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However, the Massachusetts General Court has continuously opposed the death penalty. [9] In 1997, an attempt by Republican Governor Paul Celluci to reinstate the death penalty was defeated by one vote in the General Court. In 2014, the General Court repealed the death penalty statute by a vote of 131-18 in the House and 35-4 in the Senate. [6] [10]
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [87] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [88] [89]
Gabrion was the first person in the United States to receive the federal death penalty for a crime committed in a non-death penalty state since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988. [15] The sentence was overturned in 2013 by a panel of the Sixth Circuit, but was later reinstated 12–4 by the full court sitting en banc. [16] [17]
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.
List of people executed in the United States in 2000; List of people executed in the United States in 2001; List of people executed in the United States in 2002
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
This is a list of at least 351 people executed in Massachusetts, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Capital punishment in Massachusetts was ruled unconstitutional and effectively abolished in 1984. [ 3 ]
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