List of people executed in Mississippi
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi since capital punishment was resumed in 1976.
Since 1976, 21 people convicted of capital murder have been executed by the state of Mississippi. Of the 21 people executed, 4 were executed via gas chamber and 17 via lethal injection.[1]
# | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of Execution |
Method of Execution |
Victim(s) | Governor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jimmy Lee Gray | White | 34 | M | 2 September 1983 | Gas chamber[lower-alpha 1] | Deressa Jean Scales | William Winter |
2 | Edward Earl Johnson | Black | 26 | M | 20 May 1987 | Walnut Grove police officer J. T. Trest | William Allain | |
3 | Connie Ray Evans | Black | 27 | M | 8 July 1987 | Arun Pahwa | ||
4 | Leo Edwards Jr. | Black | 36 | M | 21 June 1989 | Linzy Don Dixon | Ray Mabus | |
5 | Tracy Alan Hansen | White | 39 | M | 17 July 2002 | Lethal injection | Mississippi Highway Patrol officer David Bruce Ladner | Ronnie Musgrove |
6 | Jessie Derrell Williams | White | 51 | M | 11 December 2002 | Karon Ann Pierce | ||
7 | John B. Nixon | White | 77 | M | 14 December 2005 | Virginia Tucker | Haley Barbour | |
8 | Bobby Glen Wilcher | White | 43 | M | 18 October 2006 | Katie Bell Moore and Velma Odell Noblin | ||
9 | Earl Wesley Berry | White | 49 | M | 21 May 2008 | Mary Bounds | ||
10 | Dale Leo Bishop | White | 34 | M | 23 July 2008 | Marcus James Gentry | ||
11 | Paul Everette Woodward | White | 62 | M | 19 May 2010 | Rhonda Crane | ||
12 | Gerald James Holland | White | 72 | M | 20 May 2010 | Krystal King | ||
13 | Joseph Daniel Burns | White | 42 | M | 21 July 2010 | Floyd Melvin McBride | ||
14 | Benny Joe Stevens | White | 52 | M | 10 May 2011 | Glenda Reid, Wesley Lee Reid, Dylan Lee, and Heath Pounds | ||
15 | Rodney Gray | Black | 39 | M | 17 May 2011 | Grace Blackwell | ||
16 | Edwin Hart Turner | White | 38 | M | 8 February 2012 | Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry | Phil Bryant | |
17 | Larry Matthew Puckett | White | 35 | M | 20 March 2012 | Rhonda Hatten Griffis | ||
18 | William Gerald Mitchell | Black | 61 | M | 22 March 2012 | Patty Milliken | ||
19 | Henry Curtis Jackson | Black | 47 | M | 5 June 2012 | Shunterica Lonnett Jackson, Dominique Devro Jackson, Antonio Terrell Jackson, and Andrew Odutola Kuyoro, Jr. | ||
20 | Jan Michael Brawner | White | 34 | M | 12 June 2012 | Candice Paige Brawner, Barbara Faye Brawner, Carl Albert Craft, and Martha Jane Craft | ||
21 | Gary Carl Simmons Jr. | White | 49 | M | 20 June 2012 | Jeffrey Wolfe |
Notes
- Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Mississippi is the state with the highest amount of executions via gas chamber.
References
- "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
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