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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
Date of execution Name Race Age at execution Age at offense State Method Ref. 1 November 2, 1984 Margie Velma Barfield: White 52 45 North Carolina: Lethal injection [3] 2 February 3, 1998 Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 ...
On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...
Two executions in Tennessee were stayed indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] [15] Three executions in Texas were also stayed to review intellectual disability claims. [16] [17] [18] Five more executions in Texas were reprieved due to the state not allowing the inmate's pastors to lay their hands on them during the execution.
Aaron Brian Gunches (born June 30, 1971) [1] is an American prisoner on death row at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona, after being convicted for the 2002 murder of Ted Price. His scheduled execution on April 6, 2023 was deferred. Further court action is pending.
An Alabama death row inmate has asked a federal appeals court to stop his execution scheduled for this week, arguing the state hasn’t made sufficient changes to its capital punishment system ...
As of 2024 male death row inmates are housed at SCI Phoenix and SCI Somerset. [13] Previously death row inmates were held at SCI Greene, which housed most men in this category. [12] As of 2015, 80% of all Pennsylvania death row inmates were held at Greene. [12] At some point all SCI Greene death row inmates were moved to Phoenix. [13]
Date of execution Method Crime 1 Charles Miller April 22, 1892 Hanging: Murder and robbery 2 Frank Howard December 7, 1894 Murder 3 James Keffer September 24, 1902 Murder and robbery 4 Thomas Horn: November 20, 1903 Murder 5 Joseph Seng May 24, 1912 Murder 6 Warren Jenkins November 14, 1913 Murder 7 Willard Flanders June 16, 1916 Murder 8