It will be the first execution at Mississippi in two and a half years, the previous one dating back to December 2022. In total, 23 executions have been carried out in the United States since the start of the year.
On the threshold of the tomb. Two men sentenced to capital punishment are under execution in the south of the United States, one of which spent 48 years in the death corridor for a murder committed in 1976. Thomas Gudinas, 51, is due to be executed on Tuesday evening in Florida. He was sentenced to death for rape and a woman’s murder in 1994, Michelle McGrath.
Richard Jordan, 79, who is to be on Wednesday in Mississippi, was sentenced to capital punishment for the kidnapping and the murder in 1976 of Edwina Marter, 34, the wife of a bank leader. It will be the first execution at Mississippi in two and a half years, the previous one dating back to December 2022. In total, 23 executions have been carried out in the United States since the start of the year.
Eighteen was by lethal injection, three by nitrogen inhalation – a controversial method used for the first time in the world by Alabama in 2024 and compared by UN experts to a form of «torture» – and two per execution platoon in South Carolina, for the first time in the United States since 2010. The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 American states. Three others, California, Oregon and Pennsylvania, observe a moratorium of the governor’s decision -making executions.
