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  2. List of botched executions - Wikipedia

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    The rope was too long and over-measured, causing him to be decapitated. [13] Moses Shrimpton (1885) – Hanging. His neck muscles were weak and he was decapitated. [14] Roxana Druse (1887) – Hanging. The last woman hanged in the state of New York, and the first woman hanged in 40 years in Central New York.

  3. What is nitrogen hypoxia? Alabama’s untested execution method ...

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    When a prisoner challenges a method of execution, the state forces them to name an alternative. So Smith filed a lawsuit requesting he be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, one of three legal ...

  4. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment is a legal penalty. In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. [b][1] It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished ...

  5. Capital punishment in Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    The state has executed the second largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. [1] Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States. [2] Oklahoma was the first jurisdiction in the world to adopt lethal injection as a method of execution. [3]

  6. SC Supreme Court rules state’s execution methods ... - AOL

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    Joseph Bustos. July 31, 2024 at 10:16 AM. Kinard Lisbon/AP. The state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that all of the state’s methods to execute inmates sentenced to death are constitutional. All ...

  7. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Decapitation. Used at various points in history in many countries. One of the most famous methods was the guillotine. Now only used in Saudi Arabia with a sword. Stoning. The victim is battered by stones thrown by a group of people, with the injuries leading to death.

  8. Symbolic execution - Wikipedia

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    Forking the entire system state. Symbolic execution tools based on virtual machines solve the environment problem by forking the entire VM state. For example, in S2E [9] each state is an independent VM snapshot that can be executed separately. This approach alleviates the need for writing and maintaining complex models and allows virtually any ...

  9. Lethal injection - Wikipedia

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    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. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broader sense to include euthanasia and other forms of ...