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Ninety-eight people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1999 in twenty states, 94 by lethal injection, 3 by electrocution, and one by gas chamber.[1] With ninety-eight executions carried out, 1999 remains the year with the highest number of executions in a single year in the United States since the resumption of executions in 1977.[2] Illinois conducted its last execution in 1999 before the state abolished the death penalty in 2011.[3] On December 9, 1999, four executions were carried out in the United States on the same day—the highest number of executions in a single day since the 1950s. This has occurred only once in the modern era.[4]

The state of Oklahoma executed Sean Sellers, who became the only juvenile offender to be executed in the United States for a crime committed under the age of 17 prior to Roper v. Simmons, which banned capital punishment nationwide for anyone under the age of eighteen. Sellers was the first executed to be executed for a crime committed at the age of 16 since Leonard Shockley 1959.

List of people executed in the United States in 1999

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No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref.
At execution At offense Age difference
1 January 5, 1999 John Glenn Moody 46 35 11 Male White Texas Lethal injection [1]
2 January 7, 1999 John Walter Castro 37 22 15 Native American Oklahoma [5]
3 January 8, 1999 Ronnie Howard 40 27 13 Black South Carolina [6]
4 Dobie Gillis Williams 38 23 15 Louisiana [7]
5 January 13, 1999 Kelvin Shelby Malone 20 18 Missouri [8]
6 Jess James Gillies White Arizona [9]
7 Troy Dale Farris 36 21 15 Texas [10]
8 January 20, 1999 Mark Arlo Sheppard 27 22 5 Black Virginia [11]
9 January 22, 1999 Joseph Ernest Atkins 51 38 13 White South Carolina [1]
10 January 26, 1999 Martin Sauceda Vega 53 39 14 Hispanic Texas [12]
11 February 3, 1999 Darrick Leonard Gerlaugh 38 19 19 Native American Arizona [13]
12 February 4, 1999 Sean Richard Sellers 29 16 13 White Oklahoma [14]
13 Tony Leslie Fry 23 19 4 Virginia [15]
14 February 9, 1999 Jaturun Siripongs 47 30 17 Asian California [16]
15 February 10, 1999 George Cordova 39 20 19 Hispanic Texas [1]
16 February 11, 1999 Danny Lee Barber 43 24 White [17]
17 February 16, 1999 Andrew Flores Cantu 31 22 9 Hispanic [18]
18 Johnie Michael Cox 42 32 10 White Arkansas [19]
19 February 19, 1999 Wilford Lee Berry Jr. 36 27 9 Ohio [20]
20 February 24, 1999 James Edward Rodden 38 23 15 Missouri [21]
21 Norman Evans Green 24 14 Black Texas [22]
22 Karl-Heinz LaGrand 35 18 17 White Arizona [23]
23 March 3, 1999 Walter Bernhard LaGrand 37 19 18 Gas chamber [23]
24 March 9, 1999 George Adrian Quesinberry Jr. 28 9 Virginia Lethal injection [24]
25 March 10, 1999 Roy Michael Roberts 46 30 16 Missouri [25]
26 March 17, 1999 Andrew Kokoraleis 35 18 17 Illinois [26]
27 March 25, 1999 David Lee Fisher 57 42 15 Virginia [27]
28 March 26, 1999 Charles Henry Rector 44 27 17 Black Texas [28]
29 James David Rich 26 22 4 White North Carolina [29]
30 March 30, 1999 Robert Excell White 61 36 25 Texas [30]
31 April 5, 1999 Alvaro Calambro 25 20 5 Asian Nevada [31]
32 April 12, 1999 Marion Albert Pruett 49 32 17 White Arkansas [32]
33 April 13, 1999 Carl Hamilton Chichester 36 29 7 Black Virginia [1]
34 April 14, 1999 Roy Ramsey Jr. 45 35 10 Missouri [33]
35 April 20, 1999 Arthur Ray Jenkins III 29 22 7 White Virginia [1]
36 April 23, 1999 David J. Lawrie 37 31 6 Delaware [1]
37 April 28, 1999 Ralph Edward Davis 61 48 13 Black Missouri [1]
38 Aaron Christopher Foust 26 24 2 White Texas [34]
39 Eric Christopher Payne Virginia [34]
40 April 29, 1999 Ronald Dale Yeatts 38 28 10 [35]
41 May 4, 1999 Manuel Pina Babbitt 50 31 19 Black California [36]
42 Jose De La Cruz 31 19 12 Hispanic Texas [37]
43 May 5, 1999 Robert Wayne Vickers 41 20 21 White Arizona [38]
44 Clydell Coleman 62 52 10 Black Texas [39]
45 May 25, 1999 Edward Lee Harper Jr. 50 33 17 White Kentucky [1]
46 May 26, 1999 Jessie Lee Wise 46 35 11 Black Missouri [40]
47 June 1, 1999 William Hamilton Little 38 23 15 White Texas [41]
48 June 3, 1999 Scotty Lee Moore 42 27 Oklahoma [42]
49 June 16, 1999 Bruce W. Kilgore 38 25 13 Black Missouri [43]
50 Michael Kent Poland 59 36 23 White Arizona [44]
51 June 17, 1999 Joseph Stanley Faulder 61 37 24 Texas [45]
52 June 18, 1999 Brian Keith Baldwin 40 18 22 Black Alabama Electrocution [46]
53 June 30, 1999 Robert Allen Walls 33 20 13 White Missouri Lethal injection [1]
54 July 1, 1999 Charles Daniel Tuttle 35 30 5 Texas [47]
55 July 6, 1999 Gary Michael Heidnik 55 43 12 Pennsylvania [48]
56 July 7, 1999 Tyrone Leroy Fuller 35 24 11 Black Texas [49]
57 July 8, 1999 Norman Lee Newsted 45 29 16 White Oklahoma [50]
58 Allen Lee Davis 54 37 17 Florida Electrocution [51]
59 July 21, 1999 Thomas David Strickler 33 24 9 Virginia Lethal injection [52]
60 August 4, 1999 Ricky Don Blackmon 41 29 12 Texas [53]
61 August 5, 1999 Charles Anthony Boyd 39 27 Black [54]
62 August 6, 1999 Victor Kennedy 37 18 19 Alabama Electrocution [1]
63 August 10, 1999 Kenneth Dwayne Dunn 39 20 Texas Lethal injection [55]
64 August 11, 1999 James Otto Earhart 56 44 12 White [56]
65 August 17, 1999 Marlon DeWayne Williams 26 20 6 Black Virginia [1]
66 August 18, 1999 Joe Mario Trevino Jr. 37 17 Hispanic Texas [57]
67 September 1, 1999 David Leisure 49 30 19 White Missouri [58]
68 Raymond James Jones 39 28 11 Black Texas [1]
69 September 8, 1999 Mark Edward Gardner 43 29 14 White Arkansas [59]
70 Alan Willett 52 46 6 [59]
71 September 10, 1999 Willis Jay Barnes 51 39 12 Black Texas [60]
72 September 14, 1999 William Prince Davis 42 21 21 [61]
73 September 16, 1999 Everett Lee Mueller 51 42 9 White Virginia [62]
74 September 21, 1999 Richard Wayne Smith 43 36 7 Texas [63]
75 September 24, 1999 Willie G. Sullivan 27 19 8 Black Delaware [64]
76 Harvey Lee Green 38 23 15 North Carolina [1]
77 October 12, 1999 Alvin Wayne Crane 41 28 13 White Texas [65]
78 October 14, 1999 Gerald Walter McFadden 51 38 [66]
79 October 15, 1999 Joseph Mitchell Parsons 35 23 12 Utah [67]
80 October 19, 1999 Jason Matthew Joseph 27 20 7 Black Virginia [1]
81 October 21, 1999 Arthur Martin Boyd Jr. 53 36 17 White North Carolina [1]
82 October 27, 1999 Ignacio Alberto Ortiz 57 37 20 Hispanic Arizona [68]
83 October 28, 1999 Domingo Cantu Jr. 31 20 11 Native American Texas [69]
84 November 9, 1999 Thomas Lee Royal Jr. 32 27 5 Black Virginia [70]
85 November 12, 1999 Leroy Joseph Drayton 44 29 15 South Carolina [71]
86 November 16, 1999 Desmond Dominique Jennings 28 22 6 Texas [72]
87 November 17, 1999 John Michael Lamb 42 25 17 White [73]
88 November 18, 1999 Jose Angel Gutierrez 39 28 11 Hispanic [74]
89 November 19, 1999 David Junior Brown 51 32 19 Black North Carolina [75]
90 December 2, 1999 Cornel Cooks 43 26 17 Oklahoma [76]
91 December 3, 1999 David Rocheville 31 22 9 White South Carolina [77]
92 December 8, 1999 David Martin Long 46 33 13 Texas [78]
93 December 9, 1999 Bobby Lynn Ross 41 24 17 Black Oklahoma [79]
94 D.H. Fleenor 48 31 White Indiana [1]
95 James Lee Beathard 42 27 15 Texas [1]
96 Andre L. Graham 29 23 6 Black Virginia [80]
97 December 14, 1999 Robert Ronald Atworth 31 26 5 White Texas [81]
98 December 15, 1999 Sammie Felder Jr. 54 29 25 Black [82]
Average: 41 years 28 years 13 years

