List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state)

This is a list of people executed in Georgia. Since 1976, a total of 68 convicted murderers have been executed by the state of Georgia in the United States.

List of people executed

Summary of executions

• Gender
  • Male: 67 (99%)
  • Female: 1 (2%)
• Method
  • Electric chair: 23 (35%)
  • Lethal injection: 45 (66%)

Record number of executions

In 2016, the State of Georgia executed eight individuals. 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.^[1]

Prior to 1976

• Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed on March 5, 1945, for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate.
• The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County. (See http://genealogytrails.com/geo/executions3.html through http://genealogytrails.com/geo/executions5.html.)

See also

• Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Capital punishment in the United States
• Furman v. Georgia, the 1972 United States Supreme Court case that led to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States; the moratorium came to an end when Gregg v. Georgia was decided in 1976
• Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision ending the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision Furman v. Georgia
• List of death row inmates in Georgia
• List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
• List of offenders executed in the United States in 2015
• List of offenders executed in the United States in 2016
• List of women executed in the United States since 1976

References

External links

• Georgia Executions. Pro-Death Penalty.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.