Tennessee Executions
Until 1913, all individuals convicted of a capital offense were hanged. There are no official records of the number or names of those executed. From 1913 to 1915, there was no capital punishment in Tennessee. C. Rye was Governor during the first execution by electrocution. From 1916 until 1960, 125 persons were executed by electrocution in Tennessee. In 2000, lethal injection replaced electrocution as the primary method of execution. In September 2007, the first electrocution in 47 years was carried out.
NAME |
RACE |
OFFENSE |
COUNTY |
DATE OF EXECUTION |
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| Julius Morgan | Black | Rape | Dyer | July 13, 1916 | ||
| J. D. Williams | Black | Rape | Giles | July 8, 1918 | ||
| Eddie Alsup | Black | Rape | Giles | July 8, 1918 | ||
| Frank Ewing | Black | Rape | Davidson | May 31, 1919 | ||
| Winfred Walker | Black | Rape | Jefferson | January 8, 1920 | ||
| Lorenzo Young | Black | Murder | Shelby | September 3, 1920 | ||
| Cyre Mus Jackson | Black | Murder | Hamilton | August 3, 1921 | ||
| Taylor Neal | Black | Murder | Hamilton | August 3, 1921 | ||
| Hamp Gholston | Black | Murder | Shelby | August 17, 1921 | ||
| Chesley Graham | Black | Murder | Hardin | August 17, 1921 | ||
| Will Allen | Black | Murder | Hardin | August 17, 1921 | ||
| John Green | White | Murder | Washington | February 17, 1922 | ||
| Asbury Fields | White | Murder | Bradley | February 18, 1922 | ||
| Tom Christmas | White | Murder | Anderson | March 1, 1922 | ||
| Charles Petree | White | Murder | Anderson | March 1, 1922 | ||
| John McClure | White | Murder | Anderson | March 1, 1922 | ||
| Otto Stephens | White | Murder | Anderson | March 1, 1922 | ||
| Maurice Mays | Black | Murder | Knox | March 15, 1922 | ||
| Granville Bunch | White | Murder | Anderson | April 11, 1922 | ||
| William Dwight | Black | Murder | Hamilton | July 25, 1922 | ||
| Austin Harris | Black | Murder | Madison | August 15, 1922 | ||
| Jim McElroy | White | Murder | Roane | August 15, 1922 | ||
| Bin Burchfield | White | Murder | Sullivan | January 14, 1925 | ||
| Robert Tate | White | Murder | Marion | November 5, 1925 | ||
| Charley Barr | Black | Murder | Shelby | August 29, 1926 | ||
| John F. Webb | Black | Rape | Shelby | May 20, 1927 | ||
| John H. Wallace | Black | Murder | Rutherford | May 25, 1927 | ||
| Herman Coggins | White | Rape | Davidson | November 10, 1927 | ||
| Ben Fowler | White | Murder | Scott | January 25, 1928 | ||
| Will Terrill | Black | Rape | Davidson | June 19, 1929 | ||
| Henry | Black | Rape | Davidson | August 22, 1929 | ||
| John Jones | Black | Murder | Roane | February 14, 1930 | ||
| Carey Gune | Black | Rape | Hardeman | March 14, 1930 | ||
| J. T. Harris | Black | Murder | Knox | January 22, 1931 | ||
| John T. Shaw | Black | Murder | Davidson | July 3, 1931 | ||
| Oscar Bevins | Black | Rape | Hamilton | September 7, 1933 | ||
| Andrew Wilcoxson | Black | Rape | Hamilton | September 7, 1933 | ||
| Willie Jones | Black | Murder | Shelby | October 30, 1933 | ||
| Jim Allen | Black | Murder | Knox | January 5, 1934 | ||
| Joe Emmory | Black | Murder | Knox | February 5, 1934 | ||
| James Swann | Black | Murder | Jefferson | February 5, 1934 | ||
| Louis Fain | Black | Murder | Knox | February 5, 1934 | ||
