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The United States military has executed 135 people since 1916. 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 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. [1] All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. [2] However, any future execution will no longer be performed using this method, due to a ruling by Governor Mike ...
Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 1, 2024, a total of 33 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 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [ 3 ]
List of people executed by the District of Columbia. List of people executed in Florida. List of people executed in Georgia. List of people executed in Idaho. List of people executed in Illinois. List of people executed in Indiana. List of people executed in Iowa. List of people executed in Kansas.
A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former ...
Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the ...
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2021. A total of eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection. [1] With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988. [2]
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is where condemned individuals in Ohio are executed. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio, although all executions have been suspended indefinitely by Governor Mike DeWine until a replacement for lethal injection is chosen by the Ohio General Assembly. [1] The last execution in the state was in July 2018, when Robert J. Van ...