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2000
Illinois Governor George Ryan puts temporary ban on executions. -
2000
Texas Governor George W. Bush lead USA with most executions. -
2001
Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh becomes the first federal prisoner to be executed in 38 Years. -
2002
US Supreme Court rules the execution of mentally retarded offenders unconstituional. -
2002
US Supreme Court rules that juries, not judges must determine if the convicted murderer should receive the death penalty. -
2005
Death sentences for offenders under the age of 18 Is ruled unconstitutional. -
2006
Execution of Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq. -
2007
United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution calling for a temporary ban on the death penalty. -
2008
US Supreme Court finds death penalty excessive for the crime of child rape. -
2009
New Mexico repeals the death penalty. -
2009
Ohio performs the first execution with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection. -
2009
The lowest annual number of death sentences in 2009 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. -
2011
Sole firm stops making key death penalty drug. -
2013
Maryland becomes 18th state to repeal the death penalty. -
2013
US death penalty support at lowest level in over 40 Years. -
2014
Tennessee passes law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates. -
2014
California’s death penalty violates US constitution, rules federal judge. -
2018
Synthetic opioid fentanyl used for the first time in a lethal injection execution. -
2018
Washington death penalty struck down by State Supreme Court, making it the 20th state to not have capital punishment.
