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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.
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 ...
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 ]
Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson. Vicki Lynne Hoskinson (February 2, 1976 – c. September 17, 1984) was an 8‑year-old American girl who disappeared in Tucson, Arizona while riding her bicycle to mail a birthday card to her aunt, and was eventually found murdered. [1] Her abductor, Frank Jarvis Atwood (January 29, 1956 – June 8, 2022), [2 ...
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 ...
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
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 ...
A jury’s decision to hand out a life sentence for Parkland mass killer Nikolas Cruz will make it even more difficult to secure death sentences in the future — and could also spur lawmakers to ...