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  2. List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed on March 5, 1945, for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a ...

  3. Kelly Gissendaner - Wikipedia

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    Kelly Renée Gissendaner ( née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia. Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997). [ 1][ 2] At the time of the murder, Gissendaner was 28 ...

  4. List of people executed by the United States military

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    The first four of these executions, those of Bernard John O'Brien, Chastine Beverly, Louis M. Suttles and James L. Riggins, were carried out by military officials at the Kansas State Penitentiary near Lansing, Kansas. The remaining six executions took place in the boiler room of the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

  5. Jack Alderman - Wikipedia

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    Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, where Alderman was held on death row and where he was executed. Jack Edward Alderman (May 29, 1951 – September 16, 2008) was, at the time of his execution, the longest-serving death row prisoner in the United States who has been executed. He had remained on death row for over 33 years.

  6. Georgia executes Willie Pye in its first execution since ...

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    Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...

  7. Capital punishment by the United States military - Wikipedia

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    On March 25, 1865, Confederate captain Robert Cobb Kennedy was hanged in New York City for spying. In July 1865, four involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were executed in Washington D.C. by hanging. On September 6, 1865, two Union soldiers were hanged in Ohio for the murder of a military policeman.

  8. List of women executed in the United States since 1976

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    Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [ 1] Women represent about 1.13 percent of the 1,594 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2]

  9. Georgia death row inmate to be executed after last-ditch appeal

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    A Georgia clemency panel has voted against allowing a death row inmate, who is set to be executed later this week, to spend the rest of his days in prison. Willie James Pye, 59, has been on death ...