List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state) explained

This is a list of people executed in Georgia. Since 1976, a total of 77 people have been executed by the state of Georgia in the United States.^[1]

List of people executed in Georgia since 1976

	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1		White	53	M	December 15, 1983	Bibb	Electrocution	Ronald Akins and Juanita Akins	Joe Frank Harris
2		Black	28	M	July 12, 1984	Decatur		Clifford Floyd
3		Black	39	M	December 12, 1984	Bleckley		Roy Asbell
4		Black	28	M	January 9, 1985	Monroe		Teresa Carol Allen
5		Black	41	M	February 20, 1985	Cobb		Roger Dennis Tackett
6		Black	28	M	March 20, 1985	Bibb		Coleman Brice, Gladys Brice, and Katie Davis
7		Black	34	M	June 24, 1986	Muscogee		Kathryn Stryker
8		Black	35	M	May 15, 1987			Marion Jones Miller
9		Black	44	M	May 22, 1987	Bibb		Edna Sandefur
10		White	31	M	May 29, 1987	Muscogee		Kathleen Parry
11		Black	35	M	September 2, 1987	Worth		Christopher Carr
12		White	35	M	September 21, 1987	Fulton		Donna Marie Dixon
13		White	34	M	July 28, 1988	Polk		Rhonda Tanner
14		Black	36	M	May 18, 1989	Berrien		Police chief of Ray City James Edward Giddens
15		Black	44	M	September 25, 1991	Fulton		Atlanta Police Officer Frank Schlatt	Zell Miller
16		White	36	M	June 28, 1993	Wayne		Roger Honeycutt
17		White	33	M	December 7, 1993
18		Black	42	M	March 31, 1994	Muscogee		Gail Jackson, a/k/a Gail Faison and Irene Thirkield
19		White	31	M	April 7, 1995	Cobb		J. C. Sawyer
20		White	39	M	May 17, 1995	Floyd		Mary Frances Stoner
21		White	45	M	November 14, 1996	DeKalb		Charles Smith, Steven Smith and Margaret Sweat^[2]
22		White	48	M	November 15, 1996	Houston		Evelyn Joy Ludlam
23		White	39	M	June 10, 1998	Muscogee		Cheryl Williams and Danny Williams
24		White	40	M	October 25, 2001	Bibb	Lethal injection	Paulette Riggs	Roy Barnes
25		Black	45	M	November 6, 2001	Taliaferro		Bonnie Bulloch
26		White	63	M	November 15, 2001	Cobb		Linda Gilreath and Gerrit Van Leeuwen
27		White	41	M	December 11, 2001	Douglas		Christy Ann Griffith
28		White	62	M	January 24, 2002	Muscogee		Charles McCook and Bill Watson
29		White	43	M	March 12, 2002	Gwinnett		Carolyn Jean Dellinger Drew
30		White	52	M	August 16, 2002	Putnam		Pattie Dianne Fugate
31		White	59	M	November 13, 2002	Cook		David Hardin, Katie Back, and William Gerald Hodges
32		White	57	M	March 25, 2003	Catoosa		Ricky Callahan	Sonny Perdue
33		White	49	M	May 6, 2003	Seminole		6 murder victims
34		White	55	M	November 4, 2003	Gwinnett		Brenda Sue Watson
35		White	47	M	July 1, 2004	Spalding		Toni Strickland Rivers
36		White	47	M	July 19, 2004			Leslie Michelle English
37		White	34	M	January 25, 2005	Monroe		Keith Patrick Young
38		White	39	M	March 1, 2005	Hall		John C. Collins
39		White	44	M	July 12, 2005	Fulton		George Grant Crooks
40		Black	63	M	June 26, 2007	Morgan		Dorothy Hightower, Evelyn Reaves, and Sandra Reaves
41		White	53	M	May 6, 2008	Berrien		Ginger Moore
42		Black	38	M	June 4, 2008	Spalding		Arthur Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne
43		White	57	M	September 16, 2008	Chatham		Barbara Jean Alderman
44		White	65	M	March 10, 2009	Glynn		Carol Sanders Beatty
45		White	52	M	April 29, 2009	Oconee		Eddie Tucker
