Crime ❯Capital Punishment

Executions

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Alabama Executes Gregory Hunt by Nitrogen Gas for 1988 Murder

Critics, including human rights groups alongside the Vatican, argue that nitrogen hypoxia constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Texas Executes Matthew Lee Johnson 13 Years After Setting Store Clerk on Fire

Florida Executes Edward Thomas James for 1993 Murders of Child and Grandmother

Oklahoma Executes Wendell Grissom for 2005 Murder in Home-Invasion Robbery

US to Execute 5 Inmates in One Week, Most in Over 20 Years