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A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [17] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [18]
John Allen Muhammad (born John Allen Williams; December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was an American convicted spree killer who, along with his partner and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo (then aged 17), carried out the D.C. sniper attacks of October 2002, killing seventeen people. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on ...
[3] A moratorium on the death penalty was subsequently imposed the following year. In 2008 and 2010 Jordan abstained to vote on the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty. [2] In November 2014 the Jordanian cabinet formed a committee to explore whether Jordan should reinstate the application of capital punishment. [3]
John B. Nixon Sr. (April 1, 1928 – December 14, 2005) was an American convicted murderer. He was convicted of the January 22, 1985 murder-for-hire of Virginia Tucker in Rankin County, Mississippi .
Virginia (2002; death penalty unconstitutional for people with an intellectual disability) and Roper v. Simmons (2005; death penalty unconstitutional if defendant was under age 18 at the time the crime was committed).
John Loder (born William John Muir Lowe; [citation needed] 3 January 1898 – 26 December 1988) was established as a British film actor in Germany and Britain before migrating to the United States in 1928 for work in the new talkies. He worked in Hollywood for two periods, becoming an American citizen in 1947.
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [77] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row. [78] [79] Map displaying the status of capital punishment since 1970 by ...