Capital punishment in the United States: Quiz

as of 2005 James Neil Tucker was the last person executed in the United States using the electric chair?
at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?
on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a mental illness is a mitigating factor in death penalty cases, but the Supreme Court of California in one case ruled that mental illness is an aggravating factor?
a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright?
Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991?
Hastings Wise is the sixth person to waive appeals of the death sentence in South Carolina since the state resumed executions after Gregg v. Georgia?
James Autry received a stay on his execution in October 1983 after the needles for his lethal injection had been inserted into his arms?
Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas?
Charles Brooks, Jr., was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States?

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