A lethal injection chamber at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington, U.S., September 6, 2024. REUTERS/
Washington state is closing its death chamber this week, but South Carolina is scheduled to carry out its first execution since 2011. It's a reflection of the differing opinions in the U.S. on capital punishment.A lethal injection chamber at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla is shown on Sept. 6. The state, which last carried out an execution in 2010, is closing its death chamber.
These divergent paths reflect the state of the death penalty in the U.S., where a relatively small number of states carry out executions, but where a change in the presidency after the Nov. 5 election could lead to a resumption of federal executions.There have been 13 executions carried out in seven states in 2024. The deaths came by lethal injection, except for an Alabama execution in which nitrogen hypoxia was used for the first time for this purpose.
A record 98 executions took place in 1999. But now, 21 states don't have the death penalty, with six more enacting moratoriums on the practice. Even some states with laws still on the books, like Idaho and Indiana, haven't carried out an execution in more than a decade, with Kansas's last execution taking place in 1965.at a rate disproportionate
Trump, should he return to the office, is expected to direct the attorney general to resume federal executions. There are 40 federal death row inmates, all male. Trump has mused more than once about wanting some drug and human traffickers to be eligible for the death penalty, As for the electorate, 53 per cent in Gallup's most recent survey on the subject were in favour of the death penalty, with a record-low 32 per cent of Democrats expressing that view. Between 1985 and 1999, support for the death penalty in the Gallup survey was over 70 per cent.
The 2008 version of the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to use capital punishment in child sexual battery cases. But four justices dissented and three of them are still on the bench — Chief Justice John Roberts, along with justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
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