List of people executed in Tennessee

This is a list of people executed in Tennessee. The state took over executions in 1913; prior to that time they were carried out at the county level.^[1]

Post-Gregg

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Robert Glen Coe	White	44	M	April 19, 2000	Weakley	Lethal injection	Cary Ann Medlin	Don Sundquist
2	Sedley Alley	White	50	M	June 28, 2006	Shelby		U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Suzanne Marie Collins	Phil Bredesen
3	Philip Ray Workman	White	53	M	May 9, 2007			Memphis Police Lieutenant Ronald Oliver
4	Daryl Keith Holton	White	45	M	September 12, 2007	Bedford	Electrocution	4 murder victims[a]
5	Steve Henley	White	55	M	February 4, 2009	Jackson	Lethal injection	Fred Stafford and Edna Stafford
6	Cecil C. Johnson Jr.	Black	53	M	December 2, 2009	Davidson		Bobby Bell Jr., James Moore, and Charles House[b]
7	William Ray "Billy" Irick	White	59	M	August 9, 2018	Knox		Paula Kay Dyer	Bill Haslam
8	Edmund George Zagorski	White	63	M	November 1, 2018	Robertson	Electrocution	John Dale Dotson and James Wayne Porter
9	David Earl Miller	White	61	M	December 6, 2018	Knox		Lee Standifer
10	Donnie Edward Johnson	White	68	M	May 16, 2019	Shelby	Lethal injection	Connie Johnson	Bill Lee
11	Stephen Michael West	White	56	M	August 15, 2019	Union	Electrocution	Wanda Lou Romines and Sheila Ann Romines
12	Leroy Hall Jr.	White	53	M	December 5, 2019	Hamilton		Traci Latrice Crozier
13	Nicholas Todd Sutton	White	58	M	February 20, 2020	Morgan		Carl Isaac Estep[c]
14	Oscar Franklin Smith	White	75	M	May 22, 2025	Davidson	Lethal injection	Judith Lynn Smith, Chad Altmon Burnett, and Jason Don Burnett
15	Byron Lewis Black	Black	69	M	August 5, 2025			Angela Clay, Latoya Clay, and Lakeisha Clay[d]
16	Harold Wayne Nichols	White	64	M	December 11, 2025	Hamilton		Karen Elise Pulley

Demographics

Race
White	14	88%
Black	2	13%
Age
40–49	2	13%
50–59	8	50%
60–69	5	31%
70–79	1	6%
Sex
Male	16	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	0	0%
2000–2009	6	38%
2010–2019	6	38%
2020–2029	4	25%
Method
Lethal injection	10	63%
Electrocution	6	38%
Governor (Party)
Ray Blanton (D)	0	0%
Lamar Alexander (R)	0	0%
Ned McWherter (D)	0	0%
Don Sundquist (R)	1	6%
Phil Bredesen (D)	5	31%
Bill Haslam (R)	3	19%
Bill Lee (R)	7	44%
Total	16	100%

Pre-Furman

Source:^[2]

Name	Date of execution
Julius Morgan	July 13, 1916
J. D. Williams	July 8, 1918
Eddie Alsup
Frank Ewing	May 31, 1919
Winfred Walker	January 8, 1920
Lorenzo Young	September 3, 1920
Cyre Mus Jackson	August 3, 1921
Taylor Neal
Hamp Gholston	August 17, 1921
Chesley Graham
Will Allen
John Green	February 17, 1922
Asbury Fields	February 18, 1922
Tom Christmas	March 1, 1922
Charles Petree
John McClure
Otto Stephens
Maurice Mays	March 15, 1922
Granville Bunch	April 11, 1922
William Dwight	July 25, 1922
Austin Harris	August 15, 1922
Jim McElroy
Bin Burchfield	January 14, 1925
Robert Tate	November 5, 1925
Charles Barr	August 20, 1926
John F. Webb	May 20, 1927
John H. Wallace	May 25, 1927
Herman Coggins	November 10, 1927
Ben Fowler	January 25, 1928
Will Terrell	June 19, 1929
"Henry"	August 22, 1929
John Jones	February 14, 1930
Carey Gune	March 14, 1930
J. T. Harris	January 22, 1931
John T. Shaw	July 3, 1931
Oscar Bevins	September 7, 1933
Andrew Wilcoxson
Willie Jones	October 30, 1933
Jim Allen	January 5, 1934
Joe Emmory	February 5, 1934
James Swann
Louis Fain
Percy Smith	April 4, 1934
Frank Mays
Jasper Graham
James Pillow	September 1, 1934
John Deal
Bill Lee	January 2, 1936
Walter Kennedy
Louis Willis
Ernest Womack	April 1, 1936
E. K. Harris	May 22, 1936
Curley Ballard	August 11, 1936
James Smith
James Clark
Elmer Barrett	November 13, 1936
James Turner	March 5, 1937
James Taylor	March 15, 1937
Anderson Berry	March 17, 1937
Tom Franklin	March 18, 1937
Gus McCoig	April 3, 1937
Roy Wilburn Eatmon	April 16, 1937
William Farmer	April 30, 1937
Howard Dunn
Jimmie L. Parrish	August 9, 1937
Fred Ritchie	August 10, 1937
Gus McKinney	April 15, 1938
Arthur Mosby	July 25, 1938
White Miller Tollett	January 11, 1939
Ernest Stanley	January 19, 1939
Frank Murray	March 28, 1939
Hyman Johnson
Hubert Harris	April 4, 1939
J. O. Martin	April 10, 1939
Joe McKay
Willie J. Smith
Harley Evans	August 28, 1939
Clyde Willis	January 10, 1940
A.C. Mobley	March 15, 1940
James Goodin	September 4, 1940
William Henry
Van Gilmore	April 18, 1941
Walter Reed	July 18, 1941
Willie L. Porter	July 24, 1941
Carl Cole
Lawrence West	July 30, 1941
Roy Walden	February 13, 1942
John Dockery	February 14, 1942
Ernest Dixon
Clarence May	March 20, 1942
John H. Goods
William Headen	March 30, 1943
Robert Cannon
James Tucker	July 15, 1943
Marshall Spigner
Robert Hall	December 15, 1943
George Hambrick
Billy Dixon	July 16, 1945
Thomas Walker	March 1, 1946
Johnnie Outlaw
George Douglas	July 5, 1946
John H. Luffman	August 30, 1946
Alvin Hicks
Albert Duboise	April 11, 1947
John Hodge	June 19, 1947
Fred Jackson	August 11, 1947
James Sandusky	April 22, 1948
John Kelley
William C. Turner	August 31, 1948
James M. Scribner
Tommy H. Taylor
Barney Thompson	February 17, 1949
Edward Watson	June 10, 1949
Paul Lacey	November 25, 1949
Clyde Steel	January 24, 1950
Samuel L. Voss	April 15, 1955
Harry Kirkendall	August 1, 1955
Charlie Sullins
Robert Crenshaw	September 15, 1955
Robert Allen	March 15, 1957
Billy T. Gibbs	May 6, 1957
Thomas Rutledge	June 15, 1959
William Tines	November 7, 1960

See also

• Capital punishment in Tennessee
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. The 4 victims were: Stephen Holton, Brent Holton, Eric Holton, and Kayla Holton.
2. Johnson was also convicted of manslaughter for killing a fellow death row inmate and serial killer Laron Williams.
3. The murder occurred in prison while Sutton was serving life imprisonment for the 1979 murders of two acquaintances and his own grandmother.
4. Black was sentenced to death and executed for solely the murder of Lakeisha, while he was given double life sentences for the murders of Angela and Latoya.