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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2001. Sixty-six people were executed in the United States in 2001. Eighteen of them were in the state of
Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
, while only seventeen of them were in the state of
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. Three ( Wanda Jean Allen, Marilyn Kay Plantz, and Lois Nadean Smith) were female; all three were executed in Oklahoma. One notable execution was of domestic terrorist
Timothy McVeigh Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third ...
, who was responsible for carrying out the
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in 1995. McVeigh's execution was the first to be carried out by the
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since 1963. Only one execution occurred in September, as several were postponed due to the
September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercia ...
. The attack on the Pentagon caused federal offices, including the
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, to shut down.


List of people executed in the United States in 2001


Demographics


Executions in recent years


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List of most recent executions by jurisdiction Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the ...
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List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States This is a list of people scheduled to be executed in the United States. Summary of scheduled executions As of February 16, 2023, a total of 46 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. All of these executions are scheduled over f ...
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List of women executed in the United States since 1976 Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in '' Gregg v. Georgia'', 18 women have been executed in the United States. Women represent less than 1.15 percent of the 1,561 executions perform ...


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{{CapPun-US *List of people executed in the United States
executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
People executed in the United States 2001