List of individuals executed in Georgia

A total of 52 individuals convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, United States since 1976:

	Executed person	Date of execution	Method	Victim(s)	Under Governor
1	John Eldon Smith John Eldon Smith John Eldon Smith was convicted of the murders of Ronald and Juanita Akins. He was executed by the State of Georgia by electric chair at the age of 53...	15 December 1983	electric chair Electric chair Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body...	Ronald Akins and Juanita Akins	Joe Frank Harris Joe Frank Harris Joe Frank Harris is an American conservative Democratic politician who served as the 78th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1983 to 1991....
2	Ivon Ray Stanley	12 July 1984	electric chair	Clifford Floyd	Joe Frank harris
3	Alpha Otis O'Daniel Stephens	12 December 1984	electric chair	Roy Asbell	Joe Frank Harris
4	Roosevelt Green, Jr.	9 January 1985	electric chair	Teresa Carol Allen	Joe Frank Harris
5	Van Roosevelt Solomon	20 February 1985	electric chair	Roger Dennis Tackett	Joe Frank Harris
6	John Young	20 March 1985	electric chair	Coleman Brice, Gladys Brice, and Katie Davis	Joe Frank Harris
7	Jerome Bowden	26 June 1986	electric chair	Kathryn Stryker	Joe Frank Harris
8	Joseph Mulligan	15 May 1987	electric chair	Marion Jones Miller	Joe Frank Harris
9	Richard Tucker, Jr.	22 May 1987	electric chair	Edna Sandefur	Joe Frank Harris
10	William Boyd Tucker	29 May 1987	electric chair	Mrs. Perry	Joe Frank Harris
11	Billy Mitchell	2 September 1987	electric chair	Christopher Carr and Mrs. James Carr	Joe Frank Harris
12	Timothy W. McCorquodale	21 September 1987	electric chair	Donna Marie Dixon	Joe Frank Harris
13	James E. Messer, Jr.	28 July 1988	electric chair	Rhonda Tanner	Joe Frank Harris
14	Henry Willis III	18 May 1989	electric chair	Ed Giddens	Joe Frank Harris
15	Warren McCleskey	25 September 1991	electric chair	Atlanta Police Officer Frank Schlatt	Zell Miller Zell Miller Zell Bryan Miller is an American politician from the US state of Georgia. A Democrat, Miller served as Lieutenant Governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as United States Senator from 2000 to 2005....
16	Thomas Dean Stevens	29 June 1993	electric chair	Roger Honeycutt	Zell Miller
17	Christopher Burger	7 December 1993	electric chair	Roger Honeycutt	Zell Miller
18	William Henry Hance William Henry Hance William Henry Hance was a U.S. soldier who is believed to have murdered four women in and around military bases before his arrest in 1978. He was convicted of murdering three of them, and not brought to trial on the fourth...	31 March 1994	electric chair	Gail Jackson, a/k/a Gail Faison and Irene Thirkield	Zell Miller
19	Nicholas Lee Ingram Nicholas Ingram Nicholas Lee Ingram was a British and American national, executed in 1995 at the age of 31 by the US state of Georgia by the electric chair. He was born in Britain, but had an American father. The British Prime Minister, John Major, declined to intervene and attempt to get him reprieved...	7 April 1995	electric chair	J. C. Sawyer	Zell Miller
20	Darrel Gene Devier	17 May 1995	electric chair	Mary Frances Stoner	Zell Miller
21	Larry Grant Lonchar	14 November 1996	electric chair	Charles Sweat and Steven Smith	Zell Miller
22	Ellis Wayne Felker Ellis Wayne Felker Ellis Wayne Felker was convicted and executed for murder.-History:Felker was convicted for aggravated sodomy in 1977 and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment, but was paroled after four....	15 November 1996	electric chair	Evelyn Joy Ludlam	Zell Miller
23	David Loomis Cargill	10 June 1998	electric chair	Cheryl Williams and Danny Williams	Zell Miller
24	Terry Michael Mincey	25 October 2001	lethal injection Lethal injection Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...	Paulette Riggs	Roy Barnes Roy Barnes Roy Eugene Barnes served as the 80th Governor of Georgia from January 1999 until January 2003. Barnes was also a candidate for Governor of Georgia in the 2010 election....
25	Jose Martinez High	6 November 2001	lethal injection	Henry Phillips and Bonnie Bulloch	Roy Barnes
26	Fred Marion Gilreath, Jr.	15 November 2001	lethal injection	Linda Gilreath and Gerrit Van Leeuwen	Roy Barnes
27	Byron Ashley Parker	11 December 2001	lethal injection	Christy Ann Griffith	Roy Barnes
28	Ronald Keith Spivey	24 January 2002	lethal injection	Charles McCook and Bill Watson	Roy Barnes
29	Tracy Lee Housel	12 March 2002	lethal injection	Jean Dellinger Drew	Roy Barnes
30	Wallace Marvin Fugate, III	16 August 2002	lethal injection	Pattie Dianne Fugate	Roy Barnes
31	William Howard Putman	13 November 2002	lethal injection	David Hardin, Katie Back, and William Gerald Hodges	Roy Barnes
32	Larry Eugene Moon	25 March 2003	lethal injection	Ricky Callahan	Sonny Perdue Sonny Perdue George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III, was the 81st Governor of Georgia. Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Benjamin F. Conley served during Reconstruction in the 1870s....
