Death Penalty Information Centerexecution database has found.
On February 18, 2021, the U.S. reached 225 days since
Texas
executed
Billy Wardlow on July 8, 2020, the last state execution conducted since the COVID-19 pandemic. That interval surpassed the 224 days between the September 25, 2007 execution of
Michael Richard in Texas and the May 6, 2008 execution of
William Lynd in Kentucky’s lethal-injection protocol in
On February 11, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an injunction against Alabama’s scheduled execution of Willie B. Smith III, unless the state agreed to permit his religious advisor to minister to him in the execution chamber. Alabama then called off the execution, which would have ended the stretch of time without a state execution at 218 days. The only longer periods of time between state executions since executions resumed in January 1977 occurred before states had fully resumed capital punishment. Four of the first five executions in the U.S. after