List of Defendants with Mental Retardation Executed in the United States

Posted: July 28, 2006

Mental Retardation

Since the Death Penalty was Reinstated in 1976*

Name	State	Race	I.Q.	Execution Date
1. Arthur F. Goode, III	FL	W	60-63	04/05/84
2. Ivon Ray Stanley	GA	B	62	07/12/84
3. James Dupree Henry	FL	B	low 70s	09/20/84
4. Morris Odell Mason	VA	B	62-66	06/25/85
5. James Terry Roach	SC	W	69-70	01/10/86
6. Jerome Bowden	GA	B	59-65	06/24/86
7. Willie Celestine	LA	W	(68-81) 77	07/20/87
8. John Brogdon	LA	W	mild MR	07/30/87
9. Horace Dunkins	AL	B	65-69	07/14/89
10. Alton Waye	VA	B	probable MR	08/30/89
11. Johnny Ray Anderson	TX	W	70	05/17/90
12. Dalton Prejean	LA	B	71-76	05/18/90
13. Ricky Ray Rector	AR	B	MR from lobotomy	01/24/92
14. Johnny Frank Garrett	TX	W	dual MR/MI	02/11/92
15. Billy Wayne White	TX	B	66-69	04/23/92
16. Nollie Lee Martin	FL	W	dual MR/MI	05/12/92
17. Ricky Lee Grubbs	MO	W	72	10/21/92
18. Cornelius Singleton	AL	B	55-67	11/20/92
19. Robert Wayne Sawyer	LA	W	65-68	03/05/93
20. William Henry Hance	GA	B	mild MR	03/31/94
21. Mario Marquez	TX	L	65	01/17/95
22. Willie Clisby	AL	B	mild MR	04/28/95
23. Varnell Weeks	AL	B	mild MR	05/12/95
24. Girvies Davis	IL	B	low borderline MR	05/17/95
25. Sylvester Adams	SC	B	65-69	08/18/95
26. Barry Lee Fairchild	AR	B	60-63(note	08/31/95
27. Walter Milton Correll	VA	W	68	01/4/96
28. Luis Mata	AZ	L	68-70	08/22/96
29. John Earl Bush	FL	B	low borderline MR	10/21/96
30. Frank Middleton	SC	B	68-69	11/22/96
31. Terry Washington	TX	B	58-69	05/06/97
32. Tony Mackall	VA	B	64	02/20/98
33. Reginald Powell	MO	B	65	02/25/98
34. Robert Carter	TX	B	mild MR	05/18/98
35. Dwayne Allen Wright	VA	B	MR/MI	10/14/98
36. Ronald Yeats	VA	W	70	04/29/99
37. Norman Lee Newsted	OK	W	MR/MI	07/08/99
38. Raymond James Jones	TX	B	MR	09/01/99
39. David R. Leisure	MO	W	74	09/01/99
40. Charles Anthony Boyd	TX	B	64	08/5/99
41. Willie Sullivan	DE	B	58-70	09/24/99
42. Oliver Cruz	TX	L	64-76	08/09/00
43. Wanda Jean Allen	OK	B	69	01/11/00
44. Robert Clayton	OK	W	68	03/01/01

(Source: Dr. Denis Keyes, William Edwards, Esq., & Robert Perske, "People with Mental Retardation are Dying - Legally: At least 44 have been executed," Mental Retardation, Vol. 3, June 2002. pp. 243-44).

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