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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 ...
Last execution date Name Crime Method C United States Federal Government: 16 January 2021 [68] Dustin John Higgs: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C United States military: 13 April 1961: John A. Bennett: child rape and attempted murder: hanging: D Alabama: 6 February 2025 [69] Demetrius Terrence Frazier: capital murder: nitrogen hypoxia: A ...
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.
The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by far the most inmates, at 591. The US has executed 23 men this year.
Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...
Executions, which peaked in 1999 when 98 people were put to death, have declined to 11 this year, the fewest since 1988, according to data in the Death Penalty Information Center’s year-end report.
Sixteen executions (none of them military) have occurred in the modern post-Gregg era. [1] Since 1976, sixteen people have been executed under federal jurisdiction by the United States federal government. All were executed by lethal injection at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. [2]
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 ...