Map of Executions in the U.S in 2008

Texas performed 18 of 37 executions carried out in the U.S. in 2008. That was 48.6 percent. Ohio, which carried out two executions, was the only state outside the South to impose the death penalty in 2008. 95 percent of all 2008 executions were in the South.

Nine of the eighteen people executed in Texas in 2008 were African-American.

Six of the eighteen people executed in Texas in 2008 were white.

Three of the eighteen people executed in Texas were Hispanic.

66 percent of the people executed in Texas were Hispanic or black.

33 percent of the people executed in Texas were white.

Seven people were executed from Dallas County, the most from any county in 2008.

In 2007, Texas executed 26 people.

Executions in the United States in 2008

DATE	NUMBER SINCE 1976	STATE	NAME	AGE	RACE	VICTIM RACE	METHOD
5/6/08	1100	GA	William Earl Lynd	53	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
5/21/08	1101	MS	Earl Wesley Berry	49	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
5/27/08	1102	VA	Kevin Green	31	B	1 White	Lethal Injection
6/4/08	1103	GA	Curtis Osborne	37	B	2 Black	Lethal Injection
6/6/08	1104	SC	David Mark Hill*	48	W	1 Black/2 White	Lethal Injection
6/11/08	1105	TX	Karl Chamberlain	37	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
6/17/08	1106	OK	Terry Lyn Short	47	W	1 Asian	Lethal Injection
6/20/08	1107	SC	James Earl Reed*	49	B	2 Black	Electrocution
6/25/08	1108	VA	Robert Yarbrough	30	B	1 White	Lethal Injection
7/1/08	1109	FL	Mark Schwab	39	W	1 Latino	Lethal Injection
7/10/08	1110	TX	Carlton Akee Turner	29	B	2 Black	Lethal Injection
7/10/08	1111	VA	Kent Jermaine Jackson	26	B	1 White	Lethal Injection
7/23/08	1112	MS	Dale Leo Bishop	34	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
7/23/08	1113	TX	Derrick Sonnier	40	B	2 Black	Lethal Injection
7/24/08	1114	VA	Christopher Emmett	36	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
7/31/08	1115	TX	Larry Davis	40	B	1 White	Lethal Injection
8/5/08	1116	TX	Jose Medellin~	33	L	1 White 1 Latina	Lethal Injection
8/7/08	1117	TX	Heliberto Chi~	29	L	1 White	Lethal Injection
8/12/08	1118	TX	Leon Dorsey	32	B	2 White	Lethal Injection
8/14/08	1119	TX	Michael Rodriguez*	45	L	1 White	Lethal Injection
9/16/08	1120	GA	Jack Alderman	57	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
9/17/08	1121	TX	William Murray	39	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
9/23/08	1122	FL	Richard Henyard	34	B	2 Black	Lethal Injection
9/25/08	1123	OK	Jessie Cummings	52	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
10/14/08	1124	OH	Richard Cooey	41	W	2 White	Lethal Injection
10/14/08	1125	TX	Alvin Kelly	57	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
10/16/08	1126	TX	Kevin Michael Watts	27	B	3 Asian	Lethal Injection
10/21/08	1127	TX	Joseph Ray Ries	29	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
10/28/08	1128	TX	Eric Nenno	47	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
10/30/08	1129	TX	Gregory Wright	42	W	1 White	Lethal Injection
11/6/08	1130	TX	Elkie Taylor	46	B	1 Black	Lethal Injection
11/12/08	1131	TX	George Whitaker	36	B	1 Black	Lethal Injection
11/13/08	1132	TX	Denard Manns	42	B	1 White	Lethal Injection
11/19/08	1133	OH	Gregory Bryant-Bey	53	B	1 White	Lethal Injection
11/20/08	1134	TX	Robert Hudson	45	B	1 Black	Lethal Injection
11/21/08	1135	KY	Marco Allen Chapman*	37	W	2 White	Lethal Injection
12/5/08	1136	SC	Joseph Gardner	38	B	1 White	Lethal Injection

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Join the "Abolish the Death Penalty Project" on Amazee.com and help us win the Amazee Bucket membership contest. We could win up to $5,000 to use against the death penalty. The project with the most members by Jan 22 wins. If we win, we plan to use one-half of any prize money we win to help needy families of people on death row travel to visit their loved ones on death row. We will use the other half of the prize money to fight against the death penalty.

First go to the project page, then you have to click on "join project" on the right hand side, then click on "register". Then to qualify as one of the members who count towards the contest, you have to upload a picture or avatar of yourself.

We were all moved by the family members who spoke at the 9th Annual March to Stop Executions in Houston, so we were thinking of how we could help them. We all know that the death penalty is reserved for the poor. There are no rich people on death row. We will use one half of any prize money we get through this contest to help family members visit their loved ones on death row. Many families have a hard time making ends meet and the extra cost of traveling long distances to visit their loved ones on death row is a great financial burden. Some of the people on death row have young children who rarely get to visit them. The other half would be used for activities during the upcoming Texas legislative session from Jan to May 2009, such as a big anti-death penalty rally at the capitol and other projects to persuade people to support abolishing the death penalty.