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Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 1, 2024, a total of 33 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 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [ 3 ]
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2024. To date, nineteen people, all male, have been executed in the United States in 2024, two by nitrogen hypoxia and seventeen 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 ...
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...
The 52-year-old Virginia man died by lethal injection at 11:34 p.m. He is the second person to be executed by the government this week and the 12th since July, when the Trump administration ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in ...
August 19, 2024 at 4:01 PM. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's governor has set a Nov. 21 execution date for what is scheduled to be the nation's third death sentence carried out by nitrogen gas ...
Retrieved July 20, 2023. ^ Gattis, Paul (July 21, 2023). "Alabama Death Row inmate James Barber executed for 2001 Madison County murder". al.com. Retrieved July 21, 2023. ^ Lieb, David A. (August 2, 2023). "Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction, killing of 6-year-old girl lured to abandoned factory". Associated Press.
List of most recent executions by jurisdiction. Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. 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.