List of people executed in the United States in 1999

Ninety-eight people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1999 in twenty states, 94 by lethal injection, 3 by electrocution, and one by gas chamber. ^[1] With ninety-eight executions carried out, 1999 remains the year with the highest number of executions in a single year in the United States since the resumption of executions in 1977. ^[2] Illinois conducted its last execution in 1999 before the state abolished the death penalty in 2011. ^[3] On December 9, 1999, four executions were carried out in the United States on the same day, the highest number of executions in a single day since the 1950s. This has occurred only once in the modern era. ^[4]

The state of Oklahoma executed Sean Sellers, who became the only juvenile offender to be executed in the United States for a crime committed under the age of 17 prior to Roper v. Simmons , which banned capital punishment nationwide for anyone under the age of eighteen. Sellers was the first executed to be executed for a crime committed at the age of 16 since Leonard Shockley in 1959.

List of people executed in the United States in 1999

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 5, 1999	John Glenn Moody	46	35	11	Male	White	Texas	Lethal injection	[1]
2	January 7, 1999	John Walter Castro	37	22	15		Native American	Oklahoma		[5]
3	January 8, 1999	Ronnie Howard	40	27	13		Black	South Carolina		[6]
4		Dobie Gillis Williams	38	23	15			Louisiana		[7]
5	January 13, 1999	Kelvin Shelby Malone		20	18			Missouri		[8]
6		Jess James Gillies					White	Arizona		[9]
7		Troy Dale Farris	36	21	15			Texas		[10]
8	January 20, 1999	Mark Arlo Sheppard	27	22	5		Black	Virginia		[11]
9	January 22, 1999	Joseph Ernest Atkins	51	38	13		White	South Carolina		[1]
10	January 26, 1999	Martin Sauceda Vega	53	39	14		Hispanic	Texas		[12]
11	February 3, 1999	Darrick Leonard Gerlaugh	38	19	19		Native American	Arizona		[13]
12	February 4, 1999	Sean Richard Sellers	29	16	13		White	Oklahoma		[14]
13		Tony Leslie Fry	23	19	4			Virginia		[15]
14	February 9, 1999	Jaturun Siripongs	47	30	17		Asian	California		[16]
15	February 10, 1999	George Cordova	39	20	19		Hispanic	Texas		[1]
16	February 11, 1999	Danny Lee Barber	43	24			White			[17]
17	February 16, 1999	Andrew Flores Cantu	31	22	9		Hispanic			[18]
18		Johnie Michael Cox	42	32	10		White	Arkansas		[19]
19	February 19, 1999	Wilford Lee Berry Jr.	36	27	9			Ohio		[20]
20	February 24, 1999	James Edward Rodden	38	23	15			Missouri		[21]
21	Norman Evans Green	24		14	Black		Texas	[22]
22	Karl-Heinz LaGrand	35	18	17	White		Arizona	[23]
23	March 3, 1999	Walter Bernhard LaGrand	37	19				18	Gas chamber	[23]
24	March 9, 1999	George Adrian Quesinberry Jr.		28			9	Virginia	Lethal injection	[24]
25	March 10, 1999	Roy Michael Roberts	46	30			16	Missouri		[25]
26	March 17, 1999	Andrew Kokoraleis	35	18			17	Illinois		[26]
27	March 25, 1999	David Lee Fisher	57	42			15	Virginia		[27]
28	March 26, 1999	Charles Henry Rector	44	27	17		Black	Texas		[28]
29		James David Rich	26	22	4		White	North Carolina		[29]
30	March 30, 1999	Robert Excell White	61	36	25			Texas		[30]
31	April 5, 1999	Alvaro Calambro	25	20	5		Asian	Nevada		[31]
32	April 12, 1999	Marion Albert Pruett	49	32	17		White	Arkansas		[32]
33	April 13, 1999	Carl Hamilton Chichester	36	29	7		Black	Virginia		[1]
34	April 14, 1999	Roy Ramsey Jr.	45	35	10			Missouri		[33]
35	April 20, 1999	Arthur Ray Jenkins III	29	22	7		White	Virginia		[1]
36	April 23, 1999	David J. Lawrie	37	31	6			Delaware		[1]
37	April 28, 1999	Ralph Edward Davis	61	48	13		Black	Missouri		[1]
38		Aaron Christopher Foust	26	24	2		White	Texas		[34]
39		Eric Christopher Payne						Virginia		[34]
40	April 29, 1999	Ronald Dale Yeatts	38	28	10					[35]
41	May 4, 1999	Manuel Pina Babbitt	50	31	19		Black	California		[36]
42		Jose De La Cruz	31	19	12		Hispanic	Texas		[37]
43	May 5, 1999	Robert Wayne Vickers	41	20	21		White	Arizona		[38]
44		Clydell Coleman	62	52	10		Black	Texas		[39]
45	May 25, 1999	Edward Lee Harper Jr.	50	33	17		White	Kentucky		[1]
46	May 26, 1999	Jessie Lee Wise	46	35	11		Black	Missouri		[40]
47	June 1, 1999	William Hamilton Little	38	23	15		White	Texas		[41]
48	June 3, 1999	Scotty Lee Moore	42	27				Oklahoma		[42]
