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Twenty people, all male, were
executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...
in the
United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
in 2016, all by
lethal injection Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium) for the express purpose of causing death. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but t ...
. The state of
Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
executed nine people, setting a record for the most executions conducted there in a calendar year.


List of people executed in the United States in 2016


Demographics


Executions in recent years


Record number of executions in Georgia

In 2016, the State of Georgia executed nine people. This set a record for the most executions conducted in Georgia in a calendar year. Prior to this, the most executions conducted in the state were five executions. This happened in 1987 and again in 2015.


Last meals

* Henry Hargreaves, a Brooklyn-based photographer, recreated (and then photographed) the
last meal A condemned prisoner's last meal is a customary ritual preceding execution. In many countries, the prisoner may, within reason, select what the last meal will be. Contemporary restrictions in the United States Contrary to the common belief t ...
s served to all twenty men executed in 2016. Through his series, entitled ''A Year of Killing'', Hargreaves sought to educate people about the use of the death penalty. This work is a sequel to his 2011 series ''No Seconds'', which recreated the last meals ordered by famous criminals like
Ted Bundy Theodore Robert Bundy (; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), known colloquially as Ted Bundy, was an American serial killer who kidnapping, abducted, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His ''modus ...
. * In 2016, the most-ordered food was steak, followed by pizza, although some of the condemned prisoners elected to forgo a special last meal.


See also

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List of death row inmates in the United States , there were 2,067 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (throug ...
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List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976 In the United States, capital punishment for juveniles 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 c ...
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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 p ...
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List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state) This is a list of people executed in Georgia. Since 1976, a total of 77 people have been executed by the state of Georgia in the United States. List of people executed in Georgia since 1976 Demographics Record number of executions In 2 ...
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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 about 1.10 percent of the 1,630 executions performed i ...


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Executions Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...
People executed in the United States
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
Male murderers