Louisiana’s Death Row inmates
1979
JAMES COPELAND
Age: 52
Parish of crime: Tangipahoa
Date to Death Row: Nov. 14, 1986
Crime: Joseph Cook Owen, 11, of Baton Rouge, was sodomized and killed July 6, 1979.
1983
MICHAEL OWEN PERRY
Age: 57
Parish of crime: Jefferson Davis
Date to Death Row: Jan. 8, 1986
Crime: His parents, two cousins and a 2-year-old nephew were shot to death in Lake Arthur on July 17, 1983.
GLENN FORD
Age: 62
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Aug. 23, 1988
Crime: Shreveport jeweler Isador Rozeman was killed during a November 1983 robbery.
1984
ABDULLAH HAKIN EL-MUMIT
Age: 62
Parish of crime: Tangipahoa
Date to Death Row: Aug. 4, 1987
Crime: Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s deputy Ed Toefield was shot to death on Feb. 2, 1984, while trying to arrest El-Mumit in the robbery of a New Orleans bank the previous day.
1985
WINTHROP EARL EATON
Age: 47
Parish of crime: Ouachita
Date to Death Row: Feb. 23, 1987
Crime: The Rev. Lea Joyner of Monroe was kidnapped, raped and murdered in March 1985.
JOHN FRANCIS WILLE
Age: 48
Parish of crime: St. John the Baptist
Date to Death Row: Feb. 4, 1987
Crime: Nichole Lopatta, 8, was kidnapped, raped and killed in June 1985.
TRACY LEE
Age: 51
Parish of crime: Natchitoches
Date to Death Row: Sept. 28, 1988
Crime: Rohn Blackston, a 15-year-old boy who was being treated for cancer, was killed June 15, 1985.
NATHANIEL CODE
Age: 56
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Jan. 25, 1991
Crime: Convicted of killing four people in Shreveport on July 1985.
1987
MARCUS HAMILTON
Age: 51
Parish of crime: Orleans
Date to Death Row: Dec. 23, 1991
Crime: The Rev. Patrick McCarthy was found beaten, stabbed and strangled Dec. 18, 1987, in the rectory of his church.
1989
WILLIE TART
Age: 42
Parish of crime: Ouachita
Date to Death Row: Jan. 9, 1992
Crime: William Quenan, 70, and Lillian Quenan, 66, were stabbed to death Sept. 7, 1989, in their Bastrop home.
1990
SCOTT BOURQUE
Age: 55
Parish of crime: St. Martin
Date to Death Row: Oct. 12, 1994
Crime: Charlotte Perry, his former girlfriend, was killed April 15, 1990, and her mother, Therese Stoute, was severely wounded.
PERCY DAVIS
Age: 46
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Sept. 3, 1999
Crime: Calvin Moore, owner of Fats Exxon on North Market Street, and Mark Sanchez, a night clerk at the Circle K on North Market, were killed two nights apart in June 1990.
FRANK FORD COSEY
Age: 52
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Sept. 10, 1996
Crime: Delky Nelson, 12, was raped and killed July 6, 1990, in Baton Rouge.
1991
ALLEN “LIL BOO’’ ROBERTSON
Age: 44
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Nov. 14, 1995
Crime: Husband and wife Morris and Kazuko Prestenback were stabbed to death Jan. 1, 1991, at their Dalton Street home.
1992
CHRISTOPHER SEPULVADO
Age: 68
Parish of crime: DeSoto
Date to Death Row: May 24, 1993
Crime: Wesley Allen Mercer, his 6-year-old stepson, was beaten and scalded to death in March 1992.
MANUEL ORTIZ
Age: 54
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: Feb. 1, 1995
Crime: Tracie Williams Ortiz, his wife, was killed Oct. 23, 1992.
1993
HENRI BROADWAY
Age: 41
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Feb. 5, 1996
Crime: Baton Rouge police Cpl. Betty Smothers was shot to death Jan. 7, 1993, while escorting a grocery store manager making a night bank deposit.
KEVAN BRUMFIELD
Age: 39
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Sept. 18, 1995
Crime: Baton Rouge police Cpl. Betty Smothers was shot to death Jan. 7, 1993.
