List of people executed in the United States in 2008
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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2008. Thirty-seven people were executed in the United States in 2008. Eighteen of them were in the state of Texas. One (James Earl Reed) was executed via electrocution. Executions were not carried out in the United States between September 2007 and April 2008, due to certiorari in Baze v. Rees, which questioned the constitutionality of lethal injection. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed all executions for seven months until a decision was made, meaning executions did not begin until May, with none having taken place since that of Michael Wayne Richard the previous September.[1][2]
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List of people executed in the United States in 2008
No. | Date of execution | Name | Date of birth | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
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At execution | At offense | Age difference | |||||||||
1 | May 6, 2008 | William Earl Lynd | January 25, 1955 | 53 | 33 | 20 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | [3] |
2 | May 21, 2008 | Earl Wesley Berry | May 5, 1959 | 49 | 28 | 21 | Mississippi | [4] | |||
3 | May 27, 2008 | Kevin Green | May 11, 1977 | 31 | 21 | 10 | Black | Virginia | [5] | ||
4 | June 4, 2008 | Curtis Osborne | March 1970 | 38 | 20 | 18 | Georgia | [6] | |||
5 | June 6, 2008 | David Mark Hill | May 24, 1960 | 48 | 36 | 12 | White | South Carolina | [7] | ||
6 | June 11, 2008 | Karl Eugene Chamberlain | June 20, 1970 | 37 | 21 | 16 | Texas | [8] | |||
7 | June 17, 2008 | Terry Lyn Short | August 22, 1960 | 47 | 34 | 13 | Oklahoma | [9] | |||
8 | June 20, 2008 | James Earl Reed | November 26, 1958 | 49 | 35 | 14 | Black | South Carolina | Electrocution | [10] | |
9 | June 25, 2008 | Robert Stacy Yarbrough | June 1, 1978 | 30 | 18 | 12 | Oklahoma | Lethal injection | [11] | ||
10 | July 1, 2008 | Mark Dean Schwab | December 16, 1968 | 39 | 22 | 17 | White | Florida | [12] | ||
11 | July 10, 2008 | Carlton Akee Turner | July 4, 1979 | 29 | 19 | 10 | Black | Texas | [13] | ||
12 | Kent Jermaine Jackson | September 18, 1981 | 26 | 18 | 8 | Virginia | [14] | ||||
13 | July 23, 2008 | Dale Leo Bishop | September 4, 1973 | 34 | 25 | 9 | White | Mississippi | [15] | ||
14 | Derrick J. Sonnier | October 26, 1967 | 40 | 23 | 17 | Black | Texas | [16] | |||
15 | July 24, 2008 | Christopher Scott Emmett | August 18, 1971 | 36 | 29 | 7 | White | Virginia | [17] | ||
16 | July 31, 2008 | Larry Donnell Davis | October 9, 1967 | 40 | 27 | 13 | Black | Texas | [18] | ||
17 | August 5, 2008 | José Ernesto Medellín Rojas | March 4, 1975 | 33 | 18 | 15 | Hispanic | [19] | |||
18 | August 7, 2008 | Heliberto Chi | December 28, 1978 | 29 | 22 | 7 | [20] | ||||
19 | August 12, 2008 | Leon David Dorsey IV | November 17, 1975 | 32 | 18 | 14 | Black | [21] | |||
20 | August 14, 2008 | Michael Anthony Rodriguez | October 29, 1962 | 45 | 38 | 7 | Hispanic | [22] | |||
21 | September 16, 2008 | Jack Edward Alderman | May 29, 1951 | 57 | 23 | 34 | White | Georgia | [23] | ||
22 | September 17, 2008 | William Alfred Murray | February 13, 1969 | 39 | 28 | 11 | Texas | [24] | |||
23 | September 23, 2008 | Richard Henyard | June 26, 1974 | 34 | 18 | 16 | Black | Florida | [25] | ||
24 | September 25, 2008 | Jesse James Cummings Jr. | November 19, 1955 | 52 | 35 | 17 | White | Oklahoma | [26] | ||
25 | October 14, 2008 | Richard Wade Cooey II | June 9, 1967 | 41 | 19 | 22 | Ohio | [27] | |||
26 | Alvin Andrew Kelly | March 14, 1951 | 57 | 33 | 24 | Texas | [28] | ||||
27 | October 16, 2008 | Kevin Michael Watts | January 18, 1981 | 27 | 21 | 6 | Black | [29] | |||
28 | October 21, 2008 | Joseph Ray Ries | September 18, 1979 | 29 | 19 | 10 | White | [30] | |||
29 | October 28, 2008 | Eric Charles Nenno | April 13, 1961 | 47 | 33 | 14 | [31] | ||||
30 | October 30, 2008 | Gregory Edward Wright | November 1, 1965 | 42 | 31 | 11 | [32] | ||||
31 | November 6, 2008 | Elkie Lee Taylor | December 14, 1961 | 46 | 15 | Black | [33] | ||||
32 | November 12, 2008 | George H. Whitaker III | November 21, 1970 | 37 | 23 | 14 | [34] | ||||
33 | November 13, 2008 | Denard Sha Manns | December 22, 1965 | 42 | 32 | 10 | [35] | ||||
34 | November 19, 2008 | Gregory L. Bryant-Bey | August 6, 1955 | 53 | 37 | 16 | Ohio | [36] | |||
35 | November 20, 2008 | Robert Jean Hudson | March 4, 1963 | 45 | 36 | 9 | Texas | [37] | |||
36 | November 21, 2008 | Marco Allen Chapman | September 4, 1971 | 37 | 30 | 7 | White | Kentucky | [38] | ||
37 | December 5, 2008 | Joseph Martin Luther Gardner | January 15, 1970 | 38 | 22 | 16 | Black | South Carolina | [39] | ||
Average: | 40 years | 26 years | 14 years |
Demographics
Gender | ||
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Male | 37 | 100% |
Female | 0 | 0% |
Ethnicity | ||
Black | 17 | 46% |
White | 17 | 46% |
Hispanic | 3 | 8% |
State | ||
Texas | 18 | 49% |
Georgia | 3 | 8% |
Oklahoma | 3 | 8% |
South Carolina | 3 | 8% |
Virginia | 3 | 8% |
Florida | 2 | 5% |
Mississippi | 2 | 5% |
Ohio | 2 | 5% |
Kentucky | 1 | 3% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 36 | 97% |
Electrocution | 1 | 3% |
Month | ||
January | 0 | 0% |
February | 0 | 0% |
March | 0 | 0% |
April | 0 | 0% |
May | 3 | 8% |
June | 6 | 16% |
July | 7 | 19% |
August | 4 | 11% |
September | 4 | 11% |
October | 6 | 16% |
November | 6 | 16% |
December | 1 | 3% |
Age | ||
20–29 | 5 | 14% |
30–39 | 14 | 38% |
40–49 | 13 | 35% |
50–59 | 5 | 14% |
Total | 37 | 100% |
Executions in recent years
Number of executions | |
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2009 | 52 |
2008 | 37 |
2007 | 42 |
Total | 131 |
See also
- List of death row inmates in the United States
- List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
- List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
- List of women executed in the United States since 1976
References
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