Executions

Execution List 1997

DateNumber since 1976NameStateDefendant/​Victim RaceMethod
1/​8/​97359.Earl Van DentonARW/​2WLethal Injection
1/​8/​97360.Paul RuizARL/​see #359Lethal Injection
1/​8/​97361.Kirt WainwrightARB/​WLethal Injection
1/​10/​97362.Billy Wayne WaldropALW/​WElectrocution
1/​23/​97363.Randy GreenawaltAZW/​4WLethal Injection
1/​29/​97364.Eric SchneiderMOW/​2WLethal Injection
2/​6/​97365.Michael Carl GeorgeVAW/​WLethal Injection
2/​10/​97366.*Richard Brimage, Jr.TXW/​WLethal Injection
2/​26/​97367.Coleman GrayVAB/​WLethal Injection
3/​12/​97368.John Kennedy BarefieldTXB/​WLethal Injection
3/​25/​97369.~Pedro MedinaFLL/​BElectrocution
4/​2/​97370.David Lee HermanTXW/​WLethal Injection
4/​3/​97371.David SpenceTXW/​2WLethal Injection
4/​14/​97372.Billy Joe WoodsTXW/​WLethal Injection
4/​16/​97373.Kenneth GentryTXW/​WLethal Injection
4/​21/​97374.Benjamin BoyleTXW/​WLethal Injection
4/​24/​97375.John Ashley Brown, Jr.LAW/​WLethal Injection
4/​29/​97376.Ernest Orville BaldreeTXW/​2WLethal Injection
5/​2/​97377.Walter HillALB/​3BElectrocution
5/​6/​97378.Terry WashingtonTXB/​WLethal Injection
5/​8/​97379.*Scott CarpenterOKNA/​WLethal Injection
5/​13/​97380.Anthony Ray WestleyTXB/​WLethal Injection
5/​16/​97381.*Harry Charles MooreORW/​2WLethal Injection
5/​16/​97382.Clifton BelyeuTXW/​WLethal Injection
5/​19/​97383.Richard DrinkardTXW/​3WLethal Injection
5/​20/​97384.Clarence LackeyTXW/​WLethal Injection
5/​21/​97385.Bruce CallinsTXB/​WLethal Injection
5/​22/​97386.Larry Wayne WhiteTXW/​WLethal Injection
5/​28/​97387.Robert MaddenTXW/​2WLethal Injection
6/​2/​97388.Patrick RogersTXB/​WLethal Injection
6/​3/​97389.Kenneth HarrisTXB/​WLethal Injection
6/​4/​97390.Dorsie JohnsonTXB/​WLethal Injection
6/​4/​97391.Davis LosadaTXL/​LLethal Injection
6/​6/​97392Henry Francis HaysALW/​BElectrocution
6/​11/​97393.Earl BehringerTXW/​2WLethal Injection
6/​13/​97394.*Michael Eugene ElkinsSCW/​WLethal Injection
6/​16/​97395.David StokerTXW/​WLethal Injection
6/​17/​97396.Eddie James JohnsonTXB/2W,LLethal Injection
6/​18/​97397.~Irineo MontoyaTXL/​WLethal Injection
6/​25/​97398.Wlliam Lyle WoratzeckAZW/​WLethal Injection
7/​1/​97399.Harold McQueenKYW/​WElectrocution
7/​2/​97400.Flint Gregory HuntMDB/​WLethal Injection
7/​17/​97401.Roy Bruce SmithVAW/​WLethal Injection
7/​23/​97402.Joseph Roger O’Dell, IIIVAW/​WLethal Injection
7/​29/​97403.Robert WestTXN/​WLethal Injection
8/​6/​97404.Ralph Cecil FeltropMOW/​WLethal Injection
8/​6/​97405.Eugene Wallace PerryARW/​2WLethal Injection
8/​13/​97406.Donald E. ReeseMOW/​WLethal Injection
8/​19/​97407.Carlton Jerome PopeVAB/​WLethal Injection
8/​20/​97408.Andrew SixMOW/​WLethal Injection
9/​9/​97409.James Carl Lee DavisTXB/​BLethal Injection
9/​17/​97410.~Mario Benjamin MurphyVAL/​WLethal Injection
9/​22/​97411.Jessel TurnerTXB/​WLethal Injection
9/​24/​97412.Samuel McDonald, Jr.MOB/​BLethal Injection
9/​25/​97413.*Benjamin StoneTXW/​2WLethal Injection
9/​30/​97414.Johnny CockrumTXW/​WLethal Injection
10/​1/​97415.Dwight Dwayne AdanandusTXB/​WLethal Injection
10/​8/​97416.Ricky Lee GreenTXW/​WLethal Injection
10/​13/​97417.Gary Lee DavisCOW/​WLethal Injection
10/​22/​97418.Alan BannisterMOW/​WLethal Injection
10/​28/​97419.Kenneth Ray RansomTXB/​LLethal Injection
11/​4/​97420.Aua LautiTXA/​ALethal Injection
11/​6/​97421.Aaron Lee FullerTXW/​WLethal Injection
11/​7/​97422.Earl MatthewsSCB/​WLethal Injection
11/​13/​97423.Dawud Majid Mu’MinVAB/​WLethal Injection
11/​19/​97424.Walter StewartILB/​2WLethal Injection
11/​19/​97425.Durlyn EddmondsILB/​BLethal Injection
11/​19/​97426.Michael Eugene SharpTXW/​2WLethal Injection
11/​20/​97427.Gary BurrisINB/​BLethal Injection
11/​21/​97428.Charlie LivingstonTXB/​WLethal Injection
12/​02/​97429.Robert E. WilliamsNEB/​WElectrocution
12/​09/​97430.Michael LockhartTXW/​WLethal Injection
12/​09/​97431.Michael Charles SatcherVAB/​WLethal Injection
12/​11/​97432. ¥Thomas BeaversVAW/​BLethal Injection



ƒ female

* vol­un­teer — an inmate who has giv­en up his/​her appeals and request­ed the ear­li­est exe­cu­tion date

# juve­nile at time of the crime

~ for­eign national

¥ white defen­dant exe­cut­ed for black victim


**Race of defen­dant infor­ma­tion sup­plied by NAACP Legal Defense Fund Death Row USA