he became a father.[8] Killswitch Engage began writing new material for their second album in November 2001. Mixed in January at Backstage Studios by producer Andy Sneap,[9] the album was titled Alive or Just Breathing, after lyrics in the song "Just Barely Breathing". A music video for the single "My Last Serenade" increased the band's exposure, and the album peaked at number 37 on the Top Heatseekers chart.[10]

text: Following Alive or Just Breathing's release, the album having been written and recorded for two guitarists, the band decided to expand and become a fivesome; Dutkiewicz moved to guitar and former Aftershock drummer Tom Gomes filled in the vacant drummer position. After Leach was married on April 20, 2002 and began touring again he fell into a depression. Leach left the band a few days before the band was meant to play a show and sent the band members an e-mail telling them he had quit. D'Antonio said in an interview that "after three years of hanging out with the dude, and considering him a brother, to just get an email was a little bit harsh."[11]

text: The band immediately started to search for a replacement vocalist and found Howard Jones of Blood Has Been Shed. Jones disliked the band's sound when he first heard it. He commented, "I was like, 'Meh.' I come from hardcore and dirtier metal, and Killswitch sounded so clean. But the more I listened to it, I realized there's some really good songs here".[12] After hearing about Leach's vocal problems, Jones contacted the band and was accepted as the replacement. Philip Labonte of All That Remains tried out for lead vocals but lost to Jones, who had to quickly memorize seven songs for his debut at the 2002 Hellfest.[12]

text: The new lineup played on the Road Rage tour in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in 2002 with 36 Crazyfists and Five Pointe O. Touring continued through the New Year's Day, and in 2003 the first song to feature Jones, "When Darkness Falls", appeared on the soundtrack of the 2003 horror film Freddy vs. Jason.[13] Following the 2003 Ozzfest, drummer Gomes left the band because he wished to spend more time with his wife, to pursue his band Something of a Silhouette, and because he was tired of touring.[14] He was replaced by Justin Foley of Blood Has Been Shed, and Foley's first tour with the band was the MTV2 Headbangers Ball in 2003.[15][16]

text: The End of Heartache (2004–2006)[edit]

text: The End of Heartache was released on May 11, 2004, and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200 with 38,000 sales in its first week,[17] and it also peaked at number 39 on the Australian Albums Chart.[18] The album went on to sell more than 500,000 copies in the U.S and was certified gold on December 7, 2007.[19] The album received mostly positive reviews, with Jon Caramanica of Rolling Stone calling the album a "stunning collection, retaining much of their signature musical brutality".[20] Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic commented "riffs upon riffs are piled sky-high into each number that follows, it's the unpredictable rhythmic shifts used to build and then relieve internal pressure that fuel the Killswitch Engage power source".[21]

text: "The End of Heartache" became the main single for the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and in 2005 the song was nominated for Best Metal Performance for the 47th Grammy Awards. In late 2004, The End of Heartache was re-released as a special edition album, with a second disc featuring various live performances, a Japanese bonus track, and a re-recorded version of "Irreversal". During the summer of 2005, the band returned for Ozzfest, and on November 1, 2005, Alive or Just Breathing was re-released as part of Roadrunner Records' 25th anniversary. On November 22, 2005, the live DVD (Set This) World Ablaze was released, which contained a live concert at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts, an hour-long documentary, and all the band's music videos. The DVD was certified gold in the US on April 8, 2006.[19]

text: As Daylight Dies (2006–2007)[edit]

text: Killswitch Engage played the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2006, having already played Australian dates without Dutkiewicz, who was suffering from back problems and needed corrective surgery. On May 23, 2006, the song "This Fire Burns" was released on the WWE Wreckless Intent album.[22] The track was intended to be the new theme song for WWE wrestler Randy Orton; however, it was scrapped and later became the theme song for the WWE Judgment Day 2006 pay-per-view. "This Fire Burns" was used as the entrance theme for WWE wrestler CM Punk (along with his stables the Straight Edge Society and The New Nexus) from 2006 until 2011 and was later re-released as "This Fire" on the As Daylight Dies Special Edition.[23]

text: Recorded in three months, As Daylight Dies was released on November 21, 2006 and peaked at number 32 on the Billboard 200 chart with 60,000 sales in its first week. "As Daylight Dies" proved to be one of their biggest albums yet.[24] It also entered the Australian Albums Chart at number 29.[18] Mixed by Dutkiewicz, the album received mostly positive reviews—Thom Jurek of Allmusic called it "a Top Five metal candidate for 2006 for sure".[25] Decibel Magazine contributor Nick Terry said "To call As Daylight Dies addictive would be an understatement. That it outdoes its already impressive enough predecessor could almost go without saying".[26] Cosmo Lee of Stylus Magazine commented "the album is astonishingly badly sequenced", though he praised the album as being "less emotionally heavy-handed, and a lot more fun".[27] As of November 27, 2007, As Daylight Dies has sold more than 500,000 units in the US.[28]

