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Georgia reintroduced the death penalty in 1973 after Furman v. Georgia ruled all states' death penalty statutes unconstitutional. The first execution to take place afterwards occurred in 1983. 77 people in total have been executed since 1983 as of March 21, 2024. [1] As of June 30, 2024, 33 men and 1 woman are on death row awaiting execution. [2]
Georgia ruling that instituted a death penalty moratorium nationwide, there were approximately 342 executions of juveniles in the United States. In the years following the 1976 Gregg v. Georgia ruling that overturned Furman and upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty, there were 22 executions of juvenile offenders before the practice ...
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. The same year, Texas only executed seven people, the first time it did not lead the nation in executions since 2001 (when it ranked behind Oklahoma). Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again ...
By Jim Salter and Kate Brumback ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Georgia inmate convicted of rape and murder was executed Tuesday night in the nation's first capital punishment since a botched execution in ...
Troy Leon Gregg (April 29, 1948 – July 29, 1980) was the first condemned individual whose death sentence was upheld by the United States Supreme Court after the Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia invalidated all previous capital punishment laws in the United States.
A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago has been put to death in the state’s first execution in more than four years. Authorities say 59-year-old Willie James ...
A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years.