List of people executed in Tennessee
This is a list of people executed in Tennessee, since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia that found capital punishment to be constitutional.
Since the Gregg decision, seven individuals have been executed in the state of Tennessee.
List of people executed in Tennessee
| Number | Name | Age at Execution |
Date of Execution |
Method | Victim(s) | Presiding Governor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Glen Coe | 44 | April 19, 2000 | Lethal injection | Cary Ann Medlin | Don Sundquist |
| 2 | Sedley Alley | 50 | June 28, 2006 | U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Suzanne Marie Collins | Phil Bredesen | |
| 3 | Philip Ray Workman | 54 | May 9, 2007 | Memphis Police Lieutenant Ronald Oliver | ||
| 4 | Daryl Keith Holton | 45 | September 12, 2007 | Electrocution | Stephen, Brent, Eric, and Kayla Holton | |
| 5 | Steve Henley | 55 | February 4, 2009 | Lethal injection | Fred and Edna Stafford | |
| 6 | Cecil J. Johnson, Jr. | 53 | December 2, 2009 | Bobby Bell Jr., James Moore, and Charles House | ||
| 7 | William "Billy" Ray Irick | 59 | August 9, 2018 | Paula Kay Dyer | Bill Haslam | |
See also
References
- TN Executions. Tennessee Department of Correction. Retrieved on 2009-12-04.
- 'I did not kill them' condemned man says. The Tennessean, February 3, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-02-04.
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