U.S. executions in 2003.
Numbering is from the first post-Furman
execution, that of Gary Gilmore in Utah on 17 January 1977.
All executions are carried out for 1st
degree murder and use lethal injection unless otherwise indicated after the
prisoner's name. (E = electrocution, G = gassing, H = hanging, S = shooting)
Prisoner details : f = female, j = juvenile (under 18 at time of crime) (v) =
volunteered for execution.
No. |
Date |
State |
Name |
Victims |
821 |
01/14 |
Texas |
Samuel Gallamore |
3 - man, wife and daughter |
822 |
01/15 |
Texas |
John Baltazar |
1 - child |
823 |
01/16 |
Oklahoma |
Juan Revilla |
1 - infant |
824 |
01/22 |
Texas |
Robert Lookingbill |
1 - grandmother |
825 |
01/28 |
Texas |
Alva Curry |
1 - store clerk |
826 |
01/29 |
Texas |
Richard Dinkins |
2 women nurses |
827 |
01/30 |
Texas |
Granville Riddle |
1 - male burglary victim |
828 |
02/04 |
Texas |
John Elliott |
1 - rape/murder |
829 |
02/05 |
Missouri |
Kenneth Kenley |
1 - robbery/murder |
830 |
02/06 |
Texas |
Henry Dunn Jr. |
1 - robbery/murder |
831 |
02/12 |
Ohio |
Richard E. Fox |
1 - kidnap murder |
832 |
02/13 |
Oklahoma |
Bobby Joe Fields |
1 - robbery/murder |
833 |
02/25 |
Texas |
Richard Head Williams |
1- contract killing |
834 |
02/27 |
Florida |
Amos King |
1 rape/murder |
835 |
03/10 |
Texas |
Bobby Glen Cook |
1 - robbery/murder |
836 |
03/13 |
Alabama |
Michael Eugene Thompson |
1 - robbery/murder |
837 |
03/18 |
Federal |
Louis Jones Jr. |
1 - rape/murder |
838 |
03/18 |
Oklahoma |
Walanzo Deon Robinson |
1 - Drug related murder |
839 |
03/20 |
Texas |
Keith Clay |
1 - robbery/murder |
840 |
03/25 |
Oklahoma |
John Michael Hooker |
2 |
841 |
03/26 |
Georgia |
Larry Moon |
1 |
842 |
03/27 |
Texas |
James Colburn |
1 - rape/murder |
843 |
04/04 |
Oklahoma |
Scott Allen Hain (j) |
2 - robbery/murder |
844 |
04/08 |
Oklahoma |
Don Wilson Hawkins |
1 - kidnap murder |
845 |
04/09 |
Virginia |
Earl Conrad Bramblett (E) |
4 - friend's family |
846 |
04/22 |
Texas |
Juan Rodriguez Chavez |
1, although at least 5 victims killed for
"thrills" |
847 |
04/17 |
Oklahoma |
Larry Kenneth Jackson |
|
848 |
04/24 |
Alabama |
Gary Leon Brown |
1 - robbery/murder |
849 |
04/28 |
Ohio |
David Brewer |
1 - sexual murder |
850 |
05/02 |
Indiana |
Kevin Lee Hough |
3 - robbery/murder |
851 |
05/06 |
Georgia |
Carl Isaacs |
6 - robbery/murder |
852 |
05/06 |
Texas |
Roger Dale Vaughn |
1 - robbery/rape/murder |
853 |
05/15 |
Texas |
Bruce Charles Jacobs |
1 - violent murder of teenager |
854 |
05/16 |
Florida |
Newton Carlton Slawson (v) |
5 members of a family |
855 |
05/27 |
Oklahoma |
Robert
Knighton |
2 robbery/murder |
856 |
06/05 |
Oklahoma |
Kenneth
Charm |
1 rape/murder |
857 |
06/11 |
Texas |
Kia Levoy Johnson |
1 robbery/murder |
858 |
06/03 |
Indiana |
Joseph L.
Trueblood |
3
- Girlfriend & 2 kids |
859 |
06/18 |
Ohio |
Ernest Martin |
1 robbery/murder |
860 |
07/01 |
Oklahoma |
Lewis Eugene Gilbert |
1 robbery/murder (3 other victims) |
861 |
07/02 |
Texas |
Hilton Crawford |
1 - Kidnap/murder of child |
862 |
07/09 |
Oklahoma |
Robert Don Duckett |
1 Roommate |
863 |
07/09 |
Arkansas |
Riley Dobi Noel |
3 children |
864 |
07/09 |
Texas |
Christopher Black |
3 - wife and children |
865 |
07/22 |
Oklahoma |
Bryan Toles |
2 robbery/murder |
866 |
07/22 |
Virginia |
Bobby Wayne
Swisher |
1 Rape/murder |
867 |
07/23 |
Texas |
Cedric Ransom |
1 robbery/murder |
868 |
07/24 |
Texas |
Allen Wayne Janecka |
1 contract killing |
869 |
07/24 |
Oklahoma |
Jackie Lee Willingham |
1 beat woman to death |
870 |
07/29 |
Oklahoma |
Harold
McElmurry III (v) |
2 robbery/murder |
871 |
08/07 |
Alabama |
Tommy Jerry Fortenberry |
4 robbery/murder |
872 |
08/22 |
Virginia |
William Quentin Jones |
1 robbery/murder |
873 |
09/03 |
Florida |
Paul Hill (v) |
2 - abortion protest |
874 |
09/10 |
Texas |
Larry Allen
Hayes (v) |
2 matrimonial & robbery |
875 |
09/12 |
North Carolina |
Henry Lee
Hunt |
2 contract killing |
876 |
09/26 |
North Carolina |
Joseph Earl Bates |
1 kidnap/murder |
877 |
10/03 |
North Carolina |
Edward Hartman |
1 mothers ex boyfriend |
878 |
10/29 |
Missouri |
John Clayton Smith (v) |
2 girlfriend & her stepfather |
879 |
11/04 |
Georgia |
James Willie
Brown |
1 rape/murder |
880 |
11/07 |
North Carolina |
Joseph Timothy Keel |
1 |
881 |
11/14 |
North Carolina |
John Dennis Daniels |
1 robbery/murder of aunt |
882 |
11/20 |
Texas |
Robert Henry |
2 |
883 |
12/03 |
Texas |
Richard Charles
Duncan |
2 boyfriends parents |
884 |
12/04 |
Texas |
Ivan Murphy |
1 robbery/murder |
885 |
12/05 |
North Carolina |
Robbie James Lyons |
1 robbery/murder |
Analysis
of 2003 executions by state
Alabama |
3 |
Arkansas |
1 |
Federal |
1 |
Florida |
2 |
Georgia |
3 |
Indiana |
2 |
Missouri |
2 |
North Carolina |
7 |
Oklahoma |
14 |
Ohio |
3 |
Texas |
24 |
Virginia |
3 |
Total |
65 |