text: The album's first single, "My Curse", peaked at number 21 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and is featured in the video games Sleeping Dogs, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Burnout Dominator and Burnout Paradise and is available as downloadable content for the Rock Band series. "The Arms of Sorrow" peaked at number 31 on the same chart. The band's cover of Dio's "Holy Diver", originally recorded for a Kerrang! compilation album titled High Voltage,[29] peaked at number 12 on the Mainstream Rock charts.[30] Early in 2007, the band had to cancel three of its European tour dates with The Haunted due to Dutkiewicz's back problems. He required emergency back surgery and was replaced on the tour by Soilwork guitarist Peter Wichers.[31]

text: Due to Dutkiewicz's back problems in early 2007, he was replaced by Damageplan and The Mercy Clinic frontman Patrick Lachman during the No Fear Tour.[32] Dutkiewicz recovered and was able to finish the No Fear tour, and the band began filming its video for As Daylight Dies's second single, "The Arms of Sorrow". On August 6, 2007, Dutkiewicz was forced to leave the Warped Tour so he could fully recover from his back surgery and continue daily physical therapy. He was replaced by Killswitch's guitar technician Josh Mihlek for select songs, until his return on August 14, 2007.[33]

text: Second self-titled album (2007–2011)[edit]

text: Killswitch Engage entered the studio in October 2008 to start recording their next album with Dutkiewicz and Brendan O'Brien co-producing the album.[34] In mid-February, bassist Mike D'Antonio confirmed in an interview with Metal Hammer that "drums were finished", and that he had "finished up the last few bass fixes". He also stated that Howard [Jones] was in Atlanta finishing vocals, and that "it shouldn't be too much longer now."[35] From March to May, Killswitch Engage was a part of Disturbed's Music as a Weapon IV festival along with Lacuna Coil, Chimaira, Suicide Silence, Bury Your Dead and more. On April 14, the band announced the name of their album as Killswitch Engage, the second time the band has self-titled an album. The album was released on June 30, 2009,[36] debuting at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, marking the band's highest chart position for an album.[37] In July and August, Killswitch Engage took part in Mayhem Festival with headliners Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Bullet for My Valentine and others. In February 2010, Killswitch Engage announced that vocalist Howard Jones would not be performing with Killswitch Engage during their winter tour with The Devil Wears Prada and Dark Tranquillity; during the time, All That Remains vocalist Philip Labonte was substituting for Jones until he could return.[38] At least one source speculated that Jones' hiatus was due to back pain.[39] On March 18, 2010, original vocalist Jesse Leach returned to the band for a series of songs. From then on, Leach and Labonte performed as substitute vocalists for the remainder of the tour.[40]

text: In 2010, the band contributed the track "My Obsession" to the God of War: Blood & Metal soundtrack.[41] The band was later added as late replacement to 2010's Download Festival in June, after original sub-headliner, Wolfmother could not attend as scheduled.[42] Afterward, Killswitch Engage took a break from the road, and its members pursued other interests. Adam Dutkiewicz formed the band Times of Grace with Leach and released the debut album "The Hymn of a Broken Man" on January 18, 2011.[43] Along with Dutkiewicz and Leach, Times of Grace added Joel Stroetzel to their tour lineup.[44] Justin Foley provided the drum tracking for the band Unearth on their album "Darkness in the Light", released on July 5, 2011. Foley also traveled with the band for their 2011 summer tour.[45] D'Antonio started the hardcore band Death Ray Vision, with Shadows Fall vocalist Brian Fair and former Killswitch Engage guitarist Pete Cortese.

text: Jones' departure and Disarm the Descent (2011–2015)[edit]

text: In an interview with FTC, Gun Shy Assassin, Mike D'Antonio had stated that the band was currently in the works for a sixth studio album. D'Antonio stated, "Currently, everyone is individually writing demos for the next Killswitch Engage record. There is no release date yet, but I would assume it will be out early 2012."[46] Adam Dutkiewicz followed that up with a statement on the Killswitch Engage Facebook, saying "YO! Its Adam D! We're about to begin writing our new record. Thanks to all of our fans for waiting so friggin' patiently...now let's turn on the "riff faucet" and RAGE!" [47] On December 1, 2011, Mike D'Antonio posted online that Killswitch Engage should be entering the studio around February/March 2012 to record their sixth album expected around summer 2012. He also stated that the band had eight demos finished for the new record.[48]

