The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.
There have been a total of 43 executions in North Carolina, under the current statute, since it was adopted in 1977. All of the people executed were convicted of murder. Of the 43 people executed, 42 were male and 1 was female. 41 were executed via lethal injection and 2 via gas chamber.[1]
List of people executed in North Carolina since 1976
editNo. | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of execution | County | Method | Victim(s) | Governor |
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1 | James William Hutchins | White | 54 | M | March 16, 1984 | McDowell | Lethal injection | Roy Huskey, Owen Messersmith, and Robert "Pete" Peterson[a] | Jim Hunt |
2 | Margie Velma Barfield | White | 52 | F | November 2, 1984 | Bladen | Stuart Taylor | ||
3 | John William Rook | White | 27 | M | September 19, 1986 | Wake | Ann Marie Roche | James G. Martin | |
4 | Michael Van McDougall | White | 36 | M | October 18, 1991 | Mecklenburg | Dianne Parker | ||
5 | John Sterling Gardner Jr. | White | 34 | M | October 23, 1992 | Forsyth | Richard Adams and Kim Miller | ||
6 | David Scarborough Lawson | White | 38 | M | June 15, 1994 | Cabarrus | Gas chamber | Wayne Shinn | Jim Hunt |
7 | Kermit Smith Jr. | White | 37 | M | January 24, 1995 | Halifax | Lethal injection | Whelette Collins | |
8 | Phillip Lee Ingle | White | 34 | M | September 22, 1995 | Rutherford | 4 murder victims[b] | ||
9 | Ricky Lee Sanderson | White | 38 | M | January 30, 1998 | Iredell | Gas chamber[c] | Sue Ellen Holliman | |
10 | Zane Brown Hill | White | 62 | M | August 14, 1998 | Buncombe | Lethal injection | Randall Hill | |
11 | John Thomas Noland Jr. | White | 50 | M | November 20, 1998 | Mecklenburg | Cindy Milton and Troy Milton | ||
12 | James David Rich | White | 26 | M | March 26, 1999 | Greene | Paul Gwyn | ||
13 | Harvey Lee Green | Black | 38 | M | September 24, 1999 | Pitt | Sheila Bland and Michael Edmondson | ||
14 | Arthur Martin Boyd Jr. | White | 53 | M | October 21, 1999 | Surry | Wanda Hartman | ||
15 | David Junior Brown | Black | 51 | M | November 19, 1999 | Union | Shelly Chalflinch and Christina Chalflinch | ||
16 | Michael Earl Sexton | Black | 34 | M | November 9, 2000 | Wake | Kimberly Crews | ||
17 | Willie Ervin Fisher | Black | 39 | M | March 9, 2001 | Forsyth | Angela Johnson | Mike Easley | |
18 | Clifton Allen White | White | 43 | M | August 24, 2001 | Mecklenburg | Kimberly Ewing | ||
19 | Ronald Wayne Frye | White | 42 | M | August 31, 2001 | Catawba | Ralph Childress | ||
20 | David Junior Ward | Black | 39 | M | October 12, 2001 | Pitt | Dorothy Mae Smith | ||
21 | John Hardy Rose | White | 43 | M | November 30, 2001 | Haywood | Patricia Stewart | ||
22 | Ernest West Basden | White | 49 | M | December 6, 2002 | Duplin | Billy White | ||
23 | Desmond Keith Carter | Black | 35 | M | December 10, 2002 | Rockingham | Helen Purdy | ||
24 | William Quentin Jones | Black | 34 | M | August 22, 2003 | Wake | Edward Peebles | ||
25 | Henry Lee Hunt | Native American | 58 | M | September 12, 2003 | Robeson | Larry Jones and Jackie Ransom | ||
26 | Joseph Earl Bates | White | 35 | M | September 26, 2003 | Yadkin | Charles Jenkins | ||
