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New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007. [1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. [2]
In 1999 death row inmate Robert "Mudman" Simon, who was convicted of killing a police officer, died during a fight. [6] The lethal injection chamber at the prison was never used, and the death penalty was repealed in December 2007. [7] Therefore, the final execution to take place at the prison was a January 22, 1963 electrocution. [5]
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 74 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.
Missouri State Trooper Russell Harper 32 43 33 Kelvin Shelby Malone: Black January 13, 1999 St. Louis: William Parr [h] 20 38 34 James Edward Rodden Jr. White February 24, 1999 Clay: Terry Trunnel and Joseph Arnold 23 39 35 Roy Michael Roberts: White March 10, 1999 Marion: Correctional officer Tom Jackson 31 45 36 Roy Ramsey Jr. Black April 14 ...
Longest serving death row inmate in Georgia. [231] Sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl. [232] [233] Richard Gerald Jordan: March 2, 1977 ongoing 47 years, 162 days United States: Sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a woman in Mississippi. Jordan is Mississippi's longest serving death row ...
April 13, 1906 (WADOC lists date as May 13, 1906 while newspaper reports death as April 13) murder of Adolph Miller [24] A.A. Armstrong June 8, 1906 murder of Robert Patton [25] Fred Miller March 22, 1907 murder of Fred Dierk [26] Jose Nicolos (WADOC lists name as Joe Niculas) April 16, 1909 murder of George Brown and unnamed four-year-old [27 ...
Thomas Trantino. Thomas Trantino (born February 11, 1938) is an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to life in prison for the execution style shooting deaths in 1963 of two police officers in Lodi, New Jersey. He was sentenced to death by electrocution, which was commuted to life in prison after capital punishment was suspended in the ...
Summary of scheduled executions. As of August 12, 2024, a total of 36 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [ 1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [ 2] There are a total of 17 pending motions to set an execution date across eight states. [ 3]