Post-Furman US execution #189 Washington State execution #1 since reinstatement Modern judicial hanging #1 in the United States In the early morning hours of Tuesday, the 5th of January, 1993, the State of Washington carried out the execution of 31-year-old Westley Allan Dodd at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. Dodd had been sentenced … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #1582 Oklahoma execution #123 since reinstatement On the morning of Thursday, the 30th of November, 2023, the State of Oklahoma carried out the final execution in the United States for the year when 59-year-old Phillip Dean Hancock was put to death by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Pittsburg … Read more
Throughout the history of capital punishment, the legal authority to take human life has rested upon judicial process: a formal indictment, a trial before a judge and jury, a pronounced sentence, and a period of condemned detention preceding execution by an authorised officer of the state. Running alongside this codified legal machinery is the practice … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #1597 Missouri execution #100 since reinstatement On Tuesday, the 24th of September, 2024, the State of Missouri carried out its one-hundredth execution in the post-Furman era when 55-year-old Marcellus Williams was put to death by lethal injection at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, St. Francois County. Williams … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #160 Arkansas execution #3 since reinstatement On Friday, the 24th of January, 1992, the State of Arkansas carried out the execution of 40-year-old Ricky Ray Rector by lethal injection at the Cummins Unit near Varner, Lincoln County. Rector had spent over nine years on death row following his conviction for the March … Read more
