#	GA	Article Title	Pub. Date	GA Status Date	State	Type
1		Murder of Peter Weinberger (was called Kidnapping of Peter Weinberger at the time of GA status)	2021-11	2022-06	New York	Death penalty case

Listed in chronological order.

Articles with a * by them are my proudest publications. I really hope you read them :)

FYI, "Post-Gregg" means the execution took place in the United States after the Gregg v. Georgia decision of 1976. Any American entry labeled "death penalty case" without that distinction took place between 1900–1967.

Essentially articles that I more or less rewrote or nearly constructed in their entirety. Usually, these were stubs that I fleshed out with in-text citations, more detail, and occasionally photos.

Only counting edits where I more or less rewrote the article, and/or edits where I contributed to more than half of what was already there.

The current order in which these are listed is simply the order in which I added them to the table - i.e. the top ones were added earliest.

Added in order of when I think to include them. I'll remove each name as they receive articles, or if I decide not to create one for that particular person. My priorities are cases with injustice, followed by serial killers (only because those tend to be noteworthy enough to resist challenges related to their notability - I personally don't have much of an interest in serial killers, but I want to help with the WikiProject for it).

My top priorities are cases for which I have a draft. I have a column where I have designated cases I've been working on in my drafts.

Until around October 2024, I didn't know other users could look at each other's drafts; because of this, if you see that I am currently working on a draft of any of these names or topics, and you would like to contribute to them, please feel free to contribute! Please just alert me to let me know if you make any edits to any of these drafts. Also let me know if you want to collaborate on building any of these drafts, although just know that if you want to make edits, you don't have to ask me to collaborate first; I'd just appreciate if you'd let me know, so I don't get shocked if they look different from the way I left them. However, please do not take any of the information from these drafts to publish them anywhere on Wikipedia, or any Wikimedia sites, without asking me first. I have conducted all my draft research on my own; I would be pretty crushed if someone picked it up, took it, and represented it as their own. Also, the info in my drafts is rough, unpolished, frequently poorly organized, and mostly not suitable for publication yet.

A lot of Wikipedia's articles on the death penalty in the U.S. consist of tables listing inmates who have been executed in certain jurisdictions. This problem doesn't apply as frequently for states that have abolished the death penalty, but for states that still utilize the death penalty, many of those articles are list articles to chronicle executions that occurred after the 1976 ruling Gregg v. Georgia, as that ruling designated the moment America's "modern death penalty era" (AKA the "post-Gregg" era) began; anything prior is typically referred to as "pre-Furman" and is considered to be part of a different "era" of the death penalty with far different implementation and practices (i.e. executions frequently took place 9-24 months after a crime even with appeals, racially motivated kangaroo courts were far more frequent, murder was not the only crime people were executed for committing, etc.).

Here's the problem: cumulatively, the U.S. has carried out around 1,600 executions in the post-Gregg era, from 1976 to 2024... and at least 16,000 executions in the pre-Furman era, from 1608 to 1967. I think omitting our absolutely massive number of pre-Furman executions means Wikipedia cannot represent the full scope of the history of the American death penalty; as the statistics I compiled in the below table will show, for all our most populous states except Texas, Wikipedia's list articles only account for 4.4% of our most populous states' executions.

I think every state needs to have list articles up to the standard of the excellent list articles for Texas's executions (where each decade has its own article – see List of people executed in Texas 1920–1929, 1930–1939, and so on). I believe that states with significant numbers of pre-Furman executions (say, 300+), including but not limited to Georgia, Virginia, California, North Carolina, and New York, should have their articles separated by decade for the sake of organization; I also think this will make the pages easier to maintain and easier to complete (as New York's article, for instance, is incomplete). The rest of the states with fewer than 300 total executions may just have one article.

Below is a table I've compiled to list states that carried out 300+ pre-Furman executions and are in desperate need of updates/additional list articles. I'll be specific about the updates I think each page would need. These list articles are going to take an eternity to complete, so if anyone wants to help me, please be my guest!

When I make lists of pre-Furman executions, I use the Espy Files as one of my main sources; you can find well-organized lists of (almost) every execution in the United States between 1608-1967 by checking this archived site called Before the Needles. https://web.archive.org/web/20090601210453/http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm This website contains lists for every state. The Espy Files are largely accurate; I'd say (based on my own knowledge of them) that they are about 90% accurate and around 80% complete, and modern research capabilities will allow their findings to become even more complete.

Another reason why it is so important for articles to be made for pre-Furman executions, however, is that I've identified a few typos and errors in the Espy Files – and other websites, including news sites and the Death Penalty Information Center, resort to using the Espy Files as their main source when it comes to listing pre-Furman executions. As a result, I've seen several articles online repeating the Espy File's errors, including:

• A man in West Virginia named John Marshall was executed by gibbeting/"hanging in chains" on April 4, 1913, and was the last person to be executed by this method in U.S. history. (This is not true; Marshall was hanged as normal for murdering his wife, right alongside another man who murdered his wife, James Williams, and both were buried in a prison cemetery after their executions. Nothing about their executions was historically significant; it would be strange for Marshall to receive a bizarrely harsher punishment than Williams for the exact same crime, and neither case received a lot of press coverage anyway.)
• A man in West Virginia named Nathan (who was enslaved by a man whose surname was Wilson) was executed by "injection" in 1821. (This is also not true; Nathan was most likely hanged.)
• A man in Louisiana named L.C. Lloyd was executed by electric chair on March 11, 1949. (This is not true; L.C. Lloyd died by suicide hours before his execution could take place.)
• A man in Illinois named Morris Cohen was executed by electric chair on October 20, 1933, for attempted rape. (This is not true; Morris Cohen was a prolific Chicago-area gangster who was executed for murdering a police officer. I don't know if he ever committed a sex crime.)
• Every single execution that took place in October, of any year, is incorrectly marked as having taken place in January.

I've also found dozens of missing executions in several states, particularly southern states, because those tend to have spottier coverage of their executions; I've found many missing executions in Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and North Carolina, in particular. I say all of this to make the point that the Espy Files should not be the only source used to build these articles; each execution, and facts on each execution (method, crime, etc.), should be confirmed elsewhere as well.

I have a personal project to complete a non-stub article for every country in Africa! Africa is severely underrepresented when it comes to thorough articles covering their countries' histories, particularly their histories with the death penalty. These topics deserve well-formatted, well-structured, and well-sourced articles that avoid resorting to a colonialist or condescending slant in their coverage. If anyone wants to help with this niche project, even if it's just sending me a link to a good source, or even if it's just encouraging me to get started on a particular country, I'd appreciate it greatly!

After I finish Africa, my next priority is South America, followed by Oceania, and then Asia.

Listed in order of priority.

• Retching Red
• Fabulous Disaster (band)
• The Rest Is Silence (Randy album)
• Cheater (EP)

I'm AFDDiary. (The first 3 letters stand for Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses, which was my all-time favorite album when I made this account. Not anymore—I still like it, but it's not anywhere near my #1. It isn't even in my current top 30. I'm very likely going to change my username at some point, but I don't know what I want to change it to, so I guess it'll stay for now.)

Userboxes This user has been on Wikipedia for 11 years and 27 days. This user is a female contributor. This user's ethnicity is African American. SYN This user is a synaesthete. This user identifies as a femme. Main Interests: This user opposes any and all capital punishment administered by the state. XXX This user is Straight Edge. This user is a socialist. This user is a history buff. This user likes all types of music. This user believes that punk rock will never die This user is a music composer. WikiProjects and Editing: This user helped promote Murder of Peter Weinberger to good article status. This user believes that Wikipedia would benefit from having more female editors and perspectives. Read more here on Gender Bias on Wikipedia - 84-91% of Wikipedians are men. This user believes that Wikipedia would benefit from having more Black editors and perspectives. Read more here on Racial Bias on Wikipedia, which is a systemic issue. This user has access to the Wikipedia Library. Punk This user enjoys punk rock, and is a member of WikiProject Punk music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Countering systemic bias. This user is a participant in WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography. wiki-2 This user is an intermediate Wikipedia editor. This user is an advocate of open research and open access. Mental Health: This user has social anxiety. Ø This user is a recluse. This user suffers from insomnia. This user lives with major depressive disorder. This user has ASD.

If you were to ask me today, Supporting Caste by Propagandhi is my current all-time favorite album. It bests every album in existence in the lyrical, political, and musical departments, hands down, in my opinion. It is the perfect punk rock album. Anyone with even the slightest interest in human rights, equality, animal rights, or just good music in general should listen to it. Ask me anytime for my other recommendations; it's a wide swath of more punk rock, with some hard rock, rap, and metal sprinkled within.

For some quick biographical information – I am in my 20s, I am a cisgender black woman, I am a leftist, and I live in the Deep South in the United States. I'm wildly neurodivergent in several ways (most prominently Au-DHD) and still trying to adjust to life. For one fun fact, I'm a sound-color synesthete born with absolute pitch, which I think explains why I love music so much: music is a vividly colorful experience for me.

Most of my contributions here will concern capital punishment and the death penalty, especially in the United States. That topic is my special interest, and I know way too much about it and individual cases within the subject. I will branch out to creating/editing articles on other countries on a case-by-case basis as I feel more comfortable discussing them and understanding them. I also like creating and editing articles about punk rock bands and albums, glam metal bands and albums, and hard rock bands and albums, although I do those far less frequently. (Music-wise, I think I personally prefer pages dedicated to albums over bands, but I like editing both.)

In case you must know, I am against the death penalty — a death penalty opponent in 100% of cases. It is unjust, unequal, excessively costly, and a waste of humanity. Every so-called "justified" execution is accompanied by one rife with problems. For my favorite example, the year after Florida executed notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, they executed an innocent man, Jesse Tafero - on top of botching it and setting his head and face on fire while he suffocated to death in the electric chair. His death was most likely agonizing and prolonged. Florida proudly did that to an innocent man.

I feel like the public has a right to know about the horrors done in their names. Wikipedia is scholarly and impartial, so I cannot show my true opinions through the articles - but I do implore you to look further into each active case you come across. (I used to have a long explanation of my position, but I don't really want that here anymore because I'd rather this page focus on my contributions here. But if you really want to know, feel free to ask, or check out the Death Penalty Information Center or the Equal Justice Initiative for some great learning resources.)