List of people executed in Tennessee
This is a list of people executed in Tennessee. Until 1913, there were no records of the numbers or names of the people who were executed.
1916-1960[]
Number | Name | Date of execution |
---|---|---|
1. | Julius Morgan | July 13, 1916 |
2. | J. D. Williams | July 8, 1918 |
3. | Eddie Alsup | July 8, 1918 |
4. | Frank Ewing | May 31, 1919 |
5. | Winfred Walker | January 8, 1920 |
6. | Lorenzo Young | September 3, 1920 |
7. | Cyre Mus Jackson | August 3, 1921 |
8. | Taylor Neal | August 3, 1921 |
9. | Hamp Gholston | August 17, 1921 |
10. | Chesley Graham | August 17, 1921 |
11. | Will Allen | August 17, 1921 |
12. | John Green | February 17, 1922 |
13. | Asbury Fields | February 18, 1922 |
14. | Tom Christmas | March 1, 1922 |
15. | Charles Petree | March 1, 1922 |
16. | John McClure | March 1, 1922 |
17. | Otto Stephens | March 1, 1922 |
18. | Maurice Mays | March 15, 1922 |
19. | Granville Bunch | April 11, 1922 |
20. | William Dwight | July 25, 1922 |
21. | Austin Harris | August 15, 1922 |
22. | Jim McElroy | August 15, 1922 |
23. | Bin Burchfield | January 14, 1925 |
24. | Robert Tate | November 5, 1925 |
25. | Charles Barr | August 20, 1926 |
26. | John F. Webb | May 20, 1927 |
27. | John H. Wallace | May 25, 1927 |
28. | Herman Coggins | November 10, 1927 |
29. | Ben Fowler | January 25, 1928 |
30. | Will Terrell | June 19, 1929 |
31. | "Henry" | August 22, 1929 |
33. | John Jones | February 14, 1930 |
33. | Carey Gune | March 14, 1930 |
34. | J.T. Harris | January 22, 1931 |
35. | John T. Shaw | July 3, 1931 |
36. | Oscar Bevins | September 7, 1933 |
37. | Andrew Wilcoxson | September 7, 1933 |
38. | Willie Jones | October 30, 1933 |
39. | Jim Allen | January 5, 1934 |
40. | Joe Emmory | February 5, 1934 |
41. | James Swann | February 5, 1934 |
42. | Louis Fain | February 5, 1934 |
43. | Percy Smith | April 4, 1934 |
44. | Frank Mays | April 4, 1934 |
45. | Jasper Graham | April 4, 1934 |
46. | James Pillow | September 1, 1934 |
47. | John Deal | September 1, 1934 |
48. | Bill Lee | January 2, 1936 |
49. | Walter Kennedy | January 2, 1936 |
50. | Louis Willis | January 2, 1936 |
51. | Ernest Womack | April 1, 1936 |
52. | E. K. Harris | May 22, 1936 |
53. | Curley Ballard | August 11, 1936 |
54. | James Smith | August 11, 1936 |
55. | James Clark | August 11, 1936 |
56. | Elmer Barrett | November 13, 1936 |
57. | James Turner | March 5, 1937 |
58. | James Taylor | March 15, 1937 |
59. | Anderson Berry | March 17, 1937 |
60. | Tom Franklin | March 18, 1937 |
61. | Gus McCoig | April 3, 1937 |
62. | Roy Wilburn Eatmon | April 16, 1937 |
63. | William Farmer | April 30, 1937 |
64. | Howard Dunn | April 30, 1937 |
65. | Jimmie L. Parrish | August 9, 1937 |
66. | Fred Ritchie | August 10, 1937 |
67. | Gus McKinney | April 15, 1938 |
68. | Arthur Mosby | July 25, 1938 |
69. | Miller Tollett | January 11, 1939 |
70. | Ernest Stanley | January 19, 1939 |
71. | Frank Murray | March 28, 1939 |
72. | Hyman Johnson | March 28, 1939 |
73. | Hubert Harris | April 4, 1939 |
74. | J.O. Martin | April 10, 1939 |
75. | Joe McKay | April 10, 1939 |
76. | Willie J. Smith | April 10, 1939 |
77. | Harley Evans | August 28, 1939 |
78. | Clyde Willis | January 10, 1940 |
79. | A.C. Mobley | March 15, 1940 |
80. | James Goodin | September 4, 1940 |
81 | William Henry | September 4, 1940 |
82. | Van Gilmore | April 18, 1941 |
83. | Walter Reed | July 18, 1941 |
84. | Willie L. Porter | July 24, 1941 |
