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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 ...
List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976; List of death row inmates in the United States who have exhausted their appeals
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 306 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 157 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
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 ...
Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime. 26 years, 8 months and 1 day
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.
The moves are part of the state's attempts to comply with Proposition 66, which was approved by voters in 2016 to speed up the execution process but also called for death row inmates to work and ...
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.