put to death
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Alabama filed an emergency order on Thursday, just hours before the scheduled execution Lee, 49, who was to be put to death at 18:00 local time.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Deuteronomy 24:16 states: “Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
There have been 39 executions in the United States this year, the most since 2013, when 39 inmates were also put to death.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Black was the second person put to death in the Volunteer State this year, and the 28th in the country to be executed this year.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
In 2003, Texas put to death twenty-four inmates—or just 5 per cent of the nearly 500 inmates on its death row during that time.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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