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On death row: 0; Total number executed: 23 (1866–1992) Jurisdictions without the death penalty. Twenty-three states have abolished capital punishment. Crimes committed in these states are still eligible for the death penalty if they are convicted in federal court for certain federal crimes. Capital punishment has been abolished in New ...
This is a list of people executed by lethal injection in Missouri, comprising 99 convicted murderers since 1976, when the US Supreme Court reaffirmed the death penalty with its decision in Gregg v. Georgia .
Summary of scheduled executions. As of July 3, 2024, a total of 38 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 12 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [3]
Karla Faye Tucker. Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
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 1,591 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2020. 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 ...
This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Delaware since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 16 people were convicted of murder and have been executed at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, near Smyrna, Delaware. Capital punishment was abolished in Delaware on August 2, 2016.