text: On January 4, 2012, the band announced via the band's official website, along with their other official sources, that Howard Jones had left the band after his nine-year membership with them.[49] In the statement, the band did not disclose the reason for this decision out of respect for Jones, but simply thanked him for his nine years with the band and wished him well, as well as thanking the fans for their support as they began the search for a new lead singer;[49][50] Jones later explained he departed the band to manage his type 2 diabetes which was worsened by a hectic touring lifestyle.[51] Soon after the announcement of Jones's departure, rumors began that Phil Labonte of All That Remains would officially take over lead vocals due to his previous history with the band, although Labonte quickly dispelled the rumor.[52] Many vocalists were considered in the search for a new one for the band. The band's search for a new singer concluded in February with the announcement that original lead vocalist Jesse Leach would return to the band, as the band felt that Leach's energy, as well as his overall comfort and command of both the old and new material, made him the clear choice during auditions.[53] Following Leach's return, the band continued to the process of recording their new album and touring. On April 22, 2012, the band performed Leach's first show since 2002 at the New England Metal and Hardcore Fest.

text: On June 20, 2012, the demo version of a new song titled "This Is Confrontation" was leaked on YouTube. Not long after the song was leaked, the videos were soon deleted. Later, the band took part in Metal Hammer's "Trespass America Festival" headlined by Five Finger Death Punch with additional support from God Forbid, Emmure, Pop Evil, Trivium and Battlecross.[54] The band performed this song live, confirming the song's title "No End in Sight". Not long after the album was confirmed, the song was streamed publicly again. In October 2012, with Jesse back at the helm, Killswitch Engage announced they would be celebrating the ten year anniversary of their seminal album Alive or Just Breathing with a US Tour through November/December 2012, in which the band played the album live in its entirety. Support on the tour came from fellow Massachusetts natives Shadows Fall and Acaro.[55]

text: The album Disarm the Descent was released April 1, 2013 in the UK. The album debuted at #15 in the UK charts while debuting at #7 in the Billboard top 200[56] April 2 in the US. The first single "In Due Time" was released on February 5, 2013.[57] The album has received critical acclaim from reviewers, and has been labeled as a "true standout" and "nothing short of amazing". It was announced in December 2013 that "In Due Time" was nominated for "Best Metal Performance" at the 2014 Grammy Awards,[58] but lost to "God Is Dead?" by Black Sabbath.[59] A tour in May 2013 was done to promote the new album. With Miss May I, Darkest Hour, The Word Alive and Affiance as support. As I Lay Dying was originally supposed to be on the tour but dropped due to criminal charges from frontman Tim Lambesis. The band also did a co-headliner with fellow Heavy Metal act Lamb of God in the October 2013 with Testament and Huntress as support for both bands. The band did a small headliner on the east coast for Halloween 2014. With All That Remains, Death Ray Vision and City of Homes supporting.

text: Incarnate (2015–2017)[edit]

text: In an interview with Wikimetal, Jesse Leach announced that the band will start demoing new material "in the coming months".[60]

text: On February 25, 2015 the band released a 40 second snippet of a new single titled "Loyalty". The track appears on the Catch The Throne: The Mixtape Volume 2 to promote the HBO TV series Game of Thrones. The mixtape also features appearances from various other metal and rap acts such as Anthrax and Snoop Dogg.[61]

text: On March 30, 2015, Mike D'Antonio stated that the band had completed demoing material for its next studio album.[62]

text: Killswitch Engage took part in a summer tour in July 2015, opening up for Rise Against with support from letlive.

text: On December 10, 2015 the band premiered a new song entitled "Strength of the Mind" on Revolver.[63] The band also did a small Christmas 2015 tour on the East Coast with Unearth, Act of Defiance and 68.

text: On December 16, 2015 it was revealed that the band's upcoming seventh album, released on March 11, 2016, would be titled Incarnate, with a tour being set to take part in March of this year, Memphis May Fire and 36 Crazyfists will be the support.

text: On September 27, 2016 Leach revealed on his Instagram page that the band would be releasing a documentary compiled of live footage since 2012.[64] On November 25, 2016 the band released a Blu-ray/CD called "Beyond The Flames: Home Video Vol.2." The Blu-ray contains live performances that were recorded around the world from 2012 to 2016 and an hour long documentary taking place right after the band's "(Set This) World Ablaze" had left off, as well as music videos, personal band profiles and more, plus a bonus live CD containing live tracks from the band's legendary 2014 Monster Mosh show. The two disc set had a one day exclusive sale in record stores everywhere on Black Friday for Record Store Day. The set is now available for online purchase and digital download on the Killswitch Engage store.

text: Upcoming studio album (2017–present)[edit]

text: On August 30, 2017, the band announced on their Instagram page that they were in the process of demoing material for their upcoming 8th studio album, expected to be released sometime in 2018.[65]

text: Musical style and lyrical themes[edit]

text:
"My Last Serenade"

Sample of "My Last Serenade" from Alive or Just Breathing (2002). "My Last Serenade" includes screaming, growls and clean vocals and shows examples of their riffs and sounds from extreme metal and hardcore.

