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Summary of scheduled executions. As of August 13, 2024, a total of 37 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [ 1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [ 2] There are a total of 16 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [ 3]
14 years, 315 days. Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss. Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss . 5 years, 108 days. Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance. Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 26 years, 325 days.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.. The total amounts to 125 people, and all were executed by lethal injection. [1] Of the 125 people, 122 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
Race White 61 62% Black 37 37% Native American 1 1% Age 20–29 4 4% 30–39 28 28% 40–49 40 40% 50–59 19 19% 60–69 7 7% 70–79 1 1% Date of execution
Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation on March 9, 2011, to abolish the death penalty in Illinois. All fifteen death row inmates in the state had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment without parole. [5]
A total of seventeen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2020, sixteen by lethal injection and one by electrocution. [ 1] The federal government of the United States executed ten people in 2020, ending a hiatus on federal executions which had lasted for over 17 years. State executions dropped significantly in 2020 compared ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . 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]
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution. In each case, Elder also provides short ...