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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood. A total of 21 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution.
The execution chamber, [1] and men's death row are in Indiana State Prison. [2] Indiana Women's Prison has housed women with death sentences. [3] Previously Indiana law required female death row inmates (not about to be executed) to be held at Indiana State Prison even though it was a male facility. [4]
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions , appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations , or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [ 2 ]
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Indiana has eight people on death row. In 2020, the first federal execution in 17 years at the time was carried out at a federal prison in Indiana .
A third Evansville-area man, John Stephenson, escaped death row in 2017 when the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned his death sentence for the March 1996 murders of Jay Tyler Jr ...
Convicted of carjacking-related homicide of a 63-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter. Mitchell stabbed the woman to death and drove around 40 miles (64 km) with her body in the vehicle along with her granddaughter. He then slit the 9-year old's throat. He was the only Native American on death row until his execution. [11] Donald Trump
At least 190 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S. since 1973, largely Black and Latinx inmates who are wrongfully convicted at a higher rate than white people, according to the ...
There are currently three men on federal death row. [7] [8] Two of them are housed at USP Terre Haute. The federal government chose Terre Haute as the location of the men's death row due to its central location within the United States. [9] Since 1963, sixteen people have been executed by the United States federal government.