List of people executed in the United States in 2016

This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2016. A total of twenty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2016, all by lethal injection. The state of Georgia executed nine people, setting a record for the most executions conducted there in a calendar year. ^[1]

List of people executed in the United States in 2016

No.	Date of execution	Name	Age of person			Gender	Ethnicity	State	Method	Ref.
			At execution	At offense	Age difference
1	January 7, 2016	Oscar Ray Bolin Jr.	53	24	29	Male	White	Florida	Lethal injection	[2] [3]
2	January 20, 2016	Richard Allen Masterson	43	28	15			Texas		[4] [5] [6]
3	January 21, 2016	Christopher Eugene Brooks		20	23			Alabama		[7]
4	January 27, 2016	James Garrett Freeman	35	26	9			Texas		[8] [9] [10]
5	February 3, 2016	Brandon Astor Jones	72	36	36		Black	Georgia		[11]
6	February 16, 2016	Gustavo Julian Garcia	43	18	25		Hispanic	Texas		[12] [13]
7	February 17, 2016	Travis Clinton Hittson	45	21	24		White	Georgia		[14]
8	March 9, 2016	Coy Wayne Wesbrook	58	39	19			Texas		[15] [16]
9	March 22, 2016	Adam Kelly Ward	33	22	11					[17] [18]
10	March 31, 2016	Joshua Daniel Bishop	41	19	22			Georgia		[19]
11	April 6, 2016	Pablo Lucio Vasquez	38	20	18		Hispanic	Texas		[20] [21]
12	April 12, 2016	Kenneth Earl Fults	47	27	20		Black	Georgia		[22]
13	April 27, 2016	Daniel Anthony Lucas	37	19	18		White			[23]
14	May 11, 2016	Earl Mitchell Forrest II	66	53	13			Missouri		[24] [25]
15	July 15, 2016	John Wayne Conner	60	25	35			Georgia		[26]
16	October 5, 2016	Barney Ronald Fuller Jr.	58	44	14			Texas		[27] [28]
17	October 19, 2016	Gregory Paul Lawler	63		19			Georgia		[29]
18	November 16, 2016	Steven Frederick Spears	54	39	15					[30]
19	December 6, 2016	William Cary Sallie	50	24	26					[31]
20	December 8, 2016	Ronald Bert Smith Jr.	45	23	22			Alabama		[32]
		Average:	49 years	29 years	20 years

Demographics

Gender
Male	20	100%
Female	0	0%
Ethnicity
White	16	80%
Black	2	10%
Hispanic	2	10%
State
Georgia	9	45%
Texas	7	35%
Alabama	2	10%
Florida	1	5%
Missouri	1	5%
Method
Lethal injection	20	100%
Month
January	4	20%
February	3	15%
March	3	15%
April	3	15%
May	1	5%
June	0	0%
July	1	5%
August	0	0%
September	0	0%
October	2	10%
November	1	5%
December	2	10%
Age
30–39	4	20%
40–49	7	35%
50–59	5	25%
60–69	3	15%
70–79	1	5%
Total	20	100%

Executions in recent years

Number of executions
2017	23
2016	20
2015	28
Total	71

Record number of executions in Georgia

Main articles: List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state) and Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state)

In 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people. This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again in 2015. ^[33]

Last meals

Main article: Last meal

• Henry Hargreaves, a Brooklyn-based photographer, recreated (and then photographed) the last meals served to all twenty men executed in 2016. Through his series, entitled A Year of Killing, Hargreaves sought to educate people about the use of the death penalty. This work is a sequel to his 2011 series No Seconds, which recreated the last meals ordered by famous criminals like Ted Bundy. ^{[34] [35]}

• In 2016, the most-ordered food was steak, followed by pizza, although some of the condemned prisoners elected to forgo a special last meal. ^[36]

See also

• List of death row inmates in the United States
• List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976
• List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
• List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state)
• List of women executed in the United States since 1976

References

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2. "Inmate Release Information Detail – Inmate 519220". Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved January 18, 2021.
3. Cotterell, Bill (January 7, 2016). "Florida killer put to death in first U.S. execution of year". Yahoo! News . Retrieved January 18, 2021.
4. "Inmate Information – Richard Allen Masterson". Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved January 18, 2021.
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7. "A man convicted of a woman's rape and murder was put to death Thursday in Alabama's first execution since 2013". January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
8. "Inmate Information – James Garrett Freeman". Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved January 18, 2021.
9. "Texas executes its first inmate of 2016 after late appeals". January 20, 2016. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
10. "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News.
11. "Georgia executes Brandon Astor Jones". February 3, 2016. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
12. "Inmate Information – Gustavo Julian Garcia". Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved January 18, 2021.
13. McCullough, Jolie (February 16, 2016). "Inmate executed after 24 years on death row". The Texas Tribune . Retrieved January 18, 2021.
14. "Georgia executes ex-Navy sailor for 1992 murder of shipmate". February 17, 2016. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
15. "Inmate Information – Coy Wayne Wesbrook", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
16. "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
17. "Inmate Information – Adam Kelly Ward", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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19. "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
20. "Inmate Information – Pablo Lucio Vasquez", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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24. "Capital Punishment in Missouri - Current Inmates", missourideathrow.com; accessed February 3, 2018.
25. "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
26. "Georgia executes man on death row for 34 years for 1982 killing of a friend", Chicago Tribune; accessed February 3, 2018.
27. "Inmate Information – Barney Ronald Fuller, Jr.", Texas Department of Criminal Justice
28. "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
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33. Cook, Rhonda (December 7, 2016). "Georgia executes William Sallie for 1990 murder of father-in-law". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Archived from the original on July 9, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
34. "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates", CBS News
35. "Meals to die for", Adrian Hatwell
36. Sargent, Ewan (December 22, 2016). "Meals to die for: Kiwi photographer captures last meals of executed prisoners". Stuff. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

Preceded by 2015

List of people executed       in the United States in    2016

Succeeded by 2017