DEFENDANTS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION
EXECUTED SINCE THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN REINSTATED IN 1976
Up to day,
35 inmates suffering from Mental Retardation and other brain
damage have been executed.
Some names are a link: click on it to have
access to the information.
Name |
State |
"Race" |
I.Q. |
Execution date |
|
1. |
Arthur F. Goode, III | FL |
W |
60-63 |
4/5/84 |
2. |
Ivon Ray Stanley | GA |
B |
62 |
7/12/84 |
3. |
James Dupree Henry | FL |
B |
low 70s |
9/20/84 |
4. |
Morris Odell Mason | VA |
B |
62-66 |
6/25/85 |
5. |
James Terry Roach | SC |
W |
69-70 |
1/10/86 |
6. |
Jerome Bowden | GA |
B |
59-65 |
6/24/86 |
7. |
Willie Celestine | LA |
W |
(68-81) 77 |
7/20/87 |
8. |
John Brogdon | LA |
W |
middly retarded |
7/30/87 |
9. |
Horace Dunkins | AL |
B |
65-69 |
7/14/89 |
10. |
Alton Waye | VA |
B |
untested (probable MR) |
8/30/89 |
11. |
Johnny Ray Anderson | TX |
W |
70 |
5/17/90 |
12. |
Dalton Prejean | LA |
B |
71-76 |
5/18/90 |
13. |
Ricky Ray Rector | AR |
B |
(MR due to lobotomy |
1/24/92 |
14. |
Johnny Frank Garrett | TX |
W |
dual diagnosis/MI |
2/11/92 |
15. |
Robert Alton Harris | CA |
W |
Fetal Alcohol |
4/21/92 |
16. |
Billy Wayne White | TX |
B |
66-69 |
4/23/92 |
17. |
Nollie Lee Martin | FL |
W |
dual diagnosis/MI |
5/12/92 |
18. |
Ricky Lee Grubbs | MO |
W |
72 |
10/21/92 |
19. |
Cornelius Singleton | AL |
B |
55-67 |
11/20/92 |
20. |
Robert Wayne Sawyer | LA |
W |
65-68 |
3/5/93 |
21. |
William Henry Hance | GA |
B |
mild MR |
3/31/94 |
22. |
Mario Marquez | TX |
L |
65 |
1/17/95 |
23. |
Willie Clisby | AL |
B
|
mild MR |
4/28/95 |
24. |
Varnell Weeks | AL |
mild MR/MI |
5/12/95 |
|
25. |
Girvies Davis | IL |
B |
borderline MR |
5/17/95 |
26. |
Sylvester Adams | SC |
B |
mild MR |
8/18/95 |
27. |
Barry Lee Fairchild | AR |
B |
60-63 |
8/31/95 |
28. |
Walter Milton Correll | VA |
W |
68 |
1/4/96 |
29. |
Luis Mata | AZ |
L |
68-70 |
8/22/96 |
| 30. | John Earl Bush | FL |
B |
borderline
MR, organic brain damage |
10/21/96 |
| 31. | Frank Middleton | SC |
B |
68-69 |
11/22/96 |
| 32. | Terry Washington | TX |
B |
58-69 |
5/6/97 |
| 33. | Tony Mackall | VA |
B |
64 |
2/20/98 |
| 34. | Reginald Powell | MO |
B |
65 |
2/25/98 |
| 35. | Emile-Pierre Duhamel | TX |
W |
56 |
7/9/98 |
Source: By Dr. Denis
Keyes, William Edwards, Esq., & Robert Perske from the
article, "People with Mental Retardation are Dying,
Legally" from the journal Mental
Retardation, Feb. 1997, Vol. 35 No. 1;
updated by Death Penalty Information Center