List of people executed in North Carolina

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina since 1984.

There have been a total of 43 executions in North Carolina, under the current statute, since it was adopted in 1977. All of the people executed were convicted of murder. Of the 43 people executed, 42 were male and 1 was female. 41 were executed via lethal injection and 2 via gas chamber.[1]

# Name Race Age Sex Date of
Execution
Method of
Execution
Victim(s) Governor
1 James W. Hutchins White 54 M 16 March 1984 Lethal injection Roy Huskey, Owen Messersmith, and Pete Peterson James B. Hunt, Jr.
2 Margie Velma Barfield White 52 F 2 November 1984 Stuart Taylor
3 John William Rook White 27 M 19 September 1986 Ann Marie Roche James G. Martin
4 Michael Van McDougall White 36 M 18 October 1991 Dianne Parker
5 John Sterling Gardner, Jr. White 34 M 23 October 1992 Richard Adams and Kim Miller
6 David Lawson White 38 M 15 June 1994 Gas chamber Wayne Shinn James B. Hunt, Jr.
7 Kermit Smith, Jr. White 37 M 24 January 1995 Lethal injection Whelette Collins
8 Phillip Lee Ingle White 34 M 22 September 1995 William Fred Davis, Margaret Davis, E.Z. Willis, and Sarah Willis
9 Ricky Lee Sanderson White 38 M 30 January 1998 Gas chamber[lower-alpha 1] Sue Ellen Holliman
10 Zane Brown Hill White 62 M 14 August 1998 Lethal injection Randall Hill
11 John Thomas Noland, Jr. White 50 M 20 November 1998 Cindy Milton and Troy Milton
12 James David Rich White 26 M 26 March 1999 Paul Gwyn
13 Harvey Lee Green Black 38 M 24 September 1999 Sheila Bland and Michael Edmondson
14 Arthur Martin Boyd, Jr. White 53 M 21 October 1999 Wanda Hartman
15 David Junior Brown Black 51 M 19 November 1999 Shelly Chalflinch and Christina Chalflinch
16 Michael Earl Sexton Black 34 M 9 November 2000 Kimberly Crews
17 Willie Ervin Fisher Black 39 M 9 March 2001 Angela Johnson Mike Easley
18 Clifton Allen White White 43 M 24 August 2001 Kimberly Ewing
19 Ronald Wayne Frye White 42 M 31 August 2001 Ralph Childress
20 David Junior Ward Black 39 M 12 October 2001 Dorothy Mae Smith
21 John Hardy Rose White 43 M 30 November 2001 Patricia Stewart
22 Ernest West Basden White 49 M 6 December 2002 Billy White
23 Desmond Keith Carter Black 35 M 10 December 2002 Helen Purdy
24 William Quentin Jones Black 34 M 22 August 2003 Edward Peebles
25 Henry Lee Hunt Native American 58 M 12 September 2003 Larry Jones and Jackie Ransom
26 Joseph Earl Bates White 35 M 26 September 2003 Charles Jenkins
27 Edward Ernest Hartman White 39 M 3 October 2003 Herman Larry Smith, Sr.
28 Joseph Timothy Keel White 39 M 7 November 2003 John Simmons
29 John Dennis Daniels Black 46 M 14 November 2003 Isabelle Daniels Crawford
30 Robbie James Lyons Black 31 M 5 December 2003 Stephen Stafford
31 Raymond Dale Rowsey White 32 M 9 January 2004 Howard Sikorski
32 Sammy Crystal Perkins Black 51 M 8 October 2004 Lashenna Moore
33 Charles Wesley Roache White 30 M 22 October 2004 Chad McKinley Watt, Earl Phillips, Cora Phillips, Eddie Phillips, Mitzi Phillips, and Katie Phillips
34 Frank Ray Chandler White 32 M 12 November 2004 Doris Poore
35 William Dillard Powell White 58 M 11 March 2005 Mary Gladden
36 Earl J. Richmond, Jr. Black 43 M 6 May 2005 Helisa S. Hayes, Phillip Hayes, and Darien Hayes
37 Steven Van McHone White 35 M 11 November 2005 Mildred Adams and Wesley Adams, Sr.
38 Elias Syriani Other Race 67 M 18 November 2005 Teresa Yousef Syriani
39 Kenneth Lee Boyd[lower-alpha 2] White 57 M 2 December 2005 Julie Curry Boyd and Thomas Dillard Curry
40 Perrie Simpson Black 43 M 20 January 2006 Jean Ernest Darter
41 Patrick Lane Moody White 39 M 17 March 2006 Donnie Ray Robbins
42 Willie Brown, Jr. Black 61 M 21 April 2006 Valerie Ann Roberson Dixon
43 Samuel Russell Flippen White 37 M 18 August 2006 Britnie Nichole Hutton

See also

Notes

  1. This was the second last execution by gas chamber to be carried out in the United States.
  2. Kenneth Lee Boyd was the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

References

  1. "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
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