According to a report by Associated Press, US President Trump has accelerated the implementation of the death penalty, with 41 executions carried out across the country this year.
A man sentenced to death for raping and killing a neighbor was executed by lethal injection in Florida, USA on the 28th.
According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Norman Green (65 years old), who withdrew his appeal, was executed at 6:14 PM (7:14 AM on the morning of the 29th Japan time) at Raeford State Prison on the 28th.
Green sexually assaulted and murdered 41-year-old lawyer Cynthia Campbell, who lived next door, in 1998. He was sentenced to death in 2000.
So far this year, 41 executions have been carried out in the United States, the highest number since 2012, when 43 were executed.
The state with the most executions is Florida, with 15 cases. Texas and Alabama each had 5 cases.
In this year's executions, 34 were carried out by lethal injection, 2 by firing squad, and 5 by inhaling nitrogen (a method that causes suffocation by injecting nitrogen into a mask).
UN experts condemned the use of nitrogen inhalation as cruel and inhumane.
23 of the 50 states in the United States have abolished the death penalty, and three states - California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania - have suspended the execution of the death penalty.
President Donald Trump supports the death penalty and called for expanding it for "especially heinous crimes" on his first day in office.
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