Deaths in 2005/executions

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The following is a list of executions carried out by recognized governments in December 2005.

[edit] December 2005

14

• John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.

13

• Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, executed by lethal injection for killing 4 people in California.

5

• Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.

2

• Kenneth Boyd, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina, the 1,000th U.S. execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
• Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.
• Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian executed at Changi Prison in Singapore for trafficking 396 grams of heroin in 2002, hanging. [1]