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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.
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.
April 25, 2001 St. Louis City: Kent Bicknese, James Schneider and Sol Marks 50 Samuel D. Smith Black 40 M May 23, 2001 Callaway: Marlin May 51 Jerome Mallett Black 42 M July 11, 2001 Perry: Missouri State Trooper James F. Froemsdorf 52 Michael S. Roberts White 27 M October 3, 2001 St. Louis: Mary L. Taylor 53 Stephen K. Johns White 55 M October ...
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963. Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965. [1] 45 people were executed in Iowa from 1834-1963, all by hanging. [2] In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection. [3]
Of the 109 convicted felons currently on the state’s death row, only one is a woman, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which collects data on capital punishment nationwide.
Capital punishment in Virginia: The death penalty in Virginia came to an end on March 24, 2021, when the state became the first Southern state to abolish the death penalty. Prior to abolition, Virginia had some of the most executions out of any state since 1976, as well as the most executions overall in the pre- Furman v.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Delaware since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 16 people were convicted of murder and have been executed at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, near Smyrna, Delaware. [1] Capital punishment was abolished in Delaware on August 2, 2016. [2]