This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2007. 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 | |
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2008 | 37 |
2007 | 42 |
2006 | 53 |
Total | 132 |
Preceded by 2006 |
List of people executed in the United States in 2007 |
Succeeded by 2008 |