List of people executed in Alabama

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 79 people (78 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were conducted by lethal injection. In January 2024, the Alabama Department of Corrections conducted the first ever execution via nitrogen hypoxia. ^[1]

Prior to 1983, an 18-year moratorium on executions was observed under the direction of the Supreme Court of the United States. Alabama previously executed 153 people between 1927 and 1965. ^[2]

List of people executed in Alabama since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	John Louis Evans III	White	33	M	April 22, 1983	Mobile	Electrocution	Edward Nassar	George Wallace
2	Arthur Lee Jones [3]	Black	47	M	March 21, 1986			William Hosea Waymon
3	Wayne Eugene Ritter [a] [4]	White	33	M	August 28, 1987			Edward Nassar	H. Guy Hunt
4	Michael Lindsey [5]	Black	28	M	May 26, 1989			Rosemary Zimlich Rutland
5	Horace Franklin Dunkins Jr. [6]	Black	28	M	July 14, 1989	Jefferson		Lynn McCurry
6	Herbert Lee Richardson	Black	43	M	August 18, 1989	Houston		Rena Mae Callins
7	Arthur James Julius [7]	Black	43	M	November 17, 1989	Montgomery		Susie Bell Sanders
8	Wallace Norrell Thomas [8]	Black	35	M	July 13, 1990	Mobile		Quenette Shehane
9	Larry Gene Heath [9]	White	40	M	March 20, 1992	Russell		Rebecca Heath
10	Cornelius Singleton [10]	Black	36	M	November 20, 1992	Mobile		Ann Hogan
11	Willie Clisby Jr.	Black	47	M	April 28, 1995	Jefferson		Fletcher Handley	Fob James
12	Varnell Weeks	Black	43	M	May 12, 1995	Macon		Mark Batts
13	Edward Dean Horsley Jr. [b]	Black	38	M	February 16, 1996	Monroe		Naomi Rolon
14	Billy Wayne Waldrop	White	44	M	January 10, 1997	Talladega		Thurman Macon Donahoo
15	Walter Hill	Black	62	M	May 2, 1997	Jefferson		Willie Mae Hammock, John Tatum Jr., and Lois Jean Tatum
16	Henry Francis Hays [11]	White	42	M	June 6, 1997	Mobile		Michael Donald
17	Steven Allen Thompson	White	34	M	May 8, 1998	Madison		Robin Balarzs
18	Brian Keith Baldwin	Black	40	M	June 18, 1999	Monroe		Naomi Rolon	Don Siegelman
19	Victor Kennedy	Black	37	M	August 6, 1999	Shelby		Annie Laura Orr
20	David Ray Duren	White	37	M	January 7, 2000	Jefferson		Kathleen Bedsole
21	Freddie Lee Wright	Black	48	M	March 3, 2000	Mobile		Warren Green and Lois Green
22	Robert Lee Tarver Jr.	Black	52	M	April 14, 2000	Russell		Hugh Sims Kite
23	Pernell La'sha Ford	Black	35	M	June 2, 2000	Calhoun		Willie C. Griffith and Linda Gail Griffith
24	Lynda Lyon Block	White	54	F	May 10, 2002	Lee		Opelika police Sergeant Roger Lamar Motley
25	Anthony Keith Johnson	White	46	M	December 12, 2002	Morgan	Lethal injection	Kenneth Cantrell
26	Michael Eugene Thompson	White	43	M	March 13, 2003	Blount		Maisie Carlene Gray	Bob Riley
27	Gary Leon Brown	White	44	M	April 24, 2003	Jefferson		Jack David McGraw
28	Thomas Jerry Fortenberry	White	39	M	August 7, 2003	Etowah		4 murder victims [c]
29	James Barney Hubbard	White	74	M	August 5, 2004	Tuscaloosa		Lillian Montgomery
30	David Kevin Hocker	White	33	M	September 30, 2004	Henry		Jerry Wayne Robinson
31	Mario Giovanni Centobie	White	39	M	April 28, 2005	St. Clair		Moody police officer Keith Turner
32	Jerry Paul Henderson	White	58	M	June 2, 2005	Talladega		Jerry Haney
33	George Everette Sibley Jr. [d]	White	62	M	August 4, 2005	Lee		Opelika police Sergeant Roger Lamar Motley
34	John W. Peoples Jr.	White	48	M	September 22, 2005	Talladega		Paul Franklin, Judy Franklin, and Paul Franklin Jr.
35	Larry Eugene A. Hutcherson	White	37	M	October 26, 2006	Mobile		Irma Thelma Gray
36	Aaron Lee Jones	Black	55	M	May 3, 2007	Blount		Carl Nelson and Willene Nelson
37	Darrell B. Grayson	Black	46	M	July 26, 2007	Shelby		Annie Laura Orr
