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Prior to abolition, Gabon had an ongoing moratorium on executions since Ngokouta's death in 1985. On 13 September 2007, Gabon's Council of Ministers voted to ban the death penalty, a decision which garnered praise from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, who released a statement declaring, "This decision reinforces the growing movement towards the abolition of ...
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.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 107 people. Of the 107 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 63 have been executed by lethal injection .
Miami-Dade prosecutors were forced to retry Calloway’s death sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida’s death penalty law in 2016, which only required a majority vote. A year ...
Ford’s execution was the first in Florida in 2025. One person was put to death in 2024, down from six in 2023, when Gov. Ron DeSantis was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination.
The death penalty law DeSantis signed is intended to get the conservative-controlled U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 2008 ruling that found it unconstitutional to use capital punishment in ...
53 (27%) maintain the death penalty in law and practice. 23 (12%) permit its use but have abolished it de facto: per Amnesty International standards, they have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or practice of not carrying out executions. [10]
A Florida judge on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for the random 2019 killings of two Southwest Florida women. Wade Steven Wilson, reportedly tied to a white supremist gang, was ...