Post-Furman US execution #1565 Florida execution #100 since reinstatement On Thursday, the 23rd of February, 2023, the State of Florida carried out its first execution in nearly four years when 59-year-old Donald David Dillbeck was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, Bradford County. Dillbeck had spent nearly thirty-two years … Read more
Whenever capital punishment is debated, discussions invariably centre upon morality, retribution, deterrence, and the awful risk of executing an innocent person. Yet running parallel to these ethical arguments is a pragmatic question that has occupied Treasury officials, Home Secretaries, and American state legislators for well over a century: what does it actually cost to put … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #1594 Utah execution #8 since reinstatement In the early morning hours of Thursday, the 8th of August, 2024, the State of Utah carried out its first execution in more than fourteen years when 48-year-old Taberon Dave Honie was put to death by lethal injection at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt … Read more
Post-Furman US execution #1028 Texas execution #368 since reinstatement On the evening of Tuesday, the 27th of June, 2006, the State of Texas carried out the execution of 46-year-old Mexican national Ángel Maturino Reséndiz by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Walker County. Reséndiz, known widely in the sensationalist press as “The Railroad … Read more
The Execution Soon after midnight on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 52-year-old Lisa Montgomery became the first female inmate in 67 years to be executed by the US federal government. The Murder 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett was eight months pregnant with her first child at the time of her murder in her home in the small … Read more
