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Robert Wayne Williams (February 6, 1952 – December 14, 1983) was an American murderer convicted of the January 1979 murder of Willie Kelly, a 67-year-old security guard. He was executed in 1983 by the state of Louisiana by electric chair. [1] He became the first person to be executed in Louisiana since 1976 when the death penalty was ...
Date of execution Parish Method Victim(s) Governor 1 Robert Wayne Williams: Black 31 M December 14, 1983 East Baton Rouge: Electrocution [a] Willie Kelly Dave Treen: 2 Johnny Davis Taylor Jr. Black 30 M February 29, 1984 Jefferson: David Vogler 3 Elmo Patrick Sonnier: White 34 M April 5, 1984 Iberia: Loretta Bourque and David LeBlanc Edwin ...
Robert Wayne Sawyer, executed in 1993 (first execution via lethal injection in Louisiana) [175] Elmo Patrick Sonnier, [176] executed in 1984 [175] Feltus Taylor, Jr., executed in 2000 [175] Thomas Lee Ward, executed in 1995 [175] Dobie Gillis Williams, executed in 1999 [175] Robert Wayne Williams, executed in 1983 (first execution since 1976 in ...
Capital punishment was reinstated in Louisiana in 1976 following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia. The first execution to occur in the state following the lifting of the moratorium was on December 14, 1983, when Robert Wayne Williams was electrocuted. [15] In total, Louisiana has executed 660 people.
The office of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry released a summary of the state's updated execution protocol on Monday alongside a pledge to move forward with the death penalty for the first time since 2010.
Marcel Wayne Williams (2017) Robert E. Williams (1997) Robert Wayne Williams (1983) first post-Gregg execution in Louisiana; Thomas Williams (1942) Rhoda Willis (1907) last woman executed in Wales; Mimi Wong, the first female offender to be executed in Singapore since its independence in 1965 (1973) Joseph Wood (2014) Nathaniel Woods (2020 ...
And less than an hour later at 7:01 p.m. CT, Texas executed Travis James Mullis in the murder of his 3-month-old son in 2008. Then on Sept. 26 came two more back-to-back executions.
Sepulvado was to be executed on March 17 for the murder of his 6-year-old stepson in 1992 after a judge granted a death warrant on Feb. 11. He died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola ...