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Nlllicno/Ojfla Suite 1(,00 NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE 99 Hudson St.Rel AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. New York, N.Y. 10013-2897 (212) 219-1900 Fax : (212) 226-7592 Summer 1996 DEATH ROW, V.S.A. TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATH ROW INMATES KNOWNTO LDF : 3,153 (As of July 31, 1996) Race of Defendant: White 1,509 (47.86%) Black 1,291 (40.94%) Latino/Latina 234 ( 7.42%) Native American 49 ( 1.55%) Asian 23 ( .73%) Unknown at this issue 47 ( 1.49%) Gender: Male 3,104 (98.44%) Female 49 ( 1.55%) DISPOSITIONS SINCE JANUARY 1, 1973 : Executions : 335 Suicides: 45 Commutations: 74 (including those by the Governor of Texas resulting from favorable court decisions) Died of natural causes, or killed while under death sentence: 99 Convictions / Sentences reversed: 1537 JURISDICTIONS WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT STATUTES: 40 (Underli ned jurisdictions have statutes but no sentences imposed) Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming, U.S . Government, U.S. Military. JURISDICTIONS WITHOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT STATUTES: 13 Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Io wa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin. ___,_,_,_ TlocNAACP LegalDefcmc le .Educ~tJonalFund. lac . (LOF)iJ not pan Swte 301 Swa: 2lll J,J,,ctiiJ,fo,U.S. of the NanonalA AOC1a1J011for die Advanccmcn, of ColorcclPeople 1275K S<rec<, NW 315 Wes, Nindi Strft < ""- ....,.,,,., ... (NAACP) although LDF wu fouadc:dby the NAACP aad sbatcJ ,u Wuhington , DC 20005 LosAng,,lci. CA 9001S COCMIJtmCD<<ocqu.aJ righu . LDF 1w ud for over 30 years a ,epara<c (202) 682-UOO (213) 624-?AOS Board, program, suff , office aad budge,. Faz: (202) 682-1312 Fax: (213) 624-(,075 execution update July 31, 1996 Total number of executions since the 1976 reinstatement of capital punishment (there were no executions in 1976): 335 '77' 78 '79 '80 '81 '82 '83 '84 '85 '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 1 0 2 0 1 2 5 21 18 18 25 11 16 23 14 31 38 31 56 22 gender of defendants executed gender of victims total number 335 total number 451 Female . .... 1 ( .30%) Female . 194 (43.02%) Male . 334 (99 . 70%) Male . .. 257 (56 . 98\- ) race of defendants executed race of victims White . 187 (55.82%) White . 370 (82.04%) Black . ... 128 (38.21%) Black. 57 (12.64%) Latino ... 17 ( 5 .0 7%) Latino 17 ( 3.77%) Native American 2 ( . 60%) Asian. 7 ( 1.55\-) Asian . 1 ( . 30%) defendant-victim racial combinations ...... White Defendant and White Victim . 259 (57.43%) Black Victim. 5 ( 1.11%) Asian Victim 2 ( . 44\-) Latino/a Victim 8 ( 1. 77\-) Black Defendant and White Victim ... .... 102 (22 .62%) Black Vict i m .... 51 (11. 31\-) Asian Victim 2 ( . 44%) Latino Victim 1 ( . 22%) Latino Defendant and White Victim . .. 9 ( 2.00%) Latino Victim .. 7 ( 1.55\-) Asian Victim 1 ( .22\-) Native American and White Victim 2 ( .44%) Asian Defendant and Asian Victim 2 ( . 44\-) \,_, 2 Date of Name of State Race gender Execution Defendant / Number of Def / of .,....., Multiple Victims Victim Victim 01-17-77 1. Gary Gilmore[*] UT W/ W M 05-25-79 2. John Spenkelink FL W/ W M 10-22-79 3. Jesse Bishop[*] NV W/ W M 03-09-81 4. Steven Judy[*] / 3 IN W/ WWW FFF 08-10-82 5. Frank Coppola[*] VA W/ W F 12-07-82 6. Charlie Brooks TX B/ W M 04-22-83 7. John Evans AL W/ W M 09-02-83 8. Jimmy Lee Gray MS W/ W F 11-30-83 9. Robert Sullivan FL W/ W M 12-14-83 10. Robert W. Williams LA B/ B M 12 - 15-83 11 . John Eldon Smith /2 GA W/ WW M-F 01 - 26-84 12. Anthony Antone[+] FL W/W M 02-29-84 13. John Taylor LA B/ W M 03-14-84 14. James Autry TX W/ W F- 03-16-84 15. James Hutchins/2 NC W/ WW MM 03-31-84 16. Ronald O'Bryan TX W/ W M 04-05-84 17. Arthur Goode FL W/ W M 04-05-84 18. Elmo Sonnier / 2 LA W/ WW M-F 05 - 10-84 19. James Adams FL B/ W M 06-20-84 20. Carl Shriner FL W/ W M 07-12-84 21. Ivon Stanley GA B/ W M 07-13-84 22. David Washington / 3 FL B/ WBW MM-F 09 - 07-84 23. Ernest Dobbert FL W/ W F 09 - 10-84 24. Timothy Baldwin LA W/ W F ...