List of individuals executed in Louisiana
A total of 28 individuals convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976: The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence.
Executed person | Date of execution | Method | Victims | Under Governor | |
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1 | Robert Wayne Williams | 14 December 1983 | electric chair | Willie Kelly. | David C. Treen |
2 | Johnny Taylor, Jr. | 29 February 1984 | David Vogler. | ||
3 | Elmo Patrick Sonnier | 5 April 1984 | Loretta Bourque and David LeBlanc. | Edwin Edwards | |
4 | Timothy G. Baldwin | 10 September 1984 | Mary Lee Peters. | ||
5 | Ernest Knighton, Jr. | 30 October 1984 | Ralph Shell. | ||
6 | Robert Lee Willie | 28 December 1984 | Faith Hathaway. | ||
7 | David Dene Martin | 4 January 1985 | Bobby Todd. | ||
8 | Benjamin Berry | 7 June 1987 | Robert Cochran. | ||
9 | Alvin R. Moore, Jr. | 8 June 1987 | Jo Ann Wilson. | ||
10 | Jimmy L. Glass | 12 June 1987 | Newt Brown and Erlene Brown. | ||
11 | Jimmy Wingo | 16 June 1987 | |||
12 | Willie Celestine | 20 July 1987 | Marcelaine Richard. | ||
13 | Willie Watson | 24 July 1987 | Kathy Newman. | ||
14 | John E. Brogdon | 30 July 1987 | Barbara Jo Brown. | ||
15 | Sterling J. Rault, Jr. | 24 August 1987 | Jane Ellen Francioni. | ||
16 | Wayne Robert Felde | 15 March 1988 | Glen Thompkins. | Buddy Roemer | |
17 | Leslie Lowenfield | 13 April 1988 | Shiela Thomas, Shantel Osborne, Carol Osborne, Owen Griffin, and Myrtle Griffin. | ||
18 | Edward R. Byme, Jr. | 14 June 1988 | Robert Johnson. | ||
19 | Dalton Prejean | 18 May 1990 | Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald Cleveland. | ||
20 | Andrew Lee Jones | 22 July 1991 | Tumekica Jackson. | ||
21 | Robert Wayne Sawyer | 5 March 1993 | lethal injection | Frances Arwood. | Edwin Edwards |
22 | Thomas Lee Ward | 16 March 1995 | Wilbert John Spencer. | ||
23 | Antonio G. James | 1 March 1996 | Henry Silver. | Murphy J. Foster, Jr. | |
24 | John Ashley Brown, Jr. | 24 April 1997 | Omer Laughlin. | ||
25 | Dobie Gillis Williams | 8 January 1999 | Sonja Knippers. | ||
26 | Feltus Taylor, Jr. | 6 June 2000 | Donna Ponsano. | ||
27 | Leslie Dale Martin | 10 May 2002 | Christina Burgin. | ||
28 | Gerald Bordelon | 7 January 2010 | Courtney LeBlanc. | Bobby Jindal |
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