The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2019 reporting period.79 Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee carried out their first executions in many years (since 1997, 2012 and 2009, respectively).80 Date of execution 04/19/2018 Name Walter Moody Ethnic Age Group Sex 83 White Male State Alabama Method Lethal Injection 04/25/2018 Erick Davila 31 Black Male Texas Lethal Injection 05/04/2018 Robert Butts 40 Black Male Georgia Lethal Injection 05/16/2018 Juan Castillo 37 Latino Male Texas Lethal Injection 06/27/2018 Danny Bible 66 White Male Texas Lethal Injection 07/17/2018 Christopher Young 34 Black Male Texas Lethal Injection 07/18/2018 Robert Van Hook 58 White Male Ohio Lethal Injection 08/09/2018 Billy Irick 59 White Male Tennessee Lethal Injection 08/14/2018 Carey Moore 60 White Male Nebraska Lethal Injection 09/26/2018 Troy Clark 51 White Male Texas Lethal Injection 09/27/2018 Daniel Acker 46 White Male Texas Lethal Injection 11/01/2018 Edmund Zagorski 63 White Male Tennessee Electrocution 11/14/2018 Roberto Ramos 64 Latino Male Texas Lethal Injection 10/29/2018 Rodney Berget 56 White Male South Dakota Lethal Injection 12/04/2018 Joseph Garcia 64 Latino Male Texas Lethal Injection 12/06/2018 David Miller 61 White Male Tennessee Electrocution 12/11/2018 Alvin Braziel 43 Black Male Texas Lethal Injection 12/13/2018 Jose Jimenez 55 Latino Male Florida Lethal Injection 01/30/2019 Robert Jennings 61 Black Male Texas Lethal Injection 02/07/2019 Domineque Ray 42 Black Male Alabama Lethal Injection 02/28/2019 Billie Coble 70 White Male Texas Lethal Injection Promising developments During the reporting period, there were several positive developments that show progress towards the abolition of the death penalty in the US. On 11 October 2018, in the case of State of Washington v. Gregory, the Chief Justice of Washington Supreme Court declared that Washington’s death penalty was unconstitutional because it has been “imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased 79  Texas executed 7 people in the previous reporting period, see: “The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2018”, op. cit., note 3, p. 15. 80  Amnesty International, “Amnesty International Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2018”, op. cit., note 74, p. 14. 23