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Only five people have been executed by the state of Washington since the death penalty statute was reformed following the 1976 Supreme Court decisions. Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in 2018.
The State Supreme Court did not rule out the possibility that the state legislature could enact a constitutional death penalty statute in the future. [ 27 ] In April 2023, Governor Inslee signed SB 5087, which formally abolished capital punishment in Washington state and removed provisions for capital punishment from state law.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
[10] [11] Because he kidnapped Butler in Kansas and took her across state lines to Missouri, where she was murdered, the case became federal under the Federal Kidnapping Act. In April 2000, the prosecution officially announced that they would seek the death penalty for Nelson over the abduction-killing of Butler. [12]
Fielder’s case has been joined with the case of Hugo Villanueva-Morales, a Kansas City, Kansas, man accused of murder in a 2019 mass shooting at a KCK bar, for the death penalty hearing, the ...
It hasn’t carried out an execution since 1965, and it was among the slowest to reinstate the death penalty after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for new capital punishment laws in 1976 — four ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 7, 2026 Quisi Bryan: 55 29 26 Male Black Ohio: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 11, 2026 Antonio Sanchez Franklin: 47 18 29 Profile: 3 March 12, 2026 James Earl Trimble: 65 44 21 White Profile: 4 June 17, 2026
Last year there were 24 executions carried out in five states, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Twenty-nine states have either abolished the death penalty ...