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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 ...
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As of December 20, 2024, a total of 31 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in three U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 17 pending motions to set an execution date across eight states. [3]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over ...
HOUSTON (AP) — The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states, including Alabama, which became the first state to use nitrogen gas as an execution method, according to an annual report on capital punishment. The report by the Death Penalty Information Center was ...
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.
Corcoran would be Indiana's first execution in 15 years. Indiana officials have not executed an inmate since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders ...
Another chapter in Arizona’s off-again, on-again death penalty history occurred between 1962 and 1992 when no executions were performed. All told, 143 people have been put to death in the state ...