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Because of different definitions of what constitutes being “on death row,” some organizations such as the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel or the Bureau of Justice Statistics may have a slightly different list of those currently under federal sentence of death.
As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
May 6, 2024 · There are 40 prisoners on the federal death row, most of whom are imprisoned in Terre Haute, Indiana. Sixteen federal executions have been carried out in the modern era, all by lethal injection, with 13 occurring in a six-month period between July 2020 and January 2021.
Jun 6, 2024 · This page is updated each business day by 12 pm Eastern Time. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
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From 2001 to 2003, three people were executed by the federal government. No further federal executions occurred from March 18, 2003, up to July 14, 2020, when they resumed under President Donald Trump, during which 13 death row inmates were executed in the last 6 months of his presidency.
Jul 26, 2019 · At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five inmates being held on death row at USP Terre Haute, a high-security penitentiary in Indiana. Here’s a look at the inmates who are scheduled to be executed beginning in December.
Dec 1, 2020 · From 1976 through November 30, 2020, the federal government executed 11 individuals, including 8 in 2020. As of that date, there are 54 inmates on federal death row. While the U.S. military justice system has capital punishment as a sentencing option, it has not executed anyone since 1961.
As of June 11, 2024, a total of 36 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 six states. [3]
Dec 17, 2020 · For the first time in US history, the government has executed more people than all of the 50 states, and the number of federal prisoners put to death this year – 10 – is the highest since...
Nov 17, 2023 · Twenty states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) removed a total of 84 prisoners from under sentence of death by means other than execution in 2021.
