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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.
- Executions Overview
On August 8, 2023, death-sentenced prisoner Aubrey Trail...
- Botched Executions
Later, when another Florida death row inmate challenged the...
- Methods of Execution
*New Hampshire abolished the death penalty but the repeal...
- Lethal Injection
On October 15, 2024, the Idaho Department of Corrections...
- Executions Overview
- 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...
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 149 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. Robert Gregory Bowers.
DIED ON DEATH ROW on December 28, 2020 of COVID-19. MARCH 2022: 4 executions scheduled by 4 states: 3 executions stayed; 1 person died on death row: April; 21: OH: John Drummond: REPRIEVED by Governor Mike DeWine on September 10, 2021 and execution rescheduled for April 16, 2025. 21: TN: Oscar Franklin Smith
Dec 16, 2022 · Death sentences in 2022 were 93.7% below the peak of 315 in 1996. Executions have dropped by 82% since their peak of 98 in 1999. The number of people on death row across the country also declined for the 21 st consecutive year, with resentencings to life or less again outpacing the number of new death sentences.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.. The total amounts to 126 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.
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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. [75] 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.
