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Retrieved May 4, 2022. ^ Davenport, Paul; Billeaud, Jacques (May 11, 2022). "Clarence Dixon dies in Arizona's 1st execution since 2014". Associated Press. Retrieved May 11, 2022. ^ Cooper, Jonathan J.; Billeaud, Jacques (June 8, 2022). "Arizona executes Frank Atwood for 1984 killing of young girl". Associated Press.
Last year saw 24 people put to death, up from 18 in 2022 and 11 in 2021. Alan Eugene Miller Miller, 59, was sentenced to death over the back-to-back workplace murders of Holdbrooks, Yancy and ...
Miller's was one of five executions scheduled to take place within the span of a week in five different states, which is uncommon at a time in history when death sentences and executions are ...
The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [2] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988 contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama. Charles Sennett Sr ...
Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 1, 2024, a total of 33 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [ 1 ] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [ 2 ] There are a total of 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [ 3 ]
FILE - The execution room at the Oregon State Penitentiary is pictured on Nov. 18, 2011, in Salem, Ore. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, she is commuting the sentences ...
George Barrett. Hanging. Murder of a federal officer. March 24, 1936. Marion County Jail, Indiana. 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.
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]