United States Military
Although early and wartime records may be incomplete, the U.S. Military has conducted at least 1206 executions since 1775 (although only 10 since 1951). Inmates are confined at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, managed by the United States Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; women (there are currently none) would be confined at the Naval Consolidated Brig in San Diego, California. Any U.S. Military execution order must currently be signed by the President of the United States, who is also the sole appeal, clemency, and pardon authority for the death sentence. The current method of executions is lethal injection. The most recent execution was John Arthur Bennett, by hanging, on April 13, 1961.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hasan Karim Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) | Multiple murder by hand grenade and shooting of two commissioned officers and 11 other servicemen in Kuwait on March 23, 2003 | Convicted April 21, 2005; sentenced May 2005 | |
| Ronald Arthur Gray | Multiple rape and murders of women at Fort Bragg, North Carolina from December 15, 1986 to January 6, 1987 | July 29, 1988 | Longest on the military's death row |
| Timothy B. Hennis | Triple murder by stabbing of a North Carolina woman and two of her children in 1985 | Convicted April 8, 2010; sentenced April 15, 2010 | Previously convicted in 1986 by the State of North Carolina, retried and acquitted in 1989, and widely reported as exonerated; recalled to active duty for military court martial (as he had been in the U.S. Army at the time of the murders) under separate sovereignty (see Double jeopardy) |
| Dwight J. Loving | Multiple murder by shooting of two cab drivers on and near Fort Hood, Texas on December 11, 1988 | April 1989 | |
| Kenneth G. Parker | Multiple murder by shooting of two men in 1992 | July 1993 | Only marine on the military's death row |
| Andrew Paul Witt | Double murder by stabbing of a couple in their Robins Air Force Base home, Georgia home on July 5, 2004 | October 2005 | Only airman on the military's death row |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Death Row Inmates
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