In the period after the Supreme Court’s landmark Furman decision invalidating the death penalty, two trends became apparent. First, that states had developed large and punitive criminal justice systems and second that states had increasingly different appetites toward the use of the death penalty. Under those circumstances, a federal death penalty becomes increasingly redundant and obstructive; precisely the circumstances that have developed.
| DEFENDANT NAME | EXECUTION DATE | EXECUTION LOCATION |
| McVEIGH, TIMOTHY | 6/11/2001 | INDIANA |
| GARZA, JUAN RAUL | 6/19/2001 | INDIANA |
| JONES, LOUIS, Jr. | 3/18/2003 | INDIANA |
| LEE, DANIEL LEWIS | 7/14/2020 | INDIANA |
| PURKEY, WESLEY IRA | 7/16/2020 | INDIANA |
| HONKEN, DUSTIN LEE | 7/17/2020 | INDIANA |
| MITCHELL, LEZMOND C. | 8/26/2020 | INDIANA |
| NELSON, KEITH DWAYNE | 8/28/2020 | INDIANA |
| LECROY, WILLIAM JR | 9/22/2020 | INDIANA |
| VIALVA, CHRISTOPHER | 9/24/2020 | INDIANA |
| HALL, ORLANDO C. | 11/19/2020 | INDIANA |
| BERNARD, BRANDON | 12/10/2020 | INDIANA |
| BOURGEOIS, ALFRED | 12/11/2020 | INDIANA |
| MONTGOMERY, LISA M. | 1/13/2021 | INDIANA |
| JOHNSON, CORY | 1/14/2021 | INDIANA |
| HIGGS, DUSTIN JOHN | 1/16/2021 | INDIANA |
The Federal Death Penalty Project 