LARRY ROY
Age: 51
Parish of crime: Rapides
Date to Death Row: Aug. 30, 1994
Crime: Freddie Richard Jr. and Rosetta Silas were killed May 3, 1993, in Cheneyville.
CLARENCE HARRIS
Age: 50
Parish of crime: Orleans
Date to Death Row: June 4, 1998
Crime: A New Orleans woman killed in August 1993 while trying to prevent him from abducting her 11-year-old daughter. Prosecutors said he later raped the girl.
WILLARD ALLEN
Age: 55
Parish of crime: Natchitoches
Date to Death Row: Oct. 28, 1994
Crime: Herman Ferguson was shot to death Sept. 7, 1993, at a nightclub in Campti.
JIMMIE CHRISTIAN DUNCAN
Age: 43
Parish of crime: Ouachita
Date to Death Row: Dec. 2, 1998
Crime: Haley Oliveaux, his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter, was sexually abused and drowned Dec. 18, 1993.
1994
JAMES SAMUEL BALDWIN IV
Age: 53
Parish of crime: DeSoto
Date to Death Row: Jan. 18, 1996
Crime: Elizabeth Baldwin, his wife, and three men, J.O. Woodfin, Rocky Baggott and Volly Jack Grimsley, were shot to death July 23, 1994.
JULIUS LUCKY
Age: 37
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: Nov. 17, 1995
Crime: Leatitia Fagot was killed during a robbery Aug. 6, 1994, at a Metairie daiquiri shop.
FREDRICK GRADLEY
Age: 35
Parish of crime: Rapides
Date to Death Row: Sept. 16, 1996
Crime: Rita Rabalais, 82, was beaten to death in October 1994.
CEDRICK JACOBS
Age: 48
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Nov. 25, 1998
Crime: Jason Oberling was shot to death Nov. 15, 1994, in the parking lot of a drive-in restaurant.
1995
MICHAEL COOKS
Age: 50
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Jan. 23, 1997
Crime: Joe Frazier was shot to death in Shreveport on Jan. 20, 1995.
JUAN SMITH
Age: 37
Parish of crime: Orleans
Date to Death Row: Aug. 4, 1997
Crime: Andre White, Tangie Thompson and her 3-year-old son, Devyn Thompson, were shot to death Feb. 5, 1995.
ANTOINETTE FRANK*
Age: 41
Parish of crime: Orleans
Date to Death Row: Oct. 20, 1995
Crime: New Orleans police officer Ronald Williams and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu were shot to death at the family-owned Kim Anh restaurant during a March 4, 1995, robbery. Frank was a rookie police officer.
ROGERS LACAZE
Age: 35
Parish of crime: Orleans
Date to Death Row: Sept. 15, 1995
Crime: New Orleans police officer Ronald Williams and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu were shot to death at the family-owned Kim Anh restaurant during a March 4, 1995, robbery.
JAMES TYLER III
Age: 36
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Oct. 10, 1996
Crime: Shreveport fast-food restaurant worker Jock Efferson was shot to death May 29, 1995, during an armed robbery.
BOBBY HAMPTON
Age: 42
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Sept. 5, 1997
Crime: Shreveport liquor store employee Phillip Coleman was shot to death Aug. 12, 1995.
CEDRIC EDWARDS
Age: 46
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Feb. 18, 1997
Crime: Victoria Catanese was killed Oct. 27, 1995, in Shreveport.
CLIFFORD DERUISE
Age: 38
Parish of crime: Orleans
Date to Death Row: Nov. 7, 1996
Crime: Deruise was convicted of fatally shooting Gary Booker on Nov. 4, 1995, after he refused to give Deruise a dollar, and of, two days later, approaching a family getting into their car to have a family portrait taken, and in a failed robbery attempt, shooting and killing 11-month-old Etienne Nachampassak while the child was strapped into his car seat.
TODD WESSINGER
Age: 44
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Sept. 17, 1997
Crime: Stephanie Guzzardo, 27, and David Breakwell, 46, were shot to death on Nov. 19, 1995, at the now-closed Calendar’s Restaurant on Perkins Road, where they worked.
