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Summary of scheduled executions. As of November 6, 2024, a total of 34 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over five calendar years in six U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 15 pending motions to set an execution date across eight states. [3]
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] Two 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. [5]
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2021. A total of 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.
Texas alone, for instance, accounts for 37% of all executions carried out since 1977 as of October 4, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit ...
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...
March 20, 2024 at 8:24 PM. 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 ...
The report — which called 2022 the “year of the botched execution” — found that in 7 out of 20 executions, or 35%, something went wrong because of “executioner incompetence, failures to ...
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