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Sidney Gleason. Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004. 18 years, 46 days (first sentence; overturned) 8 years, 267 days (second sentence) After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016. James Kraig Kahler.
Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 4, 2024, a total of 34 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [ 1 ] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in seven U.S. states. [ 2 ] There are a total of 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [ 3 ]
Veronica Gonzales. Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime.
Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Williams, was executed by lethal injection on Sept. 24, 2024, in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Convicted of carjacking-related homicide of a 63-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter. Mitchell stabbed the woman to death and drove around 40 miles (64 km) with her body in the vehicle along with her granddaughter. He then slit the 9-year old's throat. He was the only Native American on death row until his execution. [15] Donald Trump
Capital punishment in Wisconsin was abolished in 1853. Wisconsin was one of the earliest United States jurisdictions to abolish capital punishment, and is the only state that has performed only one execution in its history. Since its admission to the Union in 1848, as the 30th State, the only execution carried out in Wisconsin was the botched ...
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution. In each case, Elder also provides short ...
Witness to Innocence ( WTI) is a non-profit organization based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the effort of abolishing the death penalty in the United States. WTI began as a project of The Moratorium Campaign, led by Jené O'Keefe. Kurt Rosenberg took over in 2005 with sponsorship from Sister Helen Prejean, Witness to Innocence ...