List Of People Executed In The United States In 2009
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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2009. Fifty-two people were
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 ...
in the
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in 2009. Twenty-four of them were in the state of
Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
. One (Larry Bill Elliott) was executed via
electrocution Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death. The term "electrocution" was coined ...
. One notable execution was of convicted murderer
John Allen Muhammad John Allen Muhammad (born Williams; December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was an American convicted murderer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He, along with his partner and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo (aged 17), a native of Kingston, Jamaic ...
, who was responsible for carrying out the
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in 2002.


List of people executed in the United States in 2009


Demographics


Executions in recent years


See also

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List of death row inmates in the United States , there were 2,414 death row inmates in the United States. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherw ...
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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 2009