The number of death sentences handed down in the US this year has reached – apart from the Corona years – its lowest value since 1991. From the point of view of the organization of the Death Penalty Information Center, this is a positive trend. However, the non-governmental organization points to an explosive statistic: Complications occurred in one-third of lethal injection executions.
According to the information, there were a total of 20 execution attempts in the US this year, two of which were aborted due to massive problems. A total of seven attempts encountered “significant difficulties”, the organization specializing in the death penalty said Friday. She reported “incompetence on the part of the performers, failure to follow protocols or errors in protocols”. In this context, the activists also spoke of the “year of botched executions”.
Abolished or not practiced in 37 states
The use of the death penalty in the United States has repeatedly been the subject of fierce criticism and dispute. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 37 of the 50 states have abolished the death penalty or have not applied it for more than a decade. Many manufacturers of the drugs used in lethal injections are now refusing to sell their products to states that still use the death penalty.
According to a recent Gallup poll, 55 percent of the American population still supports the death penalty for convicted murderers. Approval has been at about the same level for years.
Source: Krone
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