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Georgia reintroduced the death penalty in 1973 after Furman v. Georgia ruled all states' death penalty statutes unconstitutional. The first execution to take place afterwards occurred in 1983. 77 people in total have been executed since 1983 as of March 21, 2024. [1] As of June 30, 2024, 33 men and 1 woman are on death row awaiting execution. [2]
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 a new frontier of ...
The death penalty was used in Georgia as early as 1735. Here's what to know about capital punishment in the Peach State.
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 ...
March 18, 2025 Jessie D. Hoffman Jr. 46 18 28 Black Profile: 6 March 19, 2025 Aaron Brian Gunches: 53 31 22 White Arizona: Lethal injection Profile: 7 March 20, 2025 Wendell Arden Grissom: 56 37 19 Oklahoma: Profile: 8 April 23, 2025 Moises Sandoval Mendoza: 41 20 21 Hispanic Texas Profile: 9 May 20, 2025 Matthew Lee Johnson: 49 36 13 Black
Georgia decision barred the death penalty for rape of an adult woman. Previously, the death penalty for rape of an adult had been gradually phased out in the United States, and at the time of the decision, Georgia and the Federal government were the only two jurisdictions to still retain the death penalty for this offense. In the 1980 case ...
Louisiana ends prohibition on death penalty A De Soto Parish judge granted a death warrant Tuesday for 81-year-old Christopher Sepulvado to be executed on March 17 for the murder of his 6-year-old ...
January 31, 2025 Marion Bowman Jr. 44 20 24 Male Black South Carolina: Lethal injection [3] 2 February 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson: 37 24 13 Texas [4] 3 February 6, 2025 Demetrius Terrence Frazier: 52 19 33 Alabama: Nitrogen hypoxia [5] Average: 44 years 21 years 23 years