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This is a list of people executed in Georgia. Since 1976, a total of 76 people have been executed by the state of Georgia in the United States.


List of people executed in Georgia since 1976


Summary of executions

* Sex ** Male: 75 (99%) ** Female: 1 (1%) * Method ** Electrocution: 23 (30%) ** Lethal injection: 53 (70%)


Record number of executions

In 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people. This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. The same year, Texas only executed seven people, the first time it did not lead the nation in executions since 2001 (when it ranked behind Oklahoma). Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again in 2015.


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 The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles is a five-member panel authorized to grant paroles, pardons, reprieves, remissions, commutations, and to remove civil and political disabilities imposed by law. Created by Constitutional amendment in ...
granted a pardon saying a verdict of
manslaughter Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th cen ...
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

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Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state) Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Georgia. Georgia reintroduced the death penalty in 1973 after ''Furman v. Georgia'' ruled all states' death penalty statutes unconstitutional. The first execution to take place afterwards ...
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Capital punishment in the United States In the United States, capital punishment is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 s ...
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Furman v. Georgia ''Furman v. Georgia'', 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court invalidated all then existing legal constructions for the death penalty in the United States. It was 5–4 decision, with each mem ...
'', 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 ''Gregg v. Georgia'', ''Proffitt v. Florida'', ''Jurek v. Texas'', ''Woodson v. North Carolina'', and ''Roberts v. Louisiana'', 428 U.S. 153 (1976), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. It reaffirmed the Court's acceptance of the use ...
'', 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 Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the ...
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List of people executed in the United States in 2015 This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2015. Twenty-eight people were executed in the United States in 2015. Thirteen of them were in the state of Texas. One ( Alfredo Rolando Prieto) was a foreign national from El Salvador. One ...
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List of people executed in the United States in 2016 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 execut ...
* List of women executed in the United States since 1976


References

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