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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 ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 March 13, 2025 David Leonard Wood: 29 38 Texas: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 March 18, 2025 Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. 46 18 28 Black Louisiana: Nitrogen hypoxia: Profile: 3 March 19, 2025 Aaron Brian Gunches: 53 31 22 White Arizona ...
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.
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 ...
Texas executed eight inmates last year and five this year. The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...
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PHOENIX (AP) — Executions will resume in Arizona following a two-year pause, the state's top prosecutor says. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday that she will soon seek an execution warrant for Aaron Brian Gunches, who is on death row after being convicted of killing his girlfriend's ex-husband.
After the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Georgia resumed executions in 1983. The four-year break in executions caused by the coronavirus pandemic and related agreement ...