33	Carl Junior Isaacs	6 May 2003 http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/isaacs852.htm	lethal injection	Jerry Alday, Ned Alday, Jimmy Alday, Mary Alday, Chester Alday, and Aubrey Alday	Sonny Perdue
34	James Willie Brown	4 November 2003	lethal injection	Brenda Sue Watson	Sonny Perdue
35	Robert Karl Hicks	1 July 2004	lethal injection	Toni Strickland Rivers	Sonny Perdue
36	Eddie Albert Crawford	19 July 2004	lethal injection	His 2 year old niece, Leslie Michelle English	Sonny Perdue
37	Timothy Don Carr Timothy Carr Timothy Don Carr , a 34-year-old white male, was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia on January 25, 2005. Carr was found guilty of the 1992 murder of Keith Patrick Young, a 17-year-old white male...	26 January 2005	lethal injection	Keith Patrick Young	Sonny Perdue
38	Stephen Anthony Mobley Stephen Anthony Mobley Stephen Anthony Mobley, a 39-year-old white male, was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia on March 1, 2005. Mobley was found guilty of the 1991 murder of John C. Collins, a 24-year-old white male...	1 March 2005	lethal injection	John C. Collins	Sonny Perdue
39	Robert Dale Conklin	12 July 2005	lethal injection	George Grant Crooks	Sonny Perdue
40	John Washington Hightower	26 June 2007	lethal injection	Dorothy Hightower, Evelyn Reaves, and Sandra Reaves	Sonny Perdue
41	William Earl Lynd William Earl Lynd William Earl Lynd was an American murderer. His victim was Ginger Moore.He was the first to be executed in the United States after the Baze v. Rees ruling and the 1100th to be executed since 1976. On May 6, 2008 he was put to death by lethal injection in Jackson, Georgia... http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/lynd1100.htm	6 May 2008	lethal injection	Ginger Moore	Sonny Perdue
42	Curtis Osborne Curtis Osborne Curtis Osborne was an American convicted murderer on death row in Georgia from Spalding County, Georgia. He murdered two people in 1990 to avoid paying a $400 debt...	4 June 2008	lethal injection	Arthur Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne	Sonny Perdue
43	Jack Alderman	16 September 2008	lethal injection	Barbara Jean Alderman	Sonny Perdue
44	Robert Newland	10 March 2009	lethal injection	Carol Sanders Beatty	Sonny Perdue
45	William Mark Mize	29 April 2009	lethal injection	Eddie Tucker	Sonny Perdue
46	Mark McClain	20 October 2009	lethal injection	Kevin Brown	Sonny Perdue
47	Melbert Ford Melbert Ford Melbert Ray Ford, Jr. was an American convicted double murderer who in 2010 was executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Georgia after being convicted of murder in 1987.Ford was born in Georgia, United States...	9 June 2010	lethal injection	Martha Chapman Matich	Sonny Perdue
48	Brandon Joseph Rhode	27 September 2010	lethal injection	Steven Moss, Bryan Moss and Kristin Moss	Sonny Perdue
49	Emmanuel Hammond	25 January 2011	lethal injection	Julie Love	Nathan Deal Nathan Deal John Nathan Deal is a United States politician, the 82nd and current Governor of Georgia. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1992 but switched to the Republican Party in 1995...
50	Roy Willard Blankenship	23 June 2011	lethal injection	Sarah Mims Bowen	Nathan Deal
51	Andrew Grant DeYoung Andrew Grant DeYoung Andrew Grant DeYoung was executed by the state of Georgia in H-5 of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, Georgia for murder. DeYoung was 37 when he died. His last words were "I'm sorry to everyone I hurt. I love you Dawn...	21 July 2011	lethal injection	Gary DeYoung, Kathy DeYoung and Sarah DeYoung	Nathan Deal
52	Troy Anthony Davis Troy Anthony Davis Troy Anthony Davis was an American man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant when he intervened to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot...	21 September 2011	lethal injection	Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail	Nathan Deal

Prior to 1976

Lena Baker
Lena Baker
Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed for murder by the State of Georgia in 1945 for killing her employer, Ernest Knight, 67, in 1944. At her trial she claimed that he had imprisoned and threatened to shoot her should she attempt to leave, whereupon she took his gun and shot him...

was an African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

maid who was executed on 5 March 1945 for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter
Manslaughter
Manslaughter is a legal term for the killing of a human being, in a manner considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is said to have first been made by the Ancient Athenian lawmaker Dracon in the 7th century BC.The law generally differentiates...

would have been more appropriate.

External links

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

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