U.S. executions in 2002.
A total of 71 executions took place during 2002, all for 1st degree murder.
Numbering is from the first post-Furman execution, that of Gary Gilmore in
Utah on 17 January 1977.

Listings of all executions in 2000 and 2001.

No.

Date

State

Name

Method

750

01/09

Missouri

James R. Johnson

Injection

751

01/09

Texas

Michael Moore

Injection

752

01/16

Texas

Jermarr Arnold

Injection

753

01/24

Georgia

Ronald Spivey

Injection

754

01/28

California

Stephen Wayne Anderson

Injection

755

01/29

Oklahoma

John Romano

Injection

756

01/30

Texas

Windell Broussard

Injection

757

01/31

Oklahoma

David Wayne Woodruff

Injection

758

01/31

Texas

Randal Hafdahl

Injection

759

02/05

Missouri

Michael Owsley

Injection

760

02/09

Ohio

John W. Byrd Jr.

Injection

761

02/28

Texas

Monty Delk

Injection

762

03/05

Missouri

Jeffrey Tokar

Injection

763

03/08

Texas

Gerald Tigner

Injection

764

03/12

Georgia

Tracy Housel

Injection

765

03/14

Virginia

James Patterson

Injection

766

04/02

Virginia

Daniel Lee Zirkle

Injection

767

04/10

Missouri

Paul Kreutzer

Injection

768

04/10

Texas

Jose Santellan

Injection

769

04/11

Texas

William Burns

Injection

770

04/18

Texas

Gerald Casey

Injection

771

04/26

Ohio

Alton Coleman

Injection

772

04/30

Texas

Rodolfo Hernandez

Injection

773

05/03

South Carolina

Richard Charles Johnson

Injection

774

05/09

Texas

Reginald Reeves

Injection

775

05/10

Alabama

Lynda Lyon Block (female)

Electrocution

776

05/10

Louisiana

Leslie Martin

Injection

777

05/16

Texas

Ronford Styron

Injection

778

05/22

Texas

Johnny Joe Martinez

Injection

779

05/28

Texas

Napoleon Beazley (juvenile)

Injection

780

05/30

Texas

Stanley Baker

Injection

781

06/13

Virginia

Walter Mickens Jr.

Injection

782

06/13

Texas

Daniel Reneau

Injection

783

06/24

Texas

Robert Coulson

Injection

784

06/26

Texas

Jeffrey Lynn Williams

Injection

785

07/17

Mississippi

Tracy Alan Hansen

Injection

786

07/23

Oklahoma

Randall E Cannon

Injection

787

07/30

Oklahoma

Earl Alexander Frederick Sr.

Injection

788

08/07

Texas

Richard Kutzner

Injection

789

08/08

Texas

T.J. Jones (juvenile)

Injection

790

08/14

Texas

Javier Suarez Medina

Injection

791

08/14

Missouri

Daniel Basile

Injection

792

08/16

Georgia

Wallace Fugate

Injection

793

08/20

Texas

Gary Etheridge

Injection

794

08/23

South Carolina

Anthony Green

Injection

795

08/28

Texas

Toronto Patterson (juvenile)

Injection

796

09/10

Texas

Tony Walker

Injection

797

09/13

South Carolina

Michael Passaro

Injection

798

09/17

Texas

Jessie Joe Patrick

Injection

799

09/18

Texas

Ron Shamburger

Injection

800

09/24

Texas

Rex Meys

Injection

801

09/25

Ohio

Robert Buell

Injection

802

09/25

Texas

Calvin Eugene King

Injection

803

10/01

Texas

James R. Powell

Injection

804

10/02

Florida

Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco

Injection

805

10/09

Florida

Aileen Wournoss (female)

Injection

806

11/14

Virginia

Mir Aimal Kasi

Injection

807

11/14

Georgia

William Putnam

Injection

808

11/19

Texas

Craig Ogan

Injection

809

11/20

Missouri

William R. Jones

Injection

810

11/21

Texas

William Wesley Chappell

Injection

811

12/04

Texas

Leonard Rojas

Injection

812

12/06

North Carolina

Ernest Basden

Injection

813

19/09

Florida

Linroy Bottoson

Injection

814

12/10

North Carolina

Desmond Keith Carter

Injection

815

12/10

Oklahoma

Jerry Lynn McCracken

Injection

816

12/11

Texas

James Collier

Injection

817

12/11

Mississippi

Jessie Williams

Injection

818

12/12

Oklahoma

Jay Wesley Neill

Injection

819

12/12

Alabama

Anthony Keith Johnson *

Injection

820

12/17

Oklahoma

Ernest Marvin Carter

Injection

Totals: 67 men, 2 juveniles and 2 females. 70 executions by lethal injection & 1 by electrocution

Analysis by state.

State

No. executed

Texas

33

Oklahoma

7

Missouri

6

Georgia

4

Virginia

4

Florida

3

Ohio

3

S Carolina

3

Alabama

2

Mississippi

2

N Carolina

2

California

1

Louisiana

1

Total for 2002

71

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