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The rest of the United States − 23 in total − do not have the death penalty, including red states like North Dakota and Alaska, and the bluest of states, like Vermont and Massachusetts ...
The Democratic president also faced criticism from some anti-death penalty activists who said he didn't go far enough, including a family member of one victim, who said Biden's commutations should ...
In response to the death of Berget, Johnson's widow, who attended the execution with her daughter, son-in-law, and other family members, commented that her late husband died an extremely brutal death caused by bludgeoning and it was a "cruel and unusual punishment" compared to Berget's "peaceful" and "dignified" death.
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Jerome Butler (the first person executed in Texas during the 1990 decade) was the 34th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
The execution garnered new attention and significance in December 2020, when Governor Mike DeWine announced that the state of Ohio would no longer execute death row inmates via lethal injection. [5] Since the execution of Van Hook, there has been an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment in the state , as a result of the unavailability of ...
Americans’ support for the death penalty is the lowest it has been in five decades, according to a nationwide survey, part of “The Death Penalty in 2023: Year End Report” released by the ...
On November 9, 2023, Chad Daybell's legal team filed three motions to remove the death penalty in his murder trial. The final motion stated that Lori had "manipulated" Chad "through emotional and sexual control" and that Chad had "lesser culpability than his co-defendant, who did not face the death penalty". [182] The motions were denied in ...