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On death row: 177 [94] Total number executed: 1340 (1800–2024) [19] Due to the number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages or part of a criminal enterprise with a separate Wikipedia page are listed. The full list is externally linked: Faces of Death Row: The Texas Tribune; List of death row inmates in Texas
Summary of scheduled executions. As of August 13, 2024, a total of 37 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [ 1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [ 2] There are a total of 16 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [ 3]
Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett. Hanging. Murder of a federal officer. March 24, 1936. Marion County Jail, Indiana. The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Arthur Gooch.
In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution. [5] Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution. [6] There were 2,721 people on death row in the United States on October 1, 2018. [7]
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2024. To date, twelve people, all male, have been executed in the United States in 2024, one by nitrogen hypoxia and eleven 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 ...
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. Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign ...
Since 1608, 15,391 lawful executions are confirmed to have been carried out in jurisdictions of, or now of, the United States, of these, 575, or 3.6%, were women. Women account for 1 ⁄ 50 death sentences, 1 ⁄ 67 people on death row, and 1 ⁄ 100 people whose executions are actually carried out. While always comparatively rare, women are ...
t. e. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in China. It is applicable to offenses ranging from murder to drug trafficking. [ 1] Executions are carried out by lethal injection or by shooting. [ 2][ 3][ 4] A survey conducted by The New York Times in 2014 found the death penalty retained widespread support in Chinese society.