List of United States Death Row Inmates - Maryland

Maryland

Maryland has executed 314 people since June 20, 1638. Maryland's current method of execution is lethal injection; the most recent execution was Wesley Eugene Baker, by lethal injection, on December 5, 2005. Maryland conducts executions at the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore; it is near the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center where death row inmates were previously confined (and a death row inmate died in his cell in March 2007). All death row inmates were relocated to the North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland in June 2010.

Name Description of crime Date sentenced Other
John Booth-El Double murder by stabbing an elderly couple during a robbery of their Baltimore home on May 20, 1983 October 18, 1984 Vacated in 1987; resentenced May 27, 1988; vacated 1989; resentenced August 17, 1990
Heath William Burch Double murder of an elderly neighbor couple by stabbing and bludgeoning in their home on March 19, 1995 Two sentences March 29, 1996 One vacated in 1997, as they had been submitted on one verdict card
Vernon Lee Evans, Jr.(hired by Anthony Grandison, Sr.) Double murder for hire shooting of a scheduled witness and the witness' sister-in-law (mistaken for her sister) in a Baltimore County motel on April 28, 1983 Two separate sentences on May 15, 1984 Both sentences vacated 1991; resentenced November 15, 1992
Anthony Grandison, Sr.(hired Vernon Lee Evans, Jr.) Double murder for hire shooting of a scheduled witness and the witness' sister-in-law (mistaken for her sister) in a Baltimore County motel on April 28, 1983 June 6, 1984 Vacated in July 1992; resentenced June 1994
Jody Lee Miles Robbery and murder by shooting of a theater manager on April 2, 1997 March 19, 1998

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