| Percy Smith | Black | Rape | Shelby | April 4, 1934 | ||
| Frank Mays | Black | Rape | Shelby | April 4, 1934 | ||
| Jasper Graham | Black | Rape | Shelby | April 4, 1934 | ||
| James Pillow | Black | Murder | Shelby | September 1, 1934 | ||
| John Deal | Black | Murder | Shelby | September 1, 1934 | ||
| Bill Lee | White | Murder | Monroe | January 2, 1936 | ||
| Walter Kennedy | White | Murder | Anderson | January 2, 1936 | ||
| Louis Willis | Black | Murder | Davidson | January 2, 1936 | ||
| Ernest Womack | Black | Murder | Warren | April 1, 1936 | ||
| E. K. Harris | Black | Rape | Bedford | May 22, 1936 | ||
| Curley Ballard | Black | Murder | Sullivan | August 11, 1936 | ||
| James Smith | Black | Murder | Lincoln | August 11, 1936 | ||
| James Clark | Black | Murder | Shelby | August 11, 1936 | ||
| Elmer Barrett | Black | Murder | Knox | November 13, 1936 | ||
| James Turner | Black | Murder | Shelby | March 5, 1937 | ||
| James Taylor | Black | Rape | Davidson | March 15, 1937 | ||
| Anderson Berry | Black | Murder | Lincolm | March 17, 1937 | ||
| Tom Franklin | Black | Murder | Davidson | March 18, 1937 | ||
| Gus McCoig | White | Murder | Union | April 3, 1937 | ||
| Roy Wilburn Eatmon | White | Murder | Shelby | April 16, 1937 | ||
| William Farmer | White | Murder | Davidson | April 30, 1937 | ||
| Howard Dunn | White | Murder | Davidson | April 30, 1937 | ||
| Jimmie L. Parrish | Black | Rape | Davidson | August 9, 1937 | ||
| Fred Ritchie | White | Murder | Davidson | August 10, 1937 | ||
| Gus McKinney | Black | Murder | Shelby | April 15, 1938 | ||
| Arthur Mosby | Black | Rape | Shelby | July 25, 1938 | ||
| Miller Tollett | White | Murder | Carter | January 11, 1939 | ||
| Ernest Stanley | Black | Murder | Morgan | January 19, 1939 | ||
| Frank Murray | Black | Murder | Davidson | March 28, 1939 | ||
| Hyman Johnson | Black | Murder | Davidson | March 28, 1939 | ||
| Hubert Harris | Black | Murder | Davidson | April 4, 1939 | ||
| J. O. Martin | White | Murder | Shelby | April 10, 1939 | ||
| Joe McKay | Black | Murder | Shelby | April 10, 1939 | ||
| Willie J. Smith | Black | Murder | Shelby | Apri 10, 1939 | ||
| Willie Williams | Black | Murder | Davidson | April 15, 1939 | ||
| Harley Evans | White | Murder | Fentress | August 28, 1939 | ||
| Clyde Willis | White | Rape | Knox | January 10, 1940 | ||
| A. C. Mobley | Black | Rape | Shelby | March 15, 1940 | ||
| James Goodin | Black | Murder | Shelby | September 4, 1940 | ||
| William Henry | White | Murder | Dyer | September 4, 1940 | ||
| Van Gilmore | Black | Rape | Shelby | April 18, 1941 | ||
| Walter Reed | Black | Murder | Hamilton | July 18, 1941 | ||
| Willie L. Porter | Black | Murder | Madison | July 24, 1941 | ||
| Carl Cole | Black | Murder | Madison | July 24, 1941 | ||
| Lawrence West | Black | Murder | Montgomery | July 30, 1941 | ||
| Roy Walden | White | Rape | Knox | February 13, 1942 | ||
| John Dockery | White | Rape | Knox | February 14, 1942 | ||
| Ernest Dixon | White | Rape | Knox | February 14, 1942 | ||
| Clarence May | White | Murder | Sequatchie | March 20, 1942 | ||
| John H. Goods | Black | Murder | Shelby | March 20, 1942 | ||
| William Headen | White | Murder | Polk | March 30, 1943 | ||
| Robert Cannon | Black | Murder | Shelby | March 30, 1943 | ||
