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Capital Punishment/Death Penalty

By Jaden WIlcox
  • First execution by Death Penalty

    First execution by Death Penalty

    Captain George Kendall becomes the first recorded execution in the new colonies.
  • First women executed

    First women executed

    Jane Champion was the first women executed by death penalty
  • beginning of death penalty's moving to prisons

    beginning of death penalty's moving to prisons

    Pennsylvania is the first state to move executions into penitentiaries.

  • Michigan abolishes the death penalty

    only time prisoners are eligible for execution is with treason

  • Nine states abolish the death penalty

    Abolished for all crimes or are strictly limited
  • Cyanide Gas is introduced to capital punishment

    Cyanide Gas is introduced to capital punishment

  • Executions reach highest amout ever recorded

    The U.S. executed an average of 167 people per year
  • Lethal Injection is adopted

    Lethal Injection is adopted

    Oklahoma becomes the first state to introduce the idea of lethal injection
  • Velma Barfield executed

    Velma Barfield executed

    First women executed since reinstatement of Death Penalty
  • Thompson vs. Oklahoma

    Thompson vs. Oklahoma

    Executions of offenders age fifteen and younger at the time of their crimes is unconstitutional.

  • Penry vs. Lynaugh

    Executing people with “mental retardation” is not a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
  • President Clinton signs the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

    President Clinton signs the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

    Expands federal death penalty
  • Pope John Paul II visits St. Louis, Missouri

    Pope John Paul II visits St. Louis, Missouri

    Calls for an end to the death penalty

  • New York’s death penalty law declared unconstitutional by the state’s high court

  • Kennedy vs. Louisiana

    Kennedy vs. Louisiana

    Death penalty cannot apply to those convicted of child rape where no death occurs
  • Governor Bill Richardson signs legislation to repeal the death penalty in New Mexico

    Governor Bill Richardson signs legislation to repeal the death penalty in New Mexico

    Replaced with life in prison without parole
  • Sole Firm Stops Making Key Death Penalty Drug

    Sole Firm Stops Making Key Death Penalty Drug

    stopped manufacturing sodium thiopental to prevent its product from being used to put prisoners to death

  • Connecticut Repeals the Death Penalty

  • Maryland Becomes 18th State to Repeal the Death Penalty

  • US Death Penalty Support at Lowest Level in over 40 Years

  • Supreme Court Upholds Use of Execution Drug Midazolam

    Supreme Court Upholds Use of Execution Drug Midazolam

    The Supreme Court said states can continue to conduct executions using the sedative midazolam, rejecting claims the drug poses too great a risk that condemned prisoners will suffer excruciating pain

  • Nebraska Voters Reinstate the Death Penalty

  • Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl Used for the First Time in a Lethal Injection Execution

    Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl Used for the First Time in a Lethal Injection Execution

  • Majority of Americans Support Life in Prison instead of Death Penalty for the First Time in 34 Years

  • Supreme Court Keeps Federal Executions on Hold until Lower Court Ruling

    Supreme Court Keeps Federal Executions on Hold until Lower Court Ruling