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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in 1976.

A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electric chair and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence.[1]

# Name Race Age Sex Date of
Execution 		Method of
Execution 		Victim(s) Governor
1 Robert Wayne Williams Black 31 M 14 December 1983 Electric chair[a] Willie Kelly David C. Treen
2 Johnny Davis Taylor, Jr. Black 30 M 29 February 1984 David Vogler
3 Elmo Patrick Sonnier White 35 M 5 April 1984 Loretta Bourque and David LeBlanc Edwin Edwards
4 Timothy George Baldwin White 46 M 10 September 1984 Mary Lee Peters
5 Earnest Knighton, Jr. Black 38 M 30 October 1984 Ralph Shell
6 Robert Lee Willie White 26 M 28 December 1984 Faith Hathaway
7 David Dene Martin White 32 M 4 January 1985 Bobby Todd, Terry Hebert, Sandra Brake, and Anne Tierney
8 Benjamin A. Berry White 31 M 7 June 1987 Robert Cochran
9 Alvin Rudolph Moore, Jr. Black 27 M 9 June 1987 Jo Ann Wilson
10 Jimmy L. Glass White 25 M 12 June 1987 Newt Brown and Erlene Brown
11 Jimmy C. Wingo White 35 M 16 June 1987
12 Willie Lawrence Celestine Black 30 M 20 July 1987 Marcelaine Richard
13 Willie Watson Black 31 M 24 July 1987 Kathy Newman
14 John E. Brogdon White 25 M 30 July 1987 Barbara Jo Brown
15 Sterling John Rault, Jr. White 36 M 24 August 1987[b] Jane Ellen Francioni
16 Wayne Robert Felde White 38 M 15 March 1988 Glen Thompkins Buddy Roemer
17 Leslie Lowenfield Black 34 M 13 April 1988 Shiela Thomas, Shantel Osborne, Carol Osborne, Owen Griffin, and Myrtle Griffin
18 Edward R. Byrne, Jr.[c] White 28 M 14 June 1988 Roberta June Johnson
19 Dalton Prejean Black 30 M 18 May 1990 Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald Cleveland
20 Andrew Lee Jones Black 35 M 22 July 1991 Tumekica Jackson
21 Robert Wayne Sawyer White 41 M 5 March 1993 Lethal injection Frances Arwood Edwin Edwards
22 Thomas Lee Ward Black 59 M 16 May 1995 Wilbert John Spencer
23 Antonio G. James Black 42 M 1 March 1996 Henry Silver Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
24 John Ashley Brown, Jr. White 35 M 24 April 1997 Omer Laughlin
25 Dobie Gillis Williams Black 38 M 8 January 1999 Sonja Knippers
26 Feltus Taylor, Jr. Black 38 M 6 June 2000 Donna Ponsano
27 Leslie Dale Martin White 35 M 10 May 2002 Christina Burgin
28 Gerald Bordelon White 47 M 7 January 2010 Courtney LeBlanc Bobby Jindal

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Louisiana is one of only two states to have executed more people via electric chair than lethal injection.
  2. ^ Louisiana executed a total of 8 inmates in 1987, the highest of all states for that calendar year and accounting for nearly a third of all executions in 1987.
  3. ^ Edward R. Byrne, Jr. was the 100th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

References

  1. ^ "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
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