46		White	42	M	October 20, 2009	Richmond		Kevin Brown
47		White	49	M	June 9, 2010	Newton		Martha Chapman Matich and Lisa Chapman
48		White	31	M	September 27, 2010	Jones		Steven Moss, Bryan Moss, and Kristin Moss
49		Black	45	M	January 25, 2011	Fulton		Julie Love	Nathan Deal
50		White	55	M	June 23, 2011	Chatham		Sarah Mims Bowen
51		White	37	M	July 21, 2011	Cobb		Gary DeYoung, Kathy DeYoung, and Sarah DeYoung
52		Black	42	M	September 21, 2011	Chatham		Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail
53		White	38	M	February 21, 2013	Monroe		Michele Cartagena and Grant Hendrickson
54		Black	58	M	June 17, 2014	Cobb		India Roberts
55		Black	49	M	December 9, 2014	Baldwin		Baldwin County Sheriff's Deputy Will Robinson
56		White	66	M	January 13, 2015	Laurens		Laurens County Sheriff's Deputy Kyle Dinkheller
57		Black	54	M	January 27, 2015	Lee		Joseph Handspike
58		White	47	F	September 30, 2015	Gwinnett		Douglas Gissendaner
59		White	50	M	November 19, 2015	Dougherty		Angela Sizemore
60		Black	47	M	December 9, 2015	Newton		John Watson
61		Black	72	M	February 3, 2016	Cobb		Roger Dennis Tackett
62		White	45	M	February 17, 2016	Houston		Navy Officer Conway Utterbeck
63		White	41	M	March 31, 2016	Baldwin		Leverett Lewis Morrison
64		Black	47	M	April 12, 2016	Spalding		Cathy Bounds
65		White	37	M	April 27, 2016	Jones		Steven Moss, Bryan Moss, and Kristin Moss
66		White	60	M	July 15, 2016	Dodge		J. T. White
67		White	63	M	October 19, 2016	Fulton		Atlanta Police Officer John Richard Sowa
68		White	54	M	November 16, 2016	Lumpkin		Sherri Holland
69		White	50	M	December 6, 2016	Bacon		John Lee Moore
70		White	46	M	May 17, 2017	Murray		Harry Buchanan Johnston
71		Black	67	M	March 15, 2018	Muscogee		7 murder victims
72		Black	40	M	May 4, 2018	Baldwin		Corrections Officer Donovan Corey Parks
73		Black	52	M	May 2, 2019	Hall		Barbara Ann Young and Tonya Woods	Brian Kemp
74		Black	42	M	June 20, 2019	Baldwin		Corrections Officer Donovan Corey Parks
75		Black	52	M	November 13, 2019	Thomas		Richard Slysz
76		White	66	M	January 29, 2020	Jackson		Sabrina Lance and Dwight Wood Jr.
77		Black	59	M	March 20, 2024	Spalding		Alicia Lynn Yarbrough

Demographics

Race
White	48	62%
Black	29	38%
Age
20–29	3	4%
30–39	20	26%
40–49	26	34%
50–59	18	23%
60–69	9	12%
70–79	1	1%
Sex
Male	76	99%
Female	1	1%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	14	18%
1990–1999	9	12%
2000–2009	23	30%
2010–2019	29	38%
2020–2029	2	3%
Method
Lethal injection	54	70%
Electrocution	23	30%
Governor (Party)
	0	0%
	14	18%
	9	12%
	8	10%
Sonny Perdue (R)	17	22%
Nathan Deal (R)	24	31%
Brian Kemp (R)	5	6%
Total	77	100%

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. The same year, Texas only executed seven people, the first time it did not lead the nation in executions since 2001 (when it ranked behind Oklahoma). 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 people executed in the United States in 2015
• List of people executed in the United States in 2016
• List of women executed in the United States since 1976

Notes and References

1. Web site: Searchable Execution Database. Death Penalty Information Center. February 2, 2020.
2. Web site: Lonchar v. State. Justia.