Forty-two people were executed in the United States in 2007. Twenty-six of them were in the state of Texas. One (Daryl Keith Holton) was executed via electrocution. Holton, who waived his appeals and chose the electric chair, was the first person to be electrocuted by the state of Tennessee since 1960. The state of South Dakota carried out its first execution since 1947. In September 2007, executions in the United States were halted, due to certiorari in Baze v. Rees , which questioned the constitutionality of lethal injection. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed all executions until a decision was made. The stay was not lifted until May 2008. [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 9, 2007 | Corey Duane Hamilton | 38 | 23 | 15 | Male | Black | Oklahoma | Lethal injection | [3] |
2 | January 10, 2007 | Carlos Alberto Granados | 36 | 27 | 9 | Hispanic | Texas | [4] | ||
3 | January 17, 2007 | Johnathan Bryant Moore | 32 | 20 | 12 | White | [5] | |||
4 | January 30, 2007 | Christopher Jay Swift | 31 | 28 | 3 | [6] | ||||
5 | February 7, 2007 | James Lewis Jackson | 47 | 37 | 10 | Black | [7] | |||
6 | February 22, 2007 | Newton Burton Anderson | 30 | 22 | 8 | White | [8] | |||
7 | February 27, 2007 | Donald Anthony Miller | 44 | 19 | 25 | [9] | ||||
8 | March 6, 2007 | Robert Anthony Martinez Perez | 48 | 35 | 12 | Hispanic | [10] | |||
9 | March 7, 2007 | Joseph Bennard Nichols | 45 | 19 | 26 | Black | [11] | |||
10 | March 20, 2007 | Charles Anthony Nealy | 42 | 33 | 9 | [12] | ||||
11 | March 28, 2007 | Vincent Gutierrez | 28 | 18 | 10 | Hispanic | [13] | |||
12 | March 29, 2007 | Roy Lee Pippin | 51 | 39 | 12 | White | [14] | |||
13 | April 11, 2007 | James Lee Clark | 38 | 25 | 13 | [15] | ||||
14 | April 24, 2007 | James J. Filiaggi | 41 | 28 | Ohio | [16] | ||||
15 | April 26, 2007 | Ryan Heath Dickson | 30 | 18 | 12 | Texas | [17] | |||
16 | May 3, 2007 | Aaron Lee Jones | 55 | 26 | 29 | Black | Alabama | [18] | ||
17 | May 4, 2007 | David Leon Woods | 42 | 19 | 23 | White | Indiana | [19] | ||
18 | May 9, 2007 | Philip Ray Workman | 53 | 28 | 25 | Tennessee | [20] | |||
19 | May 16, 2007 | Charles Edward Smith | 41 | 22 | 19 | Texas | [21] | |||
20 | May 22, 2007 | Robert Charles Comer | 50 | 30 | 20 | Arizona | [22] | |||
21 | May 24, 2007 | Christopher J. Newton | 37 | 32 | 5 | Ohio | [23] | |||
22 | June 6, 2007 | Michael Durwood Griffith | 56 | 44 | 12 | Texas | [24] | |||
23 | June 15, 2007 | Michael Allen Lambert | 36 | 20 | 16 | Indiana | [25] | |||
24 | June 20, 2007 | Lionell Gonzales Rodriguez | 19 | 17 | Hispanic | Texas | [26] | |||
25 | June 21, 2007 | Gilberto Guadalupe Reyes | 33 | 24 | 9 | [27] | ||||
26 | June 22, 2007 | Calvin Alphonso Shuler | 40 | 31 | Black | South Carolina | [28] | |||
27 | June 26, 2007 | Jimmy Dale Bland | 49 | 39 | 10 | White | Oklahoma | [29] | ||
28 | Patrick Bryan Knight | 39 | 23 | 16 | Texas | [30] | ||||
29 | John Washington Hightower | 63 | 43 | 20 | Black | Georgia | [31] | |||
30 | July 11, 2007 | Elijah Page | 25 | 18 | 7 | White | South Dakota | [32] | ||
31 | July 24, 2007 | Lonnie Earl Johnson | 44 | 27 | 17 | Black | Texas | [33] | ||
32 | July 26, 2007 | Darrell B. Grayson | 46 | 19 | 27 | Alabama | [34] | |||
33 | August 15, 2007 | Kenneth Parr | 27 | 18 | 9 | Texas | [35] | |||
