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Advance count of executions
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Capital Punishment, 2006 - Statistical Tables
Table 2. Method of execution, by State, 2006
| Lethal Injection |
|
Electrocution |
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Lethal gas |
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Hanging |
|
Firing Squad |
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| Alabamaa |
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Alabamaa |
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Arizonaa,b |
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Delawarea,c |
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Idahoa |
| Arizonaa,b |
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Arkansasa,d |
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Californiaa |
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New Hampshirea,e |
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Oklahomaf |
| Arkansasa,d |
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Floridaa |
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Missouria |
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Washingtona |
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Utahg |
| Californiaa |
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Kentuckya,h |
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Wyomingi |
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| Colorado |
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Nebraska |
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| Connecticut |
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Oklahomaf |
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| Delawarea,c |
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South Carolinaa |
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| Floridaa |
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Tennesseea,j |
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| Georgia |
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Virginiaa |
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| Idahoa |
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| Illinois |
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| Indiana |
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| Kansas |
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| Kentuckya,h |
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| Louisiana |
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| Maryland |
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| Mississippi |
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| Missouria |
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| Montana |
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| Nevada |
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| New Hampshirea |
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| New Jersey |
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| New Mexico |
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| New York |
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| North Carolina |
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| Ohio |
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| Oklahomaa |
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| Oregon |
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| Pennsylvania |
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| South Carolinaa |
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| South Dakota |
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| Tennesseea,j |
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| Texas |
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| Utaha |
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| Virginiaa |
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| Washingtona |
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| Wyominga |
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Note: The method of execution of Federal prisoners is lethal injection, pursuant to 28 CFR, Part 26. For offenses under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the execution method is that of the State in which the conviction took place (18 U.S.C. 3596).
aAuthorizes two methods of execution.
bAuthorizes lethal injection
for persons sentenced after November 15, 1992; inmates sentenced before that date
may select lethal injection or gas.
cAuthorizes lethal injection
for those whose capital offense occurred on or after June 13, 1986; those who
committed the offense before that date may select lethal injection or hanging.
dAuthorizes lethal injection
for those whose offense occurred on or after July 4, 1983; inmates whose offense
occurred before that data may select lethal injection or electrocution.
eAuthorizes hanging only if lethal
injection cannot be given.
fAuthorizes electrocution if
lethal injection is held to be unconstitutional, and firing squad if both
lethal injection and electrocution are held to be unconstitutional.
gAuthorizes firing squad if lethal
injection is held unconstitutional. Inmates who selected execution by firing squad prior to May 3, 2004, may still be entitled to execution by that method.
hAuthorizes lethal injection
for persons sentenced on or after March 31, 1998; inmates sentenced before that
date may select lethal injection or electrocution.
iAuthorizes lethal gas if lethal
injection is held to be unconstitutional.
jAuthorizes lethal injection
for those whose capital offense occurred after December 31, 1998; those who committed
the offense before that date may select electrocution by written waiver. |
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Source: National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS-8).
See also Methodology. |
