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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]
A holographic will, or olographic testament, [ 1] is a will and testament which is a holographic document, meaning that it has been entirely handwritten and signed by the testator. Holographic wills have been treated differently by different jurisdictions throughout history. For example, some jurisdictions historically required that a ...
6. Benjamin Carter. January 26, 1888. Murder. 7. George Black. February 26, 1890. Murder. 18 men were executed by the state of Wyoming between its statehood and the Supreme Court ban on executions in 1972 :
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Wyoming but is not practiced . Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, Wyoming carried out only one execution: that of Mark Hopkinson in 1992 for ordering the murder of four people. As of March, 2022, there are no defendants who are sentenced to death ...
List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...
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 .
The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,341 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 17 August 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [ 1]
Belmont House, Kent – the Harris family seat. Harris was the son of General George Harris, 1st Baron Harris. He fought under his father during the siege and capture of Seringapatam in 1799 at the age of 17. He later became a Lieutenant-General in the British Army and commanded the 73rd Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.