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As of October 4, 2024, a total of 35 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in eight U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states.
On July 1, 2024, the trial court in Anderson County, Texas approved a death warrant for Roberson and his execution was scheduled to be carried out on October 17, 2024. [31] [32] Roberson was reportedly the first death row prisoner convicted on the grounds of shaken baby syndrome to have his execution scheduled in the U.S. itself. [33]
At least 200 people – 18 in Texas – have been exonerated since 1973 after being convicted and sentenced to die, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
If all five executions proceed, the U.S. will have executed 18 death row inmates this year. Another six are scheduled, and more could be added to the calendar. Contributing: Amanda Lee Myers
Murder of Alijah Mullis. On January 29, 2008, in Galveston County, Texas, three-month-old Alijah Mullis (October 29, 2007 – January 29, 2008), was found dead along a roadside at Seawall Boulevard. Investigations later connected the victim's father as a suspect behind the murder, and the father, Travis James Mullis (September 20, 1986 ...
Texas leads death penalty numbers with over 580 since 1980s. US executes 5 men in 6 days. Texas leads death penalty numbers with over 580 since 1980s. With three days remaining in a six-day span ...
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 ] Two 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 ...
Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith faces execution by lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for two 2002 murders. The execution is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.