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Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 4, 2024, a total of 34 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [ 1 ] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in seven U.S. states. [ 2 ] There are a total of 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [ 3 ]
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.
Saigon Execution[a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém[b][c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon. The photograph was published extensively by ...
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.
On death row: 175 [93] Total number executed: 1341 (1800–2024) [19] Due to the number of Texas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages or part of a criminal enterprise with a separate Wikipedia page are listed. The full list is externally linked: Faces of Death Row: The Texas Tribune; List of death row inmates in Texas
List of people executed by the District of Columbia. List of people executed in Florida. List of people executed in Georgia. List of people executed in Idaho. List of people executed in Illinois. List of people executed in Indiana. List of people executed in Iowa. List of people executed in Kansas.
Furthermore, Winslow noted that Adams "wanted me to understand that 'Saigon Execution' was not his most important picture and that he did not want his obituary to begin, 'Eddie Adams, the photographer best known for his iconic Vietnam photograph "Saigon Execution " ' ". [10] Adams would later lament the effect of the photo. [16]
In South Vietnam, the coup was referred to as Cách mạng 1-11-63 ("1 November 1963 Revolution"). [3] The Kennedy administration had been aware of the coup planning, [4] but Cable 243 from the United States Department of State to U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. stated that it was U.S. policy not to try to stop it. [5]