The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

Timeline 1973 - The death penalty is reinstated in Utah following Furman v. Georgia . 1977 - Utah executes Gary Gilmore and becomes the first state to…

The number of individuals executed remained nearly the same as in 2023, with 25 executions in nine states. This was the tenth consecutive year with fewer than 30 executions. Utah, South Carolina, and Indiana conducted their first executions in 2024 after more than a decade hiatus. This year, Alabama became the first state to use nitrogen gas to execute prisoners.

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

Dec 19, 2024 · The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

Mar 18, 2024 · The new leg­is­la­tion is the lat­est chap­ter in a year-long effort by Utah death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers to obtain infor­ma­tion about exe­cu­tion meth­ods from the UDC. In March 2023, coun­sel for sev­er­al pris­on­ers filed infor­ma­tion requests with UDC seek­ing infor­ma­tion regard­ing the state’s efforts to acquire lethal injec­tion drugs. These attor­neys ...

Jan 29, 2024 Lawyers for 65 -Year-Old Prisoner with Vascular Dementia Say He is Incompetent to be Executed Days After Utah Requests Execution Date and Use of Firing Squad On January 23, 2024, attor­neys for Utah death-sen­­tenced pris­on­er Ralph Menzies, who has been diag­nosed with a major neu­rocog­ni­tive dis­or­der known as vas­cu­lar demen­tia, filed a peti­tion in state ...

Mar 4, 2025 · In 2021, South Carolina passed a law that would allow for the use of the fir­ing squad in state exe­cu­tions. This leg­is­la­tion was par­tial­ly moti­vat­ed by the state’s inabil­i­ty to obtain lethal injec­tion drugs. The con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of this law was chal­lenged, but in 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court decid­ed that along with lethal injec­tion and ...