List of people executed in Arkansas
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arkansas since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in the United States.
31 people have been executed in Arkansas since 1976: 30 male and 1 female (Christina Marie Riggs). All but John Swindler (who was executed by electric chair) were executed by lethal injection. All were executed for the crime of murder.[1]
# | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of Execution |
Method of Execution |
Victim(s) | Governor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | John Edward Swindler | White | 46 | M | 18-Jun-1990 | Electric chair | Police Officer Randy Basnett | Bill Clinton |
2 | Ronald Gene Simmons | White | 49 | M | 25-Jun-1990 | Lethal injection | Sixteen murder victims: fourteen family members; a co-worker; and a stranger | |
3 | Ricky Ray Rector | Black | 40 | M | 24-Jan-1992 | Police Officer Robert Martin | ||
4 | Steven Douglas Hill | White | 25 | M | 07-May-1992 | Police Officer Robert Klein | ||
5 | Edward Charles Pickens | Black | 39 | M | 11-May-1994 | Wesley Noble | Jim Guy Tucker | |
6 | Jonas Hoten Whitmore | White | 50 | M | Essie Mae Black | |||
7 | Hoyt Franklin Clines | White | 37 | M | 03-Aug-1994 | Donald Lehman | ||
8 | Darryl V. Richley | White | 43 | M | ||||
9 | James William Holmes | White | 37 | M | ||||
10 | Richard Wayne Snell | White | 64 | M | 19-Apr-1995 | William Stumpp | ||
11 | Barry Lee Fairchild | Black | 41 | M | 31-Aug-1995 | Marjorie Mason | ||
12 | William Frank Parker | White | 41 | M | 08-Aug-1996 | James Warren and Sandra Warren | Mike Huckabee | |
13 | Paul Ruiz | Latino | 49 | M | 08-Jan-1997 | Marvin Richie and Opal James | ||
14 | Earl Von Denton | White | 47 | M | ||||
15 | Kirt Douglas Wainwright | Black | 30 | M | Barbara Smith | |||
16 | Eugene Wallace Perry | White | 53 | M | 06-Aug-1997 | Kenneth Staton and Suzanne Staton-Ware | ||
17 | Wilburn A. Henderson | White | 56 | M | 08-Jul-1998 | Willa Dean O'Neal | ||
18 | Johnie Michael Cox | White | 42 | M | 16-Feb-1999 | Marie Sullens, Margaret Brown, and Billy Brown | ||
19 | Marion Albert Pruett | White | 49 | M | 12-Apr-1999 | Bobbie Jean Robertson | ||
20 | Mark Edward Gardner | White | 43 | M | 08-Sep-1999 | Joe Joyce, Martha Joyce, and Sara McCurdy | ||
21 | Alan Willett | White | 52 | M | Eric Willett and Roger Willett | |||
22 | Christina Marie Riggs | White | 28 | F | 02-May-2000 | Justin Riggs and Shelby Alexis Riggs | ||
23 | David Dewayne Johnson | Black | 37 | M | 19-Dec-2000 | Leon Brown | ||
24 | Clay King Smith | White | 30 | M | 08-May-2001 | Misty Erwin, Shelley Sorg, Sean Sorg, Taylor Sorg, and Samantha Rhodes | ||
25 | Riley Dobi Noel | Black | 31 | M | 09-Jul-2003 | Marcell Young, Malak Hussian, and Mustafa Hussian | ||
26 | Charles Laverne Singleton | Black | 44 | M | 06-Jan-2004 | Mary Lou York | ||
27 | Eric Randall Nance | White | 45 | M | 28-Nov-2005 | Julie Heath | ||
28 | Ledell T. Lee | Black | 51 | M | 20-Apr-2017 | Debra Reese | Asa Hutchinson | |
29 | Jack Harold Jones, Jr. | White | 52 | M | 24-Apr-2017 | Mary Phillips | ||
30 | Marcel Wayne Williams | Black | 46 | M | Stacy Rae Errickson | |||
31 | Kenneth Dewayne Williams | Black | 38 | M | 27-Apr-2017 | Cecil Boren | ||
References
- "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
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