-...,09-20-84 25. James Dupree Henry FL B/ B M 10-12-84 26. Linwood Briley VA B/W M 10-30-84 27. Thomas Barefoot TX W/ W M 10-30-84 28. Ernest Knighton LA B/ W M 11 - 02-84 29. Velma Barfield[Al NC W/ W M 11-08-84 30 . Timothy Palmes FL W/ W M 12-12-84 31. Alpha Otis Stephens GA B/ W M 12-28-84 32. Robert Lee Willie LA W/ W F 01-04-85 33. David Martin / 4 LA W/ WWWW MM-FF 01-09-85 34. Roosevelt Green[@] GA B/ W F 01-11 - 85 35. Joseph Carl Shaw / 2 SC W/ WW M-F 01-16-85 36. Doyle Skillern[+] TX W/ W M 01-30 - 85 37. James Raulerson FL W/ W M 02-20-85 38. Van R. Solomon GA B/ W M 03 - 06 - 85 39. Johnny Paul Witt FL W/ W M 03 - 13-85 40. Stephen P. Morin[*] TX W/ W F 03-20-85 41. John Young / 3 GA B/ WWW FF-M 04-18 - 85 4 2 . James Briley / 2 VA B/ BB M-F 05-15-85 43. Jesse de la Rosa TX L/ A M 05-29-85 44. Marvin Francois / 6 FL B/ 6B 6M 06-25-85 45. Charles Milton TX B/ B F 06-25-85 46 . Morris Mason VA B/ W F 07-09-85 47. Henry M. Porter TX L/ W M 09-11-85 48. Charles Rumbaugh[*#] TX W/ W M 10 - 16-85 49. William Vandiver[*] IN W/ W M ,..--..,..12-06-85 so. Carroll Cole[*] NV W/ W F 01 - 10-86 51. James Terry Roach[#] SC W/ W M 3 03-12-86 52. Charles William Bass TX W/ W M 03-21 - 86 53. Arthur Lee Jones AL B/ W M 04-15-86 54. Daniel Thomas FL B/ W M 04-16-86 55. Jeffrey A. Barney[*] TX W/ W F 04 - 22-86 56. David Funchess / 2 FL B/ WW M-F 05-15-86 57. Jay Pinkerton[#l / 2 TX W/ WW FF 05-20-86 58. Ronald Straight FL (see #30) 06 - 09-86 59 . Rudy Esquivel TX L/ W M 06-18-86 60. Kenneth Brock TX W/ W M 06-24-86 61. Jerome Bowden GA B/W F 07-31-86 62. Michael Smith VA B/W F 08-20-86 63. Randy Woolls TX W/ W F 08-22-86 64. Larry Smith TX B/ W M 08-26-86 65. Chester Wicker TX W/ W F 09-19-86 66. John Rook NC W/W F 12-04-86 67 . Michael Wayne Evans TX B/ L F 12-18-86 68 . Richard Andrade TX L/ L F 01-30-87 69 . Ramon Hernandez[*] TX L/ L M 03-04-87 70 . Elisio Moreno[*] TX L/ W M 05-15-87 71. Joseph Mulligan GA B/ B M 05-20-87 72. Edward Earl Johnson MS B/ W M 05-22-87 73 . Richard Tucker GA B/W F 05-28-87 74. Anthony Williams TX B/ W F 05-29-87 75. William Boyd Tucker GA W/ W F 06-07-87 76. Benjamin Berry LA W/ W M 06-09-87 77 . Alvin Moore LA B/ W F 06-12-87 78 . Jimmy Glass / 2 LA W/ WW M-F 06-16-87 79 . Jimmy Wingo / 2 LA (see #78) 06-24-87 80. Elliott Johnson TX B/ W M 07 - 06-87 81. Richard Whitley VA W/ W F 07-08-87 82. John R. Thompson TX W/ W F 07 - 08-87 83. Connie Ray Evans MS B/ A M 07-20-87 84 . Willie Celestine LA B/ W F 07-24-87 85. Willie Watson[<!] LA B/ W F 07-30 - 87 86 . John Brogdon LA W/ W F 08-24-87 87 . Sterling Rault LA W/ W F 08-28-87 88. Beauford White[+] FL (see #44) 08 - 28-87 89. Wayne Ritter AL (see # 7) 08-28-87 90. Dale Pierre Selby / 3 UT B/WWW FF-M 09-01-87 91. Billy Mitchell GA B/ W M 09-10-87 92 . Joseph Starvaggi TX W/ W M 09-21-87 93. Timothy McCorguodale GA W/ W F 01-07-88 94. Robert Streetman[®] TX W/ W F 03-15-88 95 . Wayne Felde LA W/ W M 03-15-88 96. Willie Darden FL B/ W M 04-13-88 97. Leslie Lowenfield / 5 LA B/ 5B FFF-MM 04 - 14-88 98 . Earl Clanton VA B/ B F 06-10 - 88 99. Arthur Bishop[*] / 5 UT W/ 5W MMMMM 06 - 14-88 100. Edward Byrne LA W/W M 07-28 - 88 101.