27 | Edward Ernest Hartman | White | 39 | M | October 3, 2003 | Northampton | Herman Larry Smith Sr. | ||
28 | Joseph Timothy Keel | White | 39 | M | November 7, 2003 | Edgecombe | John Simmons | ||
29 | John Dennis Daniels | Black | 46 | M | November 14, 2003 | Mecklenburg | Isabelle Daniels Crawford | ||
30 | Robbie James Lyons | Black | 31 | M | December 5, 2003 | Forsyth | Stephen Stafford | ||
31 | Raymond Dayle Rowsey | White | 32 | M | January 9, 2004 | Alamance | Howard Sikorski | ||
32 | Sammy Crystal Perkins | Black | 51 | M | October 8, 2004 | Pitt | Lashenna Moore | ||
33 | Charles Wesley Roache | White | 30 | M | October 22, 2004 | Haywood | 6 murder victims[d] | ||
34 | Frank Ray Chandler | White | 32 | M | November 12, 2004 | Surry | Doris Poore | ||
35 | William Dillard Powell | White | 58 | M | March 11, 2005 | Cleveland | Mary Gladden | ||
36 | Earl J. Richmond Jr. | Black | 43 | M | May 6, 2005 | Cumberland | Helisa S. Hayes, Phillip Hayes, and Darien Hayes | ||
37 | Steven Van McHone | White | 35 | M | November 11, 2005 | Surry | Mildred Adams and Wesley Adams Sr. | ||
38 | Elias Hanna Syriani | Arab | 67 | M | November 18, 2005 | Mecklenburg | Teresa Yousef Syriani | ||
39 | Kenneth Lee Boyd[e] | White | 57 | M | December 2, 2005 | Rockingham | Julie Curry Boyd and Thomas Dillard Curry | ||
40 | Perrie Dyon Simpson | Black | 43 | M | January 20, 2006 | Jean Ernest Darter | |||
41 | Patrick Lane Moody | White | 39 | M | March 17, 2006 | Davidson | Donnie Ray Robbins | ||
42 | Willie Brown Jr. | Black | 61 | M | April 21, 2006 | Martin | Valerie Ann Roberson Dixon | ||
43 | Samuel Russell Flippen | White | 36 | M | August 18, 2006 | Forsyth | Britnie Nichole Hutton |
Demographics
editRace | ||
---|---|---|
White | 28 | 65% |
Black | 13 | 30% |
Arab | 1 | 2% |
Native American | 1 | 2% |
Age | ||
20–29 | 2 | 5% |
30–39 | 22 | 51% |
40–49 | 7 | 16% |
50–59 | 9 | 21% |
60–69 | 3 | 7% |
Sex | ||
Male | 42 | 98% |
Female | 1 | 2% |
Date of execution | ||
1976–1979 | 0 | 0% |
1980–1989 | 3 | 7% |
1990–1999 | 12 | 28% |
2000–2009 | 28 | 65% |
2010–2019 | 0 | 0% |
2020–2029 | 0 | 0% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 41 | 95% |
Gas chamber | 2 | 5% |
Governor (Party) | ||
James Holshouser (R) | 0 | 0% |
Jim Hunt (D) | 13 | 30% |
James G. Martin (R) | 3 | 7% |
Mike Easley (D) | 27 | 63% |
Bev Perdue (D) | 0 | 0% |
Pat McCrory (R) | 0 | 0% |
Roy Cooper (D) | 0 | 0% |
Total | 43 | 100% |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Huskey and Messersmith were Rutherford County Deputy Sheriffs and Peterson was a North Carolina State Trooper.
- ^ The 4 victims were: William Fred Davis, Margaret Davis, E.Z. Willis, and Sarah Willis.
- ^ This was the second-to-last execution by gas chamber to be carried out in the United States.
- ^ The 6 victims were: Chad McKinley Watt, Earl Phillips, Cora Phillips, Eddie Phillips, Mitzi Phillips, and Katie Phillips.
- ^ Kenneth Lee Boyd was the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
References
edit- ^ "Execution Database | Death Penalty Information Center". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
External links
edit- The Death Penalty. North Carolina Department of Correction.