List of people executed in Louisiana

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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in 1976.

A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electric chair and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence.[1]

# Name Race Age Sex Date of
Execution 		Method of
Execution 		Victim(s) Governor
1 Robert Wayne Williams Black 31 M December 14, 1983 Electric chair[a] Willie Kelly David C. Treen
2 Johnny Davis Taylor, Jr. Black 30 M February 29, 1984 David Vogler
3 Elmo Patrick Sonnier White 35 M April 5, 1984 Loretta Bourque and David LeBlanc Edwin Edwards
4 Timothy George Baldwin White 46 M September 10, 1984 Mary Lee Peters
5 Earnest Knighton, Jr. Black 38 M October 30, 1984 Ralph Shell
6 Robert Lee Willie White 26 M December 28, 1984 Faith Hathaway
7 David Dene Martin White 32 M January 4, 1985 Bobby Todd, Terry Hebert, Sandra Brake, and Anne Tierney
8 Benjamin A. Berry White 31 M June 7, 1987 Robert Cochran
9 Alvin Rudolph Moore, Jr. Black 27 M June 9, 1987 Jo Ann Wilson
10 Jimmy L. Glass White 25 M June 12, 1987 Newt Brown and Erlene Brown
11 Jimmy C. Wingo White 35 M June 16, 1987
12 Willie Lawrence Celestine Black 30 M July 20, 1987 Marcelaine Richard
13 Willie Watson Black 31 M July 24, 1987 Kathy Newman
14 John E. Brogdon White 25 M July 30, 1987 Barbara Jo Brown
15 Sterling John Rault, Jr. White 36 M August 24, 1987[b] Jane Ellen Francioni
16 Wayne Robert Felde White 38 M March 15, 1988[c] Glen Thompkins Buddy Roemer
17 Leslie Lowenfield Black 34 M April 13, 1988 Shiela Thomas, Shantel Osborne, Carol Osborne, Owen Griffin, and Myrtle Griffin
18 Edward R. Byrne, Jr.[d] White 28 M June 14, 1988 Roberta June Johnson
19 Dalton Prejean Black 30 M May 18, 1990 Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald Cleveland
20 Andrew Lee Jones Black 35 M July 22, 1991 Tumekica Jackson
21 Robert Wayne Sawyer White 41 M March 5, 1993 Lethal injection Frances Arwood Edwin Edwards
22 Thomas Lee Ward Black 59 M May 16, 1995 Wilbert John Spencer
23 Antonio G. James Black 42 M March 1, 1996 Henry Silver Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
24 John Ashley Brown, Jr. White 35 M April 24, 1997 Omer Laughlin
25 Dobie Gillis Williams Black 38 M January 8, 1999 Sonja Knippers
26 Feltus Taylor, Jr. Black 38 M June 6, 2000 Donna Ponsano
27 Leslie Dale Martin[e] White 35 M May 10, 2002 Christina Burgin
28 Gerald James Bordelon[f] White 47 M January 7, 2010 Courtney LeBlanc Bobby Jindal

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Notes[]

  1. ^ Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Louisiana is one of only two states to have executed more people via electric chair than lethal injection.
  2. ^ Louisiana executed a total of 8 inmates in 1987, the highest of all states for that calendar year and accounting for nearly a third of all executions in 1987.
  3. ^ Felde was executed 12 hours after Buddy Roemer's inauguration as Louisiana governor. Roemer and his predecessor, Edwin Edwards, each rejected appeals for clemency.
  4. ^ Edward R. Byrne, Jr. was the 100th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
  5. ^ As of January 1, 2021, Martin is the last person to be executed in Louisiana after exhausting his appeals.
  6. ^ Bordelon waived all appeals and asked the state to carry out his death sentence.

References[]

  1. ^ "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
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