"My Curse"

Sample of "My Curse" from As Daylight Dies (2006). Songs by Killswitch Engage such as "My Curse" has sounds from hardcore such as breakdowns.

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text: Killswitch Engage primarily play heavy metal and metalcore,[66][67] combining sounds from extreme metal and hardcore.[15] Like some modern metalcore bands, Killswitch Engage vocally combine singing, screaming vocals, and growls in their music.[15]

text: Killswitch Engage's music mixes "crushing" riffs, double bass drum patterns, power chords, dual-guitar harmonies, often punctuated with pinch harmonic squeals in their music[68] and breakdowns that one can expect from the metalcore genre. Their music is influenced by Gothenburg metal scene, New York hardcore and thrash metal.

text: In 2009, MTV, while naming "The Greatest Metal Bands of All Time", said that Killswitch Engage have been "called one of the founders of metalcore".[69] Jason D. Taylor of Allmusic said Alive or Just Breathing is "a pure metal album that seemingly has ignored any fashionable trend and instead relies solely on skill and expertise to sculpt some of the meatiest heavy metal since the glory days of Metallica and Slayer."[70]

text: Both current vocalist Jesse Leach and former vocalist Howard Jones write lyrics that are considered positive.[8] Jesse Leach stated on (Set This) World Ablaze, that the lyrics contain "unity, positivity, [and] love."[8] On the lyrical themes of Killswitch Engage, Ultimate Guitar reviewer Amy Sciarretto notes:

text:
“
Howard Jones has come into his own since 2004's The End of Heartache, and he continues to hit the notes, wax about relationships, faith-issues and other relatable issue (sic) on this second self-titled effort.[71]
”

text: On Killswitch Engage's 2009 self-titled album, Howard Jones states the change in lyrical themes:

text:
“
I've got enough to draw on to write some stuff that can be dark. Maybe there's still a hint of positivity in it, but there are some songs on there that are not positive at all.[72]
”

text: Members[edit]

text:
Current[73]

Jesse Leach – lead vocals (1999–2002, 2012–present)
Joel Stroetzel – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2001-present); lead guitar (1999–2002)
Mike D'Antonio – bass (1999–present)
Adam Dutkiewicz – lead guitar, backing vocals (2002–present); drums (1999–2002)
Justin Foley – drums (2003–present)

Former

Pete Cortese – rhythm guitar (2000–2001)
Howard Jones – lead vocals (2002–2012)
Tom Gomes – drums (2002–2003)

Live

Jordan Mancino – drums (2013)[74]

text: Timeline[edit]

text: Discography[edit]

text:
Killswitch Engage (2000)
Alive or Just Breathing (2002)
The End of Heartache (2004)
As Daylight Dies (2006)
Killswitch Engage (2009)
Disarm the Descent (2013)
Incarnate (2016)

tag: ul

text: Accolades[edit]

text: Grammy Award

text:
Year
Nominee/work
Award
Result

2005
The End of Heartache
Best Metal Performance
Nominated

2014
In Due Time
Best Metal Performance
Nominated

text: Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards

text:
Year
Nominee/work
Award
Result

2004
Killswitch Engage
Best International Act
Nominated

2004
The End of Heartache
Best Album
Won

2007
Killswitch Engage
Best International Band
Won

2014
Killswitch Engage
Best Live Band
Won

text: Boston Music Awards

text:
Year
Nominee/work
Award
Result

2007
Killswitch Engage
Outstanding Metal/Hardcore Band of the Year
Won

2007
Killswitch Engage
Act of the Year
Won

2007
As Daylight Dies
Album of the Year (Major)
Nominated

2007
Howard Jones
National Male Vocalist of the Year
Nominated

text: Loudwire Music Awards

text:
Year
Nominee/work
Award
Result

2013
Disarm the Descent
Metal Album of the Year
Nominated

2013
In Due Time
Metal Song of the Year
Nominated

2013
Killswitch Engage
Metal Band of the Year
Nominated