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.

Post-Gregg

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Robert Glen Coe	White	44	M	April 19, 2000	Weakley	Lethal injection	Cary Ann Medlin	Don Sundquist
2	Sedley Alley	White	50	M	June 28, 2006	Shelby		U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Suzanne Marie Collins	Phil Bredesen
3	Philip Ray Workman	White	53	M	May 9, 2007			Memphis Police Lieutenant Ronald Oliver
4	Daryl Keith Holton	White	45	M	September 12, 2007	Bedford	Electrocution	4 murder victims [a]
5	Steve Henley	White	55	M	February 4, 2009	Jackson	Lethal injection	Fred Stafford and Edna Stafford
6	Cecil C. Johnson Jr.	Black	53	M	December 2, 2009	Davidson		Bobby Bell Jr., James Moore, and Charles House
7	William Ray "Billy" Irick	White	59	M	August 9, 2018	Knox		Paula Kay Dyer	Bill Haslam
8	Edmund George Zagorski	White	63	M	November 1, 2018	Robertson	Electrocution	John Dale Dotson and James Wayne Porter
9	David Earl Miller	White	61	M	December 6, 2018	Knox		Lee Standifer
10	Donnie Edward Johnson	White	68	M	May 16, 2019	Shelby	Lethal injection	Connie Johnson	Bill Lee
11	Stephen Michael West	White	56	M	August 15, 2019	Union	Electrocution	Wanda Lou Romines and Sheila Ann Romines
12	Leroy Hall Jr.	White	53	M	December 5, 2019	Hamilton		Traci Latrice Crozier
13	Nicholas Todd Sutton	White	58	M	February 20, 2020	Morgan		Carl Isaac Estep
14	Oscar Franklin Smith	White	75	M	May 22, 2025	Davidson	Lethal injection	Judith Lynn Smith, Chad Altmon Burnett, and Jason Don Burnett
15	Byron Lewis Black	Black	69	M	August 5, 2025			Angela Clay, Latoya Clay, and Lakeisha Clay

Demographics

Race
White	13	87%
Black	2	13%
Age
40–49	2	13%
50–59	8	53%
60–69	4	27%
70–79	1	7%
Sex
Male	15	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	0	0%
2000–2009	6	40%
2010–2019	6	40%
2020–2029	3	20%
Method
Lethal injection	9	60%
Electrocution	6	40%
Governor (Party)
Ray Blanton (D)	0	0%
Lamar Alexander (R)	0	0%
Ned McWherter (D)	0	0%
Don Sundquist (R)	1	7%
Phil Bredesen (D)	5	33%
Bill Haslam (R)	3	20%
Bill Lee (R)	6	40%
Total	15	100%

Pre-Furman

Source: ^[1]

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
92.	William Headen	March 30, 1943
93.	Robert Cannon	March 30, 1943
94.	James Tucker	July 15, 1943
95.	Marshall Spigner	July 15, 1943
96.	Robert Hall	December 15, 1943
97.	George Hambrick	December 15, 1943
98.	Billy Dixon	July 16, 1945
99.	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
111.	Barney Thompson	February 17, 1949
112.	Edward Watson	June 10, 1949
113.	Paul Lacey	November 25, 1949
114.	Clyde Steel	January 24, 1950
115.	Samuel L. Voss	April 15, 1955
116.	Harry Kirkendall	August 1, 1955
117.	Charlie Sullins	August 1, 1955
118.	Robert Crenshaw	September 15, 1955
119.	Robert Allen	March 15, 1957
120.	Billy T. Gibbs	May 6, 1957
121.	Thomas Rutledge	June 15, 1959
122.	William Tines	November 7, 1960

See also

• Capital punishment in Tennessee
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. The 4 victims were: Stephen Holton, Brent Holton, Eric Holton, and Kayla Holton.

References

1. "Tennessee Executions". www.tn.gov. Retrieved October 25, 2023.

• TN Executions. Tennessee Department of Correction. Retrieved on 2023-10-25.
• '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.