Sixty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2003, sixty-four by lethal injection and one by electrocution. [1] [2]
No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
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At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
1 | January 14, 2003 | Samuel Clark Gallamore | 31 | 21 | 10 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | [3] |
2 | January 15, 2003 | John Richard Baltazar | 30 | 25 | 5 | Hispanic | [4] | |||
3 | January 16, 2003 | Daniel Juan Revilla | 34 | 18 | 16 | White | Oklahoma | [5] | ||
4 | January 22, 2003 | Robert Andrew Lookingbill | 37 | 24 | 13 | Texas | [6] | |||
5 | January 28, 2003 | Alva Eziel Curry | 33 | 22 | 11 | Black | [7] | |||
6 | January 29, 2003 | Richard Eugene Dinkins | 40 | 27 | 13 | White | [8] | |||
7 | January 30, 2003 | Granville Riddle | 33 | 19 | 14 | [9] | ||||
8 | February 4, 2003 | John William Elliot | 42 | 26 | 16 | Hispanic | [10] [11] | |||
9 | February 5, 2003 | Kenneth Kenley | 23 | 19 | White | Missouri | [12] | |||
10 | February 6, 2003 | Henry Earl Dunn Jr. | 28 | 19 | 9 | Black | Texas | [13] | ||
11 | February 12, 2003 | Richard Edwin Fox | 47 | 33 | 14 | White | Ohio | [14] | ||
12 | February 13, 2003 | Bobby Joe Fields | 39 | 29 | 10 | Black | Oklahoma | [15] | ||
13 | February 25, 2003 | Richard Head Williams | 33 | 27 | 6 | Texas | [16] | |||
14 | February 26, 2003 | Amos Lee King Jr. | 48 | 22 | 26 | Florida | [17] | |||
15 | March 11, 2003 | Bobby Glen Cook | 41 | 31 | 10 | White | Texas | [18] | ||
16 | March 13, 2003 | Michael Eugene Thompson | 43 | 25 | 18 | Alabama | [19] | |||
17 | March 18, 2003 | Louis Jones Jr. | 53 | 44 | 9 | Black | Federal government | [20] | ||
18 | Walanzo Deon Robinson | 31 | 18 | 13 | Oklahoma | [21] | ||||
19 | March 20, 2003 | Keith Bernard Clay | 35 | 25 | 10 | Texas | [22] | |||
20 | March 25, 2003 | John Michael Hooker | 49 | 34 | 15 | Oklahoma | [23] | |||
21 | Larry Eugene Moon | 55 | 37 | 18 | White | Georgia | [24] [25] | |||
22 | March 26, 2003 | James Blake Colburn | 43 | 34 | 9 | Texas | [26] | |||
23 | April 3, 2003 | Scott Allen Hain | 32 | 17 | 15 | Oklahoma | [27] | |||
24 | April 8, 2003 | Don Wilson Hawkins Jr. | 43 | 25 | 18 | [28] | ||||
25 | April 9, 2003 | Earl Conrad Bramblett | 61 | 52 | 9 | Virginia | Electrocution | [29] | ||
26 | April 17, 2003 | Larry Kenneth Jackson | 40 | 31 | Black | Oklahoma | Lethal injection | [30] | ||
27 | April 22, 2003 | Juan Rodriguez Chavez | 34 | 27 | 7 | Hispanic | Texas | [31] | ||
28 | April 24, 2003 | Gary Leon Brown | 44 | 17 | White | Alabama | [32] | |||
29 | April 29, 2003 | David M. Brewer | 25 | 19 | Ohio | [33] | ||||
30 | May 2, 2003 | Kevin Lee Hough | 43 | 26 | 17 | Indiana | [34] | |||
31 | May 6, 2003 | Roger Dale Vaughn | 48 | 37 | 11 | Texas | [35] | |||
32 | Carl Junior Isaacs | 49 | 19 | 30 | Georgia | [36] | ||||
33 | May 15, 2003 | Bruce Charles Jacobs | 56 | 39 | 17 | Texas | [37] | |||
34 | May 16, 2003 | Newton Carlton Slawson | 48 | 34 | 14 | Florida | [38] | |||
35 | May 27, 2003 | Robert Wesley Knighton | 62 | 48 | Oklahoma | [39] [40] | ||||
36 | June 5, 2003 | Kenneth Chad Charm | 37 | 27 | 10 | Black | [41] | |||
37 | June 11, 2003 | Kia Levoy Johnson | 38 | 28 | Texas | [42] | ||||
38 | June 13, 2003 | Joseph L. Trueblood | 46 | 31 | 15 | White | Indiana | [43] | ||
39 | June 18, 2003 | Ernest Martin | 42 | 22 | 20 | Black | Ohio | [44] | ||
