# List of people executed in the United States in 2016

Twenty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2016, all by lethal injection. The state of Georgia executed nine people, setting a record for the most executions conducted there in a calendar year.

## List of people executed in the United States in 2016

| No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Age of person | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. |
| No. | Date of execution | Name | At execution | At offense | Age difference | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. |
| 1 | January 7, 2016 | Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. | 53 | 24 | 29 | Male | White | Florida | Lethal injection | |
| 2 | January 20, 2016 | Richard Allen Masterson | 43 | 28 | 15 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 3 | January 21, 2016 | Christopher Eugene Brooks | 43 | 20 | 23 | Male | White | Alabama | Lethal injection | |
| 4 | January 27, 2016 | James Garrett Freeman | 35 | 26 | 9 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 5 | February 3, 2016 | Brandon Astor Jones | 72 | 36 | 36 | Male | Black | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 6 | February 16, 2016 | Gustavo Julian Garcia | 43 | 18 | 25 | Male | Hispanic | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 7 | February 17, 2016 | Travis Clinton Hittson | 45 | 21 | 24 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 8 | March 9, 2016 | Coy Wayne Wesbrook | 58 | 39 | 19 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 9 | March 22, 2016 | Adam Kelly Ward | 33 | 22 | 11 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 10 | March 31, 2016 | Joshua Daniel Bishop | 41 | 19 | 22 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 11 | April 6, 2016 | Pablo Lucio Vasquez | 38 | 20 | 18 | Male | Hispanic | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 12 | April 12, 2016 | Kenneth Earl Fults | 47 | 27 | 20 | Male | Black | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 13 | April 27, 2016 | Daniel Anthony Lucas | 37 | 19 | 18 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 14 | May 11, 2016 | Earl Mitchell Forrest II | 66 | 53 | 13 | Male | White | Missouri | Lethal injection | |
| 15 | July 15, 2016 | John Wayne Conner | 60 | 25 | 35 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 16 | October 5, 2016 | Barney Ronald Fuller Jr. | 58 | 44 | 14 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 17 | October 19, 2016 | Gregory Paul Lawler | 63 | 44 | 19 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 18 | November 16, 2016 | Steven Frederick Spears | 54 | 39 | 15 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 19 | December 6, 2016 | William Cary Sallie | 50 | 24 | 26 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | |
| 20 | December 8, 2016 | Ronald Bert Smith Jr. | 45 | 23 | 22 | Male | White | Alabama | Lethal injection | |
| | | Average: | 49 years | 29 years | 20 years | | | | | |

## Demographics

Gender :
| Male | 20 | 100% |
| Female | 0 | 0% |
| Ethnicity |||
| White | 16 | 80% |
| Black | 2 | 10% |
| Hispanic | 2 | 10% |
| State |||
| Georgia | 9 | 45% |
| Texas | 7 | 35% |
| Alabama | 2 | 10% |
| Florida | 1 | 5% |
| Missouri | 1 | 5% |
| Method |||
| Lethal injection | 20 | 100% |
| Month |||
| January | 4 | 20% |
| February | 3 | 15% |
| March | 3 | 15% |
| April | 3 | 15% |
| May | 1 | 5% |
| June | 0 | 0% |
| July | 1 | 5% |
| August | 0 | 0% |
| September | 0 | 0% |
| October | 2 | 10% |
| November | 1 | 5% |
| December | 2 | 10% |
| Age |||
| 30–39 | 4 | 20% |
| 40–49 | 7 | 35% |
| 50–59 | 5 | 25% |
| 60–69 | 3 | 15% |
| 70–79 | 1 | 5% |
| Total | 20 | 100% |

## Executions in recent years

Number of executions :
| 2017 | 23 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2015 | 28 |
| Total | 71 |

## Record number of executions in Georgia

In 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people. This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again in 2015.

## Last meals

* Henry Hargreaves, a Brooklyn-based photographer, recreated (and then photographed) the last meals served to all twenty men executed in 2016. Through his series, entitled A Year of Killing, Hargreaves sought to educate people about the use of the death penalty. This work is a sequel to his 2011 series No Seconds, which recreated the last meals ordered by famous criminals like Ted Bundy.
* In 2016, the most-ordered food was steak, followed by pizza, although some of the condemned prisoners elected to forgo a special last meal.