List of people executed in the United States in 2016
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Twenty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2016, all by lethal injection. The state of Georgia executed nine people, setting a record for the most executions conducted there in a calendar year.[1]
List of people executed in the United States in 2016
| No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At execution | At offense | Age difference | ||||||||
| 1 | January 7, 2016 | Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. | 53 | 24 | 29 | Male | White | Florida | Lethal injection | [2][3] |
| 2 | January 20, 2016 | Richard Allen Masterson | 43 | 28 | 15 | Texas | [4][5][6] | |||
| 3 | January 21, 2016 | Christopher Eugene Brooks | 20 | 23 | Alabama | [7] | ||||
| 4 | January 27, 2016 | James Garrett Freeman | 35 | 26 | 9 | Texas | [8][9][10] | |||
| 5 | February 3, 2016 | Brandon Astor Jones | 72 | 36 | 36 | Black | Georgia | [11] | ||
| 6 | February 16, 2016 | Gustavo Julian Garcia | 43 | 18 | 25 | Hispanic | Texas | [12][13] | ||
| 7 | February 17, 2016 | Travis Clinton Hittson | 45 | 21 | 24 | White | Georgia | [14] | ||
| 8 | March 9, 2016 | Coy Wayne Wesbrook | 58 | 39 | 19 | Texas | [15][16] | |||
| 9 | March 22, 2016 | Adam Kelly Ward | 33 | 22 | 11 | [17][18] | ||||
| 10 | March 31, 2016 | Joshua Daniel Bishop | 41 | 19 | 22 | Georgia | [19] | |||
| 11 | April 6, 2016 | Pablo Lucio Vasquez | 38 | 20 | 18 | Hispanic | Texas | [20][21] | ||
| 12 | April 12, 2016 | Kenneth Earl Fults | 47 | 27 | 20 | Black | Georgia | [22] | ||
| 13 | April 27, 2016 | Daniel Anthony Lucas | 37 | 19 | 18 | White | [23] | |||
| 14 | May 11, 2016 | Earl Mitchell Forrest II | 66 | 53 | 13 | Missouri | [24][25] | |||
| 15 | July 15, 2016 | John Wayne Conner | 60 | 25 | 35 | Georgia | [26] | |||
| 16 | October 5, 2016 | Barney Ronald Fuller Jr. | 58 | 44 | 14 | Texas | [27][28] | |||
| 17 | October 19, 2016 | Gregory Paul Lawler | 63 | 19 | Georgia | [29] | ||||
| 18 | November 16, 2016 | Steven Frederick Spears | 54 | 39 | 15 | [30] | ||||
| 19 | December 6, 2016 | William Cary Sallie | 50 | 24 | 26 | [31] | ||||
| 20 | December 8, 2016 | Ronald Bert Smith Jr. | 45 | 23 | 22 | Alabama | [32] | |||
| Average: | 49 years | 29 years | 20 years | |||||||
Demographics
| Gender | ||
|---|---|---|
| Male | 20 | 100% |
| Female | 0 | 0% |
| Ethnicity | ||
| White | 16 | 80% |
| Black | 2 | 10% |
| Hispanic | 2 | 10% |
| State | ||
| Georgia | 9 | 45% |
| Texas | 7 | 35% |
| Alabama | 2 | 10% |
| Florida | 1 | 5% |
| Missouri | 1 | 5% |
| Method | ||
| Lethal injection | 20 | 100% |
| Month | ||
| January | 4 | 20% |
| February | 3 | 15% |
| March | 3 | 15% |
| April | 3 | 15% |
| May | 1 | 5% |
| June | 0 | 0% |
| July | 1 | 5% |
| August | 0 | 0% |
| September | 0 | 0% |
| October | 2 | 10% |
| November | 1 | 5% |
| December | 2 | 10% |
| Age | ||
| 30–39 | 4 | 20% |
| 40–49 | 7 | 35% |
| 50–59 | 5 | 25% |
| 60–69 | 3 | 15% |
| 70–79 | 1 | 5% |
| Total | 20 | 100% |
Executions in recent years
Record number of executions in Georgia
In 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people. This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again in 2015.[33]
Last meals
- Henry Hargreaves, a Brooklyn-based photographer, recreated (and then photographed) the last meals served to all twenty men executed in 2016. Through his series, entitled A Year of Killing, Hargreaves sought to educate people about the use of the death penalty. This work is a sequel to his 2011 series No Seconds, which recreated the last meals ordered by famous criminals like Ted Bundy.[34][35]
- In 2016, the most-ordered food was steak, followed by pizza, although some of the condemned prisoners elected to forgo a special last meal.[36]