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Twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2024, three by nitrogen hypoxia and twenty-two by lethal injection. [1] 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 ...
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
The following are lists of people executed in the United States. By state This ... List of people executed in the United States in 2024; Other
Updated December 3, 2024 at 9:07 PM. Hands grip prison bars. The United States has executed 23 men this year, with six of those executions coming during one remarkable 11-day period. At least two ...
When that state put Kenneth Eugene Smith, a convicted murderer, to death on Jan. 25, it was also the first time a new execution method had been used in the United States since lethal injection ...
Last execution date Name Crime Method C United States Federal Government: 16 January 2021 [68] Dustin John Higgs: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C United States military: 13 April 1961: John A. Bennett: child rape and attempted murder: hanging: D Alabama: 21 November 2024 [69] Carey Dale Grayson: capital murder: nitrogen hypoxia: A Alaska ...
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [2] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988 contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama. Charles Sennett Sr ...