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List of people executed in Florida. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 105 people. Of the 105 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 61 have been executed by lethal injection.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Florida . Since 1976, the state has executed 105 convicted murderers, all at Florida State Prison. [ 1] As of July 31, 2024, 280 offenders are awaiting execution. [ 2]
Summary of scheduled executions. As of August 13, 2024, a total of 37 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 16 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [ 3]
On death row: 276 (as of August 12, 2024) [32] Total number executed: 417 (1800–2023) [19] [29] Due to the number of Florida death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed. A full list is externally linked: List of death row inmates in Florida
In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa. [ b][ 1] It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 states and in the federal ...
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [ 1] Women represent about 1.13 percent of the 1,594 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2]
Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett. Hanging. Murder of a federal officer. March 24, 1936. Marion County Jail, Indiana. The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Arthur Gooch.
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2016. A total of twenty people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2016, all by lethal injection . The state of Georgia executed nine people, setting a record for the most executions conducted there in a calendar year.