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Franklin Delano Floyd (June 17, 1943 – January 23, 2023) [2] was an American murderer, rapist, and death row inmate. He was convicted of the 1989 murder of Cheryl Ann Commesso, as well as the kidnapping of 6-year-old Michael Anthony Hughes, [ 3 ] who he claimed was his son, from his elementary school in Choctaw , Oklahoma .
On death row: 1 (2014) Total number executed: 24 (1700–1939) [20] Note: On May 30, 2019, the state Senate voted to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [1]
The United States has executed 23 men this year, with six of those executions coming during one remarkable 11-day period. At least two more executions are scheduled before the end of the year.
A convicted murderer who has been on California’s death row for 33 years must either be released or retried after a federal judge on Thursday approved the state attorney general’s request to ...
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
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.
Since the state’s last execution, the Department of Corrections reports that four inmates have died on death row. Convicted murderer Freddie Owens is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p ...