Number of unsuccessful executions in US peaked in 2022
2022.12.16 13:12
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Number of unsuccessful executions in US peaked in 2022
Budrigannews.com – A non-profit capital punishment research group released a report on Friday that said the number of bungled executions in the United States reached a record high in 2022, even though the number of prisoners executed remained close to a five-decade low.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center’s annual report, seven of the 20 executions attempted this year were “visibly problematic.” One attempt at lethal injection resulted in an unprecedented three-hour struggle to insert an intravenous (IV) line into an Alabama man.
Alabama’s Republican governor called for a “top-to-bottom” review of the execution process after officials tried and failed to establish IV lines during two of the state’s 20 attempts at lethal injection this year.
According to the report, when state officials discovered lapses in execution preparation or protocol, other scheduled executions were canceled in Tennessee, Idaho, and South Carolina.
The 18 executions that happened in 2022 were the least in thirty years, except for the pandemic long stretches of 2020 and 2021 when many states stopped or eased back executions. The number of people sentenced to death in 2022 was lower than any year before the pandemic.
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Since 37 states in the United States have either abolished the death penalty or have not executed anyone in more than a decade, the majority of this year’s executions were carried out in Oklahoma and Texas.
Oregon’s Popularity based lead representative on Tuesday drove the death penalties of the state’s 17 death-row detainees, passing on them to serve life in jail without the chance of parole, and guided authorities to dismantle the state’s execution chamber.
This year, public support for capital punishment in the United States hovered just one percentage point above a five-decade low reached in 2021, when 54% of respondents to a Gallup poll said they supported it.
Even lower support for the death penalty was found in a 2022 Rasmussen Reports poll, with only 46% of respondents saying they supported it.
