Individuals Executed Since 1976
A total of 28 individuals convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976:
Executed person | Date of execution | Method | Victims | Under Governor | |
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1 | Robert Wayne Williams | 14 December 1983 | electric chair | Willie Kelly. | David C. Treen |
2 | Johnny Taylor, Jr. | 29 February 1984 | electric chair | David Vogler. | |
3 | Elmo Patrick Sonnier | 5 April 1984 | electric chair | Loretta Bourque and David LeBlanc. | Edwin Edwards |
4 | Timothy G. Baldwin | 10 September 1984 | electric chair | Mary Lee Peters. | |
5 | Ernest Knighton, Jr. | 30 October 1984 | electric chair | Ralph Shell. | |
6 | Robert Lee Willie | 28 December 1984 | electric chair | Faith Hathaway. | |
7 | David Dene Martin | 4 January 1985 | electric chair | Bobby Todd. | |
8 | Benjamin Berry | 7 June 1987 | electric chair | Robert Cochran. | |
9 | Alvin R. Moore, Jr. | 8 June 1987 | electric chair | Jo Ann Wilson. | |
10 | Jimmy L. Glass | 12 June 1987 | electric chair | Newt Brown and Erlene Brown. | |
11 | Jimmy Wingo | 16 June 1987 | electric chair | Newt Brown and Erlene Brown. | |
12 | Willie Celestine | 20 July 1987 | electric chair | Marcelaine Richard. | |
13 | Willie Watson | 24 July 1987 | electric chair | Kathy Newman. | |
14 | John E. Brogdon | 30 July 1987 | electric chair | Barbara Jo Brown. | |
15 | Sterling J. Rault, Jr. | 24 August 1987 | electric chair | Jane Ellen Francioni. | |
16 | Wayne Robert Felde | 15 March 1988 | electric chair | Glen Thompkins. | Buddy Roemer |
17 | Leslie Lowenfield | 13 April 1988 | electric chair | Shiela Thomas, Shantel Osborne, Carol Osborne, Owen Griffin, and Myrtle Griffin. | |
18 | Edward R. Byme, Jr. | 14 June 1988 | electric chair | Robert Johnson. | |
19 | Dalton Prejean | 18 May 1990 | electric chair | Donald Cleveland. | |
20 | Andrew Lee Jones | 22 July 1991 | electric chair | Tumekica Jackson. | |
21 | Robert Wayne Sawyer | 5 March 1993 | lethal injection | Frances Arwood. | Edwin Edwards |
22 | Thomas Lee Ward | 16 March 1995 | lethal injection | Wilbert John Spencer. | |
23 | Antonio G. James | 1 March 1996 | lethal injection | Henry Silver. | Murphy J. Foster, Jr. |
24 | John Ashley Brown, Jr. | 24 April 1997 | lethal injection | Omer Laughlin. | |
25 | Dobie Gillis Williams | 8 January 1999 | lethal injection | Sonja Knippers. | |
26 | Feltus Taylor, Jr. | 6 June 2000 | lethal injection | Donna Ponsano. | |
27 | Leslie Dale Martin | 10 May 2002 | lethal injection | Christina Burgin. | |
28 | Gerald Bordelon | 7 January 2010 | lethal injection | Courtney LeBlanc | Bobby Jindal |
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