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Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 March 7, 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon: 67 43 24 Male White South Carolina: Firing squad: Profile: 2 March 13, 2025 David Leonard Wood: 29 38 Texas: Lethal injection: Profile: 3 March 18, 2025 Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. 46 18 28 Black Louisiana
A hanging that took place in Nevada. Hanging was the method used for most executions before that of Gee Jon in 1924.. The first recorded execution in the area that is now Nevada was the hanging of John Carr for murdering Bernhard Cherry of Carson City on November 30, 1860, and the first recorded legal execution in the Nevada Territory was the hanging of Allen Milstead outside Dayton for ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. There have been a total of 43 executions in North Carolina, under the current statute, since it was adopted in 1977. All of the people executed were convicted of murder.
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.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over the drugs to be used in his lethal injection is taking a tortuous toll on him and his ...
Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
This remained the law until March 28, 1921 when an amendment was adopted providing for execution by means of lethal gas. Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber. The first execution by use of lethal gas took place in February 1924 and has been used as the means of carrying out the death sentence a total of thirty-one ...
Since then, several inmates on death row, like Holman, have died of something other than execution. There remain 136 people on North Carolina’s death row , including two women, according to the ...