This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2008. Thirty-seven people were executed in the United States in 2008. Eighteen of them were in the state of Texas. One ( James Earl Reed) was executed via electrocution. Executions were not carried out in the United States between September 2007 and April 2008, due to certiorari in Baze v. Rees, which questioned the constitutionality of lethal injection. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed all executions for seven months until a decision was made, meaning executions did not begin until May, with none having taken place since that of Michael Wayne Richard the previous September. [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 | May 6, 2008 | William Earl Lynd | 53 | 33 | 20 | Male | White | Georgia | Lethal injection | [3] |
2 | May 21, 2008 | Earl Wesley Berry | 49 | 28 | 21 | Mississippi | [4] | |||
3 | May 27, 2008 | Kevin Green | 31 | 21 | 10 | Black | Virginia | [5] | ||
4 | June 4, 2008 | Curtis Osborne | 38 | 20 | 18 | Georgia | [6] | |||
5 | June 6, 2008 | David Mark Hill | 48 | 36 | 12 | White | South Carolina | [7] | ||
6 | June 11, 2008 | Karl Eugene Chamberlain | 37 | 21 | 16 | Texas | [8] | |||
7 | June 17, 2008 | Terry Lyn Short | 47 | 34 | 13 | Oklahoma | [9] | |||
8 | June 20, 2008 | James Earl Reed | 49 | 35 | 14 | Black | South Carolina | Electrocution | [10] | |
9 | June 25, 2008 | Robert Stacy Yarbrough | 30 | 18 | 12 | Oklahoma | Lethal injection | [11] | ||
10 | July 1, 2008 | Mark Dean Schwab | 39 | 22 | 17 | White | Florida | [12] | ||
11 | July 10, 2008 | Carlton Akee Turner | 29 | 19 | 10 | Black | Texas | [13] | ||
12 | Kent Jermaine Jackson | 26 | 18 | 8 | Virginia | [14] | ||||
13 | July 23, 2008 | Dale Leo Bishop | 34 | 25 | 9 | White | Mississippi | [15] | ||
14 | Derrick J. Sonnier | 40 | 23 | 17 | Black | Texas | [16] | |||
15 | July 24, 2008 | Christopher Scott Emmett | 36 | 29 | 7 | White | Virginia | [17] | ||
16 | July 31, 2008 | Larry Donnell Davis | 40 | 27 | 13 | Black | Texas | [18] | ||
17 | August 5, 2008 | José Ernesto Medellín Rojas | 33 | 18 | 15 | Hispanic | [19] | |||
18 | August 7, 2008 | Heliberto Chi | 29 | 22 | 7 | [20] | ||||
19 | August 12, 2008 | Leon David Dorsey IV | 32 | 18 | 14 | Black | [21] | |||
20 | August 14, 2008 | Michael Anthony Rodriguez | 45 | 38 | 7 | Hispanic | [22] | |||
21 | September 16, 2008 | Jack Edward Alderman | 57 | 23 | 34 | White | Georgia | [23] | ||
22 | September 17, 2008 | William Alfred Murray | 39 | 28 | 11 | Texas | [24] | |||
23 | September 23, 2008 | Richard Henyard | 34 | 18 | 16 | Black | Florida | [25] | ||
24 | September 25, 2008 | Jesse James Cummings Jr. | 52 | 35 | 17 | White | Oklahoma | [26] | ||
25 | October 14, 2008 | Richard Wade Cooey II | 41 | 19 | 22 | Ohio | [27] | |||
26 | Alvin Andrew Kelly | 57 | 33 | 24 | Texas | [28] | ||||
27 | October 16, 2008 | Kevin Michael Watts | 27 | 21 | 6 | Black | [29] | |||
28 | October 21, 2008 | Joseph Ray Ries | 29 | 19 | 10 | White | [30] | |||
29 | October 28, 2008 | Eric Charles Nenno | 47 | 33 | 14 | [31] | ||||
30 | October 30, 2008 | Gregory Edward Wright | 42 | 31 | 11 | [32] | ||||
31 | November 6, 2008 | Elkie Lee Taylor | 46 | 15 | Black | [33] | ||||
32 | November 12, 2008 | George H. Whitaker III | 37 | 23 | 14 | [34] | ||||
33 | November 13, 2008 | Denard Sha Manns | 42 | 32 | 10 | [35] | ||||
34 | November 19, 2008 | Gregory L. Bryant-Bey | 53 | 37 | 16 | Ohio | [36] | |||
35 | November 20, 2008 | Robert Jean Hudson | 45 | 36 | 9 | Texas | [37] | |||
36 | November 21, 2008 | Marco Allen Chapman | 37 | 30 | 7 | White | Kentucky | [38] | ||
37 | December 5, 2008 | Joseph Martin Luther Gardner | 38 | 22 | 16 | Black | South Carolina | [39] | ||
Average: | 40 years | 26 years | 14 years |
Gender | ||
---|---|---|
Male | 37 | 100% |
Female | 0 | 0% |
Ethnicity | ||
Black | 17 | 46% |
White | 17 | 46% |
Hispanic | 3 | 8% |
State | ||
Texas | 18 | 49% |
Georgia | 3 | 8% |
Oklahoma | 3 | 8% |
South Carolina | 3 | 8% |
Virginia | 3 | 8% |
Florida | 2 | 5% |
Mississippi | 2 | 5% |
Ohio | 2 | 5% |
Kentucky | 1 | 3% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 36 | 97% |
Electrocution | 1 | 3% |
Month | ||
January | 0 | 0% |
February | 0 | 0% |
March | 0 | 0% |
April | 0 | 0% |
May | 3 | 8% |
June | 6 | 16% |
July | 7 | 19% |
August | 4 | 11% |
September | 4 | 11% |
October | 6 | 16% |
November | 6 | 16% |
December | 1 | 3% |
Age | ||
20–29 | 5 | 14% |
30–39 | 14 | 38% |
40–49 | 13 | 35% |
50–59 | 5 | 14% |
Total | 37 | 100% |
Number of executions | |
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2009 | 52 |
2008 | 37 |
2007 | 42 |
Total | 131 |
Preceded by 2007 |
List of people executed in the United States in 2008 |
Succeeded by 2009 |