List of people executed in the United States in 2016
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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2016. A total of twenty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2016, all by lethal injection. The state of Georgia executed nine people, setting a record for the most executions conducted there in a calendar year.[1]
List of people executed in the United States in 2016
editNo. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
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At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
1 | January 7, 2016 | Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. | 53 | 24 | 29 | Male | White | Florida | Lethal injection | [2][3] |
2 | January 20, 2016 | Richard Allen Masterson | 43 | 28 | 15 | Texas | [4][5][6] | |||
3 | January 21, 2016 | Christopher Eugene Brooks | 20 | 23 | Alabama | [7] | ||||
4 | January 27, 2016 | James Garrett Freeman | 35 | 26 | 9 | Texas | [8][9][10] | |||
5 | February 3, 2016 | Brandon Astor Jones | 72 | 36 | 36 | Black | Georgia | [11] | ||
6 | February 16, 2016 | Gustavo Julian Garcia | 43 | 18 | 25 | Hispanic | Texas | [12][13] | ||
7 | February 17, 2016 | Travis Clinton Hittson | 45 | 21 | 24 | White | Georgia | [14] | ||
8 | March 9, 2016 | Coy Wayne Wesbrook | 58 | 39 | 19 | Texas | [15][16] | |||
9 | March 22, 2016 | Adam Kelly Ward | 33 | 22 | 11 | [17][18] | ||||
10 | March 31, 2016 | Joshua Daniel Bishop | 41 | 19 | 22 | Georgia | [19] | |||
11 | April 6, 2016 | Pablo Lucio Vasquez | 38 | 20 | 18 | Hispanic | Texas | [20][21] | ||
12 | April 12, 2016 | Kenneth Earl Fults | 47 | 27 | 20 | Black | Georgia | [22] | ||
13 | April 27, 2016 | Daniel Anthony Lucas | 37 | 19 | 18 | White | [23] | |||
14 | May 11, 2016 | Earl Mitchell Forrest II | 66 | 53 | 13 | Missouri | [24][25] | |||
15 | July 15, 2016 | John Wayne Conner | 60 | 25 | 35 | Georgia | [26] | |||
16 | October 5, 2016 | Barney Ronald Fuller Jr. | 58 | 44 | 14 | Texas | [27][28] | |||
17 | October 19, 2016 | Gregory Paul Lawler | 63 | 19 | Georgia | [29] | ||||
18 | November 16, 2016 | Steven Frederick Spears | 54 | 39 | 15 | [30] | ||||
19 | December 6, 2016 | William Cary Sallie | 50 | 24 | 26 | [31] | ||||
20 | December 8, 2016 | Ronald Bert Smith Jr. | 45 | 23 | 22 | Alabama | [32] | |||
Average: | 49 years | 29 years | 20 years |
Demographics
editGender | ||
---|---|---|
Male | 20 | 100% |
Female | 0 | 0% |
Ethnicity | ||
White | 16 | 80% |
Black | 2 | 10% |
Hispanic | 2 | 10% |
State | ||
Georgia | 9 | 45% |
Texas | 7 | 35% |
Alabama | 2 | 10% |
Florida | 1 | 5% |
Missouri | 1 | 5% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 20 | 100% |
Month | ||
January | 4 | 20% |
February | 3 | 15% |
March | 3 | 15% |
April | 3 | 15% |
May | 1 | 5% |
June | 0 | 0% |
July | 1 | 5% |
August | 0 | 0% |
September | 0 | 0% |
October | 2 | 10% |
November | 1 | 5% |
December | 2 | 10% |
Age | ||
30–39 | 4 | 20% |
40–49 | 7 | 35% |
50–59 | 5 | 25% |
60–69 | 3 | 15% |
70–79 | 1 | 5% |
Total | 20 | 100% |
Executions in recent years
editNumber of executions | |
---|---|
2017 | 23 |
2016 | 20 |
2015 | 28 |
Total | 71 |
Record number of executions in Georgia
editIn 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people. This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again in 2015.[33]
Last meals
edit- Henry Hargreaves, a Brooklyn-based photographer, recreated (and then photographed) the last meals served to all twenty men executed in 2016. Through his series, entitled A Year of Killing, Hargreaves sought to educate people about the use of the death penalty. This work is a sequel to his 2011 series No Seconds, which recreated the last meals ordered by famous criminals like Ted Bundy.[34][35]
- In 2016, the most-ordered food was steak, followed by pizza, although some of the condemned prisoners elected to forgo a special last meal.[36]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Execution List 2016". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
- ^ "Inmate Release Information Detail – Inmate 519220". Florida Department of Corrections. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ Cotterell, Bill (January 7, 2016). "Florida killer put to death in first U.S. execution of year". Yahoo! News. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Inmate Information – Richard Allen Masterson". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Texas executes its first inmate of 2016 after late appeals". January 20, 2016. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ Smith, Jordan (2016-01-19). "Did a Dubious Confession Sway a Medical Examiner's Autopsy in a Texas Death Penalty Case?". The Intercept. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
- ^ "A man convicted of a woman's rape and murder was put to death Thursday in Alabama's first execution since 2013". January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Inmate Information – James Garrett Freeman". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Texas executes its first inmate of 2016 after late appeals". January 20, 2016. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News.
- ^ "Georgia executes Brandon Astor Jones". February 3, 2016. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ^ "Inmate Information – Gustavo Julian Garcia". Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ McCullough, Jolie (February 16, 2016). "Inmate executed after 24 years on death row". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Georgia executes ex-Navy sailor for 1992 murder of shipmate". February 17, 2016. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ^ "Inmate Information – Coy Wayne Wesbrook", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Inmate Information – Adam Kelly Ward", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Inmate Information – Pablo Lucio Vasquez", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Capital Punishment in Missouri - Current Inmates", missourideathrow.com; accessed February 3, 2018.
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Georgia executes man on death row for 34 years for 1982 killing of a friend", Chicago Tribune; accessed February 3, 2018.
- ^ "Inmate Information – Barney Ronald Fuller, Jr.", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ Cook, Rhonda (December 7, 2016). "Georgia executes William Sallie for 1990 murder of father-in-law". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on July 9, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
- ^ "Meals to die for", Adrian Hatwell
- ^ Sargent, Ewan (December 22, 2016). "Meals to die for: Kiwi photographer captures last meals of executed prisoners". Stuff. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
Preceded by 2015 |
List of people executed in the United States in 2016 |
Succeeded by 2017 |