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Illinois Governor George Ryan puts temporary ban on executions.
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Texas Governor George W. Bush lead USA with most executions.
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Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh becomes the first federal prisoner to be executed in 38 Years.
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US Supreme Court rules the execution of mentally retarded offenders unconstituional.
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US Supreme Court rules that juries, not judges must determine if the convicted murderer should receive the death penalty.
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Death sentences for offenders under the age of 18 Is ruled unconstitutional.
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Execution of Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq.
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United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution calling for a temporary ban on the death penalty.
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US Supreme Court finds death penalty excessive for the crime of child rape.
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New Mexico repeals the death penalty.
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Ohio performs the first execution with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection.
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The lowest annual number of death sentences in 2009 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
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Sole firm stops making key death penalty drug.
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Maryland becomes 18th state to repeal the death penalty.
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US death penalty support at lowest level in over 40 Years.
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Tennessee passes law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates.
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California’s death penalty violates US constitution, rules federal judge.
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Synthetic opioid fentanyl used for the first time in a lethal injection execution.
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Washington death penalty struck down by State Supreme Court, making it the 20th state to not have capital punishment.
