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Race White 62 61% Black 38 38% Native American 1 1% Age 20–29 4 4% 30–39 28 28% 40–49 41 40% 50–59 20 20% 60–69 7 7% 70–79 1 1% Date of execution
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A death penalty case that brings up issues of bias inherent within Kentucky’s death penalty system. | Your Feb. 27 Daily Briefing.
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
Newport News: Jacqueline Stephens 59 Kevin Wayne Cardwell: Black 29 M December 3, 1998 Henrico: Anthony Brown 60 Mark Arlo Sheppard: Black 27 M January 20, 1999 Chesterfield: Richard Rosenbluth and Rebecca Rosenbluth 61 Tony Leslie Fry: White 23 M February 4, 1999 Leland A. Jacobs 62 George Adrian Quesinberry Jr. White 37 M March 9, 1999 Thomas ...
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [89] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [90] [91]
Ford’s execution was the first in Florida in 2025. One person was put to death in 2024, down from six in 2023, when Gov. Ron DeSantis was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination.
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.