49	June 16, 1999	Bruce W. Kilgore	38	25	13		Black	Missouri		[43]
50		Michael Kent Poland	59	36	23		White	Arizona		[44]
51	June 17, 1999	Joseph Stanley Faulder	61	37	24			Texas		[45]
52	June 18, 1999	Brian Keith Baldwin	40	18	22		Black	Alabama	Electrocution	[46]
53	June 30, 1999	Robert Allen Walls	33	20	13		White	Missouri	Lethal injection	[1]
54	July 1, 1999	Charles Daniel Tuttle	35	30	5			Texas		[47]
55	July 6, 1999	Gary Michael Heidnik	55	43	12			Pennsylvania		[48]
56	July 7, 1999	Tyrone Leroy Fuller	35	24	11		Black	Texas		[49]
57	July 8, 1999	Norman Lee Newsted	45	29	16		White	Oklahoma		[50]
58		Allen Lee Davis	54	37	17			Florida	Electrocution	[51]
59	July 21, 1999	Thomas David Strickler	33	24	9			Virginia	Lethal injection	[52]
60	August 4, 1999	Ricky Don Blackmon	41	29	12			Texas		[53]
61	August 5, 1999	Charles Anthony Boyd	39	27			Black			[54]
62	August 6, 1999	Victor Kennedy	37	18	19			Alabama	Electrocution	[1]
63	August 10, 1999	Kenneth Dwayne Dunn	39	20				Texas	Lethal injection	[55]
64	August 11, 1999	James Otto Earhart	56	44	12		White			[56]
65	August 17, 1999	Marlon DeWayne Williams	26	20	6	Black	Virginia	[1]
66	August 18, 1999	Joe Mario Trevino Jr.	37		17	Hispanic	Texas	[57]
67	September 1, 1999	David Leisure	49	30	19	White	Missouri	[58]
68		Raymond James Jones	39	28	11	Black	Texas	[1]
69	September 8, 1999	Mark Edward Gardner	43	29	14	White	Arkansas	[59]
70		Alan Willett	52	46	6			[59]
71	September 10, 1999	Willis Jay Barnes	51	39	12	Black	Texas	[60]
72	September 14, 1999	William Prince Davis	42	21	21			[61]
73	September 16, 1999	Everett Lee Mueller	51	42	9	White	Virginia	[62]
74	September 21, 1999	Richard Wayne Smith	43	36	7		Texas	[63]
75	September 24, 1999	Willie G. Sullivan	27	19	8	Black	Delaware	[64]
76		Harvey Lee Green	38	23	15		North Carolina	[1]
77	October 12, 1999	Alvin Wayne Crane	41	28	13	White	Texas	[65]
78	October 14, 1999	Gerald Walter McFadden	51	38				[66]
79	October 15, 1999	Joseph Mitchell Parsons	35	23	12		Utah	[67]
80	October 19, 1999	Jason Matthew Joseph	27	20	7	Black	Virginia	[1]
81	October 21, 1999	Arthur Martin Boyd Jr.	53	36	17	White	North Carolina	[1]
82	October 27, 1999	Ignacio Alberto Ortiz	57	37	20	Hispanic	Arizona	[68]
83	October 28, 1999	Domingo Cantu Jr.	31	20	11	Native American	Texas	[69]
84	November 9, 1999	Thomas Lee Royal Jr.	32	26	6	Black	Virginia	[70]
85	November 12, 1999	Leroy Joseph Drayton	44	29	15		South Carolina	[71]
86	November 16, 1999	Desmond Dominique Jennings	28	22	6		Texas	[72]
87	November 17, 1999	John Michael Lamb	42	25	17	White		[73]
88	November 18, 1999	Jose Angel Gutierrez	39	28	11	Hispanic		[74]
89	November 19, 1999	David Junior Brown	51	32	19	Black	North Carolina	[75]
90	December 2, 1999	Cornel Cooks	43	26	17		Oklahoma	[76]
91	December 3, 1999	David Rocheville	31	22	9	White	South Carolina	[77]
92	December 8, 1999	David Martin Long	46	33	13		Texas	[78]
93	December 9, 1999	Bobby Lynn Ross	41	24	17	Black	Oklahoma	[79]
94		D.H. Fleenor	48	31		White	Indiana	[1]
95		James Lee Beathard	42	27	15		Texas	[1]
96		Andre Lee Graham	29	23	6	Black	Virginia	[80]
97	December 14, 1999	Robert Ronald Atworth	31	26	5	White	Texas	[81]
98	December 15, 1999	Sammie Felder Jr.	54	29	25	Black		[82]
		Average:	41 years	28 years	13 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	98	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	53	54%
Black	33	34%
Hispanic	7	7%
Native American	3	3%
Asian	2	2%
State
Texas	35	36%
Virginia	14	14%
Missouri	9	9%
Arizona	7	7%
Oklahoma	6	6%
Arkansas	4	4%
North Carolina	4	4%
South Carolina	4	4%
Alabama	2	2%
California	2	2%
Delaware	2	2%
Florida	1	1%
Illinois	1	1%
Indiana	1	1%
Kentucky	1	1%
Louisiana	1	1%
Nevada	1	1%
Ohio	1	1%
Pennsylvania	1	1%
Utah	1	1%
Method
Lethal injection	94	96%
Electrocution	3	3%
Gas chamber	1	1%
Month
January	10	10%
February	12	12%
March	8	8%
April	10	10%
May	6	6%
June	7	7%
July	6	6%
August	7	7%
September	10	10%
October	7	7%
November	6	6%
December	9	9%
Age
20–29	13	13%
30–39	37	38%
40–49	27	28%
50–59	17	17%
60–69	4	4%
Total	98	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2000	85
1999	98
1998	68
Total	251

References

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Preceded by 1998

List of people executed       in the United States in    1999

Succeeded by 2000