Post-Furman US execution #153 Georgia execution #15 since reinstatement In the early morning hours of Wednesday, the 25th of September, 1991, the State of Georgia carried out the execution of 44-year-old Warren McCleskey by electrocution in the electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center near Jackson, Butts County. McCleskey had spent nearly thirteen … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #1003 California execution #12 since reinstatement In the early morning hours of Tuesday, the 13th of December, 2005, the State of California carried out the execution of 51-year-old Stanley “Tookie” Williams by lethal injection inside the death chamber at San Quentin State Prison, Marin County. Williams had spent more than twenty-four years … Read more
Of all the dramatic turns in the criminal law, few seize the public imagination quite like the eleventh-hour reprieve. Popular fiction and cinema frequently trade on the frantic midnight telephone call to the prison governor’s desk, the breathless courier bearing a parchment reprieve, or the frantic waving of papers as the executioner’s hand grips the … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #1614 Louisiana execution #29 since reinstatement On Tuesday, the 18th of March, 2025, the State of Louisiana carried out its first execution in more than fifteen years when 46-year-old Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. was put to death at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, West Feliciana Parish. Hoffman had spent more than … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #512 Oklahoma execution #14 since reinstatement Juvenile offender execution #13 in the United States since 1976 In the early morning hours of Thursday, the 4th of February, 1999, the State of Oklahoma carried out the execution of 29-year-old Sean Richard Sellers by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Pittsburg … Read more
