# List of people executed in the United States in 2021

Eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection. With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988.

## List of people executed in the United States in 2021

| 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 13, 2021 | Lisa Marie Montgomery | 52 | 36 | 16 | Female | White | Federal government | Lethal injection | |
| 2 | January 14, 2021 | Corey Johnson | 52 | 23 | 29 | Male | Black | Federal government | Lethal injection | |
| 3 | January 16, 2021 | Dustin John Higgs | 48 | 23 | 25 | Male | Black | Federal government | Lethal injection | |
| 4 | May 19, 2021 | Quintin Phillippe Jones | 41 | 20 | 21 | Male | Black | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 5 | June 30, 2021 | John William Hummel | 45 | 34 | 11 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 6 | September 28, 2021 | Rick Allan Rhoades | 57 | 27 | 30 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 7 | October 5, 2021 | Ernest Lee Johnson | 61 | 33 | 28 | Male | Black | Missouri | Lethal injection | |
| 8 | October 21, 2021 | Willie B. Smith III | 52 | 22 | 30 | Male | Black | Alabama | Lethal injection | |
| 9 | October 28, 2021 | John Marion Grant | 60 | 37 | 23 | Male | Black | Oklahoma | Lethal injection | |
| 10 | November 17, 2021 | David Neal Cox Sr. | 50 | 39 | 11 | Male | White | Mississippi | Lethal injection | |
| 11 | December 9, 2021 | Bigler Jobe Stouffer II | 79 | 42 | 37 | Male | White | Oklahoma | Lethal injection | |
| | | Average: | 54 years | 31 years | 24 years | | | | | |

## Demographics

Gender :
| Male | 10 | 91% |
| Female | 1 | 9% |
| Ethnicity |||
| Black | 6 | 55% |
| White | 5 | 45% |
| State |||
| Federal government | 3 | 27% |
| Texas | 3 | 27% |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 18% |
| Alabama | 1 | 9% |
| Mississippi | 1 | 9% |
| Missouri | 1 | 9% |
| Method |||
| Lethal injection | 11 | 100% |
| Month |||
| January | 3 | 27% |
| February | 0 | 0% |
| March | 0 | 0% |
| April | 0 | 0% |
| May | 1 | 9% |
| June | 1 | 9% |
| July | 0 | 0% |
| August | 0 | 0% |
| September | 1 | 9% |
| October | 3 | 27% |
| November | 1 | 9% |
| December | 1 | 9% |
| Age |||
| 40–49 | 3 | 27% |
| 50–59 | 5 | 45% |
| 60–69 | 2 | 18% |
| 70–79 | 1 | 9% |
| Total | 11 | 100% |

## Executions in recent years

Number of executions :
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| Total | 46 |

## Canceled executions

A number of executions were canceled in 2021. Two executions in Tennessee were stayed indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three executions in Texas were also stayed to review intellectual disability claims. Five more executions in Texas were reprieved due to the state not allowing the inmate's pastors to lay their hands on them during the execution. Three executions in Ohio were reprieved due to the unofficial moratorium in place on capital punishment in Ohio by Governor Mike DeWine, due to problems in securing the drugs needed for lethal injections. All three of these executions were rescheduled for 2024. An execution in Pennsylvania was also reprieved due to the moratorium in place on capital punishment in Pennsylvania by Governor Tom Wolf. The execution of Gerald Pizzuto in Idaho was stayed by the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole after they granted a request for a commutation hearing. Attorneys from both sides agreed to the stay of execution until the hearing concluded in November 2021.
Two executions in South Carolina were stayed by the South Carolina Supreme Court because the state did not have a way of carrying out execution by firing squad at the time. The new capital punishment law in the state requires inmates to pick between the electric chair or firing squad. At the time, South Carolina had no way of executing inmates via firing squad, meaning the inmates had no choice but to be executed via electrocution. The court ruled the inmates must have the choice available to them before they can be executed. The execution of Zane Floyd in Nevada was stayed by a federal judge, who ruled that the state needed more time to determine the constitutionality of the lethal injection drugs that would be used for his execution. The execution of Julius Jones in Oklahoma was halted hours before he was due to be executed after his death sentence was commuted to life without the possibility of parole by Governor Kevin Stitt.