List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state)
This is a list of people executed in Georgia. Since 1976, a total of 68 convicted murderers have been executed by the state of Georgia in the United States.
List of people executed
Count | Name | Date of Execution | Method | Count by Method | Victim(s) | Governor |
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1 | John Eldon Smith | December 15, 1983 | Electric chair | 1 | Ronald Akins and Juanita Akins | Joe Frank Harris |
2 | Ivon Ray Stanley | July 12, 1984 | Electric chair | 2 | Clifford Floyd | |
3 | Alpha Otis O'Daniel Stephens | December 12, 1984 | Electric chair | 3 | Roy Asbell | |
4 | Roosevelt Green, Jr. | January 9, 1985 | Electric chair | 4 | Teresa Carol Allen | |
5 | Van Roosevelt Solomon | February 20, 1985 | Electric chair | 5 | Roger Dennis Tackett | |
6 | John Young | March 20, 1985 | Electric chair | 6 | Coleman Brice, Gladys Brice, and Katie Davis | |
7 | Jerome Bowden | June 24, 1986 | Electric chair | 7 | Kathryn Stryker | |
8 | Joseph Mulligan | May 15, 1987 | Electric chair | 8 | Marion Jones Miller | |
9 | Richard Tucker, Jr. | May 22, 1987 | Electric chair | 9 | Edna Sandefur | |
10 | William Boyd Tucker | May 29, 1987 | Electric chair | 10 | Mrs. Perry | |
11 | Billy Mitchell | September 2, 1987 | Electric chair | 11 | Christopher Carr and Mrs. James Carr | |
12 | Timothy W. McCorquodale | September 21, 1987 | Electric chair | 12 | Donna Marie Dixon | |
13 | James E. Messer, Jr. | July 28, 1988 | Electric chair | 13 | Rhonda Tanner | |
14 | Henry Willis III | May 18, 1989 | Electric chair | 14 | Police chief of Ray City James "Ed" Giddens | |
15 | Warren McCleskey | September 25, 1991 | Electric chair | 15 | Atlanta Police Officer Frank Schlatt | Zell Miller |
16 | Thomas Dean Stevens | June 29, 1993 | Electric chair | 16 | Roger Honeycutt | |
17 | Christopher Burger | December 7, 1993 | Electric chair | 17 | ||
18 | William Henry Hance | March 31, 1994 | Electric chair | 18 | Gail Jackson, a/k/a Gail Faison and Irene Thirkield | |
19 | Nicholas Lee Ingram | April 7, 1995 | Electric chair | 19 | J. C. Sawyer | |
20 | Darrel Gene Devier | May 17, 1995 | Electric chair | 20 | Mary Frances Stoner | |
21 | Larry Grant Lonchar | November 14, 1996 | Electric chair | 21 | Charles Sweat and Steven Smith | |
22 | Ellis Wayne Felker | November 15, 1996 | Electric chair | 22 | Evelyn Joy Ludlam | |
23 | David Loomis Cargill | June 10, 1998 | Electric chair | 23 | Cheryl Williams and Danny Williams | |
24 | Terry Michael Mincey | October 25, 2001 | Lethal injection | 1 | Paulette Riggs | Roy Barnes |
25 | Jose Martinez High | November 6, 2001 | Lethal injection | 2 | Henry Phillips and Bonnie Bulloch | |
26 | Fred Marion Gilreath, Jr. | November 15, 2001 | Lethal injection | 3 | Linda Gilreath and Gerrit Van Leeuwen | |
27 | Byron Ashley Parker | December 11, 2001 | Lethal injection | 4 | Christy Ann Griffith | |
28 | Ronald Keith Spivey | January 24, 2002 | Lethal injection | 5 | Charles McCook and Bill Watson | |
29 | Tracy Lee Housel | March 12, 2002 | Lethal injection | 6 | Jean Dellinger Drew | |
30 | Wallace Marvin Fugate III | August 16, 2002 | Lethal injection | 7 | Pattie Dianne Fugate | |
31 | William Howard Putman | November 13, 2002 | Lethal injection | 8 | David Hardin, Katie Back, and William Gerald Hodges | |
32 | Larry Eugene Moon | March 25, 2003 | Lethal injection | 9 | Ricky Callahan | Sonny Perdue |
33 | Carl Junior Isaacs | May 6, 2003 | Lethal injection | 10 | Jerry Alday, Ned Alday, Jimmy Alday, Mary Alday, Chester Alday, and Aubrey Alday | |
34 | James Willie Brown | November 4, 2003 | Lethal injection | 11 | Brenda Sue Watson | |
35 | Robert Karl Hicks | July 1, 2004 | Lethal injection | 12 | Toni Strickland Rivers | |
36 | Eddie Albert Crawford | July 19, 2004 | Lethal injection | 13 | His 2 year old niece, Leslie Michelle English | |
37 | Timothy Don Carr | January 26, 2005 | Lethal injection | 14 | Keith Patrick Young | |
38 | Stephen Anthony Mobley | March 1, 2005 | Lethal injection | 15 | John C. Collins | |
39 | Robert Dale Conklin | July 12, 2005 | Lethal injection | 16 | George Grant Crooks | |
40 | John Washington Hightower | June 26, 2007 | Lethal injection | 17 | Dorothy Hightower, Evelyn Reaves, and Sandra Reaves | |
