Sixty-eight people, sixty-six male and two female, Karla Faye Tucker and Judy Buenoano, were executed in the United States in 1998, sixty by lethal injection, seven by electrocution, and one by gas chamber. Twenty of them were carried out in Texas. Three people, Angel Francisco Breard (Paraguay), Jose Roberto Villafuerte (Honduras), and Tuan Anh Nguyen (Vietnam) were foreign nationals.
List of people executed in the United States in 1998 Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method At execution At offense Age difference 1January 21, 1998 44 36 8Male White IllinoisLethal injection 2 42 18 24 Hispanic Arizona 3 January 29, 1998 47 45 2White Indiana 4 January 30, 1998 38 26 12 North Carolina Gas Chamber 5 February 3, 1998 23 15 FemaleTexasLethal injection 6 February 9, 1998 40 38 2Male 7 February 10, 1998 33 22 11 Black Virginia 8 February 20, 1998 35 24 White Oklahoma 9 February 24, 1998 31 22 9 Montana 10 February 25, 1998 29 18 11 Black Missouri 11 March 6, 1998 43 23 20White South Carolina 12 March 11, 1998 47 28 19 Texas 13 March 18, 1998 2919 10 Virginia 14 March 23, 1998 4622 24FloridaElectrocution 15 March 24, 1998 47 31 16Black 16March 25, 1998 37 25 12 MissouriLethal injection 17 35 10 Virginia 18 March 30, 1998 54 28 26 Female WhiteFloridaElectrocution 19 March 31, 1998 40 27 13Male Native American 20 April 14, 1998 32 26 6 Hispanic VirginiaLethal injection 21 April 22, 1998 43 31 12 White Missouri 22 45 30 15 Hispanic Arizona 23 38 17 21WhiteTexas 24 April 24, 1998 42 30 12 25April 29, 1998 43 35 8 Arizona 26 34 24 10 Texas 27 May 8, 1998 20 14 Alabama Electrocution 28 May 18, 1998 17 17 BlackTexasLethal injection 29 May 19, 1998 41 20 21 Hispanic 30 June 3, 1998 47 22 25White Arizona 31 June 10, 1998 39 26 13 Georgia Electrocution 32 June 11, 1998 33 21 12TexasLethal injection 33 June 15, 1998 40 24 16 34 June 18, 1998 41 32 9 Virginia 35 June 26, 1998 30 20 10 Hispanic Texas 36 July 8, 1998 56 38 18White Arkansas 37 July 10, 1998 43 23 20 South Carolina 38 July 14, 1998 26 17 California 39 July 23, 1998 47 40 7 Virginia 40 August 5, 1998 38 34 4 Oklahoma 41 August 14, 1998 62 53 9 North Carolina 42 August 20, 1998 25 20 5 Black Virginia 43 August 26, 1998 43 33 10 Hispanic Texas 44 August 31, 1998 31 24 7 Black Virginia 45 September 9, 1998 35 22 13 White Texas 46September 23, 1998 34 18 16 Hispanic 47 44 36 8White Virginia Electrocution 48 September 25, 1998 40 22 18 South CarolinaLethal injection 49 October 1, 1998 41 33 8Hispanic Texas 50 October 5, 1998 44 35 9 Nevada 51 October 7, 1998 37 25 12White Texas 52 October 13, 1998 27 2 Washington 53 October 14, 1998 26 17 9BlackVirginia 54 October 21, 1998 29 24 5 55 November 16, 1998 32 22 10 Maryland 56 November 17, 1998 52 46 6 White Texas 57 34 29 5 Black Virginia 58 November 20, 1998 50 33 17 White North Carolina 59 December 3, 1998 29 22 7Black Virginia 60December 4, 1998 43 21 South Carolina 61 53 32 62 December 7, 1998 40 29 11WhiteTexas 63 December 8, 1998 39 20 19 64 December 10, 1998 22 17 Asian Oklahoma 65 December 11, 1998 40 18 Black South Carolina 66 December 15, 1998 42 24 Texas 67 December 17, 1998 47 35 12 White Oklahoma 68 December 18, 1998 38 23 15 Black South Carolina Average: 39 years 26 years 12 years
Demographics Gender Male 66 Female 2 Ethnicity White 39 Black 18 Hispanic 9 Native American 1 Asian 1 State Texas 20 Virginia 13 South Carolina 7 Arizona 4 Florida 4 Oklahoma 4 Missouri 3 North Carolina 3 Alabama 1 Arkansas 1 California 1 Georgia 1 Illinois 1 Indiana 1 Maryland 1 Montana 1 Nevada 1 Washington 1 Method Lethal injection 60 Electrocution 7 Gas chamber 1 Month January 4 February 6 March 9 April 7 May 3 June 6 July 4 August 5 September 4 October 6 November 4 December 10 Age 20–29 7 30–39 25 40–49 30 50–59 5 60–69 1 Total 68 100%
Executions in recent years Number of executions 1999 98 1998 68 1997 74 Total 240
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