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As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Jun 29, 2019 · (Reuters) - The New Mexico Supreme Court on Friday vacated the death sentences of the last two inmates awaiting execution in a state that abolished capital punishment a decade ago, ordering both...
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Murders and conviction. On July 2, 1976, thirty-year-old William Thomas "Tommy" Zeigler Jr. (born July 25, 1945) [3] was convicted of the quadruple murder of his wife, Eunice Zeigler, and her parents, Perry and Virginia Edwards, as well as a customer named Charlie Mays.
- Donald Grant
- Matthew Reeves
- Gilbert Ray Postelle
- Carl Wayne Buntion
- Carman Deck
- Clarence Dixon
- Frank Atwood
- Joe Nathan James Jr.
- Kosoul Chanthakoummane
- James Coddington
Oklahoma executed Grant, 46, on January 27. He was sentenced to death for the murder of two employeesat a LaQuinta Inn in Del City during a robbery in 2001. His final words were reportedto be disjointed and incoherent. "Yo, God, I got this," Grant said, according to witnesses. "No medication. I didn't take nothing. Brooklyn for life."
Alabama executed Reeves, 43, for a 1996 murder on January 27. He was convicted of killing Willie Johnson Jr., a driver who gave Reeves and his friends a ride when their vehicle broke down. Evidence showed Reeves went to a party afterward and celebrated the killing. Reeves remained silent during his execution at Holman Prison.
Oklahoma executed Postelle, 35, on February 17. He was sentenced to diefor his involvement in the Memorial Day 2005 shooting deaths of James Alderson, Terry Smith, Donnie Swindle and Amy Wright at a home in southeast Oklahoma City. Postelle's attorneys had argued that he should not be executed for various reasons, including a learning disability.
Texas executed Buntion, who at 78 was then the state's oldest death row inmate, on April 21. Buntion had been out on parole when he fatally shot Houston police officer James Irby, 37, during a traffic stop in June 1990. Buntion's attorneys had argued that his sentence should be commuted, describing him in a clemency petition as "a frail, elderly ma...
Deck, 56, died by lethal injection at Missouri's state prison in Bonne Terre on May 3. He was sentenced to deathfor killing a couple, James and Zelma Long, during a robbery at their rural home in 1996. "My hope is that one day the world will find peace and that we all will learn to be kind and loving to one another," Deck said in a written final st...
Arizona executed Dixon, 66, on May 11. It was the state's first execution in nearly eight years after executions were suspended following the botched 2014 execution of Joseph Wood. Dixon was sentenced to deathfor the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin. Prosecutors said Bowdoin had been raped, strangled and stabbed...
Arizona executed Atwood, 66, on June 8. He was convictedof killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson in 1984. She went missing on September 17, 1984, while riding her bike in Tucson and her remains were discovered in the desert the following April. Atwood's attorneys had asked courts to delay his execution, arguing that Atwood's degenerative spinal ...
James, 50, received a lethal injectionin Alabama on July 28. He was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting death of his ex-girlfriend Faith Hall, 26, in Birmingham. Hall's daughters, who were three and six when their mother was killed, had said they wanted James to serve life in prisonrather than be put to death. Officials took three...
Chanthakoummane, 41, received a lethal injection in Texas on August 17. He was sentenced to death for the killing of 40-year-old Sarah Walker, a suburban Dallas real estate agent, in 2006. He used his final statementto thank Jesus Christ, ministers with the Texas prison system and "all these people in my life that aided me in this journey." Chantha...
Coddington, 50, was executed at Oklahoma's state penitentiary on August 25. He admitted to killing 73-year-old Albert Hale, a friend and co-worker who refused to loan him $50 to buy cocaine. Coddington beat Hale on the head at least three times with a hammer inside Hale's home in Choctaw in 1997. He was the first of 25 death row inmates whose execu...
Aug 16, 2020 · To prompt a deeper understanding of the death-penalty system in the US, photographer Jackie Black recreated the last meals requested by prisoners on death row before they were executed.
People removed from Death Row since North Carolina's death penalty was reinstated in 1977. New trial ordered 02/03/88; Murder dismissed and received a life sentence for rape 06/05/92. The sentence was vacated and the inmate was released on 9/3/2014.
