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Twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2024, three by nitrogen hypoxia and twenty-two by lethal injection. [1] The first person executed in 2024, Kenneth Eugene Smith, became the first person in the United States and in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. [2] Three states saw their first executions in over ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 February 13, 2025 James Dennis Ford: 64 36 28 Male White Florida: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 Richard Lee Tabler: 46 25 21 Texas: Profile: 3 March 7, 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon: 67 43 24 South Carolina: To be determined: Profile: 4 ...
At 1,600 executions in the past five decades, the United States is a rarity among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment, with more than 70% of nations globally having banned ...
List of people executed in the United States in 2024; ... List of executions in Japan This page was last edited on 1 February 2025, at 10:40 (UTC). Text is ...
Brian J. Dorsey, 51, was charged in the 2006 killing of his cousin Sarah Bonnie and her husband Ben Bonnie. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has not granted clemency in a death penalty case.
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
Outside of the United States, the last execution elsewhere in the Americas was in Saint Kitts and Nevis in 2008. The countries in the Americas that most recently abolished the death penalty are Suriname (2015), Argentina (2009), and Bolivia (2009). Guatemala abolished the death penalty for civil cases in 2017.