TEDDY CHESTER
Age: 34
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: June 6, 1997
Crime: Cab driver John Adams was shot in the back of the head Dec. 27, 1995.
1996
QUINCY BROADEN
Age: 38
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Oct. 19, 1998
Crime: Edward Black and Allan Rutledge were killed near a Scenic Highway overpass Jan. 13, 1996.
DAVID BOWIE
Age: 40
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: May 21, 1999
Crime: Fish dealer General John Smith Jr., 70, was strangled in Baton Rouge on Jan. 17, 1996.
RONALD LETULIER
Age: 48
Parish of crime: St. Martin
Date to Death Row: Jan. 3, 1997
Crime: Catahoula resident Wilmer Blanchard Sr. was stabbed to death Feb. 5, 1996, during robbery.
ELZIE BALL
Age: 59
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: Aug. 22, 1997
Crime: Beer delivery man Bernard “Ben” Scorsone was shot to death May 15, 1996, in a bar robbery.
JAMES CASEY
Age: 51
Parish of crime: Bossier
Date to Death Row: July 22, 1998
Crime: Christina Wolfe, the best friend of his 12-year-old daughter, was raped and strangled in Bossier City on May 24, 1996.
DARRELL ROBINSON
Age: 43
Parish of crime: Rapides
Date to Death Row: April 9, 2001
Crime: Billy Lambert, 50, Carol Hooper, 54, Hooper’s daughter Maureen Kelley, 37, and Kelley’s 10-month-old son, Nicholas, were killed in Lambert’s home on May 26, 1996.
DAMON THIBODEAUX
Age: 38
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: Oct. 24, 1997
Crime: Crystal Champagne, 14, was kidnapped, raped and killed on July 15, 1996.
CHAD LOUVIERE
Age: 39
Parish of crime: Terrebonne
Date to Death Row: Feb. 24, 2000
Crime: Pam Duplantis, 27, was killed in October 1996 during a hostage standoff at the former ArgentBank on Grand Caillou Road.
JESSIE HOFFMAN
Age: 33
Parish of crime: St. Tammany
Date to Death Row: Sept. 11, 1998
Crime: Mary “Molly’’ Elliott, 28, of Covington, was kidnapped, raped and shot to death Nov. 27, 1996.
PHILLIP ANTHONY
Age: 38
Parish of crime: Orleans
Date to Death Row: Dec. 18, 1997
Crime: Employees Cara LoPiccolo, Santana Meaux and Michael Witkoskie were shot to death Dec. 1, 1996, at the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen in the French Quarter.
DANIEL IRISH
Age: 34
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Nov. 22, 1999
Crime: Russ Rowland was shot to death Dec. 30, 1996.
1997
ANTOINE TATE
Age: 42
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: June 19, 2000
Crime: Joseph Billie, Chonnor Jackson and Sylvester Rowe were shot to death Jan. 14, 1997, in a gangland-style ambush.
ROBERT CRAIG MILLER
Age: 49
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: April 20, 1998
Crime: Arneida Lindsey Mills was raped, robbed and stabbed to death Jan. 25, 1997, in her Saguaro Avenue home.
THAO LAM
Age: 40
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: Oct. 4, 1999
Crime: Dat Phat Truong and Han Ngoc Truong, 18, were shot to death Feb. 4, 1997, in their Harvey home.
EMMETT TAYLOR
Age: 37
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: July 20, 1998
Crime: Drug store clerk Marie Toscano, 77, was killed during a robbery at the Jefferson Parish pharmacy on Feb. 18, 1997.
DANIEL BLANK
Age: 50
Parish of crime: Ascension
Date to Death Row: Dec. 9, 1999
Crime: Lillian Philippe, 72, of Gonzales, was fatally beaten and stabbed on April 10, 1997. The reputed serial killer was later convicted and sentenced to die for the May 14, 1997, killing of Joan Brock, of LaPlace.
GLYNN JUNIORS JR.
