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- Death sentences have steadily decreased in recent decades. There were 2,570 people on death row in the U.S. at the end of 2019, down 29% from a peak of 3,601 at the end of 2000, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
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Feb 18, 2021 · In 2022, 18 inmates were executed in the United States. The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) Capital Punishment reports present characteristics of persons under sentence of death and persons executed, and summarize the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status.
Death-row prisoners in the U.S. typically spend more than a decade awaiting execution or court rulings overturning their death sentences. More than half of all prisoners currently sentenced to death in the U.S. have been on death row for more than 18 years.
- Daniel Lewis Lee
- Wesley Ira Purkey
- Dustin Lee Honken
- Lezmond Charles Mitchell
- Keith Dwayne Nelson
- William Emmett Lecroy
- Christopher Andre Vialva
- Orlando Cordia Hall
- Brandon Bernard
- Alfred Bourgeois
Lee, 47, was executed for the 1996 killingsof gun dealer William Mueller, his wife Nancy Mueller and her 8-year-old daughter Sarah Powell which prosecutors said was part of a plot to steal guns and cash to help establish a whites-only clave in the Pacific Northwest. It took place after a divided Supreme Court overturned a judge's order that had hal...
Purkey was also put to death after a last-minute Supreme Court ruling saying it could proceed and despite his attorneys arguing that he was not mentally competent. The 68-year-old had been convicted in 2003 for raping and killing 16-year-old Jennifer Long before dismembering, burning and dumping her body in a septic pond. He used his last words to ...
The meth kingpin who killed several people, including witnesses to stop them from testifying against him, was the third federal inmate executed by the Trump administration. The DoJ said 53-year-old Honken in 1993 kidnapped, fatally shot, and buried Lori Duncan, a single, working mother as well as Duncan's two young daughters. He also murdered Greg ...
Mitchell, the only Native American on federal death row, was put to deathfor the 2001 slayings of Alyce Slim, a 63-year-old Navajo woman, and her 9-year-old granddaughter Tiffany Lee. The 38-year-old's execution took place despite the objections of Navajo leaders and Mitchell's attorneys argued that the federal government had exploited a legal loop...
Nelson, 45, was executed for the 1999 rape and murder of a 10-year-old Kansas girl. Pamela Butler had been rollerblading in front of her home when Nelson abducted her, according to the DoJ. He raped her before strangling her to death with a wire and burying her body in a forest behind a church. "The execution of Keith Nelson did not make the world ...
LeCroy, 50, was sentenced to death after raping and murdering 30-year-old nurse Joann Lee Tiesler in 2001. The DoJ said he broke into Tiesler's home in Gilmer County, Georgia to further a plan to flee the country after serving 10 years in federal and state prison for crimes including child molestation, and statutory rape. When Tiesler returned home...
Vialva, 40, was executed for the 1999 murder of youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley in Texas. According to the Department of Justice(DoJ), Vialva and two accomplices kidnapped the couple at gunpoint after Todd Bagley agreed to give him and two accomplices a ride. Vialva later parked on the Fort Hood military reservation, where the DoJ said he sh...
The 49-year-old, a Black man, was sentenced to death for the rape, kidnapping and murder of a 16-year-old girl. According to the DoJ, Hall and four accomplices kidnapped Lisa Rene from her home in Arlington, Texas, in September 1994 as revenge on her brother, who they believed had reneged on a $4,700 marijuana deal. Hall and his accomplices kidnapp...
Bernard, 40, is scheduled to be executed on December 10 for his role in the 1999 murder of Todd and Stacie Bagley at Fort Hood in Texas. Advocates, including five of the nine jurors who condemned Bernard to death, are calling for his sentence to be commuted, noting that Bernard—who was 18 at the time—played a lesser role in the offense and was not ...
Bourgeois, 56, is being executed for abusing, torturing and murdering his own daughter. He had taken his two-year-old daughter with him on a trucking route, where he abused her by "punching her in the face, whipping her with an electrical cord and burning the bottom of her foot with a cigarette lighter," according to the DoJ. He killed the girl in ...
SOPA Images. Most federal executions take place here, at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex in Indiana. US states have continued to execute inmates in state prisons, putting 22 death...
Jul 19, 2021 · In 1984, the average time between sentencing and execution was 74 months, or a little over six years, according to BJS. By 2019, that figure had more than tripled to 264 months, or 22 years. The average prisoner awaiting execution at the end of 2019, meanwhile, had spent nearly 19 years on death row.
There is no way to tell how many of the 1587 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients’ lives can still be saved.
Apr 28, 2014 · One in 25 criminal defendants who has been handed a death sentence in the United States has likely been erroneously convicted. That number—4.1% to be exact—comes from a new analysis of more than 3 decades of data on death sentences and death row exonerations across the United States.
