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Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder.
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.
Lethal injection [6] 2 January 10, 2023 Robert Alan Fratta: 65 37 28 Male Texas [7] 3 January 12, 2023 Scott James Eizember: 62 42 20 Oklahoma [8] 4 February 1, 2023 Wesley Lynn Ruiz: 43 27 16 Hispanic Texas [9] 5 February 7, 2023 Leonard Sheldon Taylor: 58 40 18 Black Missouri [10] 6 February 8, 2023 John Lezell Balentine: 54 28 26 Texas [11 ...
Freddie Owens was put to death on Sept. 20 and Richard Moore was executed on Nov. 1, with both men choosing to die by lethal injection. This was the first execution in the U.S. this year after 25 ...
Owens’ execution was the culmination of a multi-year fight by South Carolina to resume the death penalty after the state ran out of the drugs needed to perform the lethal injection in 2011. In ...
He is the second person put to death since the state resumed capital punishment following a 13-year pause prompted by difficulty obtaining drugs for its lethal injection protocol, an issue other ...
Eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection. [1] With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988.
A 5-gram dose remains, but a backup dose would still be required to conduct any future lethal injection execution, Tewalt said — be it Creech or one of Idaho’s seven other death row prisoners ...