Demographics

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Gender
Male 98 100%
Female 0 0%
Ethnicity
White 53 54%
Black 33 34%
Hispanic 7 7%
Native American 3 3%
Asian 2 2%
State
Texas 35 36%
Virginia 14 14%
Missouri 9 9%
Arizona 7 7%
Oklahoma 6 6%
Arkansas 4 4%
North Carolina 4 4%
South Carolina 4 4%
Alabama 2 2%
California 2 2%
Delaware 2 2%
Florida 1 1%
Illinois 1 1%
Indiana 1 1%
Kentucky 1 1%
Louisiana 1 1%
Nevada 1 1%
Ohio 1 1%
Pennsylvania 1 1%
Utah 1 1%
Method
Lethal injection 94 96%
Electrocution 3 3%
Gas chamber 1 1%
Month
January 10 10%
February 12 12%
March 8 8%
April 10 10%
May 6 6%
June 7 7%
July 6 6%
August 7 7%
September 10 10%
October 7 7%
November 6 6%
December 9 9%
Age
20–29 13 13%
30–39 37 38%
40–49 27 28%
50–59 17 17%
60–69 4 4%
Total 98 100%

Executions in recent years

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Number of executions
2000 85
1999 98
1998 68
Total 251

References

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1998 		   List of people executed   
   in the United States in   
1999 		Succeeded by
2000
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