List of people executed in Louisiana

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in 1976.

A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electric chair and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence.[1]

# Name Race Age Sex Date of
Execution		 Method of
Execution		 Victim(s) Governor
1 Robert Wayne Williams Black 31 M December 14, 1983 Electric chair[lower-alpha 1] Willie Kelly David C. Treen
2 Johnny Davis Taylor, Jr. Black 30 M February 29, 1984 David Vogler
3 Elmo Patrick Sonnier White 35 M April 5, 1984 Loretta Bourque and David LeBlanc Edwin Edwards
4 Timothy George Baldwin White 46 M September 10, 1984 Mary Lee Peters
5 Earnest Knighton, Jr. Black 38 M October 30, 1984 Ralph Shell
6 Robert Lee Willie White 26 M December 28, 1984 Faith Hathaway
7 David Dene Martin White 32 M January 4, 1985 Bobby Todd, Terry Hebert, Sandra Brake, and Anne Tierney
8 Benjamin A. Berry White 31 M June 7, 1987 Robert Cochran
9 Alvin Rudolph Moore, Jr. Black 27 M June 9, 1987 Jo Ann Wilson
10 Jimmy L. Glass White 25 M June 12, 1987 Newt Brown and Erlene Brown
11 Jimmy C. Wingo White 35 M June 16, 1987
12 Willie Lawrence Celestine Black 30 M July 20, 1987 Marcelaine Richard
13 Willie Watson Black 31 M July 24, 1987 Kathy Newman
14 John E. Brogdon White 25 M July 30, 1987 Barbara Jo Brown
15 Sterling John Rault, Jr. White 36 M August 24, 1987[lower-alpha 2] Jane Ellen Francioni
16 Wayne Robert Felde White 38 M March 15, 1988[lower-alpha 3] Glen Thompkins Buddy Roemer
17 Leslie Lowenfield Black 34 M April 13, 1988 Shiela Thomas, Shantel Osborne, Carol Osborne, Owen Griffin, and Myrtle Griffin
18 Edward R. Byrne, Jr.[lower-alpha 4] White 28 M June 14, 1988 Roberta June Johnson
19 Dalton Prejean Black 30 M May 18, 1990 Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald Cleveland
20 Andrew Lee Jones Black 35 M July 22, 1991 Tumekica Jackson
21 Robert Wayne Sawyer White 41 M March 5, 1993 Lethal injection Frances Arwood Edwin Edwards
22 Thomas Lee Ward Black 59 M May 16, 1995 Wilbert John Spencer
23 Antonio G. James Black 42 M March 1, 1996 Henry Silver Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
24 John Ashley Brown, Jr. White 35 M April 24, 1997 Omer Laughlin
25 Dobie Gillis Williams Black 38 M January 8, 1999 Sonja Knippers
26 Feltus Taylor, Jr. Black 38 M June 6, 2000 Donna Ponsano
27 Leslie Dale Martin[lower-alpha 5] White 35 M May 10, 2002 Christina Burgin
28 Gerald James Bordelon[lower-alpha 6] White 47 M January 7, 2010 Courtney LeBlanc Bobby Jindal

See also

Notes
  1. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Louisiana is one of only two states to have executed more people via electric chair than lethal injection.
  2. Louisiana executed a total of 8 inmates in 1987, the highest of all states for that calendar year and accounting for nearly a third of all executions in 1987.
  3. Felde was executed 12 hours after Buddy Roemer's inauguration as Louisiana governor. Roemer and his predecessor, Edwin Edwards, each rejected appeals for clemency.
  4. Edward R. Byrne, Jr. was the 100th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
  5. As of January 1, 2021, Martin is the last person to be executed in Louisiana after exhausting his appeals.
  6. Bordelon waived all appeals and asked the state to carry out his death sentence.

References
  1. "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
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