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The federal government carries out its final execution under the Trump administration, executing convicted murderer Dustin Higgs by lethal injection at USP Terre Haute in Indiana.
2021-01-16

American serial killer Bobby Joe Long who murdered 10 women in the Tampa Bay Area during an eight month period in 1984 is executed by lethal injection.
2019-05-23

Nebraska executes convicted murderer Carey Dean Moore, becoming the first U.S. state to execute an inmate with fentanyl, and what is also the state's first execution in 21 years, and its first by lethal injection.
2018-08-14

The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the use of capital punishment by lethal injection involving midazolam.
2015-06-29

The U.S. state of Utah reinstates the use of execution by firing squad for situations where lethal injection is not possible.
2015-03-23

The first execution by lethal injection is officially implemented in Viet Nam when 27-year-old Nguyễn Anh Tuấn is executed in Hanoi.
2013-08-6

Myanmar drug lord and convicted murderer Naw Kham is executed by lethal injection in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
2013-03-1

Danish drug company Lundbeck restricts use of its Nembutal drug to stop its use in lethal injections in some US states.
2011-07-1

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration seizes the state of Georgia's supply of a lethal injection drug due to questions over how it was imported to the US.
2011-03-15

Oklahoma becomes the first U.S. state to carry out an execution with pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug used for euthanizing animals.
2010-12-16