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This is a list of methods of capital punishment, also known as execution. Current methods. Former methods.
22. Apr. 2024 · Overview. The primary means of execution in the U.S. have been hanging, electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad, and lethal injection. The Supreme Court has never found a method of execution to be unconstitutional, though some methods have been declared unconstitutional by state courts.
10. Aug. 2015 · Following the release of the Amnesty International annual death penalty report, we take a look at five widely used execution methods. 1. Lethal injection. Carried out in: China, Vietnam, USA
Until the 1890s, hanging was the primary method of execution used in the United States. Hanging was still authorized in Delaware and Washington before those states abolished the death penalty in 2016 and 2018, although both had lethal injection as an alternative method of execution.
The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of methods of capital punishment.
24. Mai 2022 · The following methods of execution were used across the world in 2021: beheading, hanging, lethal injection and shooting. Four people were executed for crimes that occurred when they were below 18 years of age: in Iran (3) and Yemen (1).
Today, eleven states authorize lethal gas as a method of execution, but all have lethal injection as their primary method. Three of those eleven states authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, in which a prisoner is suffocated by breathing pure nitrogen, but no one has been executed by nitrogen hypoxia as of 2022.
