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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.
In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states (of whom two, Oregon and Wyoming, do not currently hold death row inmates in jail), throughout the country at the federal level, and in American Samoa.
August 2024 [135] 20-30 party officials Corruption and dereliction of duty unknown method D Oman: 22 April 2024 [136] 3 unnamed men murder: firing squad: D Pakistan: 24 November 2019 [137] Brigadier Raja Rizwan: espionage and high treason: hanging: D Palestine: 20 July 2024 [138] July 2005 (Palestinian Authority) [139] 2 unnamed men unnamed man
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in 2024, at 26 nationwide, as did the number of executions, 25, and the number of people on death row, about 2,250.
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The jury voted 11-1 to recommend the death penalty in the killings, to which the trial judge agreed. The US Supreme Court denied Ford’s final appeal Wednesday without comment.
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976