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List of most recent executions by jurisdiction § United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976;
As of December 26, 2024, a total of 31 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in three U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 17 pending motions to set an execution date across eight states. [3]
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.
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.
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which has never executed a prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [34] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
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 nitrogen hypoxia. [2] Three states saw their first executions in over a decade. Utah saw its first execution since 2010 in August. [3] [4] South Carolina carried out its first execution since 2011 in September ...
As of January 2024, there were nearly 2,200 prisoners facing the death penalty in state cases, according to the center, which states the death row population has been declining over the last 20 years.
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 ...