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- So far this year, there have been 12 executions, three each in Alabama and Texas, two each in Oklahoma and Missouri, and one each in Utah and Georgia.
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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2022. A total of eighteen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2022, all by lethal injection . [ 1 ]
Jan 27, 2022 · Executions in 2022. Most states carry out executions with a three-drug lethal-injection protocol. Others use a single drug. The three-drug protocol typically begins with an anesthetic or sedative, followed by a second drug to paralyze the inmate and a third drug—typically potassium chloride—to stop the prisoner’s heart.
Dec 16, 2022 · The six states that carried out executions in 2022 imposed 41% (9) of the year’s death sentences. Every state that performed an execution also imposed at least one new death sentence this year. Just 35% of the 51 death warrants issued for 2022 were actually carried out.
Aug 1, 2023 · Executions: Total since resumption of the death penalty in the U.S. in 1972 after the U.S. Supreme Court declared existing statutes unconstitutional through 2023.
- 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...
Jul 5, 2024 · As of 2022, the U.S. state of Texas had executed 573 death row inmates since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated. Over the same time period, Oklahoma executed 116 people, and the...
Eleven people were executed in the U.S. last year, the fewest since 1988: Texas executed three people, Oklahoma executed two and one each were put to death in Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri. Three federal inmates were executed in January 2021, toward the end of Donald Trump's presidency.
