List of people executed in North Carolina

Last updated April 12, 2024

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.

List of people executed in North Carolina since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	James William Hutchins	White	54	M	March 16, 1984	Lethal injection	Roy Huskey, Owen Messersmith, and Robert "Pete" Peterson^{[lower-alpha 1]}	James B. Hunt Jr.
2	Margie Velma Barfield	White	52	F	November 2, 1984		Stuart Taylor	James B. Hunt Jr.
3	John William Rook	White	27	M	September 19, 1986		Ann Marie Roche	James G. Martin
4	Michael Van McDougall	White	36	M	October 18, 1991		Dianne Parker
5	John Sterling Gardner Jr.	White	34	M	October 23, 1992		Richard Adams and Kim Miller
6	David Lawson	White	38	M	June 15, 1994	Gas chamber	Wayne Shinn	James B. Hunt Jr.
7	Kermit Smith Jr.	White	37	M	January 24, 1995	Lethal injection	Whelette Collins
8	Phillip Lee Ingle	White	34	M	September 22, 1995	Lethal injection	4 murder victims^{[lower-alpha 2]}
9	Ricky Lee Sanderson	White	38	M	January 30, 1998	Gas chamber^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Sue Ellen Holliman
10	Zane Brown Hill	White	62	M	August 14, 1998	Lethal injection	Randall Hill
11	John Thomas Noland Jr.	White	50	M	November 20, 1998		Cindy Milton and Troy Milton
12	James David Rich	White	26	M	March 26, 1999		Paul Gwyn
13	Harvey Lee Green	Black	38	M	September 24, 1999		Sheila Bland and Michael Edmondson
14	Arthur Martin Boyd Jr.	White	53	M	October 21, 1999		Wanda Hartman
15	David Junior Brown	Black	51	M	November 19, 1999		Shelly Chalflinch and Christina Chalflinch
16	Michael Earl Sexton	Black	34	M	November 9, 2000		Kimberly Crews
17	Willie Ervin Fisher	Black	39	M	March 9, 2001		Angela Johnson	Mike Easley
18	Clifton Allen White	White	43	M	August 24, 2001		Kimberly Ewing
19	Ronald Wayne Frye	White	42	M	August 31, 2001		Ralph Childress
20	David Junior Ward	Black	39	M	October 12, 2001		Dorothy Mae Smith
21	John Hardy Rose	White	43	M	November 30, 2001		Patricia Stewart
22	Ernest West Basden	White	49	M	December 6, 2002		Billy White
23	Desmond Keith Carter	Black	35	M	December 10, 2002		Helen Purdy
24	William Quentin Jones	Black	34	M	August 22, 2003		Edward Peebles
25	Henry Lee Hunt	Native American	58	M	September 12, 2003		Larry Jones and Jackie Ransom
26	Joseph Earl Bates	White	35	M	September 26, 2003		Charles Jenkins
27	Edward Ernest Hartman	White	39	M	October 3, 2003		Herman Larry Smith Sr.
28	Joseph Timothy Keel	White	39	M	November 7, 2003		John Simmons
29	John Dennis Daniels	Black	46	M	November 14, 2003		Isabelle Daniels Crawford
30	Robbie James Lyons	Black	31	M	December 5, 2003		Stephen Stafford
31	Raymond Dayle Rowsey	White	32	M	January 9, 2004		Howard Sikorski
32	Sammy Crystal Perkins	Black	51	M	October 8, 2004		Lashenna Moore
33	Charles Wesley Roache	White	30	M	October 22, 2004		6 murder victims^{[lower-alpha 4]}
34	Frank Ray Chandler	White	32	M	November 12, 2004		Doris Poore
35	William Dillard Powell	White	58	M	March 11, 2005		Mary Gladden
36	Earl J. Richmond Jr.	Black	43	M	May 6, 2005		Helisa S. Hayes, Phillip Hayes, and Darien Hayes
37	Steven Van McHone	White	35	M	November 11, 2005		Mildred Adams and Wesley Adams Sr.
38	Elias Syriani	Arab	67	M	November 18, 2005		Teresa Yousef Syriani
39	Kenneth Lee Boyd^{[lower-alpha 5]}	White	57	M	December 2, 2005		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		Donnie Ray Robbins
42	Willie Brown Jr.	Black	61	M	April 21, 2006		Valerie Ann Roberson Dixon
43	Samuel Russell Flippen	White	36	M	August 18, 2006		Britnie Nichole Hutton

Notes

↑ 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.

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References

↑ "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

External links

The Death Penalty. North Carolina Department of Correction.

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[2] Huskey and Messersmith were Rutherford County Deputy Sheriffs and Peterson was a North Carolina State Trooper.

[3] The 4 victims were: William Fred Davis, Margaret Davis, E.Z. Willis, and Sarah Willis.

[4] This was the second-to-last execution by gas chamber to be carried out in the United States.

[5] The 6 victims were: Chad McKinley Watt, Earl Phillips, Cora Phillips, Eddie Phillips, Mitzi Phillips, and Katie Phillips.

[6] Kenneth Lee Boyd was the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

[1] "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

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