Recent Civilian Executions
Twenty-six federal (including military) executions have been carried since 1950. Three of those (none of them military) have occurred in the modern post-Gregg era. This list only includes those executed under federal jurisdiction. Since 1963, three people have been executed by the federal government of the United States. All were executed by lethal injection.
| Executed person | Date | Crime | State where crime occurred | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timothy McVeigh | June 11, 2001 | murder of eight federal employees through the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. (See Oklahoma City bombing.) | Oklahoma |
| 2 | Juan Raul Garza | June 19, 2001 | murder of Thomas Albert Rumbo, ordering the murders of Gilberto Matos, Erasmo De La Fuente, Antonio Nieto, Bernabe Sosa, Diana Flores Villareal, Oscar Cantu, and Fernando Escobar Garcia in conjunction with a drug-smuggling ring | Texas |
| 3 | Louis Jones, Jr. | March 18, 2003 | rape and murder of Pvt. Tracie McBride, USA | Texas |
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