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The Espy file, [33] compiled by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla, lists 15,269 people executed in the United States and its predecessor colonies between 1608 and 1991. From 1930 to 2002, there were 4,661 executions in the United States; about two-thirds of them in the first 20 years. [34]
William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American murderer who was the first person executed by electric chair.He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier. [1]
Thomas Granger or Graunger (1625? – September 8, 1642) was one of the first people hanged in the Plymouth Colony (the first hanged in Plymouth or in any of the colonies of New England being John Billington) and the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States.
In the United States, Michigan was the first state to ban the death penalty, on 18 May 1846. [69] The short-lived revolutionary Roman Republic banned capital punishment in 1849. Venezuela followed suit and abolished the death penalty in 1863 [70] [71] and San Marino did so in 1865. The last execution in San Marino had taken place in 1468.
Though it took two surges of electricity lasting nearly two minutes to kill William Kemmler, the electric chair replaced hanging as the most efficient and preferred method of execution in the United States. This was the first time in United States history that a method other than hanging was the leading means of execution. [15] [page needed]
South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year.. Bowman was on Death Row for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee ...
List of people executed in the United States in 2024; Other. List of people executed by the United States federal government;
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...