85. | Carl Cole | July 24, 1941 |
86. | Lawrence West | July 30, 1941 |
87. | Roy Walden | February 13, 1942 |
88. | John Dockery | February 14, 1942 |
89. | Ernest Dixon | February 14, 1942 |
90. | Clarence May | March 20, 1942 |
91. | John H. Goods | March 20, 1942 |
94. | William Headen | March 30, 1943 |
92. | Robert Cannon | March 30, 1943 |
93. | James Tucker | July 15, 1943 |
94. | Marshall Spigner | July 15, 1943 |
95. | Robert Hall | December 15, 1943 |
96. | George Hambrick | December 15, 1943 |
97. | Billy Dixon | July 16, 1945 |
98. | Thomas Walker | March 1, 1946 |
99. | Johnnie Outlaw | March 1, 1946 |
100. | George Douglas | July 5, 1946 |
101. | John H. Luffman | August 30, 1946 |
102. | Alvin Hicks | August 30, 1946 |
103. | Albert Duboise | April 11, 1947 |
104. | John Hodge | June 19, 1947 |
105. | Fred Jackson | August 11, 1947 |
106. | James Sandusky | April 22, 1948 |
107. | John Kelley | April 22, 1948 |
108. | William C. Turner | August 31, 1948 |
109. | James M. Scribner | August 31, 1948 |
110. | Tommy H. Taylor | August 31, 1948 |
114. | Barney Thompson | February 17, 1949 |
111. | Edward Watson | June 10, 1949 |
112. | Paul Lacey | November 25, 1949 |
113. | Clyde Steel | January 24, 1950 |
114. | Samuel L. Voss | April 15, 1955 |
115. | Harry Kirkendall | August 1, 1955 |
116. | Charlie Sullins | August 1, 1955 |
117. | Robert Crenshaw | September 15, 1955 |
118. | Robert Allen | March 15, 1957 |
119. | Billy T. Gibbs | May 6, 1957 |
120. | Thomas Rutledge | June 15, 1959 |
121. | William Tines | November 7, 1960 |
1976-present[]
Number | Name | Age at Execution |
Date of Execution |
Method | Victim(s) | Presiding Governor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robert Glen Coe | 44 | April 19, 2000 | Lethal injection | Cary Ann Medlin | Don Sundquist |
2 | Sedley Alley | 50 | June 28, 2006 | U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Suzanne Marie Collins | Phil Bredesen | |
3 | Philip Ray Workman | 53 | May 9, 2007 | Memphis Police Lieutenant Ronald Oliver | ||
4 | Daryl Keith Holton | 45 | September 12, 2007 | Electrocution | Stephen Holton, Brent Holton, Eric Holton, and Kayla Holton | |
5 | Steve Henley | 55 | February 4, 2009 | Lethal injection | Fred Stafford and Edna Stafford | |
6 | Cecil J. Johnson, Jr. | 53 | December 2, 2009 | Bobby Bell, Jr., James Moore, and Charles House | ||
7 | William "Billy" Ray Irick | 59 | August 9, 2018 | Paula Kay Dyer | Bill Haslam | |
8 | Edmund George Zagorski | 63 | November 1, 2018 | Electrocution | John Dale Dotson and James Wayne Porter | |
9 | David Earl Miller | 61 | December 6, 2018 | Lee Standifer | ||
10 | Donnie Edward Johnson | 68 | May 16, 2019 | Lethal injection | Connie Johnson | Bill Lee |
11 | Stephen Michael West | 56 | August 15, 2019 | Electrocution | Wanda and Sheila Romines | |
12 | Leroy Hall, Jr. | 53 | December 5, 2019 | Traci Crozier | ||
13 | Nicholas Todd Sutton | 58 | February 20, 2020 | Carl Estep |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Tennessee Executions". www.tn.gov. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
- TN Executions. Tennessee Department of Correction. Retrieved on 2020-12-30.
- 'I did not kill them' condemned man says. The Tennessean, February 3, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-02-04.
- 'I commend my life into your hands' Tenn. inmate sings hymns as execution is carried out. Fox 17 Nashville. Retrieved on 2019-05-17.
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