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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 74 people (73 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were conducted by lethal injection.
Summary of scheduled executions[edit] As of July 3, 2024 [update], a total of 38 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 12 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [3] Year. Executions. 2024.
Mary Lou York, 19. Date. June 1, 1979. Charles Laverne Singleton (March 29, 1959 – January 6, 2004) was an American convicted murderer, who, at the time of his execution, lived on death row in Arkansas longer than any other state inmate. [1] He was executed in 2004 for the June 1, 1979, murder of 19-year-old Hamburg store owner Mary Lou York.
Executions must be approved by the president of the United States. [2] Executions require a Summary courts martial, they are therefore subject an automatic process of review. [3] The first four of these executions, those of Bernard John O'Brien, Chastine Beverly, Louis M. Suttles and James L. Riggins, were carried out by military officials at ...
The following is a list of people who were beheaded, arranged alphabetically by country or region and with date of decapitation. Special sections on "Religious figures" and "Fictional characters" are also appended. These individuals lost their heads intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously).
murder of William Shanklin, Cornelius Knapp and his wife Eben L. Boyce August 9, 1901 murder of Louise Bock Boyce: Charles W. Nordstrom August 23, 1901 murder of William Mason: James G. Green December 6, 1901 murder of E. V. Benjamin: William Alden Seaton January 3, 1902 murder of Dan Richards: Henry McBride: Lum You: January 31, 1902
This new method required executions to be moved from local jails to a permanent execution chamber in state prison facilities. Despite an early challenge in July 1929 by the circuit court of Union County over the prison superintendent being named a secondary executioner (as he was not elected or appointed), the electrocution law was held up by ...
Prussian soldiers, beheaded in Berlin after confessing to having sexual relations with each other under Charles V's code of 1532 which criminalized sodomy. Martin Schultze Catharina Margaretha Linck: 1721: Prussian cross-dressing lesbian executed for sodomy in Halberstadt; her execution was the last for lesbian sexual activity in Europe.