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Jurisdiction has never adopted or used this method. Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.
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This alphabetical list features notable cases up to March 2024, and only those where lethal injection can be reliably sourced to be the method of execution. The criterion for notability is either an article on the individual, or the crime they were executed for, in the English Wikipedia.
NameBornDiedAge1963200642193719955819512008571975201034May 16, 2014 · Robert James Campbell, a 41-year-old Texas inmate, was supposed to die Tuesday night in a small room at the Huntsville Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary. His would have been the first death...
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- Lethal Injection. In 1977, Oklahoma became the first state to adopt lethal injection as a means of execution, though it would be five more years until Charles Brooks would become the first person executed by lethal injection in Texas on December 2, 1982.
- Electrocution. Seeking a more humane method of execution than hanging, New York built the first electric chair in 1888 and executed William Kemmler in 1890.
- Gas Chamber. In 1924, the use of cyanide gas was introduced as Nevada sought a more humane way of executing its condemned prisoners. Gee Jon was the first person executed by lethal gas.
- Firing Squad. On March 23, 2015, firing squad was reauthorized in Utah as a viable method of execution if, and only if the state was unable to obtain the drugs necessary to carry out a lethal injection execution.
Nov 28, 2023 · Here’s what happens in one state during a typical three-drug lethal injection, the most common method of enacting the death penalty where it is legal in the US.
The death of Clayton Derrell Lockett occurred on April 29, 2014, when he suffered a heart attack during an execution by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Lockett, aged 38, was convicted in 2000 of murder, rape, and kidnapping. [2]
Nov 17, 2017 · There are 61 executions or attempted executions listed: 2 by asphyxiation, 10 by electrocution, and 49 by lethal injection, including six failed executions that were halted when execution personnel were unable to set an IV line.
