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This is a list of people executed in Kentucky. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, three people have been executed in Kentucky. All three were executed for murder. All of the executions occurred at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP) in Eddyville. [1]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 22 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 22 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd might have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [3]
Eighty-five people were executed in the United States in 2000. Forty of them were in the state of Texas; the most carried out within a single year in Texas state history. Two (Betty Lou Beets and Christina Marie Riggs) were female. Five (four in Alabama and one in Virginia) were executed via electrocution. [1] [2]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 2000 and 2009. All of the 248 people (246 males and 2 females) during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
In an interview prior to his execution date, he said he was going to share his last meal with another inmate who was going to be executed the same day. He went on to say he originally wanted to have a roast duck for his last meal, but declined because he felt the prison would likely not prepare it. Gerhard Puff: Murder Federal government 1954
2020 presidential election: A coalition of federal and state officials declare the 2020 presidential election "the most secure in American history" and asserts there is no evidence of compromised voting systems. [390] [391] COVID-19 pandemic: California becomes the second state after Texas to reach one million cases. [392]
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