A 55 -year -old man has been executed This Thursday in Alabama, in the south of USAfor the violation and murder of a woman in 2010 after having asked himself to be convicted of death.
James Osgood He received the lethal injection method in an Atmore prisonas announced the judicial services of the state of Alabama in a statement. This execution elevates the number of death sentences executed in the United States to 14 since the beginning of the year.
Of the total, 10 are due to lethal injection, two by nitrogen inhalation – a controversial method used for the first time in the world by Alabama in 2024 – and two by shooting in South Carolina, last used in the United States in 2010.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) organization contrary to the death penalty indicated in a statement that Osgood himself had resigned to resort to his execution And he had asked in a letter to put an end to his life.
Osgood was convicted of rape, slaughter and stab with his girlfriend to a 44 -year -old mother named Tracy Lynn Brown in 2010. The bride, who is a relative of the victim, fulfills life imprisonment.
The death penalty was abolished in 23 of the 50 states of the country, While Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee maintain moratoriums by decision of their respective governors.
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