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Twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2024, three by nitrogen hypoxia and twenty-two 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 nitrogen hypoxia. [2] Three states saw their first executions in over ...
Killed two U.S. coastguardsmen and a Secret Service agent. [16] Herbert Hoover: Carl Panzram: Hanging Murder September 5, 1930 United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett: Hanging Murder of a federal officer March 24, 1936
List of people executed in the United States in 2024; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; Other
HOUSTON (AP) — The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states, including Alabama, which became the first state to use nitrogen gas as an execution method, according to an annual report on capital punishment. The report by the Death Penalty Information Center was ...
Texas executed eight inmates last year and five this year. The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...
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.
Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder. James Barnes was Florida's 60th execution via lethal injection.
At least 975 people were executed in 2024, a 17 per cent increase compared to 834 in 2023. ... The data "reveals a horrifying escalation in the use of the death penalty by the Islamic Republic in ...