Age: 43
Parish of crime: St. James
Date to Death Row: June 22, 2000
Crime: Albert “Butch’’ Robinson, of Gonzales, was shot to death Nov. 17, 1997, at his business in Convent during an armed robbery attempt.
1998
JARRELL NEAL
Age: 35
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: June 9, 1999
Crime: Fergus Robinson and Greg Vickers were shot to death with an AK-47 assault rifle in Metairie on March 31, 1998.
MICHAEL WEARY
Age: 34
Parish of crime: Tangipahoa
Date to Death Row: Jan. 23, 2002
Crime: Eric Walber, a 16-year-old pizza delivery boy, was robbed, beaten and run over April 4, 1998, in Albany.
ANTHONY SCOTT
Age: 33
Parish of crime: Assumption
Date to Death Row: Aug. 24, 1999
Crime: Lisa Anne Dupuis and Jacqulin Guillot Blanchard were killed June 4, 1998, during a bank robbery in Napoleonville.
JAMES DUNN
Age: 45
Parish of crime: Assumption
Date to Death Row: June 18, 1999
Crime: Lisa Anne Dupuis and Jacqulin Guillot Blanchard were killed June 4, 1998, during a bank robbery in Napoleonville.
GREGORY “BOO’’ BROWN
Age: 39
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Sept. 12, 2002
Crime: Husband and wife William and Ann Gay of Clinton were abducted and killed Oct. 4, 1998.
1999
MICHAEL TAYLOR
Age: 33
Parish of crime: DeSoto
Date to Death Row: Oct. 11, 2000
Crime: Chester Howell was shot to death Jan. 7, 1999.
MICHAEL LEGRAND
Age: 38
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: Feb. 23, 2001
Crime: Rafael Santos was found stabbed to death May 18, 1999, in his apartment.
JOHN DALE ALLEN
Age: 46
Parish of crime: Red River
Date to Death Row: Sept. 26, 2002
Crime: Shirley “Elaine’’ Posey Oliver, 51, was stabbed to death July 6, 1999, at her bait shop in Coushatta.
CURTIS DEAL
Age: 49
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Sept. 3, 1999
Crime: Joshua Deal, his 2-month-old son, was killed in November 1999.
DONALD WRIGHT
Age: 44
Parish of crime: Webster
Date to Death Row: Sept. 18, 2000
Crime: Heather White, his girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter, was beaten to death in December 1999.
DAVID BROWN
Age: 39
Parish of crime: West Feliciana
Date to Death Row: Nov. 16, 2011
Crime: Capt. David Knapps was killed Dec. 28, 1999, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Brown is one of the so-called Angola 5.
JEFFERY CLARK
Age: 52
Parish of crime: West Feliciana
Date to Death Row: May 23, 2011
Crime: Capt. David Knapps was killed Dec. 28, 1999, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Clark is one of the so-called Angola 5.
2000
SEDWRIC CLARK
Age: 41
Parish of crime: Richland
Date to Death Row: Jan. 15, 2002
Crime: Bertha Anderson, 68, and his daughter, Mariah Barnes, were killed in Oak Grove in February 2000.
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DARRELL DRAUGHN
Age: 41
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: May 20, 2004
Crime: Lauretta White, his 64-year-old neighbor, was stabbed to death in April 2000.
HENRY ANDERSON
Age: 50
Parish of crime: Ouachita
Date to Death Row: June 21, 2005
Crime: Nita Brinson, 85, was stabbed to death in September 2000.
JEREMIAH MANNING
Age: 32
Parish of crime: Bossier
Date to Death Row: May 13, 2002
Crime: Mary Ann Malone, 62, was kidnapped from her home, forced to drive to a remote area, and killed in December 2000. Manning had done yard work for her.
2001
JASON REEVES
Age: 37
Parish of crime: Calcasieu
Date to Death Row: Nov. 10, 2004
Crime: Mary Jean Thigpen, 4, was kidnapped, raped and stabbed Nov. 12, 2001.
DONALD LEGER
Age: 43
Parish of crime: St. Mary
Date to Death Row: Feb. 6, 2004
Crime: Troy Salone was shot to death Dec. 11, 2001, and Salone’s wife was seriously wounded in their mobile home.
2002
LADERICK CAMPBELL
Age: 29
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: March 4, 2005
Crime: Kathy Parker was shot to death Feb. 11, 2002, while working at a liquor store.
DERRICK TODD LEE
Age: 43
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Oct. 14, 2004
Crime: Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, was raped, beaten and stabbed to death May 31, 2002, by the reputed serial killer.
DUSTIN DRESSNER
Age: 28
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: Nov. 19, 2004
Crime: Paul Fasullo was killed June 6, 2002, in his home. Fasullo’s wife was stabbed 20 times but survived.
JESSE MONTEJO
Age: 33
Parish of crime: St. Tammany
Date to Death Row: May 13, 2005
Crime: Businessman Louis Ferrari, 61, was killed Sept. 5, 2002, in his home.
2003
BRANDY HOLMES*
Age: 32
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Feb. 23, 2006
Crime: Retired minister Julian Brandon was shot and stabbed in January 2003 after he answered a knock on his front door.
2004
SHEDRAN WILLIAMS
Age: 41
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: May 25, 2006
Crime: Baton Rouge police Lt. Vickie Wax was shot to death May 22, 2004, outside a now-closed Wal-Mart near Perkins Road and Acadian Thruway.
2005
ISAIAH DOYLE
Age: 29
Parish of crime: Jefferson
Date to Death Row: July 27, 2011
Crime: Store clerk Hwa Lee was shot to death on Aug. 4, 2005.
2006
MICHAEL GARCIA
Age: 33
Parish of crime: West Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: July 8, 2008
Crime: Matthew Millican was killed Feb. 8, 2006, in a wooded area of Port Allen.
FELTON DORSEY
Age: 38
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Sept. 8, 1999
Crime: Fire Capt. Joe Prock, 51, was killed April 1, 2006.
ANTHONY BELL
Age: 31
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: Sept. 11, 2008
Crime: Erica Bell, his wife, was shot to death May 21, 2006, at a Baton Rouge apartment complex after in-laws Leonard and Gloria Howard, Doloris McGrew and Darlene Selvage were shot to death inside the nearby Ministry of Jesus Christ Church.
TERRANCE CARTER
Age: 32
Parish of crime: Red River
Date to Death Row: Oct. 2, 2008
Crime: Corinthian Houston, the son of Carter’s former girlfriend, was abducted from the front yard of his grandmother’s Natchitoches residence in July 2006 and taken to an abandoned house in Coushatta, where he was tied to a chair, doused with gasoline and set on fire.
LEE ROY ODENBAUGH
Age: 48
Parish of crime: Morehouse
Date to Death Row: Aug. 14, 2009
Crime: Sondra Porter-Odenbaugh, 39, and her mother, Jessie Porter, 58, were killed in December 2006.
2007
JAMES MAGEE
Age: 34
Parish of crime: St. Tammany
Date to Death Row: Oct. 19, 2009
Crime: Adrienne Magee, his 28-year-old wife, and their 5-year-old son, Zach, were shot to death April 18, 2007, in the Tall Timbers subdivision north of Mandeville.
DACARIUS HOLLIDAY
Age: 35
Parish of crime: East Baton Rouge
Date to Death Row: March 17, 2010
Crime: Darian Coon, his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, was beaten to death May 14, 2007.
ERIC MICKELSON
Age: 43
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: Aug. 12, 2011
Crime: Charles Martin, 86, was killed and dismembered on July 11, 2007.
2008
ROBERT MCCOY
Age: 38
Parish of crime: Bossier
Date to Death Row: Jan. 23, 2012
Crime: His estranged wife’s mother, Christine Colston-Young, stepfather Willie Young, and her son Greg Colston were shot to death in their home on May 5, 2008.
LAMONDRE TUCKER
Age: 22
Parish of crime: Caddo
Date to Death Row: July 14, 2011
Crime: Tavia Sills, his former girlfriend who was pregnant, was killed in September 2008.
*Antoinette Frank and Brandy Holmes are on death row at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women at St. Gabriel.