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A total of 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.
As of December 20, 2024, a total of 31 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in three U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 17 pending motions to set an execution date across eight states. [3]
20 March 2020 [119] Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma: gang rape and murder: hanging: D Indonesia: 29 July 2016 [120] Freddy Budiman, Seck Osmane, Michael Titus Igweh and Humphrey Ejike drug offences: firing squad: D Iran: 30 November 2024 [121] Ahmed Shahbakhsh murder: hanging: D Iraq: 25 September 2024 [122] 20 unnamed ...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s diminishing role with the death penalty. The Supreme Court continued to retreat from the role it has historically played in regulating and limiting use of the death penalty, Maher said. In 2024, the Supreme Court granted just three out of 117 inmate requests to stay an execution or review claims in a case, the report ...
Jul. 6—State appellate judges set execution dates for 19 more Oklahoma death row inmates — including at least one awaiting a competency trial — in a phased schedule through December 2024.
Alabama's governor has set a Nov. 21 execution date for what is scheduled to be the nation's third death sentence carried out by nitrogen gas. Gov. Kay Ivey set the execution date for Carey Dale ...
From 1790 to 1963, there were 332 Federal, 271 Territorial and 40 Indian Tribunal executions according to the most complete records. [3] The youngest person executed was James Arcene on June 18, 1885, at the age of 23 for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was 10 years old.
The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...