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Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 74 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.
The relationship between race and capital punishment in the United States has been studied extensively. As of 2014, 42 percent of those on death row in the United States were Black. [1] As of October 2002, there were 12 executions of White defendants where the murder victim was Black, however, there were 178 executed defendants who were Black ...
Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 February 5, 2025 Steven Lawayne Nelson: 37 24 13 Male Black Texas: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 19, 2025 Stanley Theodore Adams: 58 33 25 White Ohio: To be determined: Profile: 3 April 16, 2025 John E. Drummond: 47 25 22 Black Profile: 4 May 14, 2025 James Galen ...
Associated Press. Retrieved July 20, 2023. ^ Gattis, Paul (July 21, 2023). "Alabama Death Row inmate James Barber executed for 2001 Madison County murder". al.com. Retrieved July 21, 2023. ^ Lieb, David A. (August 2, 2023). "Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction, killing of 6-year-old girl lured to abandoned factory". Associated Press.
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]
A total of seventeen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2020, sixteen by lethal injection and one by electrocution. [ 1] The federal government of the United States executed ten people in 2020, ending a hiatus on federal executions which had lasted for over 17 years. State executions dropped significantly in 2020 compared ...
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2010. Forty-six people were executed in the United States in 2010. Seventeen of them were in the state of Texas. One ( Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis) was female. One ( Paul Warner Powell) was executed via electrocution and another ( Ronnie Lee Gardner) was executed via firing squad. [ 1][ 2]
Retrieved 2019-04-25. ^ Tribune, The Texas; McCullough, Jolie (2019-04-24). "Texas executes John William King in racist dragging death of James Byrd Jr". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25. ^ "Georgia executes man convicted of 1994 killings of 2 women". Las Vegas Review Journal. 2019-05-02.