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Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 17, 2024, a total of 35 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over five calendar years in eight U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 15 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [3]
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2024. To date, twenty people, all male, have been executed in the United States in 2024, two by nitrogen hypoxia and eighteen 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 ...
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
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 ...
The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 2 October 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
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 ...
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.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, there have been 1,414 executions carried out by lethal injection across the country, according to the Death Penalty Information ...