An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of life as a concentration camp is from prison. It adds to death a rule, a public premeditation known to the future victim, an organization which is itself a source of moral sufferings more terrible than death. Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." Albert Camus
Executed This Year 2005
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By Rick Halperin:
USA Executions 2005 (as of 03/16/05)
2005 Overall Date Name State Method
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1 945 01/04/05 James Porter TX Lethal Injection
2 946 01/19/05 Donald Beardslee CA Lethal Injection
3 947 01/25/05 Timothy Don Carr GA Lethal Injection
4 948 01/25/05 Troy Kunkle TX Lethal Injection
5 949 02/17/05 Dennis Bagwell TX Lethal Injection
6 950 03/01/05 Stephen Mobley GA Lethal Injection
7 951 03/08/05 William H. Smith OH Lethal Injection
8 952 03/08/05 George Hopper TX Lethal Injection
9 953 03/10/05 Donald Wallace JR IN Lethal Injection
10 954 03/11/05 William Powell NC Lethal Injection
11 955 03/15/05 Jimmy Ray Slaughter OK Lethal Injection
12 956 03/16/05 Stanley Hall MO Lethal Injection
Methods of execution and numbers executed by that method in the USA are:
electrocution (152), firing squad (2), gas chamber (11), hanging (3),
and lethal injection (788).
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