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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.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Georgia, DPIC released its Death Penalty Census, which covers the period from 1972 to January 1, 2021. The database was the result of a years-long effort. [ 8 ] The Death Penalty Census will be updated periodically, includes death sentences imposed in U.S. state, federal, and military courts, and includes numerous details about each case.
The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Arthur Gooch: Hanging Kidnapping June 19, 1936 Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma The only person executed under the Federal Kidnapping Act in which the victim did not die. Earl Gardner Hanging
2 Capital Punishment, 2010 - Statistical Tables Four states revised capital statutes in 2010 At yearend 2010, the death penalty was authorized by 36 states and the federal government (table 1). While New Mexico repealed the death penalty in 2009 (Laws 2009, ch. 11 § 5), the repeal was not retroactive. As of December 31,
For instance, South Korea retains capital punishment but has observed an unofficial moratorium on executions since 1997; [3] Taiwan is the only other advanced democracy with capital punishment for ordinary crimes; in 2024 Taiwan's Constitutional Court upheld the legality of the death penalty, but restricted its use to the most serious crimes (i ...
More Americans now believe the death penalty, which is undergoing a yearslong decline of use and support, is being administered unfairly, a finding that is adding to its growing isolation in the U ...
Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its courts impose more death sentences than Texas , a state that has a population five times as large. [ 1 ]