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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.
Four days later on Sept. 24, two men were executed within an hour of each other: Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri at 6:10 p.m. CT even though the prosecutors in the case and the victim ...
The following are lists of people executed in the United States. By state This list is ...
In five and half years, Landsberg Prison was the place of execution of 252 condemned war criminals, all of them by hanging. [4] Executions were carried out expeditiously. In May 1946, 28 former SS guards from Dachau were hanged within a four-day period. [ 5 ]
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 a decade. Utah saw its first execution since 2010 in August. [3] [4] South Carolina carried out its first execution since 2011 in September ...
He was executed at 11:03 p.m. at a state prison in Butts County, south of Atlanta, the state Department of Corrections said. ... There were 36 men and one woman under death sentence in Georgia ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 27, 2022 Donald Anthony Grant: 46 25 21 Male Black Oklahoma: Lethal injection [2] 2 Matthew Reeves: 44 18 26 Alabama [3] 3 February 17, 2022 Gilbert Ray Postelle: 35 17 White Oklahoma [4] 4 April 21, 2022 Carl Wayne Buntion ...
The prison houses 2,937 prisoners and at least 180 of them, like Cantu, are awaiting execution. Cantu, who was born in Dallas 50 years ago, was sentenced to death in October 2001.