| James Tucker | White | Murder | Davidson | July 15, 1943 | ||
| Marshall Spigner | White | Murder | Shelby | July 15, 1943 | ||
| Clyde Arwood (U.S.) | White | Murder | Lauderdale | August 14, 1943 | ||
| Robert Hall | Black | Murder | Hamilton | December 15, 1943 | ||
| George Hambrick | Black | Murder | Hamilton | December 15, 1943 | ||
| Billy Dixon | Black | Rape | Montgomery | July 16, 1945 | ||
| Thomas Walker | Black | Murder | Shelby | March 1, 1946 | ||
| Johnnie Outlaw | Black | Murder | Shelby | March 1, 1946 | ||
| George Douglas | Black | Rape | Shelby | July 5, 1946 | ||
| John H. Luffman | White | Murder | Stewart | August 30, 1946 | ||
| Alvin Hicks | White | Murder | Stewart | August 30, 1946 | ||
| Albert Duboise | White | Murder | Rutherford | April 11, 1947 | ||
| John Hodge | Black | Rape | Lauderdale | June 19, 1947 | ||
| Fred Jackson | Black | Rape | Shelby | August 11, 1947 | ||
| James Sandusky | White | Murder | Hickman | April 22, 1948 | ||
| John Kelley | White | Murder | Hickman | April 22, 1948 | ||
| William C. Turner | Black | Rape | Davidson | August 31, 1948 | ||
| James M. Scribner | Black | Rape | Davidson | August 31, 1948 | ||
| Tommy H. Taylor | Black | Rape | Davidson | August 31, 1948 | ||
| Barney Thompson | Black | Murder | Bradley | February 17, 1949 | ||
| Edward Watson | Black | Rape | Shelby | June 10, 1949 | ||
| Paul Lacey | Black | Rape/Murder | Maury | November 25, 1949 | ||
| Clyde Steel | Black | Rape | Knox | January 24, 1950 | ||
| Samuel L. Voss | Black | Murder | Davidson | April 15, 1955 | ||
| Harry Kirkendall | Black | Murder | Wilson | August 1, 1955 | ||
| Charlie Sullins | White | Murder | Wilson | August 1, 1955 | ||
| Robert Crenshaw | Black | Rape | Davidson | September 15, 1955 | ||
| Robert Allen | Black | Murder | Davidson | March 15, 1957 | ||
| Billy T. Gibbs | White | Murder | Warren | May 6, 1957 | ||
| Thomas Rutledge | White | Murder | Warren | June 15, 1959 | ||
| William Tines | Black | Rape | Roane | November 7, 1960 | ||
| Robert Coe | White | Rape/Murder | Weakley | April 19, 2000 | ||
| Sedley Alley | White | Murder | Shelby | June 28, 2006 | ||
| Phillip Workman | White | Murder | Shelby | May 9, 2007 | ||
| Daryl Holton | White | Murder | Bedford | September 12, 2007 | ||
| Steve Henley | White | Murder | Jackson | February 4, 2009 | ||
| Cecil Johnson | Black | Murder | Davidson | December 2, 2009 | ||
| Billy Ray Irick |
White |
Murder | Knox |
August 9, 2018 |
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| Edmund Zagorski | White | Murder | Robertson | November 1, 2018 | ||
| David Miller | White | Murder | Knox | December 6, 2018 | ||
| Donnie Johnson | White | Murder | Shelby | May 16, 2019 | ||
| Stephen West | White | Murder | Union | August 15 ,2019 | ||
| Lee Hall | White | Murder | Hamilton | December 5, 2019 | ||
| Nicholas Sutton | White | Murder | Morgan | February 20, 2020 |
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| Oscar Smith | White | Murder | Davidson | May 22, 2025 |
| July 1916 through February 20,2020 | |
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| Black | 86 |
| White | 53 |
| Rape | 36 |
| Murder | 101 |
| Rape/Murder | 2 |
| NOTE: One (1) white, murderer, executed for U.S. | |