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The first 2 executions were by gas inhalation; all subsequent executions were by lethal injection, [2] following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional. [3] A further 2 people sentenced to death in California (Kelvin Malone and Alfredo Prieto) were executed in Missouri and ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 7, 2016 Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. 53 24 29 Male White Florida: Lethal injection [2] [3] 2 January 20, 2016 Richard Allen Masterson: 43 28 15 Texas [4] [5] [6] 3 January 21, 2016 Christopher Eugene Brooks: 20 23 Alabama [7] 4 ...
Cagle's execution is stayed due to an appeal under the state's Racial Justice Act. Wade Larry Cole Camden: Final petition for a writ of certiorari denied by the United States Supreme Court on October 5, 2009. [294] Cole's execution is stayed due to an appeal under the state's Racial Justice Act. Henry Louis Wallace: Mecklenburg
Lethal gas is authorized as the default execution method in eight states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wyoming. From 1979 to 1999, 11 inmates were executed using this method, in which a prisoner would be strapped to a chair in an airtight chamber before it was filled with cyanide gas.
Because nearly all of California inmates with capital sentences have been moved off of Death Row and placed in regular high-security prisons — such as California State Prison, Sacramento, near ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 4, 2005 James Scott Porter: 33 28 5 Male White Texas: Lethal injection [4] 2 January 19, 2005 Donald Jay Beardslee: 61 37 24 California [5] 3 January 25, 2005 Troy Albert Kunkle: 38 18 20 Texas [6] 4 Timothy Don Carr: 34 22 ...
List of most recent executions by jurisdiction § United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of women executed in the United States since 1976; List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim
Days after Alabama scheduled its third execution by nitrogen hypoxia, lawyers for the latest prisoner set to die by this method have asked a federal judge to block the execution order.. In a ...