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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2018. A total of twenty-five people, all male, 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 2018; of whom 23 died by lethal injection and two, in
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, by
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 coine ...
, marking the first calendar year since 2000 in which more than one inmate was executed in that way.


List of people executed in the United States in 2018


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 juveniles executed in the United States since 1976 Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States existed until March 2, 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in '' Roper v. Simmons''. Prior to ''Roper'', there were 71 people on death row in the United States for crim ...
* List of most recent executions by jurisdiction *
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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Executions 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
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Male murderers