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
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 United States federal government, marking a significant milestone in modern American capital jurisprudence, as surveyed in our records of capital punishment in the USA. The last female prisoner put to death … Read more
Mary Mabel Rogers, a 21-year-old white housewife, walked unaided to the gallows for the murder of her estranged husband, Marcus Rogers, committed on August 12, 1902. She made legal history as the last woman legally executed by hanging in the State of Vermont. The Crime: Murder on the Walloomsac River Mary wanted to be rid … Read more
James Kelly Moss, 1962 James Kelly Moss was a career criminal who served his first prison term in 1933, at age 19, having been convicted of trying to steal bags of coffee and car tires from an L&N Railroad boxcar. Some eight months later, he and two other inmates were unloading a truck outside the … Read more