34 | August 21, 2007 | Frank Duane Welch | 46 | 25 | 21 | White | Oklahoma | [36] | ||
35 | August 22, 2007 | Johnny Ray Conner | 32 | 23 | 9 | Black | Texas | [37] | ||
36 | August 23, 2007 | Luther Jerome Williams | 47 | 28 | 19 | Alabama | [38] | |||
37 | August 28, 2007 | DaRoyce Lamont Mosley | 32 | 19 | 13 | Texas | [39] | |||
38 | August 29, 2007 | John Joe Amador | 18 | 12 | Hispanic | [40] | ||||
39 | September 5, 2007 | Tony Roach | 30 | 21 | 9 | White | [41] | |||
40 | September 12, 2007 | Daryl Keith Holton | 45 | 36 | Tennessee | Electrocution | [42] | |||
41 | September 20, 2007 | Clifford Allan Kimmel | 32 | 23 | Texas | Lethal injection | [43] | |||
42 | September 25, 2007 | Michael Wayne Richard | 48 | 26 | 22 | Black | [44] | |||
Average: | 40 years | 26 years | 14 years | |||||||
Gender | ||
---|---|---|
Male | 42 | 100% |
Female | 0 | 0% |
Ethnicity | ||
White | 22 | 52% |
Black | 14 | 33% |
Hispanic | 6 | 14% |
State | ||
Texas | 26 | 62% |
Alabama | 3 | 7% |
Oklahoma | 3 | 7% |
Indiana | 2 | 5% |
Ohio | 2 | 5% |
Tennessee | 2 | 5% |
Arizona | 1 | 2% |
Georgia | 1 | 2% |
South Carolina | 1 | 2% |
South Dakota | 1 | 2% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 41 | 98% |
Electrocution | 1 | 2% |
Month | ||
January | 4 | 10% |
February | 3 | 7% |
March | 5 | 12% |
April | 3 | 7% |
May | 6 | 14% |
June | 8 | 19% |
July | 3 | 7% |
August | 6 | 14% |
September | 4 | 10% |
October | 0 | 0% |
November | 0 | 0% |
December | 0 | 0% |
Age | ||
20–29 | 3 | 7% |
30–39 | 17 | 40% |
40–49 | 16 | 38% |
50–59 | 5 | 12% |
60–69 | 1 | 2% |
Total | 42 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
---|---|
2008 | 37 |
2007 | 42 |
2006 | 53 |
Total | 132 |
The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head and leg. Alfred P. Southwick, a Buffalo, New York dentist, conceived this execution method in 1881. It was developed over the next decade as a more humane alternative to conventional executions, particularly hanging. First used in 1890, the electric chair became symbolic of this execution method.
The Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) is a prison in Nashville, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. The prison opened in 1989 and replaced its 100-year-old neighbor, the Tennessee State Penitentiary. RMSI, which is made up by 20 different buildings, sits on 132 acres (0.53 km2) located off Cockrill Bend Boulevard in Nashville. Riverbend's designated capacity is 714 offenders. Of that number, 480 are classified as high risk.
Old Smokey is a euphemistic name given to the state prison electric chair in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The term has sometimes been used to refer to electric chairs in general, and not the one used in any specific state.
Daryl Keith Holton was a convicted child murderer who was executed by electrocution by the state of Tennessee on September 12, 2007, in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
Edmund George Zagorski was an American convicted murderer from Michigan who was executed by the state of Tennessee for the 1983 murders of John Dotson and Jimmy Porter in Robertson County. Zagorski lured the two men into a wooded hunting ground under the pretense of selling them 100 lb (45 kg) of marijuana before shooting them and slitting their throats.
Preceded by 2006 | List of people executed in the United States in 2007 | Succeeded by 2008 |