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Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 31, 2025 Marion Bowman Jr. 44 20 24 Male Black South Carolina: To be determined: Profile: 2 February 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson: 37 24 13 Texas: Lethal injection: Profile: 3 February 6, 2025 Demetrius Terrence Frazier: 52 ...
Last execution date Name Crime Method C United States Federal Government: 16 January 2021 [68] Dustin John Higgs: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C United States military: 13 April 1961: John A. Bennett: child rape and attempted murder: hanging: D Alabama: 21 November 2024 [69] Carey Dale Grayson: capital murder: Nitrogen hypoxia: A Alaska ...
List of most recent executions by jurisdiction § United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976;
Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...
A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his ...
Two executions in Tennessee were stayed indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] [15] Three executions in Texas were also stayed to review intellectual disability claims. [16] [17] [18] Five more executions in Texas were reprieved due to the state not allowing the inmate's pastors to lay their hands on them during the execution.
The federal government of the United States executed ten people in 2020, ending a hiatus on federal executions which had lasted for over 17 years. State executions dropped significantly in 2020 compared to previous years, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [2]
The first person executed in 2024, Kenneth Eugene Smith, became the first person in the United States and in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. [2] Three states saw their first executions in over a decade. Utah saw its first execution since 2010 in August. [3] [4] South Carolina carried out its first execution since 2011 in September ...