40 | July 1, 2003 | Lewis Eugene Gilbert II | 31 | 9 | White | Oklahoma | [45] | |||
41 | Hilton Lewis Crawford | 64 | 56 | 8 | Texas | [46] | ||||
42 | July 8, 2003 | Robert Don Duckett | 39 | 24 | 15 | Oklahoma | [47] | |||
43 | July 9, 2003 | Christopher Black Sr. | 43 | 38 | 5 | Black | Texas | [48] | ||
44 | Riley Dobi Noel | 31 | 23 | 8 | Arkansas | [49] | ||||
45 | July 22, 2003 | Bryan Anthony Toles | 21 | 10 | Oklahoma | [50] | ||||
46 | Bobby Wayne Swisher | 27 | 20 | 7 | White | Virginia | [51] | |||
47 | July 23, 2003 | Cedric Lamont Ransom | 29 | 18 | 11 | Black | Texas | [52] | ||
48 | July 24, 2003 | Jackie Lee Willingham | 33 | 25 | 8 | White | Oklahoma | [53] | ||
49 | Allen Wayne Janecka | 53 | 29 | 24 | Texas | [54] | ||||
50 | July 29, 2003 | Harold Loyd McElmurry III | 33 | 4 | Oklahoma | [55] | ||||
51 | August 7, 2003 | Tommy Jerry Fortenberry | 39 | 20 | 19 | Alabama | [56] | |||
52 | August 22, 2003 | William Quentin Jones | 34 | 18 | 16 | Black | North Carolina | [57] | ||
53 | September 3, 2003 | Paul Jennings Hill | 49 | 40 | 9 | White | Florida | [58] | ||
54 | September 10, 2003 | Larry Allen Hayes | 54 | 50 | 4 | Texas | [59] | |||
55 | September 12, 2003 | Henry Lee Hunt | 58 | 39 | 19 | Native American | North Carolina | [60] | ||
56 | September 26, 2003 | Joseph Earl Bates | 35 | 22 | 13 | White | [61] | |||
57 | October 3, 2003 | Edward Ernest Hartman | 39 | 28 | 11 | [62] | ||||
58 | October 29, 2003 | John Clayton Smith | 41 | 35 | 6 | Missouri | [63] | |||
59 | November 4, 2003 | James Willie Brown | 55 | 26 | 29 | Georgia | [64] | |||
60 | November 7, 2003 | Joseph Timothy Keel | 39 | 13 | North Carolina | [65] | ||||
61 | November 14, 2003 | John Dennis Daniels | 46 | 32 | 14 | Black | [66] | |||
62 | November 20, 2003 | Robert Lloyd Henry | 41 | 30 | 11 | White | Texas | [67] | ||
63 | December 3, 2003 | Richard Charles Duncan | 61 | 45 | 16 | [68] | ||||
64 | December 4, 2003 | Ivan Ray Murphy Jr. | 38 | 23 | 15 | [69] | ||||
65 | December 5, 2003 | Robbie James Lyons | 31 | 21 | 10 | Black | North Carolina | [70] | ||
Average: | 42 years | 29 years | 13 years | |||||||
Gender | ||
---|---|---|
Male | 65 | 100% |
Female | 0 | 0% |
Ethnicity | ||
White | 41 | 63% |
Black | 20 | 31% |
Hispanic | 3 | 5% |
Native American | 1 | 1% |
State | ||
Texas | 24 | 37% |
Oklahoma | 14 | 21% |
North Carolina | 7 | 11% |
Alabama | 3 | 5% |
Florida | 3 | 5% |
Georgia | 3 | 5% |
Ohio | 3 | 5% |
Indiana | 2 | 3% |
Missouri | 2 | 3% |
Virginia | 2 | 3% |
Arkansas | 1 | 1% |
Federal Government | 1 | 1% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 64 | 99% |
Electrocution | 1 | 1% |
Month | ||
January | 7 | 11% |
February | 7 | 11% |
March | 8 | 12% |
April | 7 | 11% |
May | 6 | 9% |
June | 4 | 6% |
July | 11 | 17% |
August | 2 | 3% |
September | 4 | 6% |
October | 2 | 3% |
November | 4 | 6% |
December | 3 | 5% |
Age | ||
20–29 | 3 | 5% |
30–39 | 27 | 41% |
40–49 | 24 | 37% |
50–59 | 7 | 11% |
60–69 | 4 | 6% |
Total | 65 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
---|---|
2004 | 59 |
2003 | 65 |
2002 | 71 |
Total | 195 |
The Broad River Correctional Institution (BRCI) is a South Carolina Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Columbia, South Carolina. South Carolina's execution chamber is located in Broad River. The adjacent Kirkland Correctional Institution lies just to its south side.
Preceded by 2002 | List of people executed in the United States in 2003 | Succeeded by 2004 |