The death penalty in the US is hotly debated, you’re either for or against. Between January 2017 and 2018 to date, 32 executions have been carried out, with 11 of those in the state of Texas alone. The average age at time of death was 49, with the oldest of these being 83 year old Walter Moody for the letter bomb murder of a federal judge. The youngest and most recent, 31 year old Erick Davila, was executed by lethal injection on the 25th April 2018 for the murder of a five-year-old and her grandmother.
Click on the icons on map below to learn more about those executed between January 2017 and April 2018. (You may need to zoom in to see more).
The state of Arkansas recently came under fire for their mission to execute eight men in ten days, as their supply of the sedative midazolam was about to expire. Ledell Lee, Jack Jones, Marcel Williams and Kenneth Williams were all executed between the 20th and the 27th of April 2017. Lee became the first man to be executed by the state in 12 years.
The death penalty is still incredibly rife in the US, with more states still carrying out executions than not.
There are still 13 executions set to be carried out within the United States this year, with seven more stayed or rescheduled. The death penalty is seemingly dying out across America, with the public turning against it and the stock of drugs used to carry out the lethal injection running out. But it will still be many years before capital punishment is abolished for good in the United States, and there’s of course the very real possibility that it never will be.
Aimed at: The Washington Post
Feature photo: KUT
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