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
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

1. Georgia executes its sixth person of 2016 - the most in one calendar year since the death penalty was reinstated 40-years-ago

External links

• Georgia Executions. Pro-Death Penalty.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.