41 | William Earl Lynd | May 6, 2008 | Lethal injection | 18 | Ginger Moore | |
42 | Curtis Osborne | June 4, 2008 | Lethal injection | 19 | Arthur Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne | |
43 | Jack Edward Alderman | September 16, 2008 | Lethal injection | 20 | Barbara Jean Alderman | |
44 | Robert L. Newland | March 10, 2009 | Lethal injection | 21 | Carol Sanders Beatty | |
45 | William Mark Mize | April 29, 2009 | Lethal injection | 22 | Eddie Tucker | |
46 | Mark Howard McClain | October 20, 2009 | Lethal injection | 23 | Kevin Brown | |
47 | Melbert Ray Ford, Jr. | June 9, 2010 | Lethal injection | 24 | Martha Chapman Matich | |
48 | Brandon Joseph Rhode | September 27, 2010 | Lethal injection | 25 | Steven Moss, Bryan Moss, and Kristin Moss | |
49 | Emmanuel Fitzgerald Hammond | January 25, 2011 | Lethal injection | 26 | Julie Love | Nathan Deal |
50 | Roy Willard Blankenship | June 23, 2011 | Lethal injection | 27 | Sarah Mims Bowen | |
51 | Andrew Grant DeYoung | July 21, 2011 | Lethal injection | 28 | Gary DeYoung, Kathy DeYoung, and Sarah DeYoung | |
52 | Troy Anthony Davis | September 21, 2011 | Lethal injection | 29 | Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail | |
53 | Andrew Allen Cook | February 21, 2013 | Lethal injection | 30 | Michele Cartagena and Grant Hendrickson | |
54 | Marcus A. Wellons | June 17, 2014 | Lethal injection | 31 | India Roberts | |
55 | Robert Wayne Holsey | December 9, 2014 | Lethal injection | 32 | Baldwin County Sheriff's Deputy Will Robinson | |
56 | Andrew Howard Brannan | January 13, 2015 | Lethal injection | 33 | Laurens County Sheriff's Office Deputy Kyle Dinkheller | |
57 | Warren Lee Hill, Jr. | January 27, 2015 | Lethal injection | 34 | Joseph Handspike | |
58 | Kelly Renee Gissendaner | September 30, 2015 | Lethal injection | 35 | Douglas Gissendaner | |
59 | Marcus Ray Johnson | November 19, 2015 | Lethal injection | 36 | Angela Sizemore | |
60 | Brian Keith Terrell | December 9, 2015 | Lethal injection | 37 | John Watson | |
61 | Brandon Astor Jones | February 3, 2016 | Lethal injection | 38 | Service station manager Roger Tackett | |
62 | Travis Clinton Hittson | February 17, 2016 | Lethal injection | 39 | Navy Officer Conway Utterbeck | |
63 | Joshua Daniel Bishop | March 31, 2016 | Lethal injection | 40 | Leverett Lewis Morrison | |
64 | Kenneth Earl Fults | April 12, 2016 | Lethal injection | 41 | Cathy Bounds | |
65 | Daniel Anthony Lucas | April 27, 2016 | Lethal injection | 42 | Steven Moss, Bryan Moss, and Kristin Moss | |
66 | John Wayne Conner | July 15, 2016 | Lethal injection | 43 | J. T. White | |
67 | Gregory Paul Lawler | October 19, 2016 | Lethal injection | 44 | Atlanta Police Officer John Sowa | |
68 | Steven Frederick Spears | November 16, 2016 | Lethal injection | 45 | Sherri Holland |
Summary of executions
- Gender
- Male: 67 (99%)
- Female: 1 (2%)
- Method
- Electric chair: 23 (35%)
- Lethal injection: 45 (66%)
Record number of executions
In 2016, the State of Georgia executed eight individuals. This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again in 2015.[1]
Prior to 1976
- Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed on March 5, 1945, for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate.
- The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County. (See http://genealogytrails.com/geo/executions3.html through http://genealogytrails.com/geo/executions5.html.)
See also
- Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Capital punishment in the United States
- Furman v. Georgia, the 1972 United States Supreme Court case that led to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States; the moratorium came to an end when Gregg v. Georgia was decided in 1976
- Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision ending the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision Furman v. Georgia
- List of death row inmates in Georgia
- List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
- List of offenders executed in the United States in 2015
- List of offenders executed in the United States in 2016
- List of women executed in the United States since 1976
References
External links
- Georgia Executions. Pro-Death Penalty.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
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