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The geographic distribution of capital punishment in the United States has a strong correlation with the history of slavery and lynchings. [7] States where slavery was legal before the Civil War also saw high numbers of lynchings after the Civil War and into the 20th century.
List of people executed in Alabama; List of people executed in Arizona; List of people executed in Arkansas; List of people executed in California; List of people executed in Colorado
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 first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Arthur Gooch: Hanging Kidnapping June 19, 1936 Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma The only person executed under the Federal Kidnapping Act in which the victim did not die. Earl Gardner Hanging
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.
Crime Convict Race Age Date Location Jurisdiction Robbery [1]: James Coburn [2] [3]: White 38 4 September 1964 Alabama: State Rape: Ronald Wolfe [4]: White 33 8 May 1964 Missouri
Capital punishment has been abolished in New Hampshire, but only for new sentences. One prisoner (Michael Addison) who was already sentenced to death remains on death row in the state. States and the date of abolition of capital punishment: Michigan (1846; abolished for murder, retained for treason until 1963) Wisconsin (1853) Maine (1887 ...
No. Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 18, 2018 Anthony Allen Shore