Thirty-one people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1994, twenty-three by lethal injection, six by electrocution, one by gas chamber and one by hanging. Idaho, Maryland, and Nebraska both carried out their first post-Furman executions. Washington and Illinois both carried out their first involuntary executions since the 1960s.
Arkansas carried out a double execution and a triple execution, the first such executions in the United States since 1965 and 1962, respectively.