Johnny Ray Johnson

Johnny Johnson, 51, was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on February 12, 2009, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. A San Diego Union-Tribune account says he was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. that evening. Johnson was a Black man, and his execution was the second carried out in Texas that week.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

News reports (2)

• Executed Inmates Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Executed Inmates and Electrocutions
• Convicted murderer-rapist executed in Texas - San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego Union-Tribune, February 12, 2009