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The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Jerome Butler (the first person executed in Texas during the 1990 decade) was the 34th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a ...
90 Walter E. Barton White 64 M May 19, 2020 Christian: Gladys Kuehler 91 Ernest Lee Johnson: Black 61 M October 5, 2021 Boone: Mary Bratcher, Mabel Scruggs, and Fred Jones 92 Carman L. Deck: White 56 M May 3, 2022 Jefferson: James Long and Zelma Long 93 Kevin Johnson Jr. Black 37 M November 29, 2022 St. Louis: Kirkwood police Sergeant William ...
Executions, which peaked in 1999 when 98 people were put to death, have declined to 11 this year, the fewest since 1988, according to data in the Death Penalty Information Center’s year-end report.
The first 2 executions were by gas inhalation; all subsequent executions were by lethal injection, [2] following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional. [3] A further 2 people sentenced to death in California (Kelvin Malone and Alfredo Prieto) were executed in Missouri and ...
Sixteen executions (none of them military) have occurred in the modern post-Gregg era. [1] Since 1976, sixteen people have been executed under federal jurisdiction by the United States federal government. All were executed by lethal injection at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. [2]
But the more I witnessed these executions, I became more convinced that the distance that we keep between ourselves as a society and this issue is a big part of what allows it (the death penalty ...
But even if a jury of seven women and five men agrees, Ramos, who pleaded guilty to all charges in O’Sullivan’s death, would instead be sent to a high-security state prison, joining the more ...