12/6/02 - Ernest Basden executed at 2 a.m.  Pronounced dead at 2:19 a.m.

11/5/02 -  Correction Secretary Theodis Beck sets Basden's execution date for December 6, 2002.

10/21/2002 - Supreme Court of the United States denies Basden's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals which affirmed Basden's conviction and sentence of death.

12/30/1994 - North Carolina Supreme Court affirms Basden's death sentence 

4/9/1993 - Ernest Basden sentenced to death in Duplin Superior Court for the murder of Billy Carlyle White 

Ernest Basden