This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2016 . A total of 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 [ edit ]
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
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 [ edit ]
Number of executions
2017
23
2016
20
2015
28
Total
71
Record number of executions in Georgia [ edit ]
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]
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]
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^ "Inmate Release Information Detail – Inmate 519220" . Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ Cotterell, Bill (January 7, 2016). "Florida killer put to death in first U.S. execution of year" . Yahoo! News . Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ "Inmate Information – Richard Allen Masterson" . Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ "Texas executes its first inmate of 2016 after late appeals" . January 20, 2016. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ Smith, Jordan (2016-01-19). "Did a Dubious Confession Sway a Medical Examiner's Autopsy in a Texas Death Penalty Case?" . The Intercept . Retrieved 2024-03-30 .
^ "A man convicted of a woman's rape and murder was put to death Thursday in Alabama's first execution since 2013" . January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ "Inmate Information – James Garrett Freeman" . Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ "Texas executes its first inmate of 2016 after late appeals" . January 20, 2016. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News .
^ "Georgia executes Brandon Astor Jones" . February 3, 2016. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-18 .
^ "Inmate Information – Gustavo Julian Garcia" . Texas Department of Criminal Justice . Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ McCullough, Jolie (February 16, 2016). "Inmate executed after 24 years on death row" . The Texas Tribune . Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
^ "Georgia executes ex-Navy sailor for 1992 murder of shipmate" . February 17, 2016. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-18 .
^ "Inmate Information – Coy Wayne Wesbrook" , Texas Department of Criminal Justice
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Inmate Information – Adam Kelly Ward" , Texas Department of Criminal Justice
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Inmate Information – Pablo Lucio Vasquez" , Texas Department of Criminal Justice
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Capital Punishment in Missouri - Current Inmates" , missourideathrow.com; accessed February 3, 2018.
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Georgia executes man on death row for 34 years for 1982 killing of a friend" , Chicago Tribune ; accessed February 3, 2018.
^ "Inmate Information – Barney Ronald Fuller, Jr." , Texas Department of Criminal Justice
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ Cook, Rhonda (December 7, 2016). "Georgia executes William Sallie for 1990 murder of father-in-law" . The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Archived from the original on July 9, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2021 .
^ "Last meals of 2016's death row inmates" , CBS News
^ "Meals to die for" , Adrian Hatwell
^ Sargent, Ewan (December 22, 2016). "Meals to die for: Kiwi photographer captures last meals of executed prisoners" . Stuff . Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
Preceded by2015
List of people executed in the United States in 2016
Succeeded by2017