I've reported on the decrease in U.S. executions in recent years, but one U.S. State is about to almost single-handedly reverse that decline, as The N.Y. Times reports this morning:
An Oklahoma court on Friday set execution dates for 25 death row prisoners, setting up a string of executions that would take place nearly every month over the next two years.
The executions are set to begin in late August and run through December 2024. The 25 men on death row have all exhausted their appeals, but they were temporarily spared in recent years as Oklahoma stopped administering the death penalty in 2015 because of botched executions.
As I've pointed out before, many many many of Alabama's "executions" were in fact slaves seeking their freedom. Read this list, and note the three slaves hanged together in Talladega in 1860.
A main source of death penalty information is HERE.
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