List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state)
This is a list of people executed in Georgia. Since 1976, a total of 76 convicted murderers have been executed by the state of Georgia in the United States.[1]
List of people executed in Georgia since 1976
| Count | Name | Date of Execution | Method | Count by Method | Victim(s) | Governor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | Clifford Floyd | ||
| 3 | Alpha Otis O'Daniel Stephens | December 12, 1984 | 3 | Roy Asbell | ||
| 4 | Roosevelt Green, Jr. | January 9, 1985 | 4 | Teresa Carol Allen | ||
| 5 | Van Roosevelt Solomon | February 20, 1985 | 5 | Roger Dennis Tackett | ||
| 6 | John Young | March 20, 1985 | 6 | Coleman and Gladys Brice, and Katie Davis | ||
| 7 | Jerome Bowden | June 24, 1986 | 7 | Kathryn Stryker | ||
| 8 | Joseph Mulligan | May 15, 1987 | 8 | Marion Jones Miller | ||
| 9 | Richard Tucker, Jr. | May 22, 1987 | 9 | Edna Sandefur | ||
| 10 | William Boyd Tucker | May 29, 1987 | 10 | Kathleen Parry | ||
| 11 | William Mitchell | September 2, 1987 | 11 | Christopher Carr | ||
| 12 | Timothy W. McCorquodale | September 21, 1987 | 12 | Donna Marie Dixon | ||
| 13 | James E. Messer, Jr. | July 28, 1988 | 13 | Rhonda Tanner | ||
| 14 | Henry Willis III | May 18, 1989 | 14 | Police chief of Ray City James "Ed" Giddens | ||
| 15 | Warren McCleskey | September 25, 1991 | 15 | Atlanta Police Officer Frank Schlatt | Zell Miller | |
| 16 | Thomas Dean Stevens | June 29, 1993 | 16 | Roger Honeycutt | ||
| 17 | Christopher Burger | December 7, 1993 | 17 | |||
| 18 | William Henry Hance | March 31, 1994 | 18 | Gail Jackson, a/k/a Gail Faison and Irene Thirkield | ||
| 19 | Nicholas Lee Ingram | April 7, 1995 | 19 | J. C. Sawyer | ||
| 20 | Darrell Gene Devier | May 17, 1995 | 20 | Mary Frances Stoner | ||
| 21 | Larry Grant Lonchar | November 14, 1996 | 21 | Charles Sweat and Steven Smith | ||
| 22 | Ellis Wayne Felker | November 15, 1996 | 22 | Evelyn Joy Ludlam | ||
| 23 | David Loomis Cargill | June 10, 1998 | 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 | 2 | Henry Phillips and Bonnie Bulloch | ||
| 26 | Fred Marion Gilreath, Jr. | November 15, 2001 | 3 | Linda Gilreath and Gerrit Van Leeuwen | ||
| 27 | Byron Ashley Parker | December 11, 2001 | 4 | Christy Ann Griffith | ||
| 28 | Ronald Keith Spivey | January 24, 2002 | 5 | Charles McCook and Bill Watson | ||
| 29 | Tracy Lee Housel | March 12, 2002 | 6 | Jean Dellinger Drew | ||
| 30 | Wallace Marvin Fugate III | August 16, 2002 | 7 | Pattie Dianne Fugate | ||
| 31 | William Howard Putman | November 13, 2002 | 8 | David Hardin, Katie Back, and William Gerald Hodges | ||
| 32 | Larry Eugene Moon | March 25, 2003 | 9 | Ricky Callahan | Sonny Perdue | |
| 33 | Carl Junior Isaacs | May 6, 2003 | 10 | Jerry Alday, Ned Alday, Jimmy Alday, Mary Alday, Chester Alday, and Aubrey Alday | ||
| 34 | James Willie Brown | November 4, 2003 | 11 | Brenda Sue Watson | ||
| 35 | Robert Karl Hicks | July 1, 2004 | 12 | Toni Strickland Rivers | ||
| 36 | Eddie Albert Crawford | July 19, 2004 | 13 | Leslie Michelle English | ||
| 37 | Timothy Don Carr | January 26, 2005 | 14 | Keith Patrick Young | ||
| 38 | Stephen Anthony Mobley | March 1, 2005 | 15 | John C. Collins | ||
| 39 | Robert Dale Conklin | July 12, 2005 | 16 | George Grant Crooks | ||
| 40 | John Washington Hightower | June 26, 2007 | 17 | Dorothy Hightower, Evelyn and Sandra Reaves | ||
| 41 | William Earl Lynd | May 6, 2008 | 18 | Ginger Moore | ||
| 42 | Curtis Osborne | June 4, 2008 | 19 | Arthur Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne | ||
