In the imposition of death penalty For two men the principles of the USA on Tuesday (20.05.2025),
Specifically, two men were executed on Tuesday (20.05.2025) in the US, a country where almost half of the fifty states continue to apply the death penalty, while the third is scheduled to be executed tomorrow Thursday.
The state Indiana (north) has been executed since 2009 in Michigan City.
To Benjamin Ricci, 45 years old, The death penalty had been imposed because he shot and killed Bill Tony during a car -stolen car stolen at a gas station.
A few hours later, Matthew Johnson, 49 years oldexecuted in Texas (south). He had been found guilty of Nancy Harris in 2012, 76, a store official: he burned it alive during robbery.
THE Oscar Smith, 75 years old, will be executed tomorrow in the state of Tennessee (south), also with deadly injectable chemicalslike the two men who were killed yesterday. He had been convicted of stabbing and killing his ex -wife Judy Smith and her two sons in 1989.
Indiana man executed for the 2000 killing of a police officer is the state’s second execution in 15 years https://t.co/NabSNYEoZG pic.twitter.com/k6vbu0JOfs
— New York Post (@nypost) May 20, 2025
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states. In the other three – California, Oregon, Pennsylvania – a moratorium is kept.
In the US, 17 executions have been made in the US since the beginning of the year: 13 with injectable lethal chemicals, two with suffocation due to nitrogen inhalation, a controversial method used for the world for the first time in the world in Alabama (southeast) in 2024, and two of the last ends in the last year.
President Donald Trump is a great supporter of the death penalty. In his speech shortly after his swearing -in on January 20, he stressed that he was in favor of expanding its implementation.