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Jorge Avila-Torrez. Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 119 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois.
Retrieved May 4, 2022. ^ Davenport, Paul; Billeaud, Jacques (May 11, 2022). "Clarence Dixon dies in Arizona's 1st execution since 2014". Associated Press. Retrieved May 11, 2022. ^ Cooper, Jonathan J.; Billeaud, Jacques (June 8, 2022). "Arizona executes Frank Atwood for 1984 killing of young girl". Associated Press.
Texas' highest criminal court on April 25, 2022, delayed the execution of Lucio, the only Latina on the state's death row, who was set to die April 27, 2022. [76] Taylor Rene Parker Parker was convicted for the October 2020 slaying of her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage Hancock.
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2024; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
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 ...
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. [2]
In 2019 a total of 22 people were executed, [15] and 2,652 people were on death row. [16] The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, enacted in 2004 and codified at 18 U.S. Code § 1841, [17] allows for a fetus to be treated as victims in crimes. Subsection (c) of that statute specifically prohibits prosecutions related to consented abortions ...
In January 2022, lawyers for death row inmates Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle asked for their execution method to be switched from lethal injection to firing squad, arguing that firing squad would be faster and less painful. [22] The state executed both Grant and Postelle by lethal injection on January 27, 2022, and February 17, 2022 ...