| 43 | Jack Edward Alderman | September 16, 2008 | 20 | Barbara Jean Alderman | ||
| 44 | Robert L. Newland | March 10, 2009 | 21 | Carol Sanders Beatty | ||
| 45 | William Mark Mize | April 29, 2009 | 22 | Eddie Tucker | ||
| 46 | Mark Howard McClain | October 20, 2009 | 23 | Kevin Brown | ||
| 47 | Melbert Ray Ford, Jr. | June 9, 2010 | 24 | Martha Chapman Matich | ||
| 48 | Brandon Joseph Rhode | September 27, 2010 | 25 | Steven Moss, Bryan Moss, and Kristin Moss | ||
| 49 | Emmanuel Fitzgerald Hammond | January 25, 2011 | 26 | Julie Love | Nathan Deal | |
| 50 | Roy Willard Blankenship | June 23, 2011 | 27 | Sarah Mims Bowen | ||
| 51 | Andrew Grant DeYoung | July 21, 2011 | 28 | Gary DeYoung, Kathy DeYoung, and Sarah DeYoung | ||
| 52 | Troy Anthony Davis | September 21, 2011 | 29 | Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail | ||
| 53 | Andrew Allen Cook | February 21, 2013 | 30 | Michele Cartagena and Grant Hendrickson | ||
| 54 | Marcus A. Wellons | June 17, 2014 | 31 | India Roberts | ||
| 55 | Robert Wayne Holsey | December 9, 2014 | 32 | Baldwin County Sheriff's Deputy Will Robinson | ||
| 56 | Andrew Howard Brannan | January 13, 2015 | 33 | Laurens County Sheriff's Office Deputy Kyle Dinkheller | ||
| 57 | Warren Lee Hill, Jr. | January 27, 2015 | 34 | Joseph Handspike | ||
| 58 | Kelly Renee Gissendaner | September 30, 2015 | 35 | Douglas Gissendaner | ||
| 59 | Marcus Ray Johnson | November 19, 2015 | 36 | Angela Sizemore | ||
| 60 | Brian Keith Terrell | December 9, 2015 | 37 | John Watson | ||
| 61 | Brandon Astor Jones | February 3, 2016 | 38 | Roger Dennis Tackett | ||
| 62 | Travis Clinton Hittson | February 17, 2016 | 39 | Navy Officer Conway Utterbeck | ||
| 63 | Joshua Daniel Bishop | March 31, 2016 | 40 | Leverett Lewis Morrison | ||
| 64 | Kenneth Earl Fults | April 12, 2016 | 41 | Cathy Bounds | ||
| 65 | Daniel Anthony Lucas | April 27, 2016 | 42 | Steven Moss, Bryan Moss, and Kristin Moss | ||
| 66 | John Wayne Conner | July 15, 2016 | 43 | J. T. White | ||
| 67 | Gregory Paul Lawler | October 19, 2016 | 44 | Atlanta Police Officer John Sowa | ||
| 68 | Steven Frederick Spears | November 16, 2016 | 45 | Sherri Holland | ||
| 69 | William Cary Sallie | December 6, 2016 | 46 | John Lee Moore | ||
| 70 | J. W. Ledford, Jr. | May 17, 2017 | 47 | Harry Johnston | ||
| 71 | Carlton Michael Gary | March 15, 2018 | 48 | Ferne Jackson, Jean Dimenstein, Florence Scheible, Martha Thurmond, Kathleen Woodruff, Mildred Borom, and Janet Cofer | ||
| 72 | Robert Earl Butts, Jr. | May 4, 2018 | 49 | Donovan Corey Parks | ||
| 73 | Scotty Garnell Morrow | May 2, 2019 | 50 | Barbara Ann Young and Tonya Woods | Brian Kemp | |
| 74 | Marion Wilson, Jr. | June 20, 2019 | 51 | Corrections Officer Donovan Corey Parks | ||
| 75 | Ray Jefferson Cromartie | November 13, 2019 | 52 | Richard Slysz | ||
| 76 | Donnie Cleveland Lance | January 29, 2020 | 53 | Sabrina Lance and Dwight Wood Jr. |
Summary of executions
- Gender
- Male: 75 (99%)
- Female: 1 (1%)
- Method
- Electric chair: 23 (30%)
- Lethal injection: 53 (70%)
Record number of executions
In 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people. 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.
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
- "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
External links
- Georgia Executions. Pro-Death Penalty.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
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