38	Luther Jerome Williams	Black	47	M	August 23, 2007	Tuscaloosa		John Kirk
39	James Harvey Callahan	White	62	M	January 15, 2009	Calhoun		Rebecca Suzanne Howell
40	Danny Joe Bradley [12]	White	49	M	February 12, 2009			Rhonda Hardin
41	Jimmy Lee Dill [13]	Black	49	M	April 16, 2009	Jefferson		Leon Shaw
42	Willie McNair [14]	Black	44	M	May 14, 2009	Montgomery		Ella Foy Riley
43	Jack Harrison Trawick [2]	White	62	M	June 11, 2009	Jefferson		Stephanie Gach
44	Max Landon Payne [15]	White	38	M	October 8, 2009	Cullman		Braxton Brown
45	Thomas Warren Whisenhant	White	63	M	May 27, 2010	Mobile		Sheryl Lynn Payton [e]
46	John Forrest Parker [f]	White	42	M	June 10, 2010	Colbert		Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett
47	Michael Jeffrey Land	White	41	M	August 12, 2010	Jefferson		Candace Brown
48	Holly Wood	Black	50	M	September 9, 2010	Dale		Ruby Lois Gosha
49	Phillip D. Hallford	White	63	M	November 4, 2010	Pike		Charles Eddie Shannon
50	Leroy B. White	Black	52	M	January 13, 2011	Madison		Ruby White
51	William Glenn Boyd	White	45	M	March 31, 2011	Calhoun		Fred Blackmon and Evelyn Blackmon	Robert J. Bentley
52	Jason Oric Williams	White	43	M	May 19, 2011	Mobile		4 murder victims [g]
53	Eddie Duval Powell III	Black	41	M	June 16, 2011	Tuscaloosa		Mattie Wesson
54	Derrick O'Neal Mason	Black	37	M	September 22, 2011	Madison		Angela Cagle
55	Christopher Thomas Johnson	White	38	M	October 20, 2011	Escambia		Elias Ocean Johnson
56	Andrew Reid Lackey	White	29	M	July 25, 2013	Limestone		Charlie Newman
57	Christopher Eugene Brooks	White	43	M	January 21, 2016	Jefferson		Jo Deann Campbell
58	Ronald Bert Smith Jr.	White	45	M	December 8, 2016	Madison		Casey Wilson
59	Thomas Douglas Arthur	White	75	M	May 26, 2017	Colbert		Troy Wicker	Kay Ivey
60	Robert Bryant Melson	Black	46	M	June 8, 2017	Etowah		James Nathaniel Baker, Darryl Collier, and Tamika Collins
61	Torrey Twane McNabb	Black	40	M	October 19, 2017	Montgomery		Montgomery police officer Anderson Gordon
62	Michael Wayne Eggers	White	50	M	March 15, 2018	Walker		Bennie Francis Murray
63	Walter Leroy Moody Jr.	White	83	M	April 19, 2018	Jefferson		Robert Smith Vance [h]
64	Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray	Black	42	M	February 7, 2019	Dallas		Tiffany Harville
65	Michael Brandon Samra	White	41	M	May 16, 2019	Shelby		4 murder victims [i]
66	Christopher Lee Price	White	46	M	May 30, 2019	Fayette		Pastor Bill Lynn
67	Nathaniel Woods	Black	43	M	March 5, 2020	Jefferson		Carlos Owen, Harley Chisholm III, and Charles Bennett [j]
68	Willie B. Smith III	Black	52	M	October 21, 2021			Sharma Ruth Johnson
69	Matthew Reeves	Black	44	M	January 27, 2022	Dallas		Willie Johnson Jr.
70	Joe Nathan James Jr.	Black	50	M	July 28, 2022	Jefferson		Faith Hall
71	James Edward Barber	White	64	M	July 21, 2023	Madison		Dorothy Belle Epps
72	Casey Allen McWhorter	White	49	M	November 16, 2023	Marshall		Edward Lee Williams Sr.
73	Kenneth Eugene Smith [k]	White	58	M	January 25, 2024	Colbert	Nitrogen hypoxia	Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett
74	Jamie Ray Mills	White	50	M	May 30, 2024	Marion	Lethal injection	Floyd Hill and Vera Hill
75	Keith Edmund Gavin	Black	64	M	July 18, 2024	Cherokee		William Clinton Clayton Jr.
76	Alan Eugene Miller	White	59	M	September 26, 2024	Shelby	Nitrogen hypoxia	Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Yancy, and Terry Jarvis
77	Derrick Ryan Dearman	White	36	M	October 17, 2024	Mobile	Lethal injection	5 murder victims [l]
78	Carey Dale Grayson	White	50	M	November 21, 2024	Jefferson	Nitrogen hypoxia	Vickie Lynn Deblieux
79	Demetrius Terrence Frazier	Black	52	M	February 6, 2025			Pauline Starks Brown

Demographics

Race
White	45	57%
Black	34	43%
Age
20–29	3	4%
30–39	17	22%
40–49	34	43%
50–59	14	18%
60–69	8	13%
70–79	2	4%
80–89	1	1%
Sex
Male	78	99%
Female	1	1%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	7	11%
1990–1999	12	15%
2000–2009	25	32%
2010–2019	22	28%
2020–2029	13	16%
Method
Lethal injection	51	65%
Electrocution	24	30%
Nitrogen hypoxia	4	5%
Governor (Party)
George Wallace (D)	2	3%
H. Guy Hunt (R)	8	10%
Jim Folsom Jr. (D)	0	0%
Fob James (R)	7	9%
Don Siegelman (D)	8	10%
Bob Riley (R)	25	32%
Robert J. Bentley (R)	8	10%
Kay Ivey (R)	21	27%
Total	79	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in Alabama
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. Ritter was the accomplice of John Louis Evans.
2. Horsley was the accomplice of Brian Baldwin.
3. The 4 victims were: Ronald Michael Guest, Wilbut T. Nelson, Robert William Payne, and Nancy Payne.
4. Sibley was the common-law husband and accomplice of Lynda Lyon Block.
5. Also killed 3 other women but was only executed for Payton's murder.
6. Parker was the accomplice of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was executed 14 years later for the same crime.
7. The 4 victims were: Gerald Paravicini, Fred Barber, Linda Barber, and Bryan Barber.
8. Vance was a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit judge.
9. The 4 victims were: Randy Duke, Dedra Hunt, Chelsea Hunt, and Chelisa Hunt.
10. All 3 victims were Birmingham police officers.
11. Smith was the first person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama's legal history, and in turn, the United States and worldwide.
12. The 5 victims were: Joseph Adam Turner, Shannon Melissa Randall, Robert Lee Brown, Justin Kaleb Reed, and Chelsea Marie Reed.

References

1. Chandler, Kim (2021-08-07). "Alabama says it has built 'system' for nitrogen gas executions". The Birmingham News. Associated Press. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
2. Gordon, Tom (June 12, 2009) "Alabama Death Row inmate Jack Trawick apologizes before execution." Birmingham News
3. Inmate Executed In Alabama Prison. The New York Times .
4. Alabama Executes Convict In Killing. The New York Times .
5. Alabama Executes Man in Death of a Widow. The New York Times.
6. 2 Electric Jolts in Alabama Execution. The New York Times.
7. Murderer of Woman Is Executed in Alabama. The New York Times.
8. A Convicted Killer Is Executed in Alabama. The New York Times.
9. HEATH v. ALABAMA, 474 U.S. 82 (1985). The New York Times.
10. Execution in Alabama for the Killing of a Nun. The New York Times.
11. Klan Member Put to Death In Race Death. The New York Times.
12. Gordon, Tom (February 12, 2009) "Danny Joe Bradley ends 26 years on Alabama's Death Row in execution chamber." Birmingham News
13. Gordon, Tom (April 16, 2009) "Updated: Alabama executes Jimmy Lee Dill for 1989 slaying of Leon Shaw of Birmingham." Birmingham News
14. Gordon, Tom (May 14, 2009) "Alabama executes Willie McNair for 1990 slaying of Ella Foy Riley in Abbeville." Birmingham News
15. Gordon, Tom (October 8, 2009) "Alabama executes Max Landon Payne for 1992 slaying of Cullman County store owner Braxton Brown." Birmingham News

External links

• List of Alabama's executions since 1927 (Alabama Department of Corrections)
• Alabama inmates currently on death row (Alabama Department of Corrections)