The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
sentences and executions.173 This is in contravention with their OSCE commitments
to, “make available to the public information regarding the use of the death penalty.”174 175 176 177 178
Death Penalty Sentences between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2016
Country
State/
Oblast
Florida175
Name
Age at Race
Offense Gender
Dennis Glover
49
Barry Davis
26
Randall Devine
18
Michael Brown
26
Eddie Nealy
29
California176 Joseph Mercado
Luis Rodriguez
United
States of
America
Black
Male
Black
Male
White
Male
Black
Male
Black
Male
Latino
Male
Latino
Male
Latino
Male
White
Female
Black
Male
White
Female
Latino
Male
White
Male
Asian
Male
26
24
Francisco Zavala 20
Alabama177
Texas178
Heather Keaton
22
Jovon Gaston
23
Lisa Graham
40
Mark Gonzalez
41
James Calvert
41
Paul Hall
18
Crime
Victim(s)
1st degree murder
Female
Two counts of 1st
degree murder
Female (1)
Male (1)
1st degree murder
Female
1st degree murder
and sexual offenses
1st degree murder
and rape
Three counts of 1st
degree murder
Two counts of 1st
degree murder
Murder during the
course of a robbery
Murder and
Manslaughter
Female (1)
Male (1)
Murder
Male
Murder
Female
Capital murder179
Male
Capital murder
Female
Capital murder
Male
Female
Female
Female (1)
Male (2)
Male (2)
Male (1)
173 Andrei Paluda, Palina Stsepanenka and Adarya Hushtyn, “The Death Penalty in Belarus” Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme, Vilnius, 2016, <https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/knyga_en_web_1_.
pdf>.
174 OSCE Commitments, op. cit., note 45 (17.8).
175 Florida Department of Corrections, Death Row Roster, last updated 21 July 2016, <http://www.dc.state.
fl.us/activeinmates/deathrowroster.asp>.
176 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Adult Operations, Death Row Tracking
System printed 5 July 2016, <http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Capital_Punishment/docs/CondemnedInmateListSecure.
pdf?pdf=Condemned-Inmates >.
177 Alabama Department of Corrections, Alabama inmates on Death Row, last updated 21 July 2016, <http://
www.doc.state.al.us/DeathRow.aspx>.
178 Texas Department of Criminal justice, Offenders on Death Row, last updated 15 July 2016, <https://www.
tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_offenders_on_dr.html>.
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