Setting China aside, Amnesty said at least executions were carried out last year - up by four on the previous year. Half of those took place in Iran Iraq executed , Saudi Arabia 79 and the US The minimum number of executions was down from at least in The Middle East saw executions in six countries - the vast majority of the list.
In Tunisia, people on death row had their sentence commuted to life by the transitional government. Methods of execution included beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and various kinds of shooting by firing squad, and at close range to the heart or the head. In Saudi Arabia, executions are usually beheadings with a sword. In one case recorded by Amnesty, a Sudanese man's head was sewn back onto his body and hung from a pole in a public place.
Amnesty has given us the data , right back to You can download it below. Turn autoplay off Turn autoplay on. Since , individuals have been granted clemency. For federal death row inmates, the president alone has the power to grant a pardon. By , five of those states had reinstated it. June 29, - Furman v.
The Supreme Court effectively voids 40 death penalty statutes and suspends the death penalty. The death penalty is reinstated. January 17, - A year moratorium on the death penalty ends with the execution of Gary Gilmore by firing squad in Utah. December 7, - Charles Brooks becomes the first person executed by lethal injection. Execution of insane persons is banned. Racial disparities are not recognized as a constitutional violation of "equal protection of the law" unless intentional racial discrimination against the defendant can be shown.
Executions of offenders age 15 and younger at the time of their crimes are declared unconstitutional. Since , Illinois is the first state to block executions.
The Supreme Court rules that the execution of mentally disabled defendants violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. January - Before leaving office, Governor Ryan grants clemency to all the remaining inmates on Illinois's death row, due to the flawed process that led to the death sentences. June 12, - The Supreme Court rules that death row inmates can challenge the use of lethal injection as a method of execution.
December 17, - New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signs legislation abolishing the death penalty in the state. The death sentences of eight men are commuted to sentences of life without parole.
Between September , when the Court took on the case, and April , no one was executed in the United States due to the de facto moratorium the Court placed on executions while it heard arguments in Baze v. March 18, - Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico signs legislation repealing the death penalty in his state.
His actions will not affect two prisoners currently on death row: Robert Fry, who killed a woman in , and Tim Allen, who killed a year-old girl in November 13, - Ohio becomes the first state to switch to a method of lethal injection using a single drug, rather than the three-drug method used by other states.
March 9, - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announces that he has signed legislation eliminating the death penalty in his state, more than 10 years after the state halted executions. March 16, - The Drug Enforcement Agency seizes Georgia's supply of thiopental, over questions of where the state obtained the drug.
US manufacturer Hospira stopped producing the drug in The countries that still produce the drug do not allow it to be exported to the United States for use in lethal injections. May 20, - The Georgia Department of Corrections announces that pentobarbital will be substituted for thiopental in the three-drug lethal injection process. July 1, - Lundbeck Inc.
November 22, - Governor John Kitzhaber of Oregon places a moratorium on all state executions for the remainder of his term in office. The law goes into effect immediately and replaces the death penalty with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The law is not retroactive to those already on death row.
The law goes into effect October 1. January 16, - Ohio executes inmate Dennis McGuire with a new combination of drugs, due to the unavailability of drugs such as pentobarbital. The state uses a combination of the drugs midazolam and hydromorphone, according to the state corrections department.
The execution process takes 24 minutes, and McGuire appears to be gasping for air for 10 to 13 minutes, according to witness Alan Johnson, a reporter with the Columbus Dispatch. In May , an Ohio judge issues an order suspending executions in the state so that authorities can further study new lethal injection protocols. Click on those states to display details on secondary methods. The gray states do not have capital punishment.
Note that Colorado and New Hampshire prospectively abolished capital punishment. In Colorado, the governor commuted the sentences of those on death row, but defendants with pending cases at the time of abolition are still eligible for execution and the execution statute is still valid. In New Hampshire one individual remains on death row. The purple states only have a single method: lethal injection and blue states have both a primary and a secondary method.
Click on those states to display details on specific methods. Over the past decade, several U. The court has abolished the death penalty for mentally disabled offenders Atkins v.
Virginia , , juvenile offenders Roper v. Simmons , , and for those convicted of raping a child where death was not the intended or actual result Kennedy v. Louisiana , — each ruling states that the execution of such individuals is unconstitutional, violating cruel and unusual punishment.
In addition, the court has required that juries and not judges find facts that make a defendant eligible for capital punishment Ring v. Arizona , , and impose a sentence of death Hurst v. Florida, State courts have also had an impact. Supreme Court decision Hurst v.
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