Search results
Capital punishment in the United States. Without the death penalty: Capital punishment repealed, never instituted, or struck down as unconstitutional (23 states, 5 territories) [a] With the death penalty: Capital punishment in statute, but executions formally suspended (8 states)
- Daniel Lewis Lee
Daniel Lewis Lee (January 31, 1973 – July 14, 2020) was an...
- American Samoa
Capital punishment is a legal punishment in American Samoa,...
- Capital Punishment in Alabama
Julia Tutwiler Prison houses the state's female death row...
- Nitrogen Hypoxia
Inert gas asphyxiation is a form of asphyxiation which...
- Thomas Granger
Criminal penalty: Death: Thomas Granger or Graunger (1625? –...
- List of Death Row Inmates in The United States
As of January 1, 2023, there were 2,331 death row inmates in...
- Electrocution
Death by electric chair. Electrocution is death or severe...
- Billy Bailey
Billy Bailey (January 1947 – January 25, 1996) was a...
- Ronnie Lee Gardner
Ronnie Lee Gardner (January 16, 1961 – June 18, 2010) was an...
- Daniel Lewis Lee
Emperor Shōmu banned the death penalty in Japan in 724. In 724 AD in Japan, the death penalty was banned during the reign of Emperor Shōmu but the abolition only lasted a few years. In 818, Emperor Saga abolished the death penalty under the influence of Shinto and it lasted until 1156.
Apr 1, 2024 · Convicted double-murder Bill Bailey was executed by hanging on Jan. 25, 1996 in Delaware. Bailey was the third person executed by hanging since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 and the first hanging in Delaware since 1946. As of Apr. 21, 2010, Bailey was the last person executed by hanging in the United States.
1924 - The use of cyanide gas introduced as an execution method. 1930s - Executions reach the highest levels in American history - average 167 per year. 1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaiming a “right to life.” 1950-1980 - De facto abolition becomes the norm in western Europe.
The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes.
In 1911, Minnesota abolished capital punishment. Several other states also abolished the death penalty, but would start using it again later. [21] Between 1957 and 1973, six other states permanently abolished the death penalty: [21] Alaska and Hawaii, in 1957, before they became states.
Oct 13, 2023 · This chart* chronicles the United State’s use of the death penalty over the past four centuries. The chart highlights the gradual rise in use of capital punishment in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; a peak of executions in the early 20th century; moratorium; and then the resumption of executions after moratorium.
