List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim

The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim. Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a white person is 299 (making up nearly 19.4 percent of all executions). Additionally, a further 12 white people have been executed for killing a black person and another person, or people, of a different race.

List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim in the United States since 1976

 Indicates cases where the executed defendant killed multiple people of different races

No. Date of execution Executed person Age State Method Victim(s) Ref.
1 September 6, 1991 Donald Henry Gaskins 58 South Carolina Electrocution Rudolph Tyner (1 Black Male)
2 January 24, 1995 Kermit Smith Jr. 37 North Carolina Lethal injection Whelette Collins (1 Black Female)
3 March 20, 1995 Thomas Joseph Grasso 32 Oklahoma Lethal injection Hilda Johnson (1 Black Female)
4 July 1, 1995 Roger Dale Stafford 43 Oklahoma Lethal injection Isaac Freeman, Louis Zacarias, Terri Horst, Linda Lorenz, David Lindsey, Melvin Lorenz, Richard Lorenz, David Salsman, and Anthony Tew (1 Black Male, 1 Hispanic Male, 2 White Females, 5 White Males)
5 December 6, 1995 Robert Earl O'Neal Jr. 34 Missouri Lethal injection Arthur Dade (1 Black Male)
6 June 6, 1997 Henry Francis Hays 42 Alabama Electrocution Michael Donald (1 Black Male)
7 December 11, 1997 Thomas H. Beavers Jr. 26 Virginia Lethal injection Marguerite Lowery (1 Black Female)
8 March 6, 1998 John David Arnold Jr. 43 South Carolina Lethal injection Betty Gardner (1 Black Female)
9 July 10, 1998 John Herman Plath 43 South Carolina Lethal injection Betty Gardner (1 Black Female)
10 September 25, 1998 Sammy Roberts 40 South Carolina Lethal injection Louis Cakley, Kenneth Krause, and Bill Spain (1 Black Male, 2 White Males)
11 April 28, 1999 Eric Christopher Payne 26 Virginia Lethal injection Ruth Parham and Sally Fazio (1 Black Female, 1 White Female)
12 July 6, 1999 Gary Michael Heidnik 55 Pennsylvania Lethal injection Deborah Dudley and Sandra Lindsay (2 Black Females)
13 July 8, 1999 Norman Lee Newsted 45 Oklahoma Lethal injection Larry Donnell Buckley (1 Black Male)
14 July 21, 1999 Tommy David Strickler 33 Virginia Lethal injection Leann Whitlock (1 Black Female)
15 May 3, 2002 Richard Charles Johnson 39 South Carolina Lethal injection Bruce Kenneth Smalls (1 Black Male)
16 September 10, 2003 Larry Allen Hayes 54 Texas Lethal injection Rosalyn Ann Robinson and Mary Evelyn Hayes (1 Black Female, 1 White Female)
17 July 14, 2006 William Ernest Downs Jr. 39 South Carolina Lethal injection Keenan O'Mailia (1 Black Male)
18 July 20, 2006 Brandon Wayne Hedrick 27 Virginia Electrocution Lisa Yvonne Crider (1 Black Female)
19 November 9, 2006 John Yancey Schmitt 33 Virginia Lethal injection Earl Shelton Dunning (1 Black Male)
20 September 12, 2007 Daryl Keith Holton 45 Tennessee Electrocution Kayla Holton, Brent Holton, Eric Holton, and Stephen Holton (1 Black Female, 3 White Males)
21 June 6, 2008 David Mark Hill 48 South Carolina Lethal injection Josie Curry, Michael Gregory, and James Riddle (1 Black Female, 2 White Males)
22 February 17, 2011 Frank G. Spisak Jr. 59 Ohio Lethal injection Rev. Horace T. Rickerson, Brian Warford, and Timothy Sheehan (2 Black Males, 1 White Male)
23 June 16, 2011 Lee Andrew Taylor 32 Texas Lethal injection Donta Green (1 Black Male)
24 September 21, 2011 Lawrence Russell Brewer 44 Texas Lethal injection James Byrd Jr. (1 Black Male)
25 February 8, 2012 Edwin Hart Turner 38 Mississippi Lethal injection Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry (2 Black Males)
26 September 25, 2012 Cleve Foster 48 Texas Lethal injection Nyanuer Gatluak "Mary" Pal (1 Black Female)
27 January 16, 2013 Robert Charles Gleason Jr. 42 Virginia Electrocution Aaron Alexander Cooper and Harvey Gray Watson Jr. (1 Black Male, 1 White Male)
28 March 6, 2013 Frederick Treesh 48 Ohio Lethal injection Henry Dupree (1 Black Male)
29 September 25, 2013 Harry Mitts Jr. 61 Ohio Lethal injection John A. Bryant and Dennis Glivar (1 Black Male, 1 White Male)
30 January 11, 2017 Christopher Chubasco Wilkins 48 Texas Lethal injection Willie Ladell Freeman and Mike Silva (1 Black Male, 1 Hispanic Male)
31 July 6, 2017 William Charles Morva 35 Virginia Lethal injection Derrick McFarland and Eric Sutphin (1 Black Male, 1 White Male)
32 August 24, 2017 Mark James Asay 53 Florida Lethal injection Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell (1 Black Male, 1 Mixed-race Male)
33 April 24, 2019 John William King 44 Texas Lethal injection James Byrd Jr. (1 Black Male)

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