List of people executed in North Carolina explained

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.

There have been a total of 43 executions in North Carolina, under the current statute, since it was adopted in 1977. All of the people executed were convicted of murder. Of the 43 people executed, 42 were male and 1 was female. 41 were executed via lethal injection and 2 via gas chamber.^[1]

List of people executed in North Carolina since 1976

	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1		White	54	M	March 16, 1984	McDowell	Lethal injection	Roy Huskey, Owen Messersmith, and Robert "Pete" Peterson	Jim Hunt
2		White	52	F	November 2, 1984	Bladen		Stuart Taylor
3		White	27	M	September 19, 1986	Wake		Ann Marie Roche	James G. Martin
4		White	36	M	October 18, 1991	Mecklenburg		Dianne Parker
5		White	34	M	October 23, 1992	Forsyth		Richard Adams and Kim Miller
6		White	38	M	June 15, 1994	Cabarrus	Gas chamber	Wayne Shinn	Jim Hunt
7		White	37	M	January 24, 1995	Halifax	Lethal injection	Whelette Collins
8		White	34	M	September 22, 1995	Rutherford		4 murder victims
9		White	38	M	January 30, 1998	Iredell	Gas chamber	Sue Ellen Holliman
10		White	62	M	August 14, 1998	Buncombe	Lethal injection	Randall Hill
11		White	50	M	November 20, 1998	Mecklenburg		Cindy Milton and Troy Milton
12		White	26	M	March 26, 1999	Greene		Paul Gwyn
13		Black	38	M	September 24, 1999	Pitt		Sheila Bland and Michael Edmondson
14		White	53	M	October 21, 1999	Surry		Wanda Hartman
15		Black	51	M	November 19, 1999	Union		Shelly Chalflinch and Christina Chalflinch
16		Black	34	M	November 9, 2000	Wake		Kimberly Crews
17		Black	39	M	March 9, 2001	Forsyth		Angela Johnson	Mike Easley
18		White	43	M	August 24, 2001	Mecklenburg		Kimberly Ewing
19		White	42	M	August 31, 2001	Catawba		Ralph Childress
20		Black	39	M	October 12, 2001	Pitt		Dorothy Mae Smith
21		White	43	M	November 30, 2001	Haywood		Patricia Stewart
22		White	49	M	December 6, 2002	Duplin		Billy White
23		Black	35	M	December 10, 2002	Rockingham		Helen Purdy
24		Black	34	M	August 22, 2003	Wake		Edward Peebles
25		Native American	58	M	September 12, 2003	Robeson		Larry Jones and Jackie Ransom
26		White	35	M	September 26, 2003	Yadkin		Charles Jenkins
27		White	39	M	October 3, 2003	Northampton		Herman Larry Smith Sr.
28		White	39	M	November 7, 2003	Edgecombe		John Simmons
29		Black	46	M	November 14, 2003	Mecklenburg		Isabelle Daniels Crawford
30		Black	31	M	December 5, 2003	Forsyth		Stephen Stafford
31		White	32	M	January 9, 2004	Alamance		Howard Sikorski
32		Black	51	M	October 8, 2004	Pitt		Lashenna Moore
33		White	30	M	October 22, 2004	Haywood		6 murder victims
34		White	32	M	November 12, 2004	Surry		Doris Poore
35		White	58	M	March 11, 2005	Cleveland		Mary Gladden
36		Black	43	M	May 6, 2005	Cumberland		Helisa S. Hayes, Phillip Hayes, and Darien Hayes
37		White	35	M	November 11, 2005	Surry		Mildred Adams and Wesley Adams Sr.
38		Arab	67	M	November 18, 2005	Mecklenburg		Teresa Yousef Syriani
39		White	57	M	December 2, 2005	Rockingham		Julie Curry Boyd and Thomas Dillard Curry
40		Black	43	M	January 20, 2006			Jean Ernest Darter
41		White	39	M	March 17, 2006	Davidson		Donnie Ray Robbins
42		Black	61	M	April 21, 2006	Martin		Valerie Ann Roberson Dixon
43		White	36	M	August 18, 2006	Forsyth		Britnie Nichole Hutton

Demographics

Race
White	28	65%
Black	13	30%
Arab	1	2%
Native American	1	2%
Age
20–29	2	5%
30–39	22	51%
40–49	7	16%
50–59	9	21%
60–69	3	7%
Sex
Male	42	98%
Female	1	2%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	3	7%
1990–1999	12	28%
2000–2009	28	65%
2010–2019	0	0%
2020–2029	0	0%
Method
Lethal injection	41	95%
Gas chamber	2	5%
Governor (Party)
	0	0%
Jim Hunt (D)	13	30%
	3	7%
	27	63%
	0	0%
	0	0%
	0	0%
Total	43	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in North Carolina
• Capital punishment in the United States

External links

• The Death Penalty. North Carolina Department of Correction.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Searchable Execution Database. Death Penalty Information Center. January 9, 2020.