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  1. Nov 17, 2017 · Last updated on October 17, 2024. to reflect executions that occurred in the previous 24 hours. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.

  2. Dec 16, 2021 · The public’s understanding of the grave dangers of wrongful capital convictions and death sentences deepened in 2021 as two innocent prisoners were exonerated more than 25 years after being wrongfully sentenced to die, and a multi-year Death Penalty Information Center review of more than 9,600 death sentences imposed since 1972 discovered 11 previously unreported death-row exonerations.

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  3. Other key findings in “The Death Penalty in 2021: Year End Report” include: Two more innocent death-row prisoners were exonerated in 2021, bringing the number of wrongfully-convicted people exonerated from death row since 1972 to 186. That amounts to one exoneration for every 8.3 executions in the modern era.

  4. Nov 17, 2023 · During 2021, the number of prisoners under sentence of death declined for the 21st consecutive year. A total of 16 prisoners were received under sentence of death in 2021, one more than was reported in 2020. Twenty states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) removed a total of 84 prisoners from under sentence of death by means other than ...

  5. Preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on January 12, 2021 on the grounds that lethal injection with pentobarbital would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, given his active COVID-19 infection. A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 on ...

  6. In July 2021, Virginia abolished the state’s capital murder ofense (see Status of the death penalty in 2021), leaving a total of 20 states and the District of Columbia with no death penalty statute in force on December 31, 2021. Five states (Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi) and the BOP executed a total of 11 prisoners in ...

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  8. Sep 13, 2021 · Time on death row: 17 years. Date of murder (s): Oct. 6, 1989. Summary: A jury handed Agofsky a death sentence in the beating death of 37-year-old Luther Plant, an inmate at a federal penitentiary ...

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