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Sixteen executions (none of them military) have occurred in the modern post-Gregg era. Since 1976, sixteen people have been executed under federal jurisdiction by the United States federal government. All were executed by lethal injection at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
List of Federal Death Row Prisoners. RACE: White = 18; Black = 15; Latino = 6; Asian = 1. GENDER: Males = 40. TOTAL = 40. Convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of a prisoner in a federal prison. Convicted and sentenced to death for his involvement in an armed bank robbery during which a bank guard was killed.
NameRace/ethnicityStateYear Of SentenceAgofsky, ShannonWhiteTX2004Allen, Billie Jerome**BlackMO1998Barnette, Marcivicci AquiliaBlackNC1998Basham, Brandon**WhiteSC2004Jun 11, 2001 · Vialva was the first African American executed in the modern era of the federal death penalty and the first person in 72 years to be executed by the federal government for a crime committed while he was a teenager. Orlando Hall, Black male, executed on November 19, 2020.
Jul 6, 2021 · Learn about the federal death penalty, which applies to a limited set of crimes and is used rarely. Find out the latest news and developments on federal executions, cases, and controversies.
Dec 17, 2020 · CNN — 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...
Oct 3, 2023 · 1 of 4 |. FILE - The interior of the execution chamber in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., is seen, March 22, 1995. Fresh details are emerging three years since 13 historic federal executions were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency. (AP Photo/Chuck Robinson, File) Read More. 2 of 4 |.
There have been 50 federal executions carried out since 1927. Select a time period below to learn more. See related: Scheduled Federal Executions. 1920's. 1930's. 1940's. 1950's. 1960's. 1970-1990's. 2000's. 2010's. 2020's.