Federal Execution Timeline Infographic
With seven state executions in 2020, the federal government is now ahead of all states with ten this year. The current administration has three more executions planned before Jan 20th.
“Before the Bush administration resumed federal executions in 2001, the last execution in the U.S. took place in 1963. After just the third execution in 2003, the federal government put executions on hold…Nationally, there are roughly 2,500 inmates on death row facing execution…With seven state executions in 2020, the federal government's latest execution puts them ahead of all states with ten this year.
The U.S. federal government plans to execute three more death row inmates before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20.”