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He was the first person to be executed in the United States in this manner since 1966. The last person to be executed by electric chair without the choice of an alternative method was Lynda Lyon Block on May 10, 2002, in Alabama. [34] The most recent execution by electric chair was of Nicholas Todd Sutton on February 20, 2020, in Tennessee.
List of death row inmates in the United States; 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 ...
electric chair: A Virginia: 6 July 2017 [108] William Charles Morva: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington: 10 September 2010 [109] Cal Coburn Brown: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington, D.C. 26 April 1957 [110] Robert E. Carter: murder: electric chair: A West Virginia: 3 April 1959: Elmer Bruner: aggravated murder ...
Tennessee has executed its longest-serving death row inmate, who became the second person put to death in the state's electric chair in just over a month.
The United States has executed 23 men this year, with six of those executions coming during one remarkable 11-day period. At least two more executions are scheduled before the end of the year.
Now, the electric chair is currently the state’s backup method if inmates do not select a method of execution. That policy is due to a 2021 law that made the electric chair the default method ...
The first person executed in 2024, Kenneth Eugene Smith, became the first person in the United States and in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. [2] Three states saw their first executions in over a decade. Utah saw its first execution since 2010 in August. [3] [4] South Carolina carried out its first execution since 2011 in September ...
South Carolina is dusting off its electric chair and trying to restart executions in the state after going nearly 10 years without putting an inmate to death. A House Committee voted 14-7 on ...