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Ronald Allen Smith [ 63] Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982. 41 years, 153 days. Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.
In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. [ b][ 1] It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 states and in the federal ...
After the Cold War, many more countries followed: 36 countries abolished capital punishment in the 1990s, with 9 in 1990 alone, 23 in the 2000s, 11 in the 2010s, and 7 so far in the 2020s. Since 1985, there have been only 6 years when no country has abolished the death penalty: 2001, 2003, 2011, 2013, 2018 and 2023.
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]
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 ...
In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution. [5] Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution. [6] There were 2,721 people on death row in the United States on October 1, 2018. [7]
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2021. A total of eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection. [ 1] With only eleven executions occurring throughout the year, 2021 saw